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Where the Nursing Pipeline Breaks: Chamberlain's President on Wait Lists, Cost, and Burnout (With Jana Price and Amelia Manning)

2026-09-2825:40

Why are qualified students still stuck on nursing school wait lists while hospitals struggle to fill shifts? On this episode of Nurse Converse, host Jana Price, MBA, BSN, BA, RN, CEN, TCRN, talks with Amelia Manning, President of Chamberlain University, about the nursing shortage, nursing school capacity, clinical placements, and the real cost of becoming a nurse. They dig into employer pipeline programs with health systems like SSM Health and Advocate Health, how schools can build NCLE...

School Nurse Fired After Refusing Assignment; Investigation Questions Staffing and Scope

2026-07-2701:01:43

A small-town newspaper headline blamed a school nurse for delaying classes. The real story is much bigger. In this investigative episode of Nurse Converse, nurse journalist Jana Price sits down with Moriah Benjamin, a Pennsylvania LPN who was fired after refusing to work as a school nurse without proper supervision — a violation of her scope of practice under state law. Moriah shares what happened the night she called off, the 95-page school board hearing where she represented herself, the ch...

Trapped in a Blizzard With a Dying Patient: Flight Nurse Claire Barnett's Survival Story

2026-06-0340:08

Flight nurse Claire Barnett joins host Jana Price on Nurse Converse to share one of the most intense survival stories in flight nursing. Claire is a quadruple board-certified emergency nurse and the chief flight nurse for an international medevac company. About a year and a half ago, she and her trainee partner accepted a flight to pick up a young man with possible hantavirus. The plan was solid. The weather looked manageable. Then everything changed. Fifteen minutes into the flight, the stor...

(Part 2): Flight Nurse Helicopter Crash Survivor Speaks: From Kidney Transplant to Saving Lives Through Legislation — Dave & Amanda Repsher

2026-05-2745:40

This is episode two of a two-part series. Part 2 of one of the most powerful survival stories in nursing. Host Jana Price welcomes back flight nurse Dave Repsher and his wife Amanda — also a nurse — to continue the story they started in part 1. After a helicopter crash left Dave with burns over 90% of his body, the fight to survive was only the beginning. In this episode, Dave and Amanda pick up where they left off and walk through the long road of recovery: a year of home dialysis, a k...

(Part 1) Flight Nurse Helicopter Crash Survivor Speaks: 90% Burns & a Miracle Recovery — Dave & Amanda Repsher

2026-05-2751:03

This is episode one of a two-part series. Flight nurse Dave Repsher and his wife Amanda — also a nurse — join host Jana Price on Nurse Converse to share one of the most powerful survival stories in nursing. On July 3rd, 2015, Dave was working a shift on a Flight for Life helicopter when it crashed 32 seconds after takeoff. Covered in jet fuel and on fire, he suffered burns over 90% of his body. The pilot did not survive. Doctors did not expect Dave to make it through the night. Almost a...

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