Today I catch up with a former colleague, Kelsey Ferguson, RN, BSN, CCRN who started her path in nursing in the ICU at a big academic medical center, then moved to rural Washington, to try life full time in the mountains near Leavenworth to suit her lifestyle. Kelsey is a badass and an athlete of…
Today I chat with my old friend Amy Kanigher, a Nurse Practitioner who has a history of working in the ED both as an nurse and APRN, she was a hospitalist for 7 years and now she is practicing in Infectious Disease in Reno, Nevada. We discuss the phenomenon of “frequent flyers” those patients that…
HOLD ONTO YOUR SHORTS. This episode I interview former Naval Medic and soon to be nurse, Jerard Cook. He shares the most epic tale of a rescue mission while he was a search and rescue swimmer in the Japanese Sea in 2005 – you can read about it here. This story is riveting and had…
Today I catch up with Cardiac Cath Lab nurse Marci Ross about how she has been holding up and what she has been up to. Turns out she has been making masks and also doing street medic work during the protest. So awesome! We go WAY BACK to nursing school and talk nursing care plans,…
Today I interview Sam Doyle, a Critical Care Nurse Practitioner about how she got into oncology, what makes her stay when things are hard and her history as a boxer and the life lessons it taught her. Sam says oncology chose her but she is drawn to it by the hope for a cure, the…
