This week Tina is introducing our listeners to Kiera, a PCU nurse who will be working with the podcast behind the scenes and occasionally on air! Together they discuss the incredibly tragic story of a nurse who was accused of infecting her patients with Hep C. Did she do it deliberately or was it an unfortunate mistake? They open the show with more discussion about, what else, COVID-19. They close the show with a wonder story of a nurse who was a living donor. Thank you to https://www.comradsock...
Mar 27, 2020•49 min•Ep. 77
This week Tina is joined once again by the entire IT department...her husband Mark. Together they discuss the perplexing and disturbing story of Gilberto Nunez, a dentist who stood trial for the murder of his best friend. This story has so many unbelievable twists and turns. They start off the show with a news story about a dad who received an extra fee on his dentist's bill for 'behavioral problems' for his autistic son. They close the show talking about a dentist who gives free dental work to ...
Mar 20, 2020•53 min•Ep. 76
This week Tina is joined by Kevin with Art of Emergency Nursing podcast. They discuss the perplexing and tragic story of Dr. Vince Gilmer from North Carolina. Was Dr. Gilmer's actions caused by a head injury, mental illness, or was he just a very intelligent and manipulative person who tried to get away with murder? They also discuss an incredibly sad story of a woman who died after waiting in an ER with chest pain. However, are news outlets just spinning the story that way to make it seems more...
Mar 12, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 75
This week Tina is joined by co-worker Chelsea who works in Medical Critical Care. Together they tell the unsettling story of German nurse Stephan Letter. Stephan was subject to a cruel childhood thanks to his mother. Some psychologists think this is what started him down the dark and terrifying path he ultimately ended up taking. They start the show talking about the Florence Nightingale Barbie. They end the show on a good note with the story of a school nurse who saved a 14 year old girl at sch...
Mar 05, 2020•57 min•Ep. 74
This week Tina is geeking out over having a nurse she has admired since being a new grad, co-host the show with her! Listen in as Tina and David tell the creepy and bizarre story of The Black Dahlia and the doctor who is accused of killing her. They open the show with the news of a possible artificial kidney. As they close the show, they discuss a wonderful country doctor who charged $5 to see patients. Good Nurse Bad Nurse is proud to have Comrad Socks on board as a sponsor this week! Please go...
Feb 27, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 73
**Trigger Warning**This week's episode is very special. Tina is joined by Jehr, a student nurse who has had to overcome a lot in order to get where she is. Tina also opens up for the first time about her traumatic childhood. This portion of the show has been edited down in the interest of time. However, the full conversation is available on our website. For the bad nurse story, they discuss the unbelievably tragic story of Beth Thomas. Beth was six years old when HBO did a documentary about the ...
Feb 20, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 72
This week Allison is back for another episode. They discuss the controversial and tragic case of nurse Kimberly Long. Long was accused of brutally murdering her live-in boyfriend after a day of motorcycle riding and bar hopping. But did she really kill him or was she set up? They start the show talking about another incident involving a patient at a nursing home. This time it involved maggots which leads Tina and Allison to discussing maggot therapy in wounds. They close the show with a heart-wa...
Feb 12, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 71
This week Tina is joined by Brian the IV Guy from Instagram! Tina and Brian tell the story of the original Dr. Death...Dr Kevorkian. They also talk about IV sticks and a doctor from California who was diagnosed with cancer which gave him a different perspective on end of life issues. This episode of Good Nurse Bad Nurse is sponsored by The University of Portland School of Nursing! Check out their DNP program! https://nursing.up.edu/graduate-programs/index.html...
Feb 05, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 70
This week Tina is joined by Renee. Renee is a psychiatric nurse who has an Instagram page where she promotes loving yourself just the way you are and a positive body image. Together they tell the tragic story of a doctor in Canada who became fixated on a nurse he worked with in surgery at the hospital despite the fact that he was married with children. The open the show talking about nurse suicide being on the rise and seasonal depression. They close the show with a truly 'out of this world' sto...
Jan 29, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 69
This week Tina is joined once again by Sydney, nursing student from @nursingstudentsyd on Instagram. Together they discuss the incredibly shocking story of two nurses who met at work and started an affair that would be the beginning of a troubled relationship which would end badly for everyone involved. They start the episode talking about CNAs at a nursing home who were fired for not following proper transport protocol which ultimately resulted in the death of a patient. They end the episode di...
Jan 22, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Tina is joined this week by Iman Abuzeid, MD, of Incredible Health. Tina and Iman tell the disturbing and unpredictable story of Adam Kaufman, a man accused of killing his wife. Find out how dueling medical examiners faced off in court, and a surprise ending you just won't believe! Iman, co-founder and CEO of health care career platform Incredible Health (who just happens to be a new sponsor of the Good Nurse Bad Nurse podcast!!) opens the show by explaining all the wonderful benefits to nurses ...
Jan 16, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 67
This week Tina is joined by Tiffany, a former co-worker and case manager. They share the story of Mary Cotton, a British nurse from the late 1800's who many call the most prolific serial killer in British history. They open the show with a bewildering story of a nurse impostor. In the wrap up, Tina is genuinely shocked and excited to learn that Walt Whitman was a nurse! This episode of GNBN is sponsored by Incredible Health. To support our podcast go to https://www.incrediblehealth.com/goodnurse...
Jan 07, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 66
(Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault) Tina is joined by Sydney, a fan of Good Nurse Bad Nurse and nursing student who has a popular Instagram page that chronicles her journey through nursing school. Listen as they tell the unsettling story of Gary Hartman, a nurse recently arrested for the sexual assault and murder of an eleven year old girl in 1986. They open the show with a news story about a doctor who has been charged with 25 counts of murder for ordering excessive amounts of pain medication to ...
Dec 31, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 65
Tina is joined this week by a passionate listener of the show, Alec Falicki, a CNA currently pursuing his nursing degree. The show opens with a discussion about how Chipotle Mexican Grill has hired nurses to field calls for workers who call in "sick" to work. Next is the gruesome tale of Dr. Robert Neulander, a prominent and highly-respected OB GYN doctor accused of killing his wife in their home and the bewildering trail of blood found at the scene. The show closes with a bizarre court story wh...
Dec 24, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 64
This week Tina and Allison tell the shocking and tragic story of Mary Lemak, a surgical nurse who was a devoted mother of three children and married to an emergency room doctor. Her life seemed perfect up until the very end when everything went horribly wrong. Tina and Allison talk at the beginning of the show about a man who was handcuffed and left outside for police to pick him up at a mental health facility. They close the show with the story of Dorothea Dix, a nurse who advocated for the ind...
Dec 17, 2019•50 min•Season 1Ep. 63
This week Tina is joined by friend and fellow podcaster Christine from Antidotes Podcast: Stories in Medicine. Together they tell the terribly sad story of pediatric nurse Kelly Ripstra. Kelly was a nurse at Texas Children's Hospital when her daughter Rachel was born. A few short years later Kelly is being accused of unthinkable crimes against her daughter. They start off the show with a news story about a nurse practitioner in Alaska being charged in the deaths of several patients who overdosed...
Dec 10, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 62
This week Tina is joined by MaKenzie, a labor and delivery nurse! Tina is excited to finally have an L&D nurse on the show! They go all the way back to 1975 for the bad nurse and tell the awful story of a labor and delivery nurse who did unthinkable acts to 'have a baby' in order to keep her boyfriend! They start off the show talking about the nurse whose twin sister posted a picture of her on social media that went viral. They close out the show with a sweet and inspiring story about a nurs...
Dec 03, 2019•48 min•Ep. 61
This week Tina is joined by critical care nurse and social media influencer Isabel of the nurse_isaa Instagram page. Tina and Isabel tell the story of a doctor who's wife went missing on New Year's Eve. They also talk about an ER doctor who didn't give up on a young man who had spent several hours in the freezing cold and who didn't even have a pulse when he was found. They open the show by talking about Nike's new doctor/nurse shoes! https://news.nike.com/news/nike-air-zoom-pulse https://forens...
Nov 26, 2019•40 min•Ep. 60
This week Tina is joined by nurse manager Allison again. After talking about a nurse who helped a homeless man who needed a heart transplant, they encourage everyone listening to take a selfie with their driver's license and post it on Instagram and/or Facebook with the hashtags #showmeyourheart and #goodnursebadnurse. The bad nurse story revolves around suicide so if that is a trigger for anyone, please consider sitting this one out. This story is so heartbreaking and unbelievable. It starts ou...
Nov 19, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 59
You all have been asking for her and she's back! Gemma from the Which Murderer podcast returns to tell the story of German nurse, Niels Hogel, who killed more than 85 people before being caught. You won't believe the details of this horribly tragic story that went on for over 5 years! They start off the show discussing violence against hospital staff and close the show with an inspiring story of a nurse from Scotland.
Nov 12, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 58
This week Tina is joined by Hugh, a cardiovascular nurse and adviser to his state's student nurse association. Tina and Hugh discuss the murder of a cardiothoracic surgeon's wife. Was this doctor wrongfully accused or did he outwit investigators? They open the show with updates on the RaDonda Vaught case, the former Vandy nurse who is being criminally charged for a med error. The show ends with a heart-warming story of a good cardiovascular surgeon.
Nov 05, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 57
In this special Halloween episode, Tina and Q explore the creepy and disturbing story of the Metropolitan State Hospital in Boston, also known as "the hospital of the seven teeth"! They start out the show talking about sexy nurse uniforms and whether or not they are disrespectful to the nursing profession. They close the show with a fun discussion about NICU nurses who dress up their babies every Halloween.
Oct 29, 2019•58 min•Ep. 56
This week Tina is joined in studio by her entire IT department (aka. her husband, Mark) as they tell the horrific story of the Richmond Hill Murders. They also discuss the impacts of nursing on home life. They close out the show with an inspiring story of an ER nurse whose research project literally rescued 17 victims of sex trafficking and is now being used in hospitals all over the country.
Oct 22, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 55
Happy case management week to all you case managers out there! This week Tina is joined by former case manager and entrepreneur Deanna who helps tell the story of a nurse who was accused of helping her long-time boyfriend cover up a murder. Could she have possibly had more to do with it than she is saying? They also discuss another nurse chosen as CNN's hero of the year. They open the show with a story of a hospital accused of "patient dumping".
Oct 15, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 54
This week Tina and Q tell the story of the Ann Arbor Hospital murders. They also discuss a story of a nurse who saved a young boy's life after witnessing a car accident while at work. To open the show they talk about a patient who died in a hospital, because his nurse mistakenly told other staff members he was a DNR.
Oct 08, 2019•43 min•Ep. 53
This week Tina is joined once again by nurse manager Allison. Together they discuss Good Nurse Bad Nurse's most requested story...the story of Canadian nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer who is now considered Canada's most prolific serial killer. They also talk about a recent case where a judge ruled a jail nurse can be held liable for the death of an inmate and a nurse who literally sacrificed a part of herself to save the life of a complete stranger.
Oct 01, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 52
Tina is joined again by Nurse Manager Allison. Together they tell the story of psychiatrist Pamela Buckbinder who is accused of using her knowledge and expertise as a psychiatrist to have her ex-boyfriend and father of her child murdered. They also tell the inspiring story of a psychiatrist in Hawaii who goes where his patients are in the streets to deliver mental healthcare to those in need. To open the show they discuss an article that shows many hospital patients feel like "lepers" when place...
Sep 24, 2019•53 min•Ep. 51
This week Tina and Q are celebrating the 50th episode of Good Nurse Bad Nurse by telling the story of Michael Jackson and the doctor who was brought to trial for his death. They also tell you the story of Dr. Mike, Instagram's "hottest doctor", who proved he was more than just a pretty face when an emergency happened while flying overseas.
Sep 17, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 50
This week Tina is joined by Joshua Strickland, the nurse who posted a picture of himself at work on a popular social media group and was ultimately fired from his job for it. Listen as Josh tells the story of exactly what happened. They also discuss PTSD after performing CPR. And of course they have a bad doctor story....Dr. Albert Lambert was a doctor from Florida who just could not tolerate having to give his ex-wife alimony and child support. He told the judge he would rather be in jail or on...
Sep 10, 2019•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 49
This week Tina and Q discuss the disturbing case of Grant Amato. Amato was a nurse in Florida who racked up $200,000 in debt in an online relationship with a cam girl from Bulgaria. This was just the start of a senseless and sad set of events that would lead to him standing trial for the murder of his family. They also discuss the nurse who was fired for refusing to participate in an elective abortion. The good nurse story is about a critical care nurse who ran toward fiery flames to save a woma...
Sep 03, 2019•46 min•Ep. 48
