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The Nurse Keith Show

Keith Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BCnursekeith.com
The Nurse Keith Show offers up-to-date career advice and knowledge for savvy 21st-century nurses. During each episode, Board-Certified holistic career coach Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, NC-BC explores the multiplicity of potential career pathways in nursing through inspiring interviews with healthcare thought leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs. With the goal of helping you create the most satisfying nursing career and life possible, The Nurse Keith Show is an invaluable audio destination for ambitious, thoughtful, and forward-thinking nurses.
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Episodes

Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response

On episode 447 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Jeremy Norton, an author and firefighter who has served the diverse communities of Minneapolis since the year 2000. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Jeremy discuss his new book, Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response , which is a remarkable and brilliantly written memoir that examines the toll that the work of emergency response takes on those who embrace ...

Nov 10, 20231 hr 10 minEp. 447

Cutting-Edge Strategies to Combat Burnout and Moral Distress in Healthcare Professionals

On episode 446 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Sandra Shallcross, PhD, LP regarding her use of evidence-based, cutting-edge strategies for to combat burnout and moral distress in healthcare professionals. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Shallcross discuss how commonly used, well-meaning, yet cookie-cutter wellness and self-care techniques cannot get to the core of the moral distress and burnout being experienced by healthcare...

Nov 03, 20231 hrEp. 446

Reaching for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Nursing Education

On episode 445 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Mykale Elbe, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, Assistant Dean of Nursing at Maryville University. Can nurses make a difference to improve the health of patient from all DEI backgrounds? In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Elbe discuss how nursing education can improve in terms of preparing nurses to advocate for patients of diverse backgrounds, and the critical influence of concepts of diversity, e...

Oct 27, 202356 minEp. 445

Using Polarity Intelligence to Address the Many Challenges Faced by Healthcare Leaders

On episode 444 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, FNAP, FAAN and Tracy Christopherson, PhD, MS, BAS, RRT, FNAP, whose dynamic and forward-thinking approach to the challenges faced by today's healthcare leaders could be game-changer for those willing to think and respond differently. In the course of their conversation, Keith and his guests discuss how lack of work-life balance and burnout are major challenges for nurses lead...

Oct 20, 202357 minEp. 444

Advocating for the Crucial Importance of Public Health

On episode 443 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Jan Carney, MD, MPH, MACP, the Associate Dean for Public Health and Health Policy, Professor of Medicine, and the Director of Graduate Public Health Programs at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Carney discuss the importance of public health, public health education, and the local and global implications of nurses embraci...

Oct 13, 202352 min

Making Long-Term Care Nursing a Specialty to be Proud Of

On episode 442 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews registered nurse, author, consultant, entrepreneur, and administrator Dr. Sylvia Abbeyquaye, Ph.D., MPA, RN. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Abbeyquaye discuss the importance of long-term care nursing and her mission to empower long-term care nurses to approach their practice with pride, discipline, critical thinking, and the framework of the nursing process. In Dr. Abbeyquaye's new ...

Oct 06, 202356 minEp. 442

How Can Hospitality and Customer Service Improve the Patient Experience?

On episode 441 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews author and consultant Peter Yesawich, PhD regarding his new book, Hospitable Healthcare: Just What the Patient Ordered! In the book, Yesawich and his co-author Dr. Stowe Shoemaker, PhD make the argument that healthcare providers and facilities have the power to implement successful strategies championed by the hospitality industry in order to exponentially improve the patient experience. In the authors...

Sep 29, 20231 hrEp. 441

The Intersection of an Aging Society, Climate Change, and Adult Gerontological Nurse Practitioners

On episode 440 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Ann Kriebel-Gasparro, DrNP, FNP, GNP, FAANP, a dually credentialed family & gerontological nurse practitioner. In the course of their conversation Keith and Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro discuss our aging society, the effects of climate change on older adults, and other issues salient to this time in history when adult gerontological nurse practitioners are needed more than ever. Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro ha...

Sep 22, 202354 minEp. 440

Forensic Mental Health, Social Psychology, and Addressing Grief, Trauma, & Psychosocial Despair

On episode 439 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Jay Slosar, PhD, an author, educator, and clinical and forensic psychologist. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Slosar discuss how forensic psychology, social psychology, and other approaches can be leveraged in relation to suicide and deaths of despair, societal grief and trauma, psychosocial despair, "cumulative stress bombs", and even what Dr. Slosar refers to as "Capitalism Del...

Sep 15, 202356 minEp. 439

Let's Explore the Overall State of the Nursing Profession in 2023

On episode 438 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith welcomes back Dr. Iman Abuzeid, the CEO and founder of Incredible Health. During this in-depth conversation, Keith and Iman discuss Incredible Health's fourth annual report on the state of the nursing profession. With survey responses and data collected from over 3,000 nurses, the report reveals telling insights about what nurses are thinking and where the profession is heading. Some highlights from the study inc...

Sep 08, 202353 minEp. 438

How Employers Can Support Employees With Chronic Illness and Disabilities

On episode 437 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Julie Hamilton, a Certified Fibromyalgia Coach and Life Coach based in Arizona who helps professionals living with disabilities to maintain their career and regain their active social life. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Julie discuss the lives of professionals living with disabilities, the legalities of what employees are not required to disclose about their health, and what employers ...

Sep 01, 202347 minEp. 437

Recovering From Traumatic Brain Injury With Fortitude, Grit, and Determination

On episode 436 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Kelly Tuttle, FNP, a neurology nurse practitioner and brain injury survivor. Her new book, " After the Crash: How to Keep Your Job, Stay in School, and Live Life After a Brain Injury " is a chronicle of Kelly's story along with advice on how to recover and thrive after a traumatic head injury. Ms. Tuttle joined the “head injury survivors club” (as she described it) in 2015, the night another car pulled...

Aug 25, 202350 minEp. 436

Why is American Healthcare Upside Down?

On episode 435 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Henry Buchwald, a world-renowned surgeon, author, professor, and patient healthcare advocate who contends that it's entirely possible for us to turn our broken healthcare system right-side up to serve the best interests of both patients and clinicians, now and in the future. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Buchwald focus on the statistics, revelations, and suggestions for positiv...

Aug 18, 202355 minEp. 435

Environmental Determinants of Health and Nutrient Security in Our Troubled World

On episode 434, of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Kat Morgan, a food systems expert and podcaster specializing in anthropology, environmental health, and communications. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Kat discuss the broader state of public health at this current time, environmental determinants of health, food systems, and the concept of nutrient security vs. food security. A summa cum laude graduate of Emory University, Ms. Morgan h...

Aug 11, 202358 min

Twin Nurse Coaches on Living Your Best Life

On episode 433 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Sara and Anastasia Prech, BSN, RN, NC-BC, CCFP, CNOR, who are twin sisters, OR nurses, and board-certified transformative coaches for high-achieving nurses, nurse leaders, and nurse entrepreneurs. In the course of this fun and lively conversation, Keith and his delightful guests discuss life as twins, recovering from stress and burnout, finding optimal wellness and joy, and living your best possible li...

Aug 04, 202353 minEp. 433

Nurse Blake Takes the Nurse Keith Show — and the World — by Storm

On episode 432 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews the one and only Nurse Blake! During the course of their conversation, Keith and Blake dig deep into how Blake became a world-renowned nurse touring comedian, educator, influencer, thought leader, and nurse cruise director/master of ceremonies extraordinaire who is an endless source of entertainment, education, and inspiration for nurses around the globe. From an early age, Blake knew he wanted to be a...

Jul 28, 202353 minEp. 432

Let's Talk Medicine, Sports, and Podcasting With Our Doctor Friend

On episode 431 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Julia Bruene, sports medicine physician, podcaster, and physician to a number of Chicago-area professional sports teams. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Julie discuss vulnerability and authenticity in the practice of medicine, combating burnout, the intersection of podcasting and medicine, and much more. Dr. Julia Bruene is a sports medicine physician at Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH ...

Jul 21, 202357 minEp. 431

A Recovering Psychiatrist on Finding Your Authentic Self and an Optimal Path to Healing

On episode 430 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Fred Moss, a mental health advocate and "recovering psychiatrist" who serves in many capacities: keynote speaker, psychiatry expert witness, podcaster, mental health coach, and teacher. This wide-ranging conversation centers around Dr. Moss's contention that finding your authentic self, your true voice, and optimal healing is entirely possible, and the traditional route of psychiatric treatment is ...

Jul 14, 202359 minEp. 430

Finding Happiness and Nursing Career Fulfillment in the Non-Clinical Space

On episode 429 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Shira Page, RN, NP, CLC, the Medical Team Lead for Bobbie , an infant formula startup. In the course of their interview, Keith and Shira discuss how such a passionate and talented nurse practitioner was able to find happiness and career fulfillment in the non-clinical space, specifically the world of medical start-ups. If you've ever had thoughts that perhaps you'd be more content in a non-clinical rol...

Jul 07, 202350 minEp. 429

The Fascinating Career Path of a Dedicated Nurse Scientist

On episode 428 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Danielle Sarik, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, a dedicated nurse scientist who shares the details of what the facsinating career trajectory of a nurse scientist is all about. Danielle Altares Sarik, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC is a nurse scientist and pediatric nurse practitioner with expertise in health services and outcomes research. She has cared for patients in China, Botswana, and Nicaragua, in addition to the U....

Jun 30, 202351 minEp. 428

Let Goals, Grit, and Growth Catapult You Into a Brighter Future

On episode 427 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Miriam Zylberglait, MD — also known as Dr. Z — regarding her new book and philosophy centered around what she calls "The 3G Cycle of Life", which includes the triple concept of goals, grit, and growth as a framework for self-discovery and self-improvement. Dr. Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski is a triple Board Certified Physician in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Obesity Medicine with extensive cl...

Jun 23, 202359 minEp. 427

The Journey From Successful and Talented Nurse to Successful and Talented Health Writer

On episode 426 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Janelle Barowski, MSN, RN, a talented and successful nurse who radically transformed her career and is now a talented and successful health writer. Her clients include Healthgrades and Haymarket, among others. She is fiercely passionate about helping nurses find a better work/life balance away from the bedside, and she offers coaching, mentoring programs, and an online course with that goal in mind. Ja...

Jun 16, 202354 minEp. 426

The Latest Developments in Psychedelic Medicine

On episode 425 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith welcomes back Andrew Penn, MS, PMHNP to discuss the latest news in the study of the therapeutic uses of psychedelics. Among the topics discussed by Keith and Andrew are updates regarding the state of the research and the pending FDA approval of both MDMA (aka: Molly or Ecstacy) and psilocybin for the treatment of various psychological conditions, and well as how nurses may end up fitting into the psychedelic trea...

Jun 09, 20231 hr 3 minEp. 425

What Does it Mean to be an Unstoppable RN?

On episode 424 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Chuck Jankowski, RN, BSN, CCRN, TCRN, CEN, a thirteen-year RN with experience in critical care, trauma, ED, and rapid response team nursing. During the pandemic, Chuck crossed the country, providing federal relief to hospitals that were overwhelmed by patient load or strained due to staffing crises. In those hospitals, Chuck saw new grad and novice nurses tossed feet first into highly acute, critical c...

Jun 02, 202353 minEp. 424

Championing a "High Tech High Touch" Approach to Nursing Research and Education

On episode 423 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Dean and Professor of the Florida State University College of Nursing, and Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Wang discuss the future of health and healthcare and how Florida State University College of Nursing is leading in this a...

May 26, 202359 minEp. 423

Dr. Candy Campbell: Nurse Polymath at Large

On episode 422 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Candy Campbell, DNP, RN, CNL, CVP, LNC, FNAP. Dr. Campbell is a lifelong nurse, author, consultant, filmmaker, and award-winning actress. Her background in nursing includes clinical, academic, and administrative posts. As an actress, she has appeared on stage, screen, in commercials, voice-overs, TV — you name it. Dr. Campbell was the co-founder of an improv and stand-up comedy group and has taught...

May 19, 202347 minEp. 422

Leveraging Women's Empowerment to Benefit Health and Well-Being

On episode 421 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Anna Stoecklein, RN, a registered nurse turned podcaster, and the founder, producer, and host of The Story of Woman podcast. Anna has a passion for people and telling stories that help us understand and connect with one another more deeply and authentically. The Story of Woman podcast features interviews by exploring our world through the female gaze. From the economy, healthcare, gender roles and more...

May 12, 20231 hr 8 minEp. 421

Tracking and Responding to the Mental and Physical Well-Being of Healthcare Employees

On episode 420 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Chris Turner and Josh Bokor, the CEO and Chief of Staff, respectively, of HealthBook+, "a simple-to-use digital-first care platform that guides an individual’s next best health action using advanced AI while keeping their data private and secure. HealthBook+ identifies potential conditions early on and facilitates access to healthcare screening and services through secure chats, peer coaching, and educ...

May 05, 202347 minEp. 420

A Nurse Inventor and Entrepreneur Creates Nursing Tools That Matter

On episode 419 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Paul Castaneda, RN, CCRN, a 25-year veteran ICU nurse who is also the Founder of NursingTools.com. Nurses are natural problem-solvers, and if they have the chance to create practical tools that solve real-world problems, everyone wins. It all started in June of 2017. Paul had become frustrated looking for tools specifically for nurses to use at the bedside, and he noticed that medical-surgical, ICU, ER...

Apr 28, 202349 minEp. 419

Healing Politics One Nurse at a Time

On episode 418 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Kimberly Gordon, DNP, CRNA, an accountant turned nurse who is the co-founder of Healing Politics, a non-profit organization on a mission to inspire, motivate, recruit, and train nurses and midwives to run for elected office while building a culture of civic engagement within the professions. Ms. Gordon earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration from John Carroll University in Ohio. After w...

Apr 21, 202354 minEp. 418
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