nurses.r.awesome: Recent Episodes
Ranjeet Ahluwalia
The ongoing primary care physician deficit in the United States can be effectively filled by Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants.
Nurses are overburdened with patient care and paperwork, leaving them little time to keep pace with new information.
As a scientist and communications expert who spent 20+ years working with nurses & physicians, I've developed a deep caring for the cause of nurses. This podcast aspires to generate collaborative nurse-physician dialog and learning for nurses everywhere.
Finding a balance in how much we let technology and media into our lives and how we balance food choices coming out of the pandemic can have ripple effects on our happiness and those around us. The next stage of the pandemic, and our own health journeys, is all about finding the right balance of the old and the new. We spoke with Christine Williams, a multi-talented BLS and NRP certified registered nurse who has experience in operating rooms, delivery, postpartum, and surgery and wound care with a strong focus on mental health. Our other guest was Elizabeth Malm-Buasti, a pediatric urologist who is skilled in minimally invasive laproscopic surgery and was named Young Urologist of the Year by the Urology Association of America in 2020. Listen on to hear these experts share their thoughts on accessing greater health outcomes through finding balance, both in the healthcare industry and our own lives.
In this episode I interview Ali Haider an interventional and structural cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at University Massachusetts Medical School and Judy Greengold, a family nurse practitioner and director of Johns Hopkins Director of the Johns Hopkins Telemedicine Education Consortium. We discuss some of the positives that have come from our two years in lockdown. From improving our healthcare system to caring for the mental health of our clinicians to taking the time to educate ourselves on the competencies of our allied healthcare professionals and practicing medicine from a place of mutual respect (NP-physician, clinician-patient etc.)
Nurse-Doc perspectives on what comes after COVID, addressing patient weight in overall health management and thoughts on the nurse-physician work dynamic and relationship.