Ending season 1 with a quick story on how Advancing Present Practice began. 

Dr. Collett sees the world in a unique way.  She boldly carries her perspective,  expresses her messages with clarity, and celebrates the voices of others.  

For more than 15 years, Dr. DeShana Collett has been committed to academic and professional excellence within the Department of Physician Assistant Studies at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Collett’s didactic responsibilities include course director for the Clinical Methods and Patient Evaluation and Management courses.   She received her Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy, all from the University of Kentucky. She has more than 18 years of clinical experience in family medicine, and she has a specific interest in women’s health. Her research interest is in health and healthcare disparities, with a focus on the areas of clinical integration of genomics and diversity in precision medicine. 

Dr. Collett is committed to equity and social justice in her positions as Chair of the Senate Rules and Election Committee (SREC), Senate Council member, Senator, and Vice-Chair of the Senate Council.  She has previously held long-term national membership in the Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA) Inclusion & Diversity Council and Chaired the PAEA Cultural Competency Committee for several years. Dr. Collett co-created and facilitated the Minority Faculty Leadership Pando™ workshop for PAEA.  Dr. Collett was a 2016 Fellow for the Bluegrass Consortium Academic Leadership Academy and a participant in the 2021 Women in Executive Leadership Program.   Last year she was selected as a 2021 SEC- Academic Leadership Development Fellow. She serves as Co-Chairs for the University of the African, African American, Native American Affinity Group at the University of Kentucky.   

Dr. Collett is currently serving as Commissioner of the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for PAs (ARC-PA).  The ARC-PA is the accrediting agency that protects the interests of the public and PA profession by defining the standards for PA education and evaluating PA educational programs within the territorial United States to ensure their compliance with those standards.

Disclaimer: The views expressed by guests on this podcast represent their own and their appearance does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.   Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the view of the University of Kentucky or UK Healthcare. 

Brandon and Bryan are stabilizers.  Their  nature is stabilizing in a variety of academic and virtual settings.  In addition to their individual clinical and academic work, together they founded Critical Care Scenarios in 2019,  a podcast dedicated to scenario-based critical care training.  Their podcast aims to develop a practical, hands-on understanding of the management of critically ill patients through the medium of “talked through” verbal scenarios, presented biweekly in an informal podcast format. 

Brandon Oto is a critical care physician assistant at UConn Health in Farmington, CT. He studied philosophy in his undergraduate life, then he attended the PA program at the University of New England.  He then completed the Post-Graduate Critical Care Residency for Physician Assistants at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He went on to staff the trauma/surgical ICU at the University of Maryland Prince George’s Hospital, and now staffs the mixed adult critical care unit at UConn. He runs the educational critical care blog Critical Concepts , and is interested in resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, ICU liberation, medical education, vascular access, and point-of-care ultrasound.

Bryan Boling is a critical care nurse practitioner with the Anesthesia Critical Care Medicine service at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.  He was a history major during his undergraduate studies.  After practicing as a Registered Nurse, he went back to graduate school and earned his Doctor of Nursing Practice at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing’s Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program.  He currently rotates between the Neuro, Surgical, and Cardiothoracic ICUs. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Bryan Boling is a frequent writer and speaker on critical care and educational topics, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He runs the educational critical care blog Critical Care Notes. 

Disclaimer: The views expressed by guests on this podcast represent their own and their appearance does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.   Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the view of the University of Kentucky or UK Healthcare.  

Tria Kinnard does not just survive; she thrives. While surviving is merely getting by, thriving is living and thinking abundantly.   Tria is an Advanced Practice Provider practicing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the University of Kentucky.   She received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology at Berea College, a Master of Arts in Behavioral Ecology and a Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies at the University of Kentucky.   She completed a one-year post-graduate residency in neonatology at the University of Kentucky.  She has been practicing as PA, formerly termed Physician Assistant now Physician Associate (PA) for over 15 years.   She provides and manages the complex care of infants and participates in training and education of resident physicians, fellow physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners in a 90-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.   She has authored peer-reviewed publications, serves on a multitude of UK Enterprise and NICU professional practice committees, and received the Program Directors’ Award For Excellence in Curriculum Development in 2016 in acknowledgement of enhancements to pediatric residency education.  During her undergraduate program, she received the Hilda W. Wood Award which was awarded to a student who greatly contributed to the life and work of the college.   

Her contributions throughout her professional career continue to advance our professional practice as APPs.  She is a Lead Inpatient APP, Adjunct Faculty in the College of Health Sciences for PA Studies, and has served as a Residency Program Director for over 10 years.  Within the last year, Tria began serving on two impactful Academic Committees at the University of Kentucky: the Associate Dean for Wellness and Well-being Search and the Physician and APP Experience Advisors Committees.   Be on the lookout for her continued impact as she continues to direct the Neonatalology Physician Assistant Residency Program where she began her career at the University of Kentucky.   

Disclaimer: The views expressed by guests on this podcast represent their own and their appearance does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.   Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the view of the University of Kentucky or UK Healthcare.  

Dr. Eva Stone is a resilience engineer.   Resilience engineering is a term defined as the "focus on understanding the nature of adaptations, learning from success and increasing adaptive capacity."    She is the District Health Manager of Jefferson County Public Schools, Kentucky's largest school system with 98,000 students.  Eva earned her bachelor’s degree in Nursing from West Virginia University and her master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Kentucky.    She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the University of Kentucky College of Nursing.  

Dr. Stone was selected as the 2015 Health Schools Campaign School Nurse Leadership Award, the 2019 Kentucky Nurse Association Nurse of the Year and named a 2020 Louisville Business First Health Care Hero.   She has worked in public school health for over 20 years, and equips her nursing team with tools needed to break down the tall barriers that stand between children and their education.   She is a strong advocate for policy change in Kentucky, and drove legislative change to amend the state of Kentucky's Medicaid plan to allow for expanded billing for school health services to help increase access to care for children.  Her passion is evident: the health of students.  She seeks to adapt and improve educational spaces to facilitate physical, social, and cognitive growth of public school students. 

Be on the lookout: Dr. Stone is a leader on the Kentucky Nurses Association and is on the Kentucky School Nurse Task Force.  This year the KNA continues hold legislative priorities and will be advocating for the for the presence of a school nurse in every school, all day, and every day throughout Kentucky. 

Disclaimer: The views expressed by guests on this podcast represent their own and their appearance does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.   Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the view of the University of Kentucky or UK Healthcare.  

There are no technical guests for the final episode of 2021.  This is a general year in review from a few sources to provide perspective on this wild year.  In addition, we will be covering some strategies on how to process the unique challenges that were brought upon each of us.  Topics include: 

1. Remarks from members during our last University of Kentucky Advanced Practice Provider Council meeting of the year. 

2. Content overview from Ed Yong's bone-chilling article in The Atlantic entitled, "Why Health-care Workers are Quitting in Droves" published on November 16, 2021. 

3. Concepts expressed by thought leaders within the area of Organizational Psychology this year: languishing by Adam Grant, compassion by Brené Brown, and emotional agility by Susan David. 

4. Ideas for collective healing in 2022. 

Disclaimer: The views expressed by individuals on this podcast represent their own and their appearance does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.   Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the view of the University of Kentucky or UK Healthcare. 

Dr. Jessica Peck is a leader.  She is a Clinical Professor at Louise Herrington School of Nursing at Baylor University and an expert Pediatric Nurse Practitioner.  She is currently the President of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.  Dr. Peck drives innovative and visionary leadership, developing NP-led inclusive and diverse interprofessional teams producing impactful outcomes of quality healthcare, particularly for vulnerable populations. She serves as an anti-trafficking advocate for children, pioneering the implementation of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP's) Alliance for Children in Trafficking (ACT), working with the Office of Trafficking in Persons and other partners.  Dr. Peck was a participant in the Nursing Leadership Institute in the National League for Nursing and  currently President of NAPNAP's Partners for Vulnerable Youth. Dr. Peck served as the Texas State South Representative for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP). She has published on pediatric practice as well as nursing advocacy and education and serves as a manuscript reviewer for several nursing journals and the recipient of numerous honors.   

Be on the lookout for upcoming publications from Dr. Peck:
- Multi-level recommendations to counter burnout which were derived from a study led by Dr. Peck examining the holistic effects of COVID-19 on pediatric-focused advanced practice registered nurses which will be published in the Journal of Pediatric Health Care
-In 2022 she will be publishing a parenting book seeking to improve communication between parents and children.  

Disclaimer: The views expressed by guests on this podcast represent their own and their appearance does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.   Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the view of the University of Kentucky or UK Healthcare.  

Marie Osborn is a trailblazer.  She was born in Russellville, KY.   Marie obtained a BSN  in 1953 from Ball State University.  She began her advanced practice journey in response to observing a great need for medical services in the small town of Stanley, Idaho.   Marie is Idaho's first nurse practitioner.  

In 1972, she attended the University of Washington - Harborview to earn a certificate as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner and worked with faculty to write up the first training manuals for practice.  This was the same year that she founded the Salmon River Clinic.   In 1974 she was in the first Nurse Practitioner class at the University of Utah.   In 1976 she did additional trauma and coroner training at Cook County in Chicago and was the first woman to ride an ambulance in South Side Chicago.      

Marie Osborn was the sole provider at the Salmon River Clinic practicing emergency and primary care, covering approximately 6000 square miles in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho.  She practiced and guided internships for a variety of professional students for nearly 30 years.  Be on the lookout for her memoir which will be entitled  Champagne and Horsesh*t:  Trailblazing the Nurse Practitioner Idea in Wild Idaho.

Update: Dr. Marie Osborn was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from The College of Idaho during the May 21, 2022 commencement at the Caldwell college. 

Disclaimer: The views expressed by guests on this podcast represent their own and their appearance does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent.   Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the view of the University of Kentucky or UK Healthcare.