Amplify Nursing

On our next special episode of Amplify Nursing we talk to Dr. Laura Vargas and Dr. Adriana Perez, two scholars whose research focuses on Latinx immigrant populations in the US. Dr. Vargas is a Vice-Provost post-doctoral fellow at the Penn Injury Science Center at the School of Nursing and Dr. Perez is a nurse practitioner and an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. They discuss the challenges our immigrant communities face during this pandemic, how health and healthcare disparities in the Latinx immigrant communities are being magnified, and what needs to happen moving forward to start to solve the complex issues both during and after the pandemic.

For almost 50 years, Dr. Holly Shaw has been a nurse, advocate and leader. Whether through her practice working with patients' with bereavement, grief, and trauma in Cambodia, mentoring and educating students in New York, or her pioneering work at the United Nations, Dr. Shaw looks to pave the way for nurses to lead around the world, and in doing so, she is not only helping to elevate the profession, but is a shining example of all that nurses can do on a global scale.

On the next special episode of Amplify Nursing we talk with the three organizational leaders behind the upcoming Nurse Hack for Health: COVID19 virtual hackathon, Molly McCarthy, a National Director and Chief Nursing Officer at Microsoft, Lynda Benton, Senior Director, at Johnson & Johnson, and Rebecca Love, President of SONSIEL, the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Leaders. Together they’re providing nurses an opportunity to virtually work alongside engineers and developers to create new, innovative solutions to the problems they are seeing in the acute care and home-care settings, during this pandemic. We talk with them about their organizations’ fierce passion to support our frontline nurses, what a virtual hackathon is and how it works, and why we all should be supporting nurses as leaders in health and healthcare innovation, especially during this public health crisis.

On our next episode of Amplify Nursing we talk with Chinelo Ofoma. Chinelo is a pediatric nurse practitioner and advocate for nurses. Chinelo was born and raised in Nigeria, where she recalls that it was no one’s dream for their child to be a nurse. As Chinelo described, nursing was not considered a respected profession, and in turn, nursing was never a calling for her. But, it was ultimately Chinelo’s love of taking care of others, and the vast versatility a nursing degree provides, which lead her to the profession. Today, using her platform Nurse on Purpose, She strives for the voices of nurses to be heard in the media, in publications, in healthcare and at large, challenging all of the stereotypes of nursing along the way.

On the next special COVID19 episode of Amplify Nursing we talk with Dr. Rachel Walker and Dr. Anna Valdez, two of the organizers of the Nursing Mutual Aid 2020 Twitter conference. Created to support Mutual Aid and to foster global connections, the Nursing Mutual Aid Twitter Conference aims to amplify new knowledge necessary to nurse the community in the context of the current pandemic . Dr. Walker and Dr. Valdez will discuss the importance of mutual aid, how a Twitter conference works, and why a virtual conference like this is so important for the nursing community.

Cathy Crowe has been a nurse and advocate for over thirty years working with Canada’s homeless population. She uses her influence to bring Canada’s most impoverished citizens to the forefront of national consciousness. In her new book, “A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of A Street Nurse,” Cathy talks about her experiences and lessons learned along the way.

On our next special COVID19 episode of Amplify Nursing we talk with Adult and Gerontological Primary Care Nurse Practitioners Elise Tarbi and Brianna Morgan. We discuss the importance of advance care planning in the era of COVID19. With demands on both hospitals and providers expanding, and resources predicted to become ever more scarce, there has been heightened public discourse about rationing. Our guests discuss how advance care planning has increased importance in this landscape in order to support people with an increased risk of dying, as well as the healthcare providers and family members who may be facing these difficult decisions.

On our next special edition of Amplify Nursing we check back in with public health researcher and behavioral epidemiologist Dr. Alison Buttenheim and social epidemiologist Dr. Carolyn Cannuscio. It’s been two weeks since we last spoke with Dr. Buttenheim and Dr. Cannuscio about the coronavirus and a lot has occurred in that time. In this episode we discuss where we are at in this pandemic, how it has been handled locally and nationally so far, and what is still to come.

COVID-19: On this second special episode of Amplify Nursing we speak with public health nurse Dr. Lisa Campbell DNP, RN PHNA-BC. Dr. Campbell is a Professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing and the immediate past chair of the American Public Health Associate’s Public Health Nursing Section. Dr. Campbell is also the chairperson of the Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations and leads initiatives to advance public health in urban and rural communities. We talk with Dr. Campbell about the current state of our public health system in the US, the effect this rapidly changing coronavirus pandemic is having on that system, and what we could be doing differently to flatten the curve.

Lydel Wright is first and foremost a nurse, but also an innovator, entrepreneur, and all around engaged citizen. As an inaugural recipient of the Johnson and Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellowship, Lydel is building on his experience as a leader in the sub-acute care space to help nurses work more efficiently, while also improving patient outcomes. Through his non-profit organization, Empact, Lydel finds joy in giving back, and supporting other nurses as they begin their journeys to create solutions to the problems they see in their communities.