Amplify Nursing

Today on AmplifyNursing, we talk with Anthony Scarpone-Lambert, Co-founder and CEO of LumifyCare. 

As an undergrad at Penn Nursing, Anthony was intrigued by the idea of attending a nurse hackathon. He embraced the challenge, pitched an idea to the group, and even met his co-founder.

We talk to Anthony about his transformative experience, the benefits of working with a design thinking model of innovation, and his journey from nursing student to CEO.

Today on the Amplify Nursing podcast we talk with internationally recognized historian of nursing Dr. Patricia D’Antonio, Director of the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.

Studying the history of nursing has been the joy of Dr. D'Antonio's career and she believes history is one of the most critical methodologies we have to confront the complexities we face in health and helathcare today and to think about how all things are interconnected. Dr. D'Antonio is one of the authors of a white paper examining the history of racism in nursing that will be released along with the 2022 National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing Foundational Report.

The Commission's goal is to look at how racism is still perpetuated in nursing and by nurses and to create strategies to combat it.

Dr. D'Antonio talks with us about the history of racism in nursing, how historians look at the past, and how structural racism is embedded in nursing's origin story.

Today we talk with Dr. Hafeeza Anchrum, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society (PRSS). Curious about the history of nurses that shared her experiences, she recently completed a doctoral degree capturing the oral history of black nurses and their struggle for equality during the civil rights movement.

Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, as a child of a mother of the civil rights movement, Dr. Anchrum understood the need to preserve these stories due to a scarcity of historical scholarship focused on black nurses.

We talk with Dr. Anchrum about her early experiences in the profession, the inequities baked into the education system, and who gets to tell the history of nursing, what is being taught, and whose work is celebrated.

On this episode of Amplify Nursing, we talk to Matt Douma, a clinical nurse educator and resuscitation science expert working for Alberta Health Services in Canada.

Today we talk to Matt about his early career challenges in nursing, his passion for research, and the importance of ethical considerations in resuscitation research. 

On the next episode of the Amplify Nursing podcast, we talk with Ravenne Aponte. Ravenne is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in the Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing focusing her research on the history of black nurses. Ravenne started her educational career with a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies with a minor in Health Disparities and then received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, working as a Pediatric ICU nurse. It was the combination of these experiences that lead to her interest in nursing history and workforce diversity that ultimately lead her to co-create the Nurses You Should Know (NYSK) project. Nurses You Should Know, is a social media and digital campaign whose goal is to elevate the stories of nurses of color and to make their impact more widely known.

We talk with Ravenne about how her educational, clinical, and life experiences contributed to the work she does today, the disconnect between nursing history and practice, and how she is using the NYSK project to highlight the work nurses of color have done - and are doing - to contribute to the nursing profession.

On this episode of AmplifyNursing, we talk with our nursing neighbors to the north, Rob Paquin and Allan Lai. Allan, a self-proclaimed reformed back-packer and couch surfer, is a critical care nurse and educator currently training to be a family nurse practitioner. Rob is also a critical care nurse with an interest in healthcare design currently pursuing a PhD at King’s College in London. Together they host the podcast ResusTonight. Today we talk about interactive nursing education, learning from failure, and the potential benefits of using VR in nursing.

On this episode of AmplifyNursing, we talk to Mary Rose Saint-Cyr. Mary Rose is a 2nd year nursing student in the direct-entry MSN program at MGH's Institute for Health Professionals in Boston.

A second-degree nursing student, and no stranger to academia, Mary Rose has spent her career supporting underrepresented students in healthcare. Today we talk about her journey into nursing, her passion for workforce diversity initiatives, and her plans to become a psychiatric nurse practitioner. 

Organizations she mentioned:

Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Leaders (SONSIEL)

Nurse Hack 4 Health

Launch Pad at Oculus

We are kicking off season 4 of the Amplify Nursing podcast with a live podcast interview at the B.PHL Innovation Fest. Our guest for this event is Dr. Antonia Villarruel, professor and Margaret Bond Simon, Dean of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School Nursing.

Dr. Villarruel is an internationally renowned leader in research, policy, and practice and has worked to improve the health of underserved Latino communities as well as our community at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, the number one nursing school in the world.

Amplify Nursing Season 4 will launch in October 2021!

Our Amplify Nursing guests defy stereotypes, define practice, and disrupt convention. We highlight the breadth and depth of nursing influence on society by amplifying nurses who are pushing boundaries and breaking down barriers to build a new paradigm.

Amplify Nursing is a Penn Nursing podcast supported by the Pinola Fund for Innovation in Nursing, and hosted by Marion Leary and Dr. Angelarosa DiDonato .

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