Nurse Wellness Podcast

Irnise is an experienced nurse and attorney and a Change Management Expert who uses the change management process to break down the organization's goals and create sustainable and cost-effective plans of action. Additionally, her training allows executives, leaders, and other stakeholders to manage their fear of change, expand their perspective, discover opportunities, and utilize present resources to get to the intended goal.

Irnise uses her experience, training, and change management skills to develop cost-effective plans of action for her clients. She works with healthcare organizations and service-based businesses struggling to become sustainable or profitable. She identifies the key issues and uses the change management process to build a strategic plan that will help her clients go from struggle to stride and become sustainable and profitable in their business.

Irnise uses this process to address Implicit Bias, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and planned structural or cultural changes that may impact large amounts of people within the organization. As a graduate of Howard University and the Howard University School of Law, Irnise serves as an architect of social change for both the clients she does in her private practice and her organizational training. Irnise hopes to empower more people and organizations to embrace change and use it as a tool to become more effective and efficient.

Learn more about Irnise:

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●  www.iwilliamslaw.com
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Charyse Williams is the CEO of GreenandGorjus. She is also a former ICU Registered Nurse turned Holistic Health Coach and the go-to Business Development Mentor for Healthcare Professionals.

Holistic Health Clients:  Charyse's mission is to teach high-achieving women how to heal their bodies with the foods that they eat, the thoughts that they think and the words that they speak so that they can release excess weight and reverse/prevent dis-ease.

 Her formula, The Feel Better Faster Formula, is what has been the key to her client’s success with reclaiming their health as well as to her, releasing over 40 pounds and ridding herself from decades of chronic migraines and chronic fatigue.

 Mentorship for Healthcare Professionals: Charyse’s mission is to empower women in healthcare to use their expertise to create multi 6-figure, heart-centered online businesses without sacrificing their health, their family or their freedom.
Additional credentials:

Certified Neuro-Transformational Coach

Certified Living on Live Food Chef and Educator

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In this episode Michelle and  discuss:
-The importance of having courageous conversations
-Provide a step by step formal to start courageous conversations
-The change courageous can bring to the profession
To review the Nurse Wellness Leaders open meeting on Courageous Conversations, visit Nurse Wellness Leaders

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Tina Loarte-Rodriguez, MSN, RN, CIC, CPPS, CPHRM is the Vice President of Nursing at a Federally Qualified Health Center with five locations in central Connecticut. Her priority is supporting the team in providing high quality, safe, patient centered care. She oversees the nursing department and medical assistant practice as well as infection control practices at the Health and Wellness Centers and school and congregate care nursing practice. Her professional experience includes teaching middle school math for four years and over sixteen years in health care with roles from perioperative and primary care nursing, performance improvement, infection control, risk management, and patient safety. A graduate from Cornell University, UCONN, and Quinnipiac University, she is certified in infection prevention and control, patient safety, and healthcare risk management. She is an eternal learner with a passion for health equity and high reliability. She loves dancing, eating, reading, and traveling. Originally born and raised in the Bronx, she resides in CT with her husband, three children, her father, and two dogs. is the Vice President of Nursing at a Federally Qualified Health Center with five locations in central Connecticut. Her priority is supporting the team in providing high quality, safe, patient centered care. She oversees the nursing department and medical assistant practice as well as infection control practices at the Health and Wellness Centers and school and congregate care nursing practice. Her professional experience includes teaching middle school math for four years and over sixteen years in health care with roles from perioperative and primary care nursing, performance improvement, infection control, risk management, and patient safety. A graduate from Cornell University, UCONN, and Quinnipiac University, she is certified in infection prevention and control, patient safety, and healthcare risk management. She is an eternal learner with a passion for health equity and high reliability. She loves dancing, eating, reading, and traveling. Originally born and raised in the Bronx, she resides in CT with her husband, three children, her father, and two dogs.

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Immacula Cann is a Board Certified Psychiatric and Mental Health Registered Nurse, with a Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree from Northeastern University. Immacula has over 27 years of professional nursing experience in leadership roles working with non-profit organizations, state-licensed social service agencies, sub-acute health care medical facilities, regulatory and accreditation agencies. Immacula has been continuously recognized as an outstanding employee with the State's Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) where she's been responsible for the Southwestern region's training and staff development initiatives. Immacula Cann has been a Stratford resident for the past 28 years. She is the mother of four children and has five grandchildren, three who are also current residents of Stratford. Immacula has a high degree of involvement in the Greater Stratford community, and she currently serves on a number of boards and commissions. Immacula is a lifelong advocate for social justice, families and children, with local and international experience developing/implementing education-focused policies and programs. Immacula is currently a candidate to be the next Mayor of Stratford, CT.

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Dr. Janet A. Williams is a board-certified Nurse Midwife who currently works in full-scope municipal midwifery practice.  She received her Doctorate from Wilkes University and her Masters's in Midwifery from SUNY Downstate.  She has been a midwife for 18 years, has delivered more than 800 babies and cares for women from puberty to menopause.  She continues to be awed by the strength of the women she serves. She holds an appointment from Columbia University as a clinical instructor for graduate level Midwifery students. Her daily interaction with medical students allows her to model how to deliver respectful care and guide them in their first birth experiences. They can observe what normal physiologic birth looks like as they join in as part of the birth team.

Dr. J is the founder of Transitions Women's Health Consulting, LLC, and believes that “babies should go home in their mother’s arms”. Health professionals should partner with women in their care, and advocate for families.   She has authored a book to educate mothers about self-care and symptoms to report during the postpartum period entitled “Transitions 4th Trimester Journal …Transforming.”
 
She believes that we must connect with, listen to, and believe women. It’s a matter of life or death. These ideals have led her to create her signature program “BLACK Mothers Interrupted” which has launched her as a cutting-edge maternal health professional in educating providers of healthcare about implicit bias, and how it affects the care given to women.

Website
www.transitionswomenshealth.net
Book
https://store.bookbaby.com/book/Transitions-4th-Trimester-Journal

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In this episode we discuss:
A.  Racism in Nursing
B. The National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing
C. The National Commission to Address Racism in Nursing survey results
D. The 10 Ways to be an Antiracist in Nursing

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In the span of her 20+ year nursing career, Dr. Daihnia Dunkley (aka "Dr. D") has worked extensively in the arena of maternal-child health, leadership, and academia. As she transitioned from bedside nursing to leadership roles, Dr. Dunkley became aware of the inequities within the healthcare system and their impact on patients and practitioners, especially those of color.  Subsequently, her focus shifted towards serving as a change agent by advocating for systematic improvement in matters of diversity, equity, and inclusion within the nursing profession, and eradicating racial health disparities. Her dissertation research focused on the experiences of Black female executive nurse leaders and was the inspiration for founding The League of Extraordinary Black Nurses; a nonprofit organization aimed at supporting current and future Black nurses through the guiding principles of leadership, mentorship, and scholarship. 

Additionally, Dr. Dunkley serves as a consultant further advancing her efforts to diversify nursing representation, empower minority nurse leaders, and improve maternal health outcomes. Dr. Dunkley is a well-respected and sought after speaker, whose work and reputation has attracted invitations to several international and domestic conferences and other engagements, including the University of Oxford Women’s Leadership Symposium in London, England, and an appearance on the recently aired BET network documentary, High Risk.

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Welcome to our first Pathway Into Nursing (PIN) Podcast episode with Alexis Brimm Akins who is a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with 16 years of diverse clinical experience working in large academic medical centers as a Respiratory Therapist, Registered Nurse, and Nurse Practitioner. Alexis adds collegiate teaching to her diverse clinical expertise, as she serves as an adjunct faculty member at Holy Family University. 

Alexis presently works as an advanced practice provider in an ambulatory care clinic designated to the urgent symptomatic treatment of patients with hematologic malignancies. She is passionate about educating herself, fellow providers, and patients on the latest evidenced based practices aimed at improving the quality of life of patients with cancer. She is currently enrolled in a Doctor of Nursing Practice program with a scholarly focus of increasing racial and ethnic diversity within clinical trials. She enjoys mentoring new to practice nurses and encouraging young women of color to enter STEM careers. 

In her free time, she delights in spending quality time with her husband and three children.

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