Our guest today is Dr. Veronica Sampayo. Dr. V is a nurse practitioner whose mission is to help nurses and NPs elevate their careers. She is tackling this lofty goal through her business The Clinician Life, which offers nurses and NPs professional development tools, templates, coaching, community, and more. She is also elevating nurses in clinical settings through her work as an outstanding NP, APP manager, and nurse advocate.

In our conversation, we discuss Dr. V’s clinical and management journey, experience starting a business, and advice for NPs.

Our guest today is Amanda Guarniere. Amanda is a Yale-trained Adult and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner. Beyond her clinical work across emergency medicine, primary care, women’s health, medical aesthetics, and medical weight loss, Amanda also has extensive business and leadership experience. She’s the founder of The Résumé RX, where she helps NPs build impactful careers without sacrificing work-life balance. She’s also a senior sales manager at Collaborating Docs, where she helps NPs find collaborating physicians.

In our conversation, we discuss Amanda’s time in various clinical settings, process for building The Résumé RX, journey to Collaborating Docs, and tips for identifying your superpower.

Our guest today is Dr. Setare Taabodi. Setare is a holistic nurse practitioner and founder of Star Health and Wellness.

After finishing school, Dr. Setare planned to work in primary care to help patients prevent and reverse disease. When she realized she couldn’t deliver the quality of care she wanted to in a traditional medical setting, Dr. Setare decided to start her own health consulting practice to help patients heal using holistic and evidence-based approaches.

In our conversation, we discuss Dr. Setare’s unique approach to patient care, wisdom for clinicians interested in integrative medicine, tips for social media, and more.

Our guest today is Josie Tate. Josie is a nurse practitioner with a clinical focus on geriatric health, and also the founder of Clincepts, where she helps NPs get and stay happily hired. Josie is an expert in the NP job search, resume creation, interview preparation, and contract negotiation.

In this episode, we discuss Josie’s experience starting a business, her work in skilled nursing facilities, and her advice for NPs from both a clinical and career strategy perspective.

Our guest today is Melanie Kavaler, a nursing student at Columbia University in her first year of an accelerated MDE-DNP program. In this program, she’ll receive both an MSN and DNP degree in under four years.

In this episode, we discuss Melanie’s decision to shift from pre-med to nursing, her experiences in the program so far, and how she plans to use her education and training looking forward.

Our guest today is Eileen Sandifer, a pediatric NP who has worked at the same private practice for the past 20 years. She loves to teach and has served as a clinical preceptor for many NP students. She has always enjoyed working with teens and had the unique opportunity to set up a clinic for homeless adolescents in California. Eileen has a lot of wisdom to share across these experiences!

In this episode, we discuss Eileen’s experience and personal growth as an NP in pediatric private practice, her clinical tips for treating children and adolescents based on 20+ years of experience, and her advice for NPs more broadly.

Our guest today is Tranise Goodlow, a DNP who listeners may know as Dr. G The NP (@drgthenp on Instagram). Dr. G is an exceptional teacher, and it shows in today's episode. Tune in to learn about everything from treating cardiomyopathy to reading EKGs to starting a business as an NP.

Our guest today is Elizabeth Knight, a DNP, PhD, Integrative Health Coach, and long-distance athlete in Portland, Oregon. We are so excited for listeners to hear about Elizabeth’s journey from nurse, to nurse practitioner, to PhD, to integrative health coach, to business owner at Flower Power.

Today we discuss Elizabeth’s varied career path, insurance-free practice, entrepreneurship, and the fuzzy line between health coaching and primary care.

Enjoy!

0:44 - Elizabeth’s intro

1:13 - What brought Elizabeth into nursing

2:29 - Elizabeth's experience getting her RN degree 

3:48 - How Elizabeth decided to pursue a higher degree and why she choose a dual DNP / PhD program

6:55 - Elizabeth's thoughts on “optimizing” education early on for future career paths in nursing

8:35 - The ability to try many career paths as a nurse

9:33 - Elizabeth's work with uninsured patients

13:05 - Elizabeth's choice to pursue an Integrative Health Coaching certification

16:17 - Elizabeth's experience starting a health coaching business as an NP

19:13 - how Elizabeth chose Flower Power as the business name

19:52 - Elizabeth's ongoing goals for Flower Power

22:01 - Elizabeth's clinical "secret sauce"

23:50 - How Elizabeth structures her time to be effective across multiple positions

27:04 - How Elizabeth encourages medication adherence

28:17 - Elizabeth's approach to working with patients from different backgrounds

29:19 - How Elizabeth helps clients identify health goals

31:06 - How Elizabeth helps her clients reach health goals 

32:54 - What Elizabeth would like to change in American healthcare

36:23 - Elizabeth’s advice to listeners

38:19 - Elizabeth's book recommendation for providers

We're excited to announce Off Script! Tune in every week to hear the stories of and insights from NPs.