This week on the podcast we have Sandra Pagenta, DNP, ARNP and podcast host of the Doctor Nurse Podcast. Sandra started her nursing career on a med/surg floor like so many of us. But that wasn't to be her final destination.

Just a couple of years into her nursing career she decided to go back to school and become an nurse practitioner (NP) and then later achieved her DNP. She is currently working part time as a urologic Nurse Practitioner and loves working with the geriatric population.

Sandra also started a podcast called Doctor Nurse Podcast. On this podcast she features RNs and NPs using their degrees and certifications with a business and freedom mindset.

She also has an Etsy shop with merchandise specifically for nurse practitioners.

She is absolute wealth of knowledge. I love how she constantly has ideas flowing!

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This week on the podcast we have nurse entrepreneurs Emily Cheng and Ryan Cogdill of MedVenture App. These two amazing nurses started their nursing journeys on the west coast and made their way into travel nursing.

After meeting at TravCon, an annual conference for healthcare travelers in Las Vegas, Ryan and Emily decided to team up and start an app aimed at helping travel healthcare professionals. MedVentureApp is a free social, mobile and community app for all travelers to connect, find community, and empower one another. They host meetups, reviews of hospitals and travel agencies, provide information about housing and food, and so much more!

In today's episode, they tell us how they got started, who their app is for, what their app offers healthcare travelers and about their upcoming MedVenture Camp.

Check them on Instagram @medventureapp or their website MedVentureApp website

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This week on the podcast we have nurse entrepreneurs Anthony Scarpone-Lambert and Jennifferre Mancillas of Adni Marketplace (formerly known as Lumify Care). These two amazing nurses started their nursing journeys on opposite sides of the nation and met at a hackathon. (In case you don't know, a hackathon is a conference for nurse innovators that meet in order to solve healthcare problems).

After meeting at the hackathon, Anthony and Jennifferre stayed in touch and later decided to launch Lumify. At Lumify, they invented the UNight Light: a handsfree wearable light that allows nurses to illuminate their work spaces without disturbing their patients.

And that was only the beginning... Lumify led way to Lumify Marketplace (now Adni Markeplace) which is a community marketplace for healthcare professionals that has products and digital resources for healthcare professionals all in one place. Lumify underwent a branding change and is now Adni Marketplace.

Today, they tell us their journeys into nursing and into entrepreneurship. They are yet ANOTHER amazing example of nurses using their degrees in unique and inventive ways.

Check them on Instagram @adniapp or their website https://www.adni.co/

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This week on the podcast we have Brook Feerick, RN, CCM CLCP. Brook has an amazing, varied nursing career that started 35 years ago! She transitioned into nurse case management so that she could work from home. She eventually ventured out on her own and added life care planner and entrepreneur to her list of accomplishments.

Brook is highly involved within her specialty. In addition to running her own case management and life care planning practice, she is the President of the Rehabilitation Nurse Coordinator's Network and is involved in the International Association of Rehabiliation Professionals. She teaches a class of disability management at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD).

Brook has so much experience to share and she is unbelieveably generous in her knowledge. Be sure to listen and get ideas for your pivot in nursing!

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This week on the podcast we have Jocelyn Anderson, RN, BSN, MSN, PhD. Jocelyn has an amazing and unique start to her nursing career where she traveled abroad (as part of her undergraduate nursing program) and worked in South Africa in an ICU. It was there that she was first exposed to patients who were victims of violence. That experience it what led her into forensic nursing and becoming an advocate for marginalized patient populations.

She is now as associate professor at Penn State University. There she conducts multiple research projects that specialize in forensic nursing as well as teaching students. She takes us throught her career and education track to educate us on how she got to where she is now.

Jocelyn is an absolute wealth of knowledge and she shares it with us today! If you have ever been curious about research in the field of nursing then today's episode is for you.

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This week on the podcast we have Erin Pollitt, RN, BSN, MHA. Erin started her nursing career in the emergency room (ER). And like many other forensic nurses, this is where she was first introducted into the forensic nursing world.

She started out as a sexual assault nurse examiner and then worked her way up! She is now the Executive Director for the DC Forensic Nurse Examiners (DCFNE). DCFNE is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing patient-centered forensic nursing care to victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

Erin tells us exactly what she does and tells how her program operates.

She is an absolute wealth of knowledge and she shares it with us today! If you have ever been curious about the specialty of sexual assault nursing, then today's episode is for you. If you have a friend that has always been curious, please share!

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This week on the podcast we have Jana French, RN, BSN, MS. Jana started her nursing career in the emergency room (ER) and it was where she was first exposed to the sexual assault nursing specialty.

She started out as a sexual assault nurse examiner and then worked her way up! She now has her own forensic nursing education and consulting company that provides more focused training in specific areas of forensic nursing, that introductory courses may not have covered.

Jana tells us exactly what sexual assault nurses do, what their role is, her perspective on education, working with law enforcement agencies, etc.

She is an absolute wealth of knowledge and she shares it with us today! If you have ever been curious about the specialty of sexual assault nursing, then today's episode is for you. If you have a friend that has always been curious, please share!

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This week on the podcast we have Sara Jennings, RN, BSN, MSN, PhD. Sara started her nursing career with as a diploma prepared nurse and worked her way through schooling eventually to obtain her PhD in Forensic Nursing. She first became interested in forensic nursing while she was working as a Emergency Room nurse. Like many ER nurses, she was afraid to take sexual assualt patients because she didn't feel she knew what she was doing and didn't want to do a bad job. So she took that as challenge! She inquired about getting more education in working with sexual assault patients (and other patients who experienced violence) and looked for opportunities to work more with this patient population.

Sara takes us through her nursing journey and shares with us how she came to work for IAFN (the professional organization for forensic nurses). She tells us what her current job entails and gives information on other positions possible for nurses within this specialty.

I am so excited for you all to hear her story!

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This week on the podcast is Em Jamieson, RN, BSN. Em started her nursing career at Duke University in North Carolina. She fell in love with the oncology specialty during her Capstone project in nursing school. She started he career in oncology and then started travel nursing. She eventually landed in Houston and has been working in one of MD Anderson's outpatient oncology clinics.

Em takes us through her nursing journey and really highlights her passion for oncology. She educates us on how oncology is organized. She shares with us what her current job entails and gives information on other positions possible for nurses within this specialty. She also gives nurses who want to work with this patient population, some sage advice.

I am so excited for you all to hear her story!

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This week on the podcast is Jamie Weatherfield, RN, BSN. Jamie started her nursing career Washington, DC. While working in an ICU in Washington, DC, she was introduced to the organ donation world and became interested in that specialty. She eventually moved back to California and is working as a Resource Triage Coordinator for one of the Organ Procurement Organizations in California.

Jamie takes us through her nursing journey and really highlights her passion for organ donation. She shares with us what her current job entails, other positions possible for nurses and how you can get involved with this patient population if that is your passion as well.

I am so excited for you all to hear her story!

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