COURSE DESCRIPTION:

The experience and education that can be provided by the patient population is an unhailed source of invaluable education for continuing professional development - not only for nurses, but for all healthcare professionals. Lianne Saffer’s story illustrates that precisely, and presently, as facilitators Antra Boyd and Karen DiMarco were changed as professionals and humans by the end of this podcast course.

Diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33, she was given one course of treatment and told that she was going to be “fine.” She didn't know then that their definition of “fine” was worlds apart from her own, and how conventional medicine’s algorithmic treatment of her diagnosis, rather than an individualized approach, would devastate her vitality and her life.

When Lianne woke up to the dissonance between ‘their fine and hers,’ she took back the reins of her treatment course, and ownership of her healthcare. She did her own research, found her voice, authored an outcome that she could accept, then became a champion for others to do the same.

OBJECTIVES:

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

COURSE OUTLINE:

I.   Introductions

II.  Jumping-in to the deep-end: Lianne’s Story

     A. The Urgency Train: I’m 33, I’m going to die

     B. Their “fine”: Chop things off, chemo

III. But wait, there’s alternatives?

     A. Research

IV. Finding her voice

     A. Bringing the research, making your case

     B. Defining your treatment Vs. getting sucked-into theirs

V. Obstacles

     A. Resistant caregivers

     B. Finances - insurance only pays for the ‘algorithms’

VI. It wasn’t over

     A. Toxic breast reconstruction

     B. Autoimmune issues - Hashimotos, SIBO, etc

VII. Please Don’t Send Me Flowers

     A. It’s more helpful to know it sucks

     B. Let me blow my nose with your pink ribbon

VIII. Having good boundaries is the best prevention

IX. What does it mean to “own your health?”

X. Everybody's right. Partially

XI. Regrets and ‘would haves.’

XII. Coaching and contact

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Lianne Saffer often describes her life as: “An endless quest to feel it all.” She is a wife, mother, writer, fitness instructor, hair stylist, life coach, author, and advocate for helping people live ‘a loud and authentic life.’

From divorce, to coming out, to cancer, in her book: Please, Don't Send Me Flowers, Lianne shares how she gained resilience, wisdom, and trust for herself, through the painful discovery even healthcare professionals don’t always know what’s best for you.

Lianne believes that we should all get a little louder, and use our voices to help create true empathy and understanding. She believes in raising strong women, and telling the truth about hard situations by opening conversations that society has closed, and asking questions about things we were taught not to. Her mission is to reach and empower as many people as possible with her writing, coaching, and speaking events.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Occupational Therapy is such an enigma that it is woefully underutilized, or engaged as an postscript to discharge rather than a necessary component of inpatient treatment. This podcast course serves to turn the enigma of the OT role into an essential solution for nurses to engage in the patient’s team, early-on, to prevent intercept debilitation secondary to hospital stays, and to enhance and accelerate rehabilitation post discharge.

An inspiring complement to the education provided about the OT role is the instructor’s story of how she made a business and career from her unique solutions to the challenges of integrating Occupational Therapy within the current healthcare system.

OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

OUTLINE

I.   Introductions/Get to know Nicole Nohner

     A. Expertise, experience

     B. Seeing a problem, becoming a solution

II.   “The Gap” in the patient healthcare continuum

     A. Addressing risk of debilitation early to prevent poor outcomes/readmission

     B. Opportunities for evaluation: admission, in-patient, discharge, follow-up

III.   Cutting her teeth Where Nicole learned to love OT, and developed her unique perspective

     A. Forensics, Psych, Home Health and Skilled Nursing facilities

     B. Exercise as medicine

IV.   Preventing debilitation from admission through post-discharge

     A. Taking an individualized approach to planning treatment

     B. Anticipating challenges

V.   How nurses can proactively utilize the OT role to improve patient outcomes & prevent readmission

VI.  Bridging “The Gap:” Starting a business to become the solution

     A. Establishing a mobile outpatient OT practice

     B. Learning curves: social media marketing, insurance

     C. Recognizing opportunities for growth

VII.   Wins: examples of patients who didn’t fall through ‘The Gap’ because Nicole was there

VIII.  Using an individualized approach

     A. Proactive observation of the life and environment

     B. Motivational Interviewing

     C. Understanding and honoring a patient’s personal definition of success

IX.   Finding your ‘Niche’ as an entreprenure

X.   Contact Nicole Nohner

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Nicole Nohner is an Occupational Therapist, Certified Lymphedema Therapist, Certified Fall Prevention Specialist and Entrepreneur. She earned a BS in Exercise Science from Gonzaga University and a Masters in Occupational Therapy from Eastern Washington University. As a student she traveled with athletes on the Junior Paralympics Team and lead a weekly recreational group for adults with developmental disabilities. Hand N Hand Home Rehab, her mobile Occupational Therapy Practice, is where her passion for communication, teamwork, functional exercise & meaningful activities results in her patients' ability to improve their lives and achieve their goals.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Do you also have ideas on how systems and processes at your work can be done better? What do you do with those ideas? Allen Plunkett shares exactly what you can do with them. His experience as an entrepreneur beginning at 18 years old to now running his own IT recruiting firm, helped him design a methodology, a philosophy, a winning strategy to be successful, including learning from failures. Join Allen, Antra, and Karen as they explore how these skills are vital to being a success - be it a nurse, an entrepreneur, a partner, or a member of society. Your voice matters!

OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. become professionally self-reliant and start a business, side-hustle or gig

2. identify core skills/superpowers that you want to take with you to your next promotion or job

3. find their voice and speak up to ask what they want from their workplace

COURSE OUTLINE:

I.   Introductions/Get to know Allen

II.  “I can do that better.”  - how to turn that thought into action

     A. Fear

     B. Self-reliant

     C. What is a life-style business?

     D. How does one rewire your mind to say you can do “it” (system, process, business) better?

     E. Surround yourself with people who support you

     F. “I love what I do”

III.  Nurses - why do they make awesome independent contractors?

     A. They will always have work

     B. Nurses as entrepreneurs

     C. Nurses who have ideas but don’t want to leave their environment

IV.  How COVID is rewiring the work place

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

Allen started his career in retail, working for grocery stores and then PetSmart until getting into the staffing world in 1998. After working for one recruiting firm until 2002, he struck out with a friend to launch Phoenix Staff. Allen and his wife love the fact that they have a stellar team of people working towards a common goal – employing good people in good jobs. Outside of work, they are fortunate to be surrounded by a great extended family in Florida and California. A graduate of Florida Atlantic University, Allen is dedicated to his team and to helping identify ways to help people grow their careers and find a place where they can love what they do and where they do it.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Join RNegade podcasters as they explore the wonders of science and laboratory work with Professor Dr. Varani. This course will focus on distinguishing science from technology, the transformation over the past 50 years on how science is understood and misunderstood. In addition, Dr. Varani will share his research that currently works on at the University of Michigan and how his findings will help healthcare professionals care for their patients when it comes to gut and overall health.

OUTCOMES

OUTLINE

I.  Introduction/About “Uncle Jimmy”

     A. From Med School to Pharma to getting rats ‘high’

     B. The Golden Age of Science

     C. 50 years later, professor Emeritus, and still in love with the job

II. The current state of “science”

     A. Decoupling of science and technology

     B. The influence of politics

     C. The dictates of grant money

III. Dr. Varani’s current research on the gut, supplements, and inflammation

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Varani is an internationally recognized expert in human cell and organ culture, particularly models of skin. He has worked with a variety of biotechnology and large pharmaceutical companies, including Johnson and Johnson, Genentech, and Amgen. Utilizing in vitro and in vivo models he has supported retinoid, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, and anti-cancer drug research.

Dr. Varani’s research focuses on the processes of skin homeostasis, aging, atrophy, and fibrotic skin disease. His studies examine regulation of fibroblast proliferation, signaling pathways controlling growth, extracellular matrix production, elaboration of matrix metalloproteinases, and their inhibitors. His group utilizes chemically-induced skin irritation to understand mechanisms of inflammatory skin disease such as psoriasis, drug-induced injury, and Rosacea.

Dr. Varani has developed human colon organ models to understand the process of growth and differentiation in this tissue. These studies have implications for colon cancer and inflammatory bowel disease.

Dr. Varani received his undergraduate degree from St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota and his Ph.D. at the University of North Dakota in 1974. After Post-Doctoral work at the University of Connecticut, he came to the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor in 1980. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1985 and became a Full Professor in 1991. Currently, Dr. Varani serves as professor emeritus at The University of Michigan.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This podcast course is a humbling, horrifying, enlightening, and inspiring experience, as you’re invited to see the world through the eyes of Ryann Mason, A.K.A. “Chronically_Ry,” of Instagram fame.

Humbling - when we learned that our assumption that as healthcare professionals we ‘had a clue’ about the experience of persons with disabilities was not only lacking, but totally ignorant and ableist.

Awakening - of how the ignorance of society, and medical professionals specifically, has contributed to the challenges that people with disabilities face.

Enlightening - as our instructor gently and comprehensively remedies our ignorance with stories & metaphors from her own experience. Ryan’s simple guidance informs understanding and empathy to shift participants’ thinking and behavior toward individuals with disabilities to effect big change.

Inspiring - Ryan Kress’s story is universally inspiring - one human who used adversity as compost to germinate purpose, service, and a life well-lived.

OBJECTIVES

OUTLINE

I. Introductions/Get to know Ryan

II. Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome

III. The Reckoning (Title, not verb)

IV. Conquering Hills: literal and metaphorical

V. The Ableism of Ignorance

VI. First Person Language

VII. Mobility Aids - (Can’t believe I have to say this but…) things that help people move,

and prevent them from falling-down, improve their quality-of-life.

VIII. Stories: The world-altering implications of an RN who goes places with wheels

IX. Contact

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Ryann Mason is a 29 year old disability advocate, registered nurse, proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community, adaptive athlete, public speaker, sexuality educator, and self-proclaimed loudmouth southern belle. Ryann was born with a rare genetic collagen disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS).

Ryann created an Instagram account, “Chronically Ry,” to share her experience with EDS, and it exploded overnight. She continues to leverage this and other social media platforms to educate and inspire younger EDS patients and others with disabilities by sharing her story as a woman with a physically disability working as a nurse in healthcare.

In addition to social media platforms, Ryann’s voice of advocacy for disability has been featured in Forbes magazine (twice,) multiple news stations, papers, and magazines. Ryann is a published model, adaptive athlete in wheelchair basketball, OCR, weightlifting, and an avid karaoke performer when the mood strikes. When she isn’t working the nightshift on the postpartum unit at her local level one trauma center, or running Chronically Ry, Ryann can be found at home with her girlfriend, para athlete Ryen Reed, and their 10 year old chihuahua, Oliver. Ryann could have let everything she’s been through bring her life to a screeching halt, but instead she continues to share her story to encourage and inform others about the needs and experiences of so many disabled humans all over the world.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This podcast course introduces listeners to Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM) for the treatment of an extensive and diverse number of acute and chronic conditions. Our instructor left us with the sentiment that we so often experience: “WHY DOESN’T EVERYBODY KNOW ABOUT THIS??”

In 1996 Dr. Carol McMakin began treating individuals with fibromyalgia, myofacial, and other complex pain issues with frequencies resurrected from a list created in the 1920s. Her first published paper in 1998 was a case report of 150 patients with myofacial trigger points, a condition once thought “incurable,’ that achieved 100% relief with FSM treatment. She has since published numerous papers on FSM treatment for various pain and inflammatory conditions, which are also discussed in this podcast course.

McMakin reviews the basic principles of the scientific method and evidenced-based research, the discoveries made possible due to her simultaneous work as a clinician and research professional, and how ‘leading with curiosity’ led to the discoveries and advancements that she made in patient treatment.

OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:

OUTLINE

Course Outline

I. Introductions/Get to know Dr. Carol McMakin

II. The biochemical way - drugs and receptors

III. The machine and the frequency ‘treasure map.’

IV. Introduction to treating pain with frequency

V. Review of the scientific method & evidence-based research

VI. Curiosity, connections, and curing the “incurable”

VII. How FSM works - stimulating cell receptors

VIII. More illustration through case studies

IX. Vagus nerve

X. Other “happy accidents”

XI.  Other treatments that utilize frequency

XII. FSM is teachable and reproducable

XIII. How to work with Dr. McMakin & Contact

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Carolyn McMakin, MA, DC is the clinical director of the Fibromyalgia and Myofascial  Pain Clinic of Portland, Oregon. She developed Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM)  in 1995 and began teaching FSM courses in 1997. In addition to maintaining a part time clinical practice, she teaches seminars on the use of FSM in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, the UK, Europe, Taiwan and the Middle East. She has lectured at the National Institutes of Health and at international medical conferences on the subjects of fibromyalgia and myofascial pain syndrome, fibromyalgia-associated with cervical spine trauma and on differential diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain, pain syndromes and sports injuries.

Her peer-reviewed publications include the FSM induced changes in inflammatory cytokines and substance P seen with FSM treatment of fibromyalgia associated with spine trauma, treatment of pain in the head, neck and face, and low back caused by myofascial trigger points, delayed onset muscle soreness, shingles and neuropathic pain. She consults with various NFL and MLB teams on the use of Frequency Specific Microcurrent in the treatment of sports injuries.

She published her textbook Frequency Specific Microcurrent in Pain Management in 2010, and “The Resonance Effect” in 2017.

Course Description

“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.” ― Joseph Campbell

This podcast is like being in one of those movies that you watch until the end of the credits, hoping for surprise ‘bonus material,’ because you want the inspiration to live life more fully, and become the best version of yourself, to last a little longer.

In this podcast course, participants will understand:

About the Instructor 

Chris Recinos, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, NEA-BC, is the CEO and founder of Nurse Leader Network and podcast, which is dedicated to helping nurse leaders with tools, resources, and connections to revolutionize health care, while enhancing their lives outside of their occupation. In November 2020, Chris started the development of the texting bot app, “Hello Harmony,” to address adolescent mental health and suicide. Her former roles include Chief Nurse Executive for Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center; Deputy Nurse Executive for the Veterans Administration; and a variety of academic, nurse practitioner, and registered nurse positions.

Objectives

Outline

I. Introductions/Get to know Chris       

II. Losing Harmony

III.  Hello Harmony - Harnessing ‘the hustle’

IV.  Design your time

V. Serving others through life lessons that’ve created an unconventional nursing leader

VI. Practices to become a leader

VII. How nurses innovate when they’re unleashed, and allowed to love what they do again

VIII. Contact

Bradley Schwartz takes us on a journey into the world of a devastating medical error that created in him “a firehose of passion” to make patient advocacy the standard of care in the US. Bradley is the founder of Greater National Advocates. In this episode of RNegade, we learn why he suffered a major medical error and what could have been done to prevent the “cascade of horrific events.” We also learn what propelled him to start Greater National Advocates and why it is so critical that patients have access to independent patient advocates.

RNs get a CE for this course on RNegade.pro.  

Rob Cook is a bad-ass gentleman. A softened, hardened veteran. A scholar of life. And the youngest-looking grandfather you’ve ever seen, despite the 4 lives he’s already lived - the wisdom he freely shares from any one of those lives will make you see the world in a different, better way.

As nurses we’re taught to ‘leave your personal baggage at the door’ when you walk into the work environment as a contributing factor to being at your best for your patients or your coworkers who rely on you.

We’re also taught, in “conflict resolution,” all sorts of tactics for dealing with challenging situations with patients and co-workers, terms like: Mind-set, Communication, Emotional intelligence, Stress management, Empathy, Impartiality, Negotiation, Active Listening, Impartiality, etc…

Sometimes ‘leaving personal baggage at the door,’ and applying the tactics required for ‘conflict resolution,’ require ‘super-human’ feats of ‘not-taking-life personally.’ So what do you do if you are, in-fact, a human?

In this interview, Rob shares from his personal experience to make you rethink everything you’ve been taught about de-escalation and ‘conflict resolution.’ It’s not about caring LESS about what others think about you, it’s about caring LESS about what YOU think about you.

RNs get a CE for this course on RNegade.pro.  

If there was such a thing as a B.A.H. (Bad Ass Human) certification, the school would be named after its first honorary recipient: Dr. Tina Kaczor ND, FABNO, (BAH).

Through her maternal compassion for individuals living with cancer, her powerful examples of the logistical and financial injustice that her patients face, and her child-like optimism about scientific advancements in Oncology Care, Dr. Kaczor captivates, educates, and inspires as she discusses her unique expression of the role of the Naturopathic Oncologist.

In this podcast course, Dr. Kaczor discusses how a Naturopathic Oncologist approaches and augments treatment for individuals living with cancer; contrasts Individualized Vs. Algorithmic Methodology to treatment; illustrates how the influence of a patient’s understanding/beliefs about their diagnosis and prognosis can affect outcomes; and reveals the latest scientific developments around the root causes of cancer… to name just a few key points.

(FYI - Antra and Karen both cry in this one.)

RNs get a CE for this course on RNegade.pro.