Hosts Kait Nesbitt and Brooke Moseley sit down with Nurse Practitioner Justin Rigoloso, who shares highlights from a 20-year nursing career that spans critical care, helicopter and ground transport, NICU work, and an emergency department observation unit.

Justin explains what an ED observation unit is, describes memorable transport and patient stories (including carrying a severed finger), and reflects on the rewards and challenges of nursing and transitioning to an NP role — including scope-of-practice issues, precepting, and burnout after COVID.

He also discusses practical tools and advice for students and clinicians, including the use of AI resources like OpenEvidence and ChatGPT.

Tiffany Kimbro runs her own business giving at-home IV infusions. We'll talk about what that involves and hear her advice for nursing students.

The HBO series The Pitt made headlines when it premiered early this year. The show is fiction, but it’s gotten a lot of attention and a lot of praise for its accuracy in depicting what it’s actually like to work in an emergency room. Real-life ER charge nurse Cody Burgamy will tell us what he thought of the show as well as the strangest case he’s seen come through the emergency room doors.

Today we’re talking about wound care - not the sort of wound you get when your crush doesn’t text you back, or even the kind of minor cut you might get from being careless with a kitchen knife. We’re talking about serious wounds that require serious treatment.

Shannon Godsave is a Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Nurse Practitioner. He’s actually Alabama’s first nurse practitioner certified to supervise hyperbaric oxygen therapy. He’s going to tell us all about how he evaluates and treats serious wounds.

Today’s episode is much bigger than just nursing education. We’re talking to Olivia Thurman, a nurse who previously worked in hematology and oncology, or HEMOC, at Children’s of Alabama.

Olivia’s daughter was born with a genetic condition that caused her to spend nine months in the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU.

We’ll talk to Olivia about how she’s doing and how her experience as a nurse has helped her care for her daughter.

We're talking to two experienced nursing professionals and educators about what nursing students can do to be prepared in the classroom and beyond.

Dr. Stephanie Lewis is a professor of nursing at Troy University and holds a Ph.D. in Nursing Education.

Dr. Stacey Jones is the coordinator of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at Troy University, where she has taught for 23 years. She is, herself, a graduate of Troy University.