Nurse Executive Podcast
In the BRG Nurse Executive Podcast, we discuss improving patient care by advancing nursing leadership. BRG is a leading global strategic advisory and expert consulting firm that provides independent advice and dispute consulting around the world to corporations, law firms, government agencies and financial institutions. For more, please visit ThinkBRG.com.
Episodes
In this episode, Nick Chmielewski welcomes back Lisa Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN, FAAN, a tenured professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. They discuss her recently published study on “Medical-Legal Communication Among Emergency Nurses in States With Abortion Bans” in the Journal of Nursing Administration. The study focused on how emergency nurses receive and share information about practice concerns related to abortion b...
In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Anna Valdez, PhD, RN, FAEN, FAADN, professor and chair of nursing at Sonoma State University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Emergency Nursing. They discuss executive essentials in promoting peer-reviewed publications, focusing on strategies for leaders in nonacademic medical centers. Dr. Valdez notes that utilizing writing accountability groups, leveraging mentors and nursing sta...
Nick Chmielewski speaks with Jennifer Johnson, BSCN, RN, author of books including Nursing Intuition: How to Trust Your Gut, Save Your Sanity, and Survive Your Career. They discuss the importance of nurses connecting with their intuition—an essential tool for managing the high stress of the job, protecting mental health, and enhancing patient care.
In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with David Wildebrandt, a partner and managing director at BRG. They discuss key findings from BRG’s recent 2025 US Healthcare & Life Sciences Transactions Outlook report, including transactional evolution and industry disruptors.
Nick Chmielewski speaks with Caroline Segovia-Marquez, MBA, BSN, RN, ACM, CMAC, a managing consultant on BRG’s Care Transitions team. They discuss how targeting lower case mix index (CMI) diagnostic-related groups (DRGs) can be effective to improve length of stay. Prior to admission, the team must manage all points of entry to ensure that patients are admitted appropriately and assigned the correct status.
In this Nurse’s Week episode, Nick Chmielewski welcomes back Katie Boston-Leary, PhD, MBA, MHA, RN, NEA-BC, senior vice president of Equity and Engagement at the American Nurses Association (ANA). They discuss ANA’s recently released document regarding the principles of virtual nursing—meaning leveraging technology and tools, including artificial intelligence, to deliver quality care through communication and collaboration across t...
Nick Chmielewski speaks with Kamela Kolander, LMSW, CCM, a consultant on BRG’s Care Transitions team. They discuss how targeting specific care units prior to providing care can be an effective strategy to reduce length of stay by considering patient data, facility and patient demographics, payer and provider mix, and potential unit barriers.
Nick Chmielewski speaks with Amanda Kirkpatrick, PhD, RN, FAAN, associate dean for Research and Innovation and a Criss and Beirne Endowed Professor of Nursing, a joint appointment by Creighton University College of Nursing and CHI Health. They discuss ways to bridge gaps between universities and health systems, including building connections between faculty and nurse leaders, developing formal education and workshops for profession...
Nick Chmielewski speaks with David Broussard, MBA, BSN, RN, a managing consultant on BRG’s Care Transitions team. They discuss how targeting provider variation can effectively improve length of stay (LOS). They review how analyzing provider variation begins with establishing trustworthy, transparent data and understanding LOS metrics, order entries, and more across service lines, providers, and physician groups.
Nick Chmielewski speaks with Lisa Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN, FAAN, director of the Emergency Nurses Association’s Institute for Emergency Nursing Research. They discuss a 2024 study she coauthored, “Moral courage of emergency nurses in care-limited environments: A mixed-methods study,” which concluded that its subjects did not identify adherence to professional codes of ethics as the primary driver of moral courage. This episode exa...
In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Amy Brown, MSN, RN, NE-BC, chief nursing officer at the Michigan Health & Hospital Association. They discuss association executive nursing and the benefits of professional association involvement, including fostering a sense of belonging, expanding professional networks, and developing leadership skills.
Nick Chmielewski speaks with Bryan Cote, a managing director in BRG’s Healthcare Transactions & Strategy team. They discuss Bryan’s white paper The Menopausal Care Market, released in September 2024. In the paper, Bryan analyzes potential health issues experienced by menopausal women and explores solutions to improve women’s health and quality of life during this transitional period.
Nick Chmielewski speaks with Audrey McCollough, BSN, RN, a pediatric critical care nurse by background, entrepreneur, small business owner, and founder of PivotPath, a business that introduces nurses to career opportunities beyond bedside nursing. Audrey describes her experiences and her steps in becoming an entrepreneur, including research, leveraging resources and soft skills, and ambition. She also discusses strategies for preve...
In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Lowell Hardin, MSN, RN, NRP, NHDP-BC, a masters-prepared registered nurse and managing consultant on BRG’s Clinical Transformation team. They discuss preparing front-line nurse leaders for success, based on Lowell’s recent training of over one hundred leaders in an academic medical center. Through the training, he highlighted that in order to succeed, leaders must be aware of their acti...
In the season 4 premiere, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Bill Orrell, MBA, BSN, RN, a managing director and member of BRG's Clinical Transformation Team. They summarize 2024 in terms of performance improvement and project work and outcomes within BRG; discuss what they anticipate for 2025; and review industry trends around medical care, including inpatient care, ambulatory services, and change management. They also discuss the podcas...
In this episode, Nick Chmielewski welcomes back Noreen Hudson, MSN, RN, BRG’s Nursing team lead for perioperative services. This episode continues a series that started in season two reviewing the various departments comprising the perioperative services division. They focus on the evaluation process of pre-anesthesia screening as well as pre-anesthesia testing (PAT), also referred to as pre-admission testing or pre-surgical testin...
Nick Chmielewski speaks with James Ballinghoff, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, chief nurse executive (CNE) of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. James shares his perspective on healthy work environments, including fostering transparent communication with leadership, advocating for nursing staff through resource allocation and competency evaluation, and promoting shared and effective decision-making with front-line staff.
In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Katie Boston-Leary, PhD, MBA, MHA, RN, NEA-BC, senior vice president of Equity and Engagement at the American Nurses Association. They discuss the need and urgency to redraw and redesign care delivery models. Dr. Boston-Leary proposes a tribrid approach combining technology and artificial intelligence with an integrated strategy for enhanced patient and nurse satisfaction, reduction of ...
In this episode, Nick Chmielewski welcomes back to the podcast Terry M. Foster, MSN, RN, CPEN, CCRN, TCRN, CEN, FAEN, clinical nurse specialist at St. Elizabeth Healthcare and 2023 president of the Emergency Nurses Association.
Terry reflects on the care he received during a life-threatening ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), a heart attack caused by blockage of a coronary artery, in November 2023. He also discusses the co...
Nick Chmielewski speaks with Brandon Wubben, MD and Cory Wittrock, MD, physicians from the University of Iowa’s Department of Emergency Medicine. They discuss their recent article in JACEP Open, “The Impact of Emergency Department Overcrowding and Patient Boarding on Resident Point-of-Care Ultrasound Education.”
The article reviews how
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