Changing Your Healthcare Mindset with Rhone D’Errico | E. 63

Changing times require a change in mindset. 

 

Episode Introduction 

The pandemic forced health systems to explore new ways of delivering care and education. Rhone shares the benefits of LinkedIn as a mindset platform, the skills unique to Nursing Practitioners and how students in search of preceptorships can benefit by taking the ‘’cookie basket to the clinic’’. He also explains why telepsychiatry provides patients a safe space and extols the power of servant leadership. 

 

Show Topics

 

• Changing your mindset: LinkedIn as a daily platform 

• Overcoming the stigma of online learning for Nurse Practitioners

• Responding to the preceptorships crisis 

• The benefits of hiring Nurse Practitioners

• Telehealth is a mindset shift 

• Leadership lessons – getting in front of the problem

 

 

12:31 Changing your mindset: LinkedIn as a daily platform

Rhone described how LinkedIn provides a platform to highlight the benefits of changing your mindset. 

‘’….. it kind of reflects probably what my true passion really is and it's teaching, it's coaching, it's advising, it's helping others, all high performing professionals, but especially nurses, nurse practitioners, to really find their true profession and their true passion and where they want to go in their profession. So basically in LinkedIn, I just started writing, it's my daily writing platform, and I got to the point where I just want to write about what I'm just obsessed about, and I'm obsessed about nurses leveraging our skills and ability and our knowledge to become creators in this digital era because we have this whole new world to us and there's so much burnout and stress and pain among healthcare professionals. And I'm not trying to pull anybody away from the bedside, I honor the bedside, it's a necessary position. I honor those that are doing it, but I just want to make sure that I am illustrating to my audience options. And, the main start is you have to change your mindset, that's where it all begins. All the technology, all the toys, all the tricks are not going to do you a bit of good until you really change that mindset and say, "Hey, not only can I do this, but I have so many resources as a nurse or any healthcare professional, that there's a whole world out there that would love to take advantage of that knowledge, and I have this tunnel vision that all I can do is bedside, administration, education." So, that's really all about. So I post on LinkedIn, I post pretty much every day. I invite anybody that wants to follow along, please do. I talk about mindset. I talk about very tactical tricks and tips on how to promote yourself online, how to find your niche, how to build an online business, those sorts of subjects.’’

 

 

15:55 Overcoming the stigma of online learning for Nursing Practitioners 

Rhone said that the pandemic ‘’normalized’’ online learning and the didactic portion is delivered online. 

‘’But in terms of delivering our didactics online, communicating online, using Zoom, using online learning management systems, we were ready to go at the graduate nursing program and we were ready to really bring that skillset, and we were kind of the bullied kid in the corner that got to say, "Hey, now you need us. Now you need online education." And so what I would say mainly, especially to employers, to hospital systems, there's always been sort of a stigma about online. And, we've had to defend that and a little bit less now because of COVID, honestly, because so many people did it and it got normalized, but I will say don't necessarily be frightened off by that online if you see that related to a graduate school. Like all education programs, there can be some variance in quality. We have accreditation programs that really work to make sure that that variance in quality is very narrow. We always work to have high quality graduates. And then within all the schools I've ever worked, there is strong quality improvement mindsets involved there. So, your one big trend though is that nurse practitioner education, to the large extent, not 100%, but to a large extent, the didactic portion is delivered online. And, what that's led to also is an explosion of nurse practitioner programs because you don't have quite the same capit