Amplify Nursing
AmplifyNursing features nurses who are leading the way in nursing science, policy and innovation. Our guests defy stereotypes, define practice, and disrupt convention. We highlight the breadth and depth of nursing influence on society by amplifying nurses who are pushing boundaries and breaking down barriers to build a new paradigm. AmplifyNursing is a Penn Nursing podcast supported by the Pinola Fund for Innovation in Nursing.
Episodes
December 14, 2023 • 43 mins
Today, on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Dr. Dani Bowie. A visionary leader whose creative approach to managing the behemoth that is nurse staffing has led Dani to the role of chief nursing officer at Trusted Health, where she is in the vanguard of transforming the modern American nursing workforce. Today, we talk about the importance of building institutional resilience, the challenges and complexity of the current nursing workforc...
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November 16, 2023 • 34 mins
Today, on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Monica Harmon. Monica is a public health nurse, educator, and researcher. She began her journey into nursing as an associate-prepared nurse at the Community College of Philadelphia. She also holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in nursing from Thomas Jefferson University and a master’s in public health from Drexel University. Monica is also a member of the Pennsylvania Action Coalition, w...
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November 2, 2023 • 30 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Dr. Jessica Dillard Wright. Jessica began their academic career in women's studies, science, technology, and culture before transitioning into nursing. Currently an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Elaine Marieb College of Nursing. Dr. Dillard Wright has a background in emergency, critical care, and midwifery. They are an affiliate of UMass ILAS Center for Persona...
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October 19, 2023 • 32 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk to Kimberly Gordon. After working for seven years in various
cost accounting and managerial positions, Kimberly chose to pursue a career in nursing and
, eventually, nurse anesthesia. While completing her Doctor of Nursing practice at Yale University,
she and a colleague developed the first-of-its-kind campaign school for nurses and midwives.
Kimberly is a practicing CRNA, adjunct faculty at Wake F...
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October 5, 2023 • 22 mins
This week’s episode of Amplify Nursing was recorded live at the 2023 Penn alumni weekend. We spoke to many Penn Nursing alumni who came back to connect about their journeys and their experiences at Penn Nursing and what makes Penn such a unique place to be.
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September 21, 2023 • 38 mins
On our first episode of season 8 of the Amplify Nursing podcast, we kick off with a live podcast recording from this past June as a part of our Summer Innovation Institute. During the live event - which was so much fun to record, as you will hear - we discussed with our audience the need for senior nurse leaders in health systems to embrace and support innovation, what individual and organizational traits make a nurse more innovati...
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May 11, 2023 • 31 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Dr. Lucinda Canty. Dr. Canty is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Nursing, where she also serves as the director of the Seedworks Health Equity Program. As a nurse educator, researcher, historian, and reproductive health justice activist, Dr. Canty is deeply committed to improving the maternal health of women of color.
Dr. Canty talks with us about th...
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April 27, 2023 • 33 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Renee Omoyeni, founder of CompassRN. Renee began her career as a nurse in the US Army. She also has experience working in case management and IV infusion therapy, then went on to earn an MS in Health Education and Promotion. With her passion for mentoring and desire to help others navigate their nursing careers, Renee founded CompassRN as a platform that connects youth to health education and ...
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April 13, 2023 • 57 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk to Dr. Brighid Gannon. Brighid is a psychiatric nurse practitioner and serial nurse entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of Lavender, an online psychiatry and therapy office led and operated by nurses.
We talk with Brighid about the Ryan Haight Act, informing policy with evidence, and some of the many challenges facing the US healthcare system.
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March 23, 2023 • 23 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Randi Roy and John Rydzewski. Randi is currently a Principal Consultant with Fidelum Health and has more than 30 years of experience in health care in a variety of executive and management consultant roles. John is a private investor who has served as an advisor and director to healthcare companies and health policy and education organizations. Together, they serve on the Board of Advisors at ...
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February 23, 2023 • 30 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Barbara Glickstein, founder of Barbara Glickstein Strategies. With backgrounds in public health nursing, health reporting, and media strategy, Barbara has been extensively involved in amplifying nursing voices and developing healthcare leaders throughout her career. She is a co-producer of the HealthCetera podcast, which focuses on evidence-based health news, analysis, and commentary, as well ...
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February 9, 2023 • 40 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Dr. Angela Mund, president of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology.
In her 18-year career in academia, Dr. Mund has occupied roles at the University of Minnesota as well as the Medical University of South Carolina, where she currently serves as the chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences. As a proponent of nurse leadership, she is actively involved in a number of committees an...
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January 5, 2023 • 36 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we close out season six with a recording we did at our back-to-school event in September. We had a great time learning more about our amazing students at Penn Nursing, getting a message from Dean Villaruel, and talking to faculty about things happening at the school we are all really excited about. We hope you all enjoy the opportunity to listen to this special episode with our students as much as we enjoy...
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December 15, 2022 • 32 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk to Ali Gorman. After starting her career in the Navy Nurse Corp, Ali followed her passion, and her mom's advice, earning a degree in broadcast journalism. For 13 years, Ali was a trusted health reporter for the ABC affiliate Action News.
Today Ali talks about her nursing experience, how her nursing background influenced her journalism career, and her latest move as an entrepreneur, launching her ap...
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December 1, 2022 • 33 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Taofiki Gafar-Schaner, co-founder of Frontier Innovation, Inc. During his experience as a bedside RN, Taofiki observed many opportunities for patient care improvement, which inspired him to launch a business focused on creating innovative healthcare products. With their SafeSeizure pads product, Frontier Health & Resources won the 2020 American Nurses Association Innovation Award, as well as t...
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November 17, 2022 • 38 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Dr. April Kapu, president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Kapu currently serves as the Associate Dean for Clinical and Community Partnerships at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, where she also teaches as a professor in the DNP program.
Through her 30 years of experience in health care and nearly two decades of work as an acute care nurse practitioner, Dr. Ka...
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October 27, 2022 • 28 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Julia Votto and Casey Cheng. Julia is a student in the Integrated Product Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania and Casey, a recent graduate from Penn Nursing’s BSN program. Julia and Casey were part of a recent collaboration between Penn’s Nursing and Design Schools, where they participated in a workflow-improvement project at Penn Medicine’s ED Pavilion using the human-centered de...
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October 13, 2022 • 31 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Mike Avery, Dr. Neil Ray, and Jackie Taylor. Mike is a lecturer at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Mike has worked extensively at the intersection of design, architecture, and healthcare. Neil is a physician and Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Perelman School of Medicine, with backgrounds in bioengineering, design thinking, and heal...
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September 29, 2022 • 41 mins
Today on Amplify Nursing, we talk with Dr. Piri Ackerman-Barger, associate dean of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and professor at the University of California Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. With a strong background in both nursing and education, Dr. Ackerman-Barger has worked extensively on the advancement of workforce diversity, education equity, and institutional sustainability throughout her career.
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September 1, 2022 • 53 mins
On this special live Twitter Spaces event, Amplify Nursing podcast hosts Marion Leary and Dr. Angela DiDonato as they talk with Dr. Hernandez and Dr. Batchelor about the critical need for nurses to be more civically engaged. There has never been a more critical time for nurses to be civically engaged because when nurses are engaged, we have safer, healthier, and more equitable communities.
Follow us on Twitter at PennNursing and by...
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