NursesOutLoud

Nurse Donna Lowery spent 31 years in OB at the same community hospital. In September 2021 she prayed on the way to work to be used that day — then advocated for a COVID patient to receive ivermectin. The doctor said yes. The patient improved. Eight days later, Donna was terminated and reported to the board of nursing. The board cleared her. Today she's the pharmacy nurse at Cocoa Pharmacy, wal...

Nurse whistleblower Gail Macrae, BSN, RN joins Jodi to talk about what she saw on the floor after the shot rollout: a threefold surge in admissions, clotting disorders she'd never seen in 10 years of acute care, and an Epic banner that labeled every COVID admission "unvaccinated" by default. Jodi adds what she reported as house supervisor — inflated ICU counts and VAERS signals that...

Six years ago, a handful of nurses started asking questions the system didn't want asked. We got censored, threatened, and pushed out — but we found each other, and we never stopped speaking. On September 28th, Senator Ron Johnson is convening a roundtable in the Kennedy Caucus Room in DC to hear directly from the nurses, physicians, and families who lived through the COVID hospital protocols....

In this powerful episode, Jodi O'Malley talks with Kristen Nagle, founder of the Reclaiming Birth Conference, about why more women are choosing home birth and rejecting unnecessary hospital interventions. Kristen, a former NICU nurse who once believed home birth should be illegal, shares her transformation and the evidence-based reasons why modern obstetrics may be causing the harm it claims t...

A viral Fauci hearing post sparked over 1,000 comments in a couple of day! What Jodi found was shocking: healthcare workers fell into three distinct camps. Some wanted it. Some needed the paycheck. Some would have left nursing entirely. But here's what nobody's talking about: the legal architecture that makes manufacturers immune from accountability, the nursing ethics gap that left 70% un...

A full circle moment. Four decades. One nurse leader that changed my nursing career—and I didn't even know it at the time. In this episode: How a nurse's quiet leadership shaped my path (without her ever knowing) The complete heart block story—when a nurse told a resident surgeon "no" and saved a patient's life What the Code of Ethics actually looks like in real practice (hin...

Get CNE from this show Sex trafficking isn’t “somewhere else.” It’s here. In this episode, I’m joined by Detective Heidi Chance (retired Phoenix Police Department, 25 years—14 years undercover in sex trafficking) to break down what nurses, parents, and communities are missing in real time. We start with a very real ER scenario—an “intoxicated female” who keeps saying “I was raped” —and why bias an...

Amy Siple is back with a major victory update. After being penalized by the Kansas State Board of Nursing for a missed license renewal while caring for her sick husband, Amy refused to sign a consent agreement admitting to something she did not believe was true. She was told the odds were impossible. She was warned the fight could bankrupt her. But through prayer, obedience, legal help, media expo...

What happens when nurses are forced to choose between following orders and following their conscience? Jodi O'Malley, MSN RN sits down with nurse practitioner Amy Siple to talk about what really happened inside long-term care facilities during COVID — the isolation, the denied treatments, the patients who died alone — and the faith that kept them standing when the system tried to silence them....

For five years, we have been told to be quiet . Quiet about the loved ones we dropped off at hospital doors and never saw again. Quiet about the husbands, wives, mothers, and fathers who walked in alive and never walked back out. Quiet about the nurses and doctors who tried to speak up and lost their careers for it. In this episode, Jodi O'Malley, MSN, RN sits down with Leslie Batts — the wido...

This healthcare policy and ethics conversation explores how free speech, mental health practice, and state-level legislation are colliding in the fight over exploratory therapy. In this episode of NursesOutLoud , Jodi O’Malley is joined by Pamela Garfield-Jaeger, The Truthful Therapist , for a bold conversation on the Supreme Court decision protecting therapists’ free speech, the misuse of the ter...

In this episode of NursesOutLoud , Jodi O’Malley, MSN, RN, explores a major health policy issue most people still are not talking about: the culture inside government health agencies and how hierarchy, career protection, protocol, and institutional loyalty can shape public health decisions. Drawing from her firsthand experience as a civilian nurse inside Indian Health Service, Jodi explains why si...

In this Nursing Ethics episode, Jodi O’Malley and Nurse Tori Jensen speak directly to the healthcare worker who feels alone — unpacking moral courage, religious liberty, wholeness of character, and the cost of advocacy in today’s healthcare system. This episode is available for CNE What begins as an unplanned, candid exchange becomes a deeply personal conversation about the emotional toll of speak...

In this episode of Nurse News Analysis, Jodi O’Malley, MSN, RN is joined by Nurse Jennifer Bridges to break down the ACIP meeting controversy, the federal judge’s ruling, vaccine policy, informed consent, and what nurses actually witnessed during COVID. More importantly, this conversation exposes one of the biggest gaps in nursing education: most nurses were never truly taught the Code of Ethics....

What if everything nursing school taught you about your child's fever — and everything you've been telling patients at triage — was missing the full picture? In this Nursing Ethics episode of NursesOutLoud™, ER nurse, nursing ethics educator, and federal whistleblower Jodi O'Malley, MSN, RN sits down with Dr. Lawrence Palevsky — New York board-certified pediatrician, past president of...

Florida attorney Rachel Rodriguez joins NursesOutLoud to announce her run for Governor — and expose what still isn’t fixed after COVID: mandates, medical freedom, and hospital power. Jodi O’Malley connects the legal fight to real-world nursing ethics: informed consent, retaliation, documentation, and courage that actually acts. 🎓 Earn 1.0 CNE for listening: This episode is CNE-eligible. Visit Nur...

Faith + Nursing: Jerusalem isn’t optional in Scripture — and I’m done watching leaders speak carelessly about Zionism, Jews, Israel, and prophecy… then act shocked when confusion spreads. In this episode, I respond to viral clips from a public antisemitism hearing (Feb 9, 2026, Museum of the Bible, Washington DC) and break it down with Scripture, definitions, and discernment — without flattening c...

Nursing Ethics: A teenage girl peacefully protested a government school policy during the COVID era—and her family now faces a $104,090.07 punishment attempt for suing. In this episode, Arizona attorney Ryan Heath breaks down G.W. v. Coronado Unified School District , explains anti-SLAPP in plain English , and why this precedent could make free speech a luxury only the wealthy can afford. Jodi O’M...

In this Healthcare Policy Breakdown, Jodi O’Malley, MSN, RN is joined by Tori Jensen, RD, RN, BSN, to break down the updated “real food” message and what it means for bedside nursing, patient education, and blood sugar control. When federal dietary guidance changes, it doesn’t just affect what’s on your plate… it trickles into what schools, hospitals, and government-funded institutions buy and ser...

This is Episode 3 of my Israel Pilgrimage series —if you haven’t yet, watch/listen to Episodes 1 & 2 for the full context. Jodi O’Malley, MSN, RN records a candid interview on a Masada + Dead Sea tour after leaving her Israel Ministry of Tourism delegation and traveling on her own. She’s joined by Ariel Mielnik—Argentina-born, Israeli by choice, and a clinical psychologist—to unpack what Zioni...

Nurses are the most trusted professionals in healthcare—and after 2020, many of us stopped accepting “because we said so” as an answer. In this Nursing Ethics conversation, I sit down with attorney Aaron Siri (Siri & Glimstad), author of Vaccines, Amen , known for vaccine-policy litigation and public-records battles. This is a nurse-to-lawyer pressure test on what “true informed consent” actua...

In this Healthcare Policy Breakdown, we combat the "Florida is free” narrative. For years, the narrative has been: “Florida is free. They ended mandates.” But Nurse Nicole (BSN, RN, CLNC)—a Central Florida bedside nurse and longtime medical freedom advocate—says that claim is flat-out wrong. In this NursesOutLoud episode, Jodi O’Malley and Nurse Nicole break down what was publicly promised, w...

Have you wondered...  How am I supposed to think about Islam, Israel, and spiritual warfare?   A growing chunk of the conservative world is turning on Israel, flirting with antisemitic talking points, and parroting narratives that line up perfectly with Islamist strategy —all while thinking they’re “just asking questions.” Today on NursesOutLoud , we’re talking to someone who lived on the inside o...

In this episode on patient advocacy, Nurse Donna Lowry (@d.lowery6) shares how advocating for alternative therapies during COVID cost her her job—and ultimately redirected her into functional medicine and patient education. Now working as a pharmacy nurse with West Cocoa Pharmacy , Donna helps patients understand options, support strategies, and “terrain” approaches—especially for those navigating...

 In this Nurse News Analysis, we discuss the return of Covid-era masks. Banner Health is bringing mandatory masking back to patient-care areas in Arizona—and I’m not doing 2020 again. I also received word that in the next couple of weeks another large hospital system will follow suit.  In this episode, I break down why “mask everyone” is not the gold standard of infection control, what hospitals s...