The Handoff

Host Dani Bowie shares a quick teaser for the upcoming season of The Handoff, launching March 8, 2023 — available wherever you get your podcasts. 

Our guest for our last episode of this season is Bonnie Clipper , a nurse futurist and thought leader, a former chief nurse executive, a fellow at the American Academy of Nursing, a startup coach, a consultant , a faculty member at multiple schools of nursing and the Chief Clinical Officer at Wambi . Bonnie is a repeat visitor who came on the show last season to chat with Dan about the future of n...

Our guest for today's episode was just weeks into her new role as a nurse leader at Lehigh Valley Health Network when COVID-19 hit. Nichole Persing turned to her experience as an Ironman and an endurance athlete in order to cope with the logistical, physical and emotional challenges of managing an ICU in the middle of a once-in-a-generation pandemic.  She and Dan talk about the team-based approach...

Our guest for this episode is Joni Watson , a healthcare and leadership consultant who also teaches Advanced Decision Making in Healthcare for PhDs at Duke University's School of Nursing. She was also previously the Senior Vice President for Strategic Nursing Transformation at Ascension, where she and Dan worked together.    In this conversation, Dan and Joni talk about how she crafted her thought...

Our guest for this week is Josh Wymer: an all-star nurse leader with deep expertise in change management, information governance, and digital innovation. Josh is currently the Chief Health Information Officer for the San Diego Market at Defense Health, and is also pursuing his Doctor of Nursing Practice in Executive Leadership program at Johns Hopkins, where he is looking at the impact of specialt...

In today's episode, we're talking about a subject that we haven't really gotten into in the previous five seasons of the show: the payer side of healthcare and its impact on nurses. Our guest, Judy Kunisch , has a lot of experience – and a lot of opinions on this topic – and even Dan learned quite a bit during their discussion.  Judy is a former bedside nurse turned vice president for a Fortune 10...

Our guest for this episode is one of the leading voices in LinkedIn on all things healthcare recruitment and she has some strong opinions about today's hiring market and what both sides need to do to succeed. Krista Whiting is the Vice President of Healthcare Recruitment for Parkwood International , where she specializes in acute care leadership in Southern Texas. Today she and Dan talk about what...

According to a survey put out by Trusted Health earlier this year, half of all nurses have been the subject of an attack, intimidation or assault by a patient or patient's family member since the start of the pandemic.  Our guest for today's episode, Mel Cortez , experienced this first hand working in a Baltimore area ICU. Later, when she saw how many nurses were leaving the profession because of...

Welcome back to Season 6 of The Handoff. In today's episode, Dan speaks with Rayne Soriano .  Rayne has carved out his own path in nursing and continually leaned into his passions in order to build a career that is uniquely suited to him. After an incredible 25 years at Kaiser Permanente, Rayne is currently the Regional Director for Operations and Nursing Professional Practice at Kaiser Permanente...

To close out season 5 of The Handoff we're actually welcoming back a repeat visitor to the show. Dani Bowie joined us last season to talk about scheduling and staffing, and since that conversation, she's actually joined the team at Trusted Health as their Vice President of Clinical Strategy & Transformation , where she's helping health systems transform their nursing workforce programs .   We're v...

Our guest for this episode oversees more than 8,000 nurses in her role as the Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive for NYC Health + Hospitals . In this conversation, Dan and Natalia Cineas talk about what's next for the country's largest public health system coming out of the most acute phase of the pandemic.   Like so many other nurse leaders, one of the things that's top of mind for N...

Our guest for this episode is Casey Green , also known as "Critical Care Casey." Casey has been a critical care nurse for seven years working in the emergency department, various ICUs, and critical care ground transport nursing. She is also a LinkedIn Top Nursing Voice , as well as a clinical instructor. Last year, Casey became only the 85th nurse ever to obtain all five emergency nursing certific...

Our guest for this episode is Alice Benjamin , a board-certified Clinical Nurse Specialist and Family Nurse Practitioner, as well as an author, podcast host, health advocate and a regular on-air medical contributor for CNBC, Dr. Oz, The Doctors, CNN and the BBC.  Alice's career as a nurse was inspired by the death of her father from a heart attack when she was a child. Since then she's been on a m...

Our guest for this episode is Garrett Chan , the President & CEO of Healthimpact , the nursing policy center for the state of California. Garrett and his team partner with other nursing organizations, health care providers, academic institutions and policy makers to build the nursing profession and support the 400,000 nurses working in the state of California.   Today he and Dan talk about Healthi...

Our guest for this episode is Karen Grimley , Chief Nurse Executive at UCLA Health and Assistant Dean for the UCLA School of Nursing .  In this interview, Karen and Dan talk about the innovations that the UCLA staff developed during COVID, how Karen maintains a high-performing culture and how she's planning to lead coming out of the pandemic. Karen also shares how she's thinking about staffing and...

Our guest for this episode has her hands in so many things, it's difficult to even know where to start. Bonnie Clipper is a nurse futurist and thought leader, a former chief nurse executive, a fellow at the American Academy of Nursing, a startup coach, a consultant , a faculty member at multiple schools of nursing on two different continents, the Chief Clinical Officer at Wambi , and someone who i...

Our guest for this episode realized early on in her career as a nurse executive that a traditional health system career path was not for her. Since then she's done everything from work as a clinical professor in a college of nursing, serve as the president of a state nursing board, write a number of nursing textbooks, and consult with hospitals and health systems on innovation and leadership.    ...

Our guest for this episode has the kind of career path that is close to Dr. Nurse Dan's heart.    Rich Kenny started his career in the emergency department before eventually becoming a flight nurse for Duke University Health System. Along the way he discovered that he had both an interest in and a knack for working with data, and specifically how to make data more useful to nurses in their every d...

Our guest for this episode is Sandra Davidson , Dean, Professor and Deputy Provost of the Faculty of Nursing at University of Calgary . Sandra is a long-time educator and shares my passion for bringing innovation and disruption to nursing leadership. She's currently developing a new doctoral program for the University of Calgary that will offer an applied degree aimed at educating and growing the...

Our guest for today's episode oversees what she calls a one-stop shop for nurse staffing within Johns Hopkins. Built 30 years ago as an internal float pool, Johns Hopkins Intrastaff is now both a VMS and a fully licensed staffing agency that manages thousands of nursing contracts for the health system. Its executive director, Laura Fricker , speaks with Dan about all things contingent staffing, in...

Our guest for this episode is Laura Reichhardt , the Director for the Hawaii State Center for Nursing . As the most remote inhabited island chain in the world, Hawaii faces a unique set of challenges when it comes to nursing, including a high cost of living, a diverse patient population, difficulty transferring in nurses from out of state, and access to supplies that can be disrupted by natural di...

We're back for season 5 of The Handoff with a very special guest, Dr. Sheldon D. Fields . Dr. Fields is the inaugural Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion at Penn State University , where he is also a research professor in the College of Nursing .  Dr. Fields was the first-ever male Registered Nurse selected for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellowship, in which he served as...

Dr. Nurse Dan and the rest of The Handoff team are busy recording new episodes for Season 5, which will be launching next week.  We've already lined up some great guests to talk about everything from new approaches to staffing and workforce, the opportunity that nurses have to shape policy decisions coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, and inspiring initiatives aimed at making nursing more diverse...

Today's episode is our last of season 4 and it's with one of the leading voices in the conversation around the nursing workforce. Dr. Peter Buerhaus is a healthcare economist and a Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Montana at Bozeman.  Today we talk about his research on the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on the nursing profession and some of the historical precedents that ca...

Our guest today for this episode is here to talk about an issue that is very close to our hearts here at Trusted Health : nurse staffing. Dani Bowie has built a career around solving this issue and cutting down the time that nurse managers spend creating schedules. She earned her doctorate in Nursing from Yale with a particular emphasis on the issues of staffing and scheduling and is now the Vice...