Good Nurse Bad Nurse

This week Tina is once again joined by Tom with Just Some Podcast for Advanced Practitioners. Together, they tell you the tragic story of a shooting that took place at a plastic surgeon's office in 1997. On July 3, 1997, Dr. Michael Tavis and his office manager Kay Carter were gunned down in cold blood when they arrived to work that morning. Investigators would have to sift through multiple patien...

This week Tina is joined by Nurse Allie, a nurse influencer from Instagram and YouTube. Together, they bring you a compilation of disturbing stories involving corrections nurses. As nurses, we make commitments to ensure that our patients receive quality healthcare, regardless of the setting in which the treatment is administered. What happens when a nurse in a correctional facility abandons this p...

This week we are bringing you one of the very first episodes of Good Nurse Bad Nurse that isn't available to the general public. Tina and Christina tell you about Cindy James, one of the most fascinating and perplexing true crime stories that happened decades ago but that people are still debating about to this day. They close the show discussing Sojourner Truth, who on top of everything else she...

Tina is LIVE in Nashville, Tennessee with some of her favorite nursing podcasters from all over the US! In this special panel discussion episode, Tina is joined by Tom of Just Some Podcast for Advanced Practitioners, Jami of The Neurodiverent Nurse, and Adrianne of Nursing Uncensored. Together they go all the way back to the early 1800s and tell the story of Lydia Sherman, aka the Derby Poisoner....

This week Tina is joined by Tom and Ben of Just Some Podcast for Advanced Practitioners and Kevin McFarlane of the Art of Emergency Nursing podcast. Together, they discuss workplace violence and the terrifying story of a nurse who walks into the hospital where he works and stabs a co-worker. As police begin to investigate, they discover there seems to be much more to the story. They close the show...

This week Tina is joined by Mark, her better half and head of all things IT for Good Nurse Bad Nurse. Together they tell the story of Dr. Infgolf Tuerk. A renowned urologist from Brighton, Massachusetts. For years, Tuerk was recognized for his contributions to medicine, worked as the chief of urology, was featured in videos and billboards promoting the hospital, and was loved by all his patients....

This week Tina is joined by advanced practice nurse, Tom, one-half of the co-host team from Just Some Podcast for Advanced Practitioners. Together they tell the story of nurse Jon Eric Landis.  In 2015, 49-year-old Jon Eric Landis had been a nurse for 15 years when he walked over to confront his neighbor about an ongoing dispute. When all was said and done, only one man walked away from the disput...

This week Tina once again teams up with the dynamic duo Tom & Ben of the Just Some Podcast for Advanced Practitioners podcast. Together they tell the story of Heidi Butler, a California woman and former Covid intensive care unit nurse who was accused of approaching a co-worker to kill her husband. They close the show with an inspiring but bittersweet story of a Covid intensive unit nurse who helpe...

This week Tina is joined by Annie Fulton of the educational nursing podcast Up My Nursing Game. Together they tell the incredibly disturbing story of a cardiovascular intensive care nurse who is accused of unthinkable crimes involving his patients. On February 8th, 2018, investigators were called to a meeting at a prominent heart hospital in Tyler, Texas. The hospital staff and their counsel had a...

This week Tina is joined by Nurse Jehr at the Tennessee Student Nurses Association Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Tina opens the show with a short message to nursing students about what they are going to encounter as they transition into new grads. Then Tina and Jeht tell the story of Dr. William Husel, a doctor from Ohio who has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of homicide afte...

This week, Tina is joined by Tom and Ben of Just Some Podcast for APRNs. Together, they tell the story of Dr. Ronald Mikos. Dr. Mikos was making between 250 – 300 thousand dollars a year, which was a couple hundred thousand dollars over what other podiatrists were making in the area. When the federal government started interviewing his patients, they discovered he had been billing for hundreds of...

This week Tina is joined by new grad Nurse Jehr! Tina and Jehr tell you the story of Betty Wilson. Betty and Peggy were fraternal twins born in a small town in Alabama in 1945. Although the twin sisters were very close, they were also very different. Peggy was the beautiful, popular, homecoming queen type, and Betty opted for a wilder group of friends. Both married shortly after finishing high sch...

This week, Tina is joined by the always funny and entertaining Nurse Jessica Sites. Together they bring you the story of nurse, Rhonda Orr. Rhonda Orr met her husband Jimmy online in 1998. Jimmy’s parents paid for Rhonda to go to nursing school. By 2003, their marriage was falling apart, but they continued to live in the same house while Rhonda was finished school. One morning, Rhonda awoke and ra...

This week Tina is joined by David Metzger of the Nurse Papa podcast. Together, they tell the disturbing story of a nurse determined to marry a doctor... even if he was already married to someone else. Dr. David Stephens brought cardiothoracic surgery to the state of Mississippi. He was well respected and revered until the decision to get involved with the nurse who worked for him would change his...

This week, Tina is joined again by Adrianne with the incredibly popular nursing podcast Nursing Uncensored. Together they tell the story of nurse Donna Trapani, a successful nurse in business. Donna owned a home health agency in Florida and did well for herself until she started having an affair with a married man over a thousand miles away. Once her lover tried to break things off, Donna lost her...

This week Tina is joined by Jami of the hit nursing podcast The Neurodivergent Nurse. Together, they tell you the absolutely perplexing case of nurse Jennifer Nibbe. When police arrived at Jennifer Nibbe's home, she told them she had heard a loud noise while in the bathroom and saw a masked man standing over Jim with her shotgun. She told the investigators she believed he had the intention of assa...

This week, Tina is joined by ICU nurse and educator Justin Alves with DKB Med. Together, they discuss the troubling story of Dr. Sam Chachoua, a trained medical doctor who turned to alternative medicine and lied about the results. Made infamous over claims that he cured a famous Hollywood actor, his dangerous, unproved methods almost killed the famous actor and could have impacted countless other...

This week, Nurse Leah joins Tina to tell the inexplicable story of a doctor and nurse couple whose wedding day went horribly wrong. From the outside looking in, Scott and Kelly seemed the perfect couple; the two worked together at Union Hospital in Terre Haute, Indiana. She was a nurse and he an anesthesiologist. They had a beautiful home and had planned a wonderful wedding. Their coworkers, frien...

 This week we have the co-hosts of the hit podcast Cup of Nurses. Matt and Peter join Tina to talk about some very bizarre stories of nurses and other healthcare professionals caught on camera not having their best moments. They close the show with a heart-shattering story of an amazing young nurse who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time in Nashville, Tennessee.   Please suppo...

This week Tina is joined by fellow podcaster and friend, Erica Bailey from the University of Portland School of Nursing. Tina and Erica tell the story of Thomas Elmore, Jr. On September 22, 2016, Thomas Elmore Jr. dialed 911 and told the operator that his girlfriend of several years Tamara Naish was dead on the bathroom floor. When investigators arrived, he told them how his beloved girlfriend had...

This week, David with the Nurse Papa podcast is back to help Tina tell the story of a school nurse who called 911 and told the dispatcher she had just shot her husband. Was Bernadette acting in self-defense, or was there something more sinister at play? As the story unfolds, there is more under the surface than anyone in the young couple's lives ever knew. They close the show by chatting about the...

This week Tina is joined by Nurse Jessica Sites and ER Tech Joshua Shetterly. Together they tell the story of a nurse, Dee Winzer, who was married to a man who became a paraplegic after being hit by a bus. Many years after getting married, Winzer was accused of poising her husband. However, the evidence was shaky at best, and Dee had no apparent motive, nor was she even home when the alleged poiso...

This week, Tina is joined by the Dean of Nursing for Samuel Merritt University, Dean Lorna. Together, they discuss several cases of providers all across the country who found themselves in trouble after working at so-called 'pill mills'. They close the show with Tina interviewing Dean Lorna, who tells us all about her fascinating career leading up to becoming the Dean of Nursing for such a prestig...

This week Tina is joined once again by Dr. Dan Weber, a registered nurse and the Head of Clinical Innovation for the travel nurse agency, Trusted Health. Together they discuss the case of a pathologist from Arkansas who wreaked havoc on the lives of many people including an Air Force veteran. They close the show with the rather dark but fascinating good doctor story of Helene Knabe. Dr. Knabe move...

This week, Lucy with the popular Instagram page "Bedsidebitch" is back to guest host with Tina! Together, they tell the tragic story of a nurse who put off doing her job and was about to get caught. Instead of facing the consequences of her procrastination, she decided to create a distraction. What she did would lead to the deaths of three people, dozens of other people being injured, and her faci...