Nurse Rosa's INsights

What if a single strand of hair could reveal your body's chemical exposure history, all the way back to the womb? Dr. Manish Arora, environmental epidemiologist, CEO of LinusBio, and professor at Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, joins Nurse Rosa Hart to explain why your environment shapes your health more than your genes ever could. Dr. Arora's team developed the TRACED test, an at-home, h...

What if the reason people don't trust healthcare isn't the science- it's the communication? Rosa Hart sits down with Hamid Ghanadan, behavioral strategist, researcher, and author of Not Buying It, to explore why science and healthcare have a usability problem - and what communicators, clinicians, and companies can do about it. From the neuroscience of decision-making to the Space Shuttle Challenge...

What if 40% of the people sitting in your waiting room, working on your team, or enrolled in your health plan were quietly carrying an invisible weight, and had no idea there was a name for what they were doing? Alexandra Drane has spent years hunting for those people. As co-founder and CEO of ARCHANGELS, a public benefit corporation, she's on a mission to find unpaid caregivers who don't identify...

What if the key to better mental health wasn't a new medication or therapy technique, but something already hardwired inside you? In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, I sit down with Dr. Royan Kamyar, physician, MBA, and founder and CEO of Owaves, a circadian wellness app used by over one million people worldwide. Dr. Kamyar shares the raw personal story behind why he built it, including his...

What happens when a critical care nurse becomes the executive building the tools she once struggled with? Susan Grant, DNP and Chief Clinical Officer at Symplr, has lived both sides. She has navigated 3 a.m. staffing crises, chased credentialing deadlines, and wondered if the systems she used were built with nurses in mind at all. Now she builds those systems, and she is doing it differently. In t...

What happens when burnout breaks you open, and you decide to build something from the wreckage? In this episode, Rosa sits down with Ashley Chancellor and Matthew Harless, co-founders of The Business of Hope, to explore why burnout in healthcare goes far deeper than exhaustion, and what hope, as a functional tool, can actually do for clinicians on the front lines. Ashley Chancellor, RN spent 14 ye...

Meet Angie Cauthorn, a two-time stroke survivor and host of the Brain Friends podcast as she shares with Nurse Rosa Hart about gaps in stroke and aphasia aftercare and the community-based solutions she has built. Angie describes developing aphasia after working in finance and realizing survivors are discharged medically stable but unprepared to navigate recovery. She shares her work as co-founder...

Invisible doesn't mean harmless, and Zoë Slaughter is done letting people pretend otherwise. Zoë Slaughter joins Nurse Rosa for a candid conversation about living with food allergies, navigating a complex healthcare system, and building an advocacy movement through storytelling and policy action. Zoë shares her personal journey from childhood food allergies to adult advocacy, breaking down how com...

What would you do with a billion dollars to fix healthcare? For Sandra Johnson, SVP of Client Services at CliniComp, the answer is clear: solve interoperability, once and for all. Rosa Hart sits down with Sandra to unpack one of healthcare's most persistent problems, fragmented data environments that slow clinicians down, create gaps in patient care, and quietly fuel burnout across health systems....

What happens when a nurse gets splashed in the face with biohazardous waste and decides to do something about it? She builds a company. In this episode Rosa Hart, RN, BSN, SCRN, sits down with Sarah Waimon, RN, BSN, CEO of Waimon Innovations Inc. and creator of Looey, a nurse-invented medical device designed to protect healthcare workers from hazardous splash-back during bedpan and ostomy care. Sa...

The culture killing your career isn't the patients. It's the colleagues. Renee Thompson, DNP, RN, FAONL, FAAN, CSP has spent 32 years in nursing and the last 15 building one of healthcare's most important movements: a structured, proven approach to ending bullying and incivility in the workplace. As CEO and Founder of the Healthy Workforce Institute, she has seen what toxic culture does to nurses,...

Can hearing aids prevent dementia? Hearing instrument specialist Madison Levine joins Rosa Hart to explore the connection between hearing loss and cognitive decline, and why treating your hearing early may be one of the most important things you can do for your brain health and longevity. Madison founded "Levine Hearing" 11 years ago, building on her mother's 35-year legacy in audiology. She now l...

What if the reason cancer wins isn't the tumor itself, but the silence it forces on your immune system? Aaron Edwards grew up in Henderson, Kentucky, left home at sixteen for a bold academic experiment, and spent a decade in biotech working on some of the most cutting-edge gene therapies in the world before asking himself a hard question: why does promising science so rarely reach patients? That q...

Every minute a stroke goes untreated, 1.9 billion neurons are lost. In this episode, Nurse Rosa Hart sits down with neurosurgeon Dr. David Dornbos III to talk about what is changing in stroke care, what still needs to change, and what he would do with a billion dollars to move the needle. Dr. Dornbos is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky Department of Neurological Surgery and a s...

Cooking fires are the number one cause of residential fires in America, and older adults are among the most vulnerable. In this episode, Nurse Rosa sits down with an AI-driven kitchen safety innovator and a leading occupational therapy researcher to talk about what aging in place actually requires and the tools making it possible right now. Guests: David Eby, CEO of CookTop Safety Corp., developed...

What does it really take to deliver equitable care to the most vulnerable Medicare patients -- virtually, across all 50 states? Rosa Hart sits down with Bonnie Sloma, SVP of Clinical Services at CareTalk Health, a national virtual care organization serving patients in all 50 states and D.C. With 42 years of nursing experience -- from the NICU to large-scale telehealth leadership -- Bonnie brings f...

What happens when a physician with 15 years of frontline experience stops waiting for healthcare to fix itself, and builds the fix himself? In this episode of the Nurse Rosa's INsights Podcast, host Rosa Hart sits down with Zaman Shah, MD MBA, founder and CEO of Medway, a physician-led AI infrastructure company transforming EHRs into AI-first platforms. Dr. Shah brings a rare combination most heal...

What happens when a stroke survivor becomes the most credible voice in the room? In this episode of the Nurse Rosa's INsights Podcast, Rosa Hart, RN sits down with David Dansereau — physical therapist, stroke survivor, digital health innovator, and co-founder of the Know Stroke Podcast — for a candid conversation about what the healthcare system is getting wrong and what it takes to fix it from th...

Healthcare is changing faster than most people realize. In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, Rosa Hart sits down with physician, healthcare strategist, and author Dr. Sarah Matt to explore how technology is reshaping the future of care. Dr. Matt shares her remarkable journey from practicing general surgeon to becoming a leader in healthcare technology and digital health strategy, including he...

Who should the public trust when it comes to health information? More and more, the answer is nurses. In this episode of Nurse Rosa’s INsights, Rosa Hart sits down with nationally recognized nurse and media correspondent Alice Benjamin, MSN, ACNS-BC, FNP-C to talk about how nurses are stepping into media to educate the public and reshape healthcare conversations. With more than 25 years of nursing...

Healthcare revenue cycle management is changing fast. Brian Robertson of VisiQuate explains how AI and data analytics improve hospital reimbursement. At the ViVE Health Tech Conference, Rosa Hart speaks with Brian Robertson, Founder and CEO of VisiQuate, about how artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics are transforming healthcare revenue cycle management. Brian explains how healthcare...

Primary care is quietly collapsing - and most patients don’t even realize it. In this episode, Timothy Boyle pulls back the curtain on the mounting pressure facing small, independent primary care practices across the country. From crushing administrative demands to unsustainable financial models, the very doctors who know their patients best are struggling to survive. But this isn’t just about bus...

AI is already changing nursing. The real question is whether nurses will lead it or be sidelined by it. In this episode, I sit down with nurse practitioner Stephen to explore how clinical expertise, healthcare policy, and artificial intelligence intersect, and why nurses must be at the center of healthcare innovation. Stephen shares his journey from bedside care to policy engagement and now to adv...

The Awake & Walking ICU: Transforming Critical Care with Kali Dayton Sedation is not neutral. Immobility is not harmless. What we do in the ICU follows patients long after discharge. In this powerful episode of Nurse Rosa’s INsights, I sit down with Kali Dayton, DNP, AGACNP, critical care nurse practitioner, consultant, and founder of the Awake and Walking ICU movement. Kali shares how working in...

The nursing shortage isn’t coming. It’s here. And the real problem might surprise you. In this episode of Nurse Rosa’s INsights, I sit down with Rosemarie Aznavorian, DNP, RN, CENP, CCWP, CCRN, Executive Vice President of Client Services and Chief Clinical Officer at MedPro Healthcare Staffing, to break down the real drivers behind the national nursing workforce crisis - and what it will take to f...