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COURSE DESCRIPTION Occupational Therapy is such an enigma that it is woefully underutilized, or engaged as an postscript to discharge rather than a necessary component of inpatient treatment. This podcast course serves to turn the enigma of the OT role into an essential solution for nurses to engage in the patient’s team, early-on, to prevent intercept debilitation secondary to hospital stays, and...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: The experience and education that can be provided by the patient population is an unhailed source of invaluable education for continuing professional development - not only for nurses, but for all healthcare professionals. Lianne Saffer’s story illustrates that precisely, and presently, as facilitators Antra Boyd and Karen DiMarco were changed as professionals and humans by the...

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course demonstrates how the application of current, evidence-based research into the interpretation of conventional diagnostic tools (i.e. routine blood tests) revolutionizes their usefulness for diagnosing, treating, managing, and preventing the root causes of chronic illness. In this RNegade podclass, Brendon Vermiere reveals the physical and mental health challenges tha...

COURSE DESCRIPTION According to The Healthy Workforce Institute, “71% of physicians and nurses have linked incivility to medical error; 27% of physicians and nurses said disrespect led to a patient’s death. 81% of nurses who leave an organization cite peer and nurse/manager relations as a cause for leaving.” The purpose of this PodClass is to introduce participants with a simple, actionable, nursi...

COURSE OVERVIEW To introduce Nancy Ruffner as a “social worker” is akin to introduce Wolfgang Puck as a “chef.” Never accepting the limitations of the situation or system that was in to deliver the quality of care that she was capable of providing her patients or clients, she became adept at following the breadcrumbs of her common-sense to become the solution. This course will remind the learner o...

Course Description “If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.” ― Joseph Campbell This podcast is like being in one of those movies that you watch until the end of the credits, hoping for surprise ‘bonus material,’ because you want the inspiration to live life more fully, and become the best version of yourself, to last a little longer. In this podcast course, participants...

Bradley Schwartz takes us on a journey into the world of a devastating medical error that created in him “a firehose of passion” to make patient advocacy the standard of care in the US. Bradley is the founder of Greater National Advocates. In this episode of RNegade, we learn why he suffered a major medical error and what could have been done to prevent the “cascade of horrific events.” We also le...

Rob Cook is a bad-ass gentleman. A softened, hardened veteran. A scholar of life. And the youngest-looking grandfather you’ve ever seen, despite the 4 lives he’s already lived - the wisdom he freely shares from any one of those lives will make you see the world in a different, better way. As nurses we’re taught to ‘leave your personal baggage at the door’ when you walk into the work environment as...

If there was such a thing as a B.A.H. (Bad Ass Human) certification, the school would be named after its first honorary recipient: Dr. Tina Kaczor ND, FABNO, (BAH). Through her maternal compassion for individuals living with cancer, her powerful examples of the logistical and financial injustice that her patients face, and her child-like optimism about scientific advancements in Oncology Care, Dr....

John El-Mokadem was highly driven in all aspects of his life – fitness, career, relationships,  etc., and believed his success in all these areas would be directly proportional to the amount of time he thought about, and worked-on, his goals. After a viral infection evolved into Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (A.K.A ‘Myalgic Encephalomyelitis’,) John approached his illness with the same vigilant formula...

Jennifer Bierhup is a “Wounder Woman”.  Early in her nursing career, Jennifer had a passion for helping clients with complicated wounds. Today, her mission is to save limbs through a comprehensive strategy she created to get the best outcomes. In this podcast, Jennifer talks about the many different aspects of wounds, wound care, and healing. It is a literal “wound care fest”, chalk full of inform...

When you give Michael Neill the floor for 90 minutes, you never quite know what you’re going to get, but you know you’ll leave the conversation seeing the world differently. In this interview, our guest shares how his life transformed after hearing the words of Theosopher, Sydney Banks: “Every human is sitting in the middle of mental health, they just don’t know it.” Anyone who suffers from, lives...

Karen DiMarco is described by friends and colleagues as: “a squirreling truth-bomber who blows up the boxes that most are still trying to think outside-of”. In this podcast-course you’ll understand why, as she “squirrels-through” a breadth of topics that all point to the depth of the profound impact that our psychology - especially the ‘premise’ through which we see the world - has on our health,...

We loved how our podcast guest, Tricia Mattimoe, called-out lymphedema as the “orphan disease.” We learned from her how this condition, which devastates the quality of life for so many, so often goes undiagnosed and untreated due to lack of information provided to patients, and lack of knowledge to adequately diagnose and treat from health care practitioners. In this riveting interview, Tricia Mat...

Some of this recording feels more like being in a movie than being on a course. Fiona Jacob takes us on an EPIC ride as she shares how finding peace in the face of death while being held hostage in Iraq as a young nurse; finding peace in the midst of being stabbed while protecting her best friend from an assailant; finding peace while managing a group of frightened nurses who had a 46% of dying if...

This educational program serves to enhance the knowledge of the Registered Nurse at a level above that required for licensure in a problem/solution framework. In this case, ‘the problem is that medical error is so frequent that it is the 3rd leading cause of preventable death in this country; and two fo the major contributing factors that are highlighted in the program are misdiagnosis and health...

In September of 2018 Antra Boyd [a veteran nurse and experienced professional RN Patient Advocate] RN, BSN, MSN was told she had a 8cm mass on her left ovary. In a matter of minutes she went from advocating for patients with complex medical diagnoses to being a patient herself. Things got FREAL very quick (if you are not yet schooled in the RNegade glossary of terms, FREAL = f@cking + real). When...