The Texas Nurses Podcast

Follow @TexasNursesAssn Welcome to season two of #TexasNursesPod! In season one, our policy episodes focused on issues that matter to nurses with nurse leaders, such as nursing shortages and workplace violence. This year we're back with new hosts, new topics, and awesome guests. In this episode, host Chasity invites TNA CEO Cindy Zolnierek to discuss the RaDonda Vaught trial and verdict. The two e...

Follow @TexasNursesAssn Welcome to season two of #TexasNursesPod! In season one, our policy episodes focused on issues that matter to nurses with nurse leaders, such as nursing shortages and workplace violence. This year we're back with new hosts, new topics, and awesome guests! Listen to host Chasity Shaw,  RN, BSN, MSN and Blake Hutson, an Associate State Director at AARP, discuss what it w...

Follow @TexasNursesAssn Welcome to season two of #TexasNursesPod! In season one, our policy episodes focused on issues that matter to nurses with nurse leaders, such as nursing shortages and workplace violence. This year we're back with new hosts, new topics, and awesome guests! The new season opens with a special episode and a gracious hand-off! Thank you to Sola Oyewuwo, MSN, MBA, RN, and Kevin...

Follow @TexasNursesAssn Welcome to season two of #TexasNursesPod! In season one, our policy episodes focused on issues that matter to nurses with nurse leaders, such as nursing shortages and workplace violence. This year we're back with new hosts, new topics, and awesome guests! Take a sneak peak into the new season with an interview with Dr. Rhonda Collins, DNP, RN, FAAN. In this episodes, hosts...

Follow @TexasNursesAssn Welcome to season two of #TexasNursesPod! In season one, our policy episodes focused on issues that matter to nurses with nurse leaders, such as nursing shortages and workplace violence. This year we're back with new hosts, new topics, and awesome guests!  Take a sneak peak into the new season with an interview with Representative Stephanie Klick, RN. Host Elizabeth Cl...

#NursePolicy Ep. 10 (4 out of 4 in a series) hosted by Sola Oyewuwo, MSN, MBA, RN, and Kevin Stewart, JD The hosts discuss the close of the last legislative session, what happened to bills HB 326 (workplace violence prevention for nurses) and HB 2029 (removing barriers to APRN practice) and what to expect from the upcoming special session. To learn how you can get involved, visit the TNA website....

#COVID19 Learn more about the state of vaccination in Texas as well as strategies to help your patients feel comfortable with getting vaccinated. The presenters will also address common myths and answer your questions about the vaccines, from blood clots to the rumors about effects on fertility.

#NursePolicy Ep. 9 (3 out of 4 in a series) hosted by Sola Oyewuwo, MSN, MBA, RN, and Kevin Stewart, JD The hosts discuss the last month of session and bills that affect nurses: Full Practice Authority APRNs Workplace Violence Workers' Compensation Presumtion Bill  Nurse Faculty Loan Repayment Program Disaster Response Telemedicine/Telehealth NLAC: school nurses

#NursePolicy Ep. 8 hosted by Sola Oyewuwo, MSN, MBA, RN, and Kevin Stewart, JD Sola Oyewuwo and Kevin Stewart provide a status update on the bills HB 326 (workplace violence prevention for nurses) and HB 2029 (removing barriers to APRN practice). They also discuss what to keep an eye on and what listeners can do to get involved.

#NursePolicy Ep. 7 hosted by Sola Oyewuwo, MSN, MBA, RN, and Kevin Stewart, JD Sola Oyewuwo and Kevin Stewart discuss what's going on in this legislative session, provide insight into how nursing matters were viewed in the past versus in the current climate with COVID-19, and review a few bills of interest to nurses.

#COVID19 Hosted by Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH, Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, and Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN, CAE. Listen as they answer some of your questions about the COVID response in Texas, vaccine access, current healthcare legislation, and protections for nurses under Texas law. For future lives and past videos, like us on Facebook @Texas. Nurses. Association. https://www.facebook.com/Texas. Nur...

#NursePolicy Ep. 6 hosted by Sola Oyewuwo, MSN, MBA, RN This podcast brings together TNA’s Director of Practice Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, and chair of TNA’s policy council and Nursing Director at Cook Children’s Medical Center Shakyryn Napier, DHSc, RN, CPN, NEA-BC, to discuss what policy is, why the policy development process is important, and how policy is developed.

#NursePolicy Ep. 5 hosted by Sola Oyewuwo, MSN, MBA, RN This podcast brings together Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN, CAE, president of TNA, and Karen Schwind, BSN, RN, NCSN, president of the Texas School Nurses Organization, to explore what the Nursing Legislative Agenda Coalition (NLAC) is, how NLAC is tied to TNA, NLAC's Agenda for the 87th Legislature as well as how listeners can get involved. 

#COVID19 Hosted by Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN, CAE, and Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH. From the January 8th Facebook Live. The vaccine process, clarification on misinformation, the implications of the new vaccine variant, and how the latest legislative session might be affected by COVID.

Town hall with updates on vaccines and the Texas Health Care Industry Strike Force, with open forum for nurses to share stories, concerns, successes, or questions. Hosted by Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, TNA director of practice.  #COVID19

Hosted by Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN, CAE, and Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH Overview of timeline for vaccine development and distribution, vaccine technology and outcomes, talking to patients about vaccines, and how the DSHS vaccine exercises and trainings can help nurses. How Texas nurses are affected by the recent spike, the cities hardest hit, our action alert about the...

Hosted by Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN, CAE, Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, and Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH Vaccines, burnout, rising cases and masking up. #COVID19

Episode 005: Marisol Adewunmi, pediatric ICU nurse, and Jeff Watson, TNA Past President #NurseLife On this episode of the #NurseLife podcast, we wanted to continue our conversation regarding mental health and why it is SO important that we continue to have these conversations and offer each other support. 2020 has not been easy. To say the least. And while nurses tend to be painted as strong and h...

#NurseLife Nurses care for others. It is what calls them to nursing. But when nurses are in stressful situations, like the COVID-19 pandemic, ethical concerns can lead to moral distress and compassion fatigue. When nurses know what they need to do to care for a patient but are unable to provide the level of care needed due to supply shortages, changes in standards of care and safety concerns — nur...

#COVID19 Hosted by Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, and Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH Remembering the nurses who died on 9/11/2001. PPE shortages (ANA surveys), staffing shortages, strain on health care system, hospitalization rate, preparing for flu season, disparities among racial and ethnic minorities, guidance on staff exposure and staff shortages, isolation and quarantine, how nurses can influence po...

Episode 004: Liz Higgins LMFT-S, Individual/Couples Therapist and Founder of Millennial Life Counseling #NurseLife In this episode, we talk to Liz Higgins LMFT-S, Individual/Couples Therapist and Founder of Millennial Life Counseling. Our aim was to have an open conversation about mental health and share our experiences. The good, bad and the ugly. Maintaining mental health has been a struggle in...

#COVID19 Hosted by Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN, CAE, Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, and Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH Updates on staffing, testing capacity, updates to crisis care guidelines, end-of-life care, visitation policies. COVID-19 Task Force updates, a recap of the COVID-19 Frontline Panel, self-care and nursing leadership. Updates on the vaccine development, immunity, best types of homemade masks, treati...

#COVID19 Hosted by Serena Bumpus, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, and Kanaka Sathasivan, MPH (with Cindy Zolnierek, PhD, RN, CAE) Back to School, partnerships with Texas School Nurses Organization, documentation during crisis, testing, exposure among direct care nurses, statewide advocacy, criteria for health care workers returning to work, reusing PPE, mask efficacy, sourcing additional PPE, safe harbor, COVID-...

Episode 003: Ernest Grant PhD, RN, FAAN, President of the American Nurses Association #NurseLife In our fourth episode, we sit down with Dr. Ernest Grant, President of the American Nurses Association. Dr. Grant talks with Danika and Amy about the Black Lives Matter movement as a whole, the related events as of late and the role that nurses play in standing against racial injustices and atrocities...

#NurseLife Ep. 2 hosted by Amy McCarthy, MSN, RNC-MNN, NE-BC, and Danika Meyer, MSN, RN-BC, CPN In our second episode, we sit down with Rachel Barbey, former President of the Texas Nursing Students Association. Rachel recently graduated from the University of Texas at Tyler with her BSN. We took a moment to sit down and speak with her about the impact of COVID-19 on her transition from nursing sch...