Learn what it's like to be a correctional nurse. Our guest, Sherry Cameron, started her career with CoreCivic in 2009 as an HR Manager at a Bureau of Prisons facility in Mississippi. A few months later, she was promoted to the Corporate Headquarters in Nashville as a Regional Recruiter assisting the HR teams and later served in a role as a Program Facilitator for Arts and Music at a facility in Florida. She left CoreCivic in 2013 to start a part-time business but then returned in 2016 where today she passionately serves as a Regional Medical Recruiter assisting to fill CoreCivic's healthcare vacancies across the organization throughout the United States. Learn more about Essentials of Correctional Nursing at: https://www.springerpub.com/essentials-of-correctional-nursing-9780826109514.html

In today's episode, Joe Morita interviews Joyce Sensmeier, Senior Advisor of Informatics for Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), a global, cause-based, not-for-profit organization focused on better health through information and technology. Sensmeier served as Vice President of Informatics from 2005-2019. In her current role, she provides thought leadership for the areas of clinical informatics, standards and interoperability. Sensmeier shares her thoughts on nursing informatics and how it may shape the future of nursing.

Instead of splitting $10K in Mega Millions winnings, 126 NICU nurses at Mercy Children's Hospital in St. Louis decided to donate the money to two colleagues in need. Listen to the NICU team recount how this all transpired.

Once the highest-ranking female in her military unit in Iraq, US veteran Jennifer Bayonne uses the skills she learned in the Army to care for her patients at Fresenius Kidney Care Natchitoches. Jennifer joins Nursecast host, Joe Morita, to discuss how the US military uniqued prepared her for a career as a nurse.

According to the CDC “Report from Nine Maternal Mortality Review Committees,” approximately 700 women across the United States (U.S.) die each year as a result of pregnancy or pregnancy-related complications. Dr. Susan Stone, DNSc, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, a certified nurse-midwife, the President of Frontier Nursing University and the President of the American College of Nurse-Midwives, joins Nursecast to help us better understand the underlying causes and approaches to curb the increasing number of American women dying during childbirth.

Dr. Marian Altman, a Clinical Practice Specialist at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, joins us to discuss the AACN Clinical Scene Investigator (CSI) Academy. The CSI Academy is a 16-month nursing leadership and innovation training program to empower hospital-based staff nurses as clinician leaders and change agents whose initiatives measurably improve patient outcomes and hospital bottom lines.

Joe Morita interviews Dr. Keith A. Lafferty, an emergency medicine director of education and process improvement at Gulf Coast Medical Center and an adjunct assistant professor of emergency medicine at Temple University. Dr. Lafferty has been involved with Mission of Hope Haiti, an organization that hosts thousands of mission trip participants from around the world. Dr. Lafferty visited Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and shares his experience working on the ground in Haiti and explains why every US healthcare professional should consider a medical mission.