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Featured Nurses, Part 11

Stand up and be heard, exhorts one nurse. These professionals use their experience, positions, and writing skills to share what they know. See the nurses featured below and other nurses making an impact in social media, elsewhere on the Web, and in their communities in our Top Nurse profiles. 

1. @jayrhorton Jay R. Horton is nurse practitioner and clinical program manager for the palliative care program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He is also an adjunct professor of clinical nursing at Columbia University and is working on his doctorate in nursing.


2. @JennyBizRN Jennifer Grisso, RN, BSN, is a “business-minded” nurse who “survived ER/ICU nursing” and is currently in telehealth in Chicago. She enjoys Twitter and social media. She sold medical devices and supplies to hospitals and started GrissoMedLegal, a nurse consulting company.


3. @straussrn Jennifer Strauss-Myers is a Pennsylvania nurse who has spent most of her career as a psychiatric nurse “studying a menagerie of diagnoses, disorders and addictions.” She is also the mother of five and a “passionate writer.”


4. @jrobinsonRN Jennifer Robinson, RN, CLNC, provides litigation support for medical-related legal cases through her company, Polaris Medical Legal Consulting. Her broad clinical experience covers many nursing subspecialties, including hands-on care as a staff nurse. She holds certification as a medical-surgical nurse. In a recent blog posting, she exhorts nurses to “Stand up. Be heard. Use your credentials to garner attention to your cause. Do not be intimidated. Get involved.”


5. @farronej Jessica Farrone, MSN, is a “job-seeking brand-spanking new” family nurse practitioner graduate after 15 years of nursing experience. A clinical instructor, she created a Web site, JessicaFarrone.weebly.com, to chronicle her experience of transitioning from RN to nurse practitioner and to “reflect on my journey and share the knowledge I have acquired about the process.” She’s also an “information junkie” and “obsessive reader of all things nursing and medical.”

If you know of nurses who are worthy of attention on these pages, please use our contact form to let us know. See How to Become an OrganizedWisdom Expert Curator and Curator Benefits.

Other blog entries featuring health professionals or patient experts:

Featured Obstetrician-Gynecologists, Part 1
Featured Chiropractors, Part 1
Featured Neurologists, Part 1
Featured Cardiologists, Part 1, Part 2
Featured Dietitians, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Featured Nutritionists, Part 1, Part 2
Featured Nurses, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Featured Nurses, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11
Featured Oncologists, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Top Nephrologists on Twitter
Top Gastroenterologists on Twitter 
Gluten-Free Diet Feature 
Type 1 Diabetes Patient Experts, Part 1, Part 2 


By Julie Bohlen, MBA-HCM, ELS

Featured Nurses, Part 10

Nurses are speaking out, whether it’s on educational podcasts, in healthy cooking shows, or as advocates for public policy. See the nurses featured below and other nurses making an impact in social media, elsewhere on the Web, and in their communities in our Top Nurse profiles. 

1. @Geek2Nurse Ruth Rogers, RN, is “a former software engineer turned nurse and headed toward nurse practitioner.” She works at an inpatient psych unit in the Pacific Northwest. (“When they asked if I had psych experience, I said, ‘I’ve worked a lot with programmers.’ I got the job.”) An artist, mom, and grandma with many interests and hobbies, she blogs on various topics, including nursing, at ToastyFrog.net.


2. @impactednurse Ian Miller, RN, has nearly 23 years’ experience working in the emergency department of a major teaching hospital in Canberra, Australia. His blog of “reflections, tutorials, and articles … are offered in the hope that they might be used as a jumping off point to inspire other nurses to think about their own practice, to explore the latest research, best practice guidelines, and to search out and deepen their knowledge, improving the quality of care they deliver.”


3. @podmedic Jamie Davis, RN, is a Maryland-based paramedic, educator, podcaster, and speaker with an interest in using technology in medical education. He hosts MedicCast and The Nursing Show, both weekly online programs on health education and career topics. He consults with businesses and educational institutions about incorporating podcasting, new media, and online educational tools into their programs.


4. @NurseJanIAm Jan Rodolfo, RN, has 10 years of oncology experience in a hospital setting. She is the RN online organizer and communications specialist for the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee. “I believe strongly in the right and responsibilities of RNs to advocate for patients and to participate in social advocacy,” she writes. “I hope to be a part of bringing Guaranteed Single Payer Health Care to the US: One Nation-One Plan!”


5. @JanaeDevika Janae Devika, RN, has experience as an herbalist, health and wellness coach, and massage therapist, among many things, and her main focus is integrative healing practices. She owns Café Janae, a health and wellness company that focuses on therapeutic nutrition and stress management. She is a doctoral student in the nurse practitioner program at the University of Arizona. A raw food and whole food chef, she hosts a cooking show at her site. She is delightful while making her Fiesta in a Bowl recipe in the video on her web site. Check it out. 

If you know of nurses who are worthy of attention on these pages, please use our contact form to let us know. See How to Become an OrganizedWisdom Expert Curator and Curator Benefits.

Other blog entries featuring patient experts or health professionals:

Featured Obstetrician-Gynecologists, Part 1
Featured Chiropractors, Part 1
Featured Neurologists, Part 1
Featured Cardiologists, Part 1, Part 2
Featured Dietitians, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Featured Nutritionists, Part 1, Part 2
Featured Nurses, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Featured Nurses, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11
Featured Oncologists, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Top Nephrologists on Twitter
Top Gastroenterologists on Twitter 
Gluten-Free Diet Feature 
Type 1 Diabetes Patient Experts, Part 1, Part 2 

By Julie Bohlen, MBA-HCM, ELS

Featured Nurses, Part 9

“We all have stories,” writes one nurse. Their fascinating experiences, along with those of others in their profession, make it to blogs that many of them keep. View their OrganizedWisdom profiles below:

1. @geeners Gina Rybolt, RN, has spent the majority of her career in critical care. She is the author of Codeblog: Tales of a Nurse, a blog started in 2002 geared to nursing and health care experiences. She also posts stories submitted by other nurses, doctors, patients, and paramedics. “We all have stories!” writes the San Francisco Bay–area mom.


2. @harik108 Hari Khalsa, BSN, MSN, CNP, is a family nurse practitioner in Boston who is also trained in medical acupuncture, homeopathy, and ayurvedic medicine. Passionate about patient advocacy and health care navigation, she started Heathcare Whisperer to assist people in getting access to the best possible care.


3. @Visiting_Nurse Heather N. McKenzie, MBA, BSN, RN, is senior director of Clinical Education and Quality Initiatives for Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA), responsible for educational programming. She’s had more than 15 years of health care experience—including home health care, acute care, long-term care, and managed care—and assisted with the development of health information technology and informatics course curriculum for the Maryland Association of Community Colleges. She blogs at The Visiting Nurse about home health, hospice, public health nursing, “and anything else that comes along the way.”


4. @hollymedic Holly Bronson is a registered nurse at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Florida. She has worked as a paramedic and as a transcriptionist and registrar for other medical centers.


5. @howlandhealth Wendie Howland, RN, MN, CRRN, CCM, CNLCP, had a career in critical care at world-class medical centers before becoming a life care planner for catastrophic and high-expense chronic conditions. Her company, Howland Health Consulting, offers help with life care plans and medical cost projections for complex medical or legal cases. She holds numerous certifications and belongs to several organizations, including the American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners, where she serves as editor of its journal.

If you know of nurses who are worthy of attention on these pages, please use our contact form to let us know. See How to Become an OrganizedWisdom Expert Curator and Curator Benefits.

Other blog entries featuring patient experts or health professionals:

Featured Obstetrician-Gynecologists, Part 1
Featured Chiropractors, Part 1
Featured Neurologists, Part 1
Featured Cardiologists, Part 1, Part 2
Featured Dietitians, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Featured Nutritionists, Part 1, Part 2
Featured Nurses, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Featured Nurses, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11
Featured Oncologists, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Top Nephrologists on Twitter
Top Gastroenterologists on Twitter 
Gluten-Free Diet Feature 
Type 1 Diabetes Patient Experts, Part 1, Part 2 


By Julie Bohlen, MBA-HCM, ELS

Featured Nurses, Part 8

From a flight nurse and captain in the U.S. Army Reserves to the head of a college and recipient of the United Kingdom’s distinguished OBE, this is a diverse and hardworking group of health care professionals. View their OrganizedWisdom profiles below:

1. @Drkaty Katy Votava, PhD, RN, has in-depth experience as a nurse practitioner and health care administrator, and she is an expert in health care reimbursement and outcomes, including those related to Medicare, Medicaid, and long-term care. She has been published widely and spoken frequently on these topics. In 2004, she started GOODCARE.com, a consultancy “that helps consumers and businesses understand the puzzling world of health care services and financing.”


2. @drpetercarter Peter Carter, PhD, MBA, has been chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing in the United Kingdom since 2007. Before that, he spent almost 12 years as chief executive of the Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust, one of the largest mental health trusts in the U.K. He is trained as a psychiatric nurse and a general nurse and has held a number of clinical and managerial posts. In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his services to the United Kingdom’s National Health Service.


3. @Emergiblog Kim McAllister, BSN, RN, has been a nurse since 1978, working for 20 years in emergency and critical care. She has also worked in telemetry, psychiatry, and pediatric telephone triage. She started Emergiblog: The Life & Times of an ER Nurse in 2005 and has been a writer and moderator for other online nursing Web sites. She writes, “I made the decision to be a nurse in 1966, on my ninth birthday, after receiving Cherry Ames, Student Nurse from my great-grandmother. I was fortunate it was a book about a nurse; I could have received something like Itchy Smith, Flea Detective and my life would have taken a totally different route!”


4. @LegalERNurse Emily Goggin, BSN, is a Florida-based emergency room nurse, legal nurse consultant, and owner of Goggin Consulting. She combines her medical and legal knowledge to sift through “large and often barely legible” medical records to “render a professional opinion about the validity of a malpractice claim or . . . produce an in-depth chronology of the medical events.”


5. @crzegrl15 Emily McGee, MSN, RN, is a Michigan-based flight nurse, a nurse and captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, and an emergency room nurse practitioner. She writes about flight nursing at her blog, Crzegrl.net. Her hobbies include “anything involving massive amounts of adrenaline.” You can listen to an interview with her on BlogTalkRadio.

If you know of nurses who are worthy of attention on these pages, please use our contact form to let us know. See How to Become an OrganizedWisdom Expert Curator and Curator Benefits.

Other blog entries featuring patient experts or health professionals:

Featured Obstetrician-Gynecologists, Part 1
Featured Chiropractors, Part 1
Featured Neurologists, Part 1
Featured Cardiologists, Part 1, Part 2
Featured Dietitians, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Featured Nutritionists, Part 1, Part 2
Featured Nurses, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Featured Nurses, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11
Featured Oncologists, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Top Nephrologists on Twitter
Top Gastroenterologists on Twitter 
Gluten-Free Diet Feature 
Type 1 Diabetes Patient Experts, Part 1, Part 2 

By Julie Bohlen, MBA-HCM, ELS

Help Save the Life of a Child With Diabetes in 1:49 Seconds

Could it really be this simple to help save the life of a child with diabetes? When you take 1:49 seconds to watch this video between now and November 14th (Diabetes Day), Roche Diabetes Care will make a donation for life-saving insulin and diabetes supplies for children in need.  Please see Riva Greenberg’s “Save a Child in Less Than Two Minutes” blog entry for background on this video and those involved.

Please watch the video and pass it on. You can easily share the video through email, Twitter, Facebook, and various other social media platforms by clicking on the share link under the video on YouTube.

When 100,000 people view this video, Roche will donate $75,000 to Diabetes Hands Foundation. The donation will then be given to two humanitarian organizations, Life for a Child and Insulin for Life, which get insulin and other critical diabetes supplies to children with diabetes in the world's poorest countries. What do you say OrganizedWisdom readers? ---- Let's help them get to 100,000!

 

Special thanks to Riva Greenberg for her work to promote Diabetes Awareness and this campaign. I appreciate her encouragement to spread the word. Again, make sure to read her related blog entry on Huffington Post for detailed information.

by Julie Bohlen, MBA-HCM, ELS

 

OrganizedWisdom CEO Steven Krein Speaks with Matthew Holt About Creating The Expert Health Graph

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Click here to see the full post by Matthew Holt on The Health Care Blog.

Featured Nurses, Part 7

Some nurses love babies, while others wrap their brain around computers. These nurses have directed their careers and passions in distinctive ways. View their OrganizedWisdom profiles below:

1. @InfoTechRN Dave Yost, RN, is a self-described “computer geek” and the manager of performance analytics at Catholic Healthcare Partners in Fostoria, Ohio. He is also a part-time clinical nursing informatics instructor. At his blog, Critical Condition, he posts “varied observations from a nurse, IT professional, educator, and patriot.”


2. @LegalNurseDT Debra Theriault, RN, is the director of quality assurance at Carthage Area Hospital in Utica, New York. She owns a legal nurse consultant business and has worked in the field for more than 30 years. She has also worked as a home care case manager, a nurse for the state prison, and a public health nurse.


3. @Babies411 Diba Tillery, RN, BSN, has a “passion” for babies and chose a career as a neonatal nurse. In addition to caring for infants, she has assisted parents in transitioning into their new roles, which led her to start Babies411.com, an online resource center to help parents sort through the “vast amount of conflicting information available.” She says, “Teaching is a big part of who I am, and I believe that through knowledge, parents can make educated, informed decisions regarding the care of their infant and feel confident in their decisions.” 


4. @dorameulman Dora G. Meulman, RN, has spent the bulk of her 20 years in nursing working in various intensive care units. She spent six years as a flight nurse and the past four years in a medical intensive care unit at the Carolinas Healthcare System in North Carolina. “I enjoy bedside nursing even thought the MICU can be sad and often tragic,” she writes. Even so, “I believe I’ve found a home.” She also teaches fitness classes.


5. @DrCaraBarker Cara Barker, PhD, ARNP, is a nurse practitioner, author, artist, college instructor, professional coach, and Jungian analyst. She has lectured professionally on themes of “transforming loss and disappointment, navigating life’s edges, and creative spiritual development.” At CaraBarker.net she writes, “I teach people creative spiritual practices to enrich and enliven life.”

If you know of nurses who are worthy of attention on these pages, please use our contact form to let us know. See How to Become an OrganizedWisdom Expert Curator and Curator Benefits.

Other blog entries featuring patient experts or health professionals:

Featured Obstetrician-Gynecologists, Part 1
Featured Chiropractors, Part 1
Featured Neurologists, Part 1
Featured Cardiologists, Part 1, Part 2
Featured Dietitians, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Featured Nutritionists, Part 1, Part 2
Featured Nurses, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
Featured Nurses, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11
Featured Oncologists, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Top Nephrologists on Twitter
Top Gastroenterologists on Twitter 
Gluten-Free Diet Feature 
Type 1 Diabetes Patient Experts, Part 1, Part 2 


By Julie Bohlen, MBA-HCM, ELS