Nick Chmielewski speaks with Linda Zieman, DNP, MM, MSN, RN, CEN, NEA-BC, senior director of Nursing, Inpatient Services at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City. She is also a Coldiron Senior Nurse Executive fellow at Case Western Reserve University's Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing. They discuss the Nurse Leader article "Pathway to Emergency Nursing: An Innovative Academic-Practice Partnership,” for which Ms. Zieman was the primary author.

Nick Chmielewski welcomes back Jerry A. Mansfield, PhD, MS, RN, NEA-BC, vice president and system chief nursing executive at University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. This episode was recorded in January 2024, shortly before Dr. Mansfield began his tenure at UTMB. They discuss collaboration among practice, education, and regulatory nurse leadership to better prepare, develop, and utilize nurse professionals and, ultimately, resolve problems in healthcare.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Jacob A. Miller, DNP, MBA, ACNP, ENP-C, CNS, NRP, FAEN, Clinical Educator (and former Flight Nurse Practitioner) at UC Health Air Care & Mobile Care in Cincinnati. They discuss emerging models of emergency medical services (EMS) pre-hospital and transport care utilizing physicians and advance practice providers.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Paul Osborne, a managing director and leader of BRG’s Healthcare Performance Improvement practice. They discuss BRG’s recently released report AI and the Future of Healthcare, including the importance and advantages of utilizing artificial intelligence in the medical industry.   Find out more about the report at: https://www.thinkbrg.com/insights/publications/ai-in-healthcare/.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Patricia Kunz Howard, PhD, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN, NE-BC, FAEN, FAAN, Enterprise Director of Emergency Services at the University of Kentucky Healthcare, about leadership challenges with and initiatives to address workplace violence. They discuss approaches such as informing patients and visitors of their behavioral expectations on arrival, caregiver training, enhancing facility access control, and what “zero tolerance” means.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with James Ballinghoff, DNP, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, chief nursing officer and associate executive director at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. They discuss advancing nursing practice with technology, including predictive analytics tools and artificial intelligence, to improve efficiency, workflow, and outcomes for the staff and system overall.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Jerry A. Mansfield, PhD, MS, RN, NEA-BC, the new vice president and system chief nursing executive at University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston. They discuss executive leadership in a new organization. The episode was recorded shortly before Dr. Mansfield began his tenure at UTMB.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Ellie Kruk, MHA, RN, NE-BC, vice president and chief nurse executive at Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital. They discuss strategies employed to implement a discharge lounge at Palos Hospital, which has reduced the average discharge process from four hours to less than one hour and Emergency Department left without being seen rates by 49 percent, among other successes. Find out more about the discharge lounge: https://news.nm.org/northwestern-medicine-palos-hospital-discharge-lounge-provides-smoother-transition-home/

In the season 3 premiere, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Bill Orrell, MBA, MSN, RN, a managing director on BRG’s Clinical Transformation team. They discuss the first two seasons of the podcast, current industry trends, and performance improvement solutions with returns on investment.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Noreen Hudson, MSN, RN, BRG’s nursing team lead for perioperative services. They continue their conversation about the various departments comprising perioperative services. They discuss the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU); phases 1, 2, and 3 recovery; on-call coverage practices; and PACU boarding in the midst of hospital room capacity constraints.

Nick Chmielewski welcomes back Erik Martin, DNP, RN, CENP, vice president of Patient Care Services and chief nursing officer at Norton Children’s Hospital. Erik reflects on his two-year term as president of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) and ten continuous years of service on AONL’s board.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Andrew Agwunobi, MD, MBA, president of Home Solutions at Humana Inc. They discuss current trends in the quality, cost, and value of home-based healthcare.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Marianne Bondanza, MSN, RN, CCRP, CLNC, an associate director in BRG’s Non-Labor Clinical Supply Chain team. They discuss the value clinicians bring in terms of product efficiency and cost reduction while sustaining and/or enhancing patient outcomes.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Matthew S. Howard,  DNP, RN, CEN, TCRN, CPEN, CPN, FAEN, Director of Scholarship & Leadership Resources at Sigma. They discuss the differentiation between bullying and incivility, as well as key interventions to prevent and/or mitigate their occurrence in the healthcare environment.

In this episode, Nick Chmielewski speaks with Mitzi Saunders, PhD, APRN, ACNS-BC, president of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS). They review the role of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and discuss key attributes of an organization with an effective CNS program.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Lisa Wolf, PhD, RN, CEN, FAEN, FAAN regarding the state of triage accuracy in US emergency departments. They focus on the impact of poor accuracy on patient outcomes and essential information that nurse executives should know to improve triage quality in their organizations.   Emergency department triage accuracy hovers at about 60 percent overall, and at only 43 percent on the ability to distinguish patient stability from decompensation risk. Triage accuracy is associated with core measures’ compliance and timely admissions to the intensive care unit. It is a matter of patient safety and financial stewardship.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Rebecca Harris, DNP, MBA, BSN, RN, an associate director on BRG’s Care Transformation team. They continue an earlier podcast discussion on healthcare workplace violence. Dr. Harris’s work has focused on verbal aggression as a mechanism to reduce workplace violence against nurses. This episode summarizes her policy analysis, which can be viewed at https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/son_dnp/132/.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Michael Callihan, PhD, RN, CEN, NRP, an assistant professor at The University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing. They discuss current research regarding biomechanics and occupational injury prevention for nursing and strategies for the nurse executive to consider when implementing solutions. They also talk about closing the research-to-practice gap and viewing research open access as a nursing practice equity issue.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with Dr. Scott Wolf and Dr. Dustin Fowler, members of BRG’s Strategy and Ambulatory Services team. They discuss strategies to maximize both net revenue and quality while decreasing hospitalization census.

Nick Chmielewski speaks with stretcherside emergency nurse, poet, social scientist, and US Air Force veteran Craig Manbauman, BSN, RN. They discuss using art therapy as a mechanism to reflect on traumatic events and enhance nurse wellness.