Nurse Rosa's INsights

Is there really a nursing shortage, or are we just making nursing too hard to stay in? Nurse leader Angel Bozard of VirtuAlly joins me to talk about how virtual nursing is taking the paperwork off bedside nurses, bringing experienced nurses back into the workforce, and helping patients feel truly heard. Angel shares how the nurses who cared for her and her blind father inspired her career, why she went back to nursing school with three kids at home, and how a rural maternal fetal medicine program sparked her passion for virtual care. We get into 24/7 virtual observers, 45-minute...

Ambient AI for Senior Care with Julia Rizhevsky, VP - PointClickCare

This episode is sponsored by PointClickCare.

Julia Rizhevsky didn't start in healthcare. She built her product management career at American Express, Mastercard, and Amazon's AI team before being pulled into the industry. Now she leads Vox Advantage, PointClickCare's ambient AI documentation tool built specifically for skilled nursing, not adapted from hospital workflows.

In this conversation, Rosa and Julia dig into the real cost of documentation burden (nearly three hours of a twelve-hour shift spent charting instead of with residents), how Vox Advantage...

What happens when the companies that profit from denying care also decide what care you get? Nurse Rosa sits down with Hannah Garden-Monheit and Emma Freer, senior fellows at the American Economic Liberties Project and leaders of the Break Up Big Medicine Coalition, to talk about their report on prior authorization. Hannah shares the personal story behind her work: her father's cancer, his amputation, and the prior auth denials that followed. Emma explains the moral injury clinicians feel when paperwork pulls them away from the bedside. Together they walk through the numbers, the policy fixes, and what nurses, clinicians...

This episode is sponsored by PointClickCare.

What if two doctors could treat ten patients with the exact same outcome, one spending $100,000 and the other spending a million, and get paid the exact same amount? Dr. Hamad Husainy says that's the broken math at the heart of American healthcare.

About the guest:  Dr. Hamad Husainy, Chief Medical Officer at PointClickCare and a practicing emergency medicine physician with more than 15 years on the front lines. Dr. Husainy shares how his career moved from EMS and staffing to the payer side of healthcare, and now to leading PointClickCare's a...

What if the most valuable healthcare expert in the room is the patient?

Host Rosa Hart sits down with Grace Vinton, PR pro, patient advocate, and host of HITea With Grace, to talk about what happens when patients stop being treated as passive recipients of care and start being recognized as informaticists in their own right.

Grace shares the near-death experience that sparked her advocacy, the story behind coining the term "patient informaticist," and why paying patients and caregivers for their time and expertise is overdue. She also lays out her billion-dollar vision for a...

Hear from orthopedic hand surgeon, best-selling author, and social media educator Dr. Erin Nance to unpack misdiagnosis, medical mysteries, and the app she built to close the gap between patients and doctors: Takeaway MD.

From a viral glomus tumor story to the diagnostic blind spots around Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and MCAS, this episode is a masterclass in why "rare" doesn't always mean rare, it often just means rarely diagnosed.

Dr. Nance also opens up about medical gaslighting, fake accounts impersonating her online, and her billion-dollar vision for peer-to-peer patient support through Takeaway Connect.

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What does a critical care nurse have to offer the space industry? A lot more than you might think. In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, Rosa Hart sits down with Christine Rincon, a critical care nurse and space medicine expert, to explore a career frontier most nurses don't even know exists. Christine shares her journey from the ICU to space health, and makes the case that nurses already belong in aerospace medicine; in fact, some are already there. Together they dig into how microgravity changes the human body, from blood volume to muscle mass, and why those profound...

Heart disease is still the #1 killer, in a world where your watch monitors your heart 24/7. Something isn't adding up.

In this episode, Nurse Rosa sits down with Dr. Aline Pedroso, Assistant Research Scientist at Yale School of Medicine, to explore the gap between what's possible in healthcare and what patients actually experience.

Originally trained in Brazil, where she completed her master's and PhD in cardiovascular disease prevention, Dr. Pedroso now works at the intersection of cardiovascular data science, artificial intelligence, digital health, and wearable technology.

Together they dig into how AI, wearables, and...

What if new nurses could build gut instinct in months instead of years? Ryan Schmaltz, CEO and co-founder of PatientReady, joins Nurse Rosa to explore how AI-powered simulation is transforming clinical education and tackling the global nursing workforce shortage.

Ryan spent two decades in emerging tech, from Uber's global expansion to immersive VR and AR, before turning his focus to healthcare's most urgent problem: preparing clinicians for high-stakes decisions at scale. In this conversation, he and Rosa dig into AI patient simulations, the pandemic-era experience gap, nurse skepticism about AI, the faculty shortage, and the one thing...

In this episode, host Rosa Hart sits down with nursing thought leader, keynote speaker, and bestselling author Sara Fung to talk candidly about the realities of nursing career transitions - from the bedside to remote roles and everything in between.

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What happens when a piano prodigy gets diagnosed with brain cancer at 21 - and never shuts up about it?

Matthew Zachary, founder of Stupid Cancer and author of the new book "We the Patients" , joins Nurse Rosa to talk about his extraordinary journey from Staten Island music prodigy to one of America's most fearless healthcare advocates. We cover his diagnosis, 30 years of fighting for patients, and his bold new proposal: organizing America's sick and angry into a bipartisan voter bloc to take on the health insurance industry.

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What can you do with a nursing license? According to Marsha Battee, just about anything.In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, host Rosa Hart welcomes Marsha Battee, RN, host of The Bossy Nurse Podcast and a Nurse.org top content creator nominee. Through her platform, thebossynurse.com, Marsha empowers nurses to advance their careers, increase their income, and explore entrepreneurship.Marsha describes The Bossy Nurse Podcast as honest interviews with nurse creators, innovators, and risk-takers, including a standout episode with Dr. Dan Weberg on Nurse Capital and the basics of venture capital, a world most nurses never realize...

What if a single strand of hair could reveal your body's chemical exposure history, all the way back to the womb? Dr. Manish Arora, environmental epidemiologist, CEO of LinusBio, and professor at Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, joins Nurse Rosa Hart to explain why your environment shapes your health more than your genes ever could.

Dr. Arora's team developed the TRACED test, an at-home, hair-based exposure test that measures 15 essential and toxic elements (including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and aluminum) with time-stamped resolution across roughly 30 days. Unlike blood or urine tests that capture a single moment...

What if a single strand of hair could reveal your body's chemical exposure history, all the way back to the womb? Dr. Manish Arora, environmental epidemiologist, CEO of LinusBio, and professor at Mount Sinai, joins Nurse Rosa to explain why your environment shapes your health more than your genes ever could. Dr. Arora's team developed the TRACED test, an at-home, hair-based exposure test that measures 15 essential and toxic elements (including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and aluminum) with time-stamped resolution across roughly 30 days. Unlike blood or urine tests that capture a single moment, TRACED gives you a molecular movie of your...

What if the reason people don't trust healthcare isn't the science- it's the communication? Rosa Hart sits down with Hamid Ghanadan, behavioral strategist, researcher, and author of Not Buying It, to explore why science and healthcare have a usability problem - and what communicators, clinicians, and companies can do about it.

From the neuroscience of decision-making to the Space Shuttle Challenger to vaccine hesitancy and children's mental health, Hamid and Rosa cover what it really takes to communicate in a way that moves people. Ethically, effectively, and humanly.

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What if 40% of the people sitting in your waiting room, working on your team, or enrolled in your health plan were quietly carrying an invisible weight, and had no idea there was a name for what they were doing?

Alexandra Drane has spent years hunting for those people. As co-founder and CEO of ARCHANGELS, a public benefit corporation, she's on a mission to find unpaid caregivers who don't identify as caregivers, and connect them to the employer benefits, health plan resources, and community supports already waiting for them. The barrier isn't access. It's recognition.

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What if the key to better mental health wasn't a new medication or therapy technique, but something already hardwired inside you? In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, I sit down with Dr. Royan Kamyar, physician, MBA, and founder and CEO of Owaves, a circadian wellness app used by over one million people worldwide. Dr. Kamyar shares the raw personal story behind why he built it, including his own rock-bottom moment after medical training, and the science that changed everything for him.

If you've ever felt like you're running on empty no matter how hard you try...

What happens when a critical care nurse becomes the executive building the tools she once struggled with?

Susan Grant, DNP and Chief Clinical Officer at Symplr, has lived both sides. She has navigated 3 a.m. staffing crises, chased credentialing deadlines, and wondered if the systems she used were built with nurses in mind at all. Now she builds those systems, and she is doing it differently.

In this episode, Rosa Hart sits down with Susan to unpack how AI-driven staffing tools, smarter scheduling, and nurse-led technology decisions can reduce burnout and bring predictability back to...

What happens when burnout breaks you open, and you decide to build something from the wreckage?

In this episode, Rosa sits down with Ashley Chancellor and Matthew Harless, co-founders of The Business of Hope, to explore why burnout in healthcare goes far deeper than exhaustion, and what hope, as a functional tool, can actually do for clinicians on the front lines.

Ashley Chancellor, RN spent 14 years as a nurse, much of it traveling the country as an ICU nurse. A fractured spine and severe PTSD during COVID took her off the floor indefinitely. What came...

Meet Angie Cauthorn, a two-time stroke survivor and host of the Brain Friends podcast as she shares with Nurse Rosa Hart about gaps in stroke and aphasia aftercare and the community-based solutions she has built.

Angie describes developing aphasia after working in finance and realizing survivors are discharged medically stable but unprepared to navigate recovery. She shares her work as co-founder and president of the Aphasia Resource Collaboration Hub (ARCH), the R.O.S.A. symposium (Resource Orientation for Stroke and Aphasia) convening at Temple University - now in its fifth year -with panels, keynotes, and activities...

Invisible doesn't mean harmless, and Zoë Slaughter is done letting people pretend otherwise.

Zoë Slaughter joins Nurse Rosa for a candid conversation about living with food allergies, navigating a complex healthcare system, and building an advocacy movement through storytelling and policy action.

Zoë shares her personal journey from childhood food allergies to adult advocacy, breaking down how community support groups form, why misconceptions about food allergies persist, and what the latest research on early food introduction means for prevention. She also gets into the real financial burden of managing food allergies, including what she calls the...

What would you do with a billion dollars to fix healthcare? For Sandra Johnson, SVP of Client Services at CliniComp, the answer is clear: solve interoperability, once and for all.

Rosa Hart sits down with Sandra to unpack one of healthcare's most persistent problems, fragmented data environments that slow clinicians down, create gaps in patient care, and quietly fuel burnout across health systems. Sandra brings 25 years of healthcare IT experience to a candid conversation about why interoperability is so hard to crack, what it takes to design technology that actually works for clinicians, and how CliniComp's System...

What happens when a nurse gets splashed in the face with biohazardous waste and decides to do something about it? She builds a company. In this episode Rosa Hart, RN, BSN, SCRN, sits down with Sarah Waimon, RN, BSN, CEO of Waimon Innovations Inc. and creator of Looey, a nurse-invented medical device designed to protect healthcare workers from hazardous splash-back during bedpan and ostomy care.

Sarah shares her journey from 16 years of bedside nursing across medsurg, oncology, ICU, colorectal, and nursing supervision to becoming a nurse entrepreneur and medical device innovator. She breaks down the moment that...

The culture killing your career isn't the patients. It's the colleagues.

Renee Thompson, DNP, RN, FAONL, FAAN, CSP has spent 32 years in nursing and the last 15 building one of healthcare's most important movements: a structured, proven approach to ending bullying and incivility in the workplace. As CEO and Founder of the Healthy Workforce Institute, she has seen what toxic culture does to nurses, to teams, and to patients, and she refuses to accept it as inevitable.

In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, Renee breaks down why incivility is a patient safety issue, not just...

Can hearing aids prevent dementia? Hearing instrument specialist Madison Levine joins Rosa Hart to explore the connection between hearing loss and cognitive decline, and why treating your hearing early may be one of the most important things you can do for your brain health and longevity.

Madison founded "Levine Hearing" 11 years ago, building on her mother's 35-year legacy in audiology. She now leads a full clinical team offering hearing diagnostics, hearing aid fittings, ear hygiene, tinnitus care, and vestibular services, while speaking at national conventions to advance public awareness of hearing health.

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What if the reason cancer wins isn't the tumor itself, but the silence it forces on your immune system?

Aaron Edwards grew up in Henderson, Kentucky, left home at sixteen for a bold academic experiment, and spent a decade in biotech working on some of the most cutting-edge gene therapies in the world before asking himself a hard question: why does promising science so rarely reach patients?

That question led him to Harvard, and then to KiraGen Bio, where he and his team are building what he calls "noise-cancelling headphones for cancer therapy." Using gene...

Every minute a stroke goes untreated, 1.9 billion neurons are lost. In this episode, Nurse Rosa Hart sits down with neurosurgeon Dr. David Dornbos III to talk about what is changing in stroke care, what still needs to change, and what he would do with a billion dollars to move the needle.

Dr. Dornbos is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky Department of Neurological Surgery and a specialist in cerebrovascular and endovascular neurosurgery at the Kentucky Neuroscience Institute. With over 130 peer-reviewed publications, NIH funding for early stroke biology research, and a seat on the Executive Committee...

Cooking fires are the number one cause of residential fires in America, and older adults are among the most vulnerable. In this episode, Nurse Rosa sits down with an AI-driven kitchen safety innovator and a leading occupational therapy researcher to talk about what aging in place actually requires and the tools making it possible right now.

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David Eby, CEO of CookTop Safety Corp., developed an AI-powered smart kitchen sensor that predicts and prevents cooking fires before they happen. As a personal caregiver to his own parents in their mid-eighties, his work is as personal...

What does it really take to deliver equitable care to the most vulnerable Medicare patients -- virtually, across all 50 states?

Rosa Hart sits down with Bonnie Sloma, SVP of Clinical Services at CareTalk Health, a national virtual care organization serving patients in all 50 states and D.C. With 42 years of nursing experience -- from the NICU to large-scale telehealth leadership -- Bonnie brings frontline wisdom and systems-level vision to one of healthcare's hardest problems.

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What happens when a physician with 15 years of frontline experience stops waiting for healthcare to fix itself, and builds the fix himself?

In this episode of the Nurse Rosa's INsights Podcast, host Rosa Hart sits down with Zaman Shah, MD MBA, founder and CEO of Medway, a physician-led AI infrastructure company transforming EHRs into AI-first platforms.

Dr. Shah brings a rare combination most health tech founders simply don't have: clinical credibility from 15 years of frontline practice, business training from an MBA at UAB, and specialized Harvard training in healthcare AI. His mission is direct : restore...

What happens when a stroke survivor becomes the most credible voice in the room? In this episode of the Nurse Rosa's INsights Podcast, Rosa Hart, RN sits down with David Dansereau — physical therapist, stroke survivor, digital health innovator, and co-founder of the Know Stroke Podcast — for a candid conversation about what the healthcare system is getting wrong and what it takes to fix it from the inside out.

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Healthcare is changing faster than most people realize.

In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, Rosa Hart sits down with physician, healthcare strategist, and author Dr. Sarah Matt to explore how technology is reshaping the future of care. Dr. Matt shares her remarkable journey from practicing general surgeon to becoming a leader in healthcare technology and digital health strategy, including her work at Oracle Health and with emerging healthcare startups.

Their conversation dives into one of the most urgent issues in healthcare today: access to care. Dr. Matt explains how geographic barriers, financial challenges, and...

Who should the public trust when it comes to health information?

More and more, the answer is nurses.

In this episode of Nurse Rosa’s INsights, Rosa Hart sits down with nationally recognized nurse and media correspondent Alice Benjamin, MSN, ACNS-BC, FNP-C to talk about how nurses are stepping into media to educate the public and reshape healthcare conversations.

With more than 25 years of nursing experience, Alice shares how she transitioned from bedside care to television and digital media, becoming a trusted voice helping audiences understand complex health topics. She explains why nurses br...

Healthcare revenue cycle management is changing fast. Brian Robertson of VisiQuate explains how AI and data analytics improve hospital reimbursement.

At the ViVE Health Tech Conference, Rosa Hart speaks with Brian Robertson, Founder and CEO of VisiQuate, about how artificial intelligence and advanced data analytics are transforming healthcare revenue cycle management.

Brian explains how healthcare organizations are moving beyond traditional reporting toward predictive revenue cycle intelligence. Instead of reacting to denied claims, lost revenue, or delayed payments, health systems can now use AI-driven analytics to anticipate problems earlier and make smarter operational...

Primary care is quietly collapsing - and most patients don’t even realize it. In this episode, Timothy Boyle pulls back the curtain on the mounting pressure facing small, independent primary care practices across the country. From crushing administrative demands to unsustainable financial models, the very doctors who know their patients best are struggling to survive. But this isn’t just about business. It’s about relationships. Timothy shares why personal connections between providers and patients are the backbone of effective care - and what happens emotionally to clinicians when they’re forced to practice in systems that prevent them fro...

AI is already changing nursing. The real question is whether nurses will lead it or be sidelined by it.

In this episode, I sit down with nurse practitioner Stephen to explore how clinical expertise, healthcare policy, and artificial intelligence intersect, and why nurses must be at the center of healthcare innovation.

Stephen shares his journey from bedside care to policy engagement and now to advancing AI literacy for nurses. We talk about what many health tech companies misunderstand about nursing workflows, why documentation reform matters, and how nurse practitioners can influence system-level change.

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The Awake & Walking ICU: Transforming Critical Care with Kali Dayton

Sedation is not neutral. Immobility is not harmless. What we do in the ICU follows patients long after discharge.

In this powerful episode of Nurse Rosa’s INsights, I sit down with Kali Dayton, DNP, AGACNP, critical care nurse practitioner, consultant, and founder of the Awake and Walking ICU movement. Kali shares how working in a unit that prioritized mobility and minimal sedation completely changed the way she understood critical care and why she now trains ICU teams nationwide to implement the ABCDEF bundle.

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The nursing shortage isn’t coming. It’s here. And the real problem might surprise you.

In this episode of Nurse Rosa’s INsights, I sit down with Rosemarie Aznavorian, DNP, RN, CENP, CCWP, CCRN, Executive Vice President of Client Services and Chief Clinical Officer at MedPro Healthcare Staffing, to break down the real drivers behind the national nursing workforce crisis - and what it will take to fix it.

This is not a surface-level conversation about staffing. We talk about: Why over 90,000 qualified nursing school applicants were turned away The nursing facult...

Nurses use pharmacology, operate complex medical technology, and apply statistical modeling daily - yet they're locked out of $1.2 billion in federal STEM funding. Rebecca Love is fighting to change that.

WHAT'S AT STAKE: A national coalition of 100+ nursing organizations just petitioned the Department of Homeland Security to recognize nursing as a STEM profession. This change could unlock:

WHY THIS MATTERS BEYOND NURSING: If you're building health tech, investing in healthcare, or care about AI in medicine, this affects you. Nurses are the frontline innovators using your technology, but they're systematically excluded from the funding and ...

Transparent messaging is becoming essential in healthcare, not optional.

In this episode, Saul W. Marquez, CEO and Founder of Outcomes Rocket, joins Nurse Rosa’s INsights to break down why even the most impactful healthcare innovations fail without the right message reaching the right decision-makers. Drawing on more than 20 years in healthcare sales and marketing, Saul explains how Account-Based Marketing (ABM) delivers measurable results in a complex industry with long sales cycles and high stakes.

Rosa and Saul explore key insights from the State of Account-Based Marketing 2025 report, including the role of AI in streamlining ma...