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Alicia-Joy Pierre is a Registered Nurse, Writer, and Speaker. She enjoys helping fellow nurses who are ready to leverage their nursing background and take their career and their life to the next level. She believes that no nurse should feel miserable in their career. There are always options to make a change. The nursing industry offers countless specialties and even opportunities for self-employment. Join us as Alicia-Joy explores the concept of earning extra income outside of your nursing job. Income that is independent of a job doesn’t always mean you have to start an intimidating business that takes a lot of funds or special certification. There are steps you can start taking TODAY to leverage your nursing background to earn extra income!

Diane Yeager RN worked as a nurse in Labor & Delivery and Intensive Care for 7 years until 1992 at which point her career shifted to education. For the next 15 years, Diane worked as a Nursing Instructor in Northeast Ohio. Her results were impressive with an NCLEX pass rate for her graduating students of 97% throughout her teaching career. Her impact as a teacher was recognized when, during her fifth year of teaching, she received the Ohio Organization of Practical Nurse Educators' award for Distinguished Practical Nurse Educator of 1996. Diane's success as an educator was due to her enthusiasm for integrating computer technology into her teaching methodology which led to the creation of FreeNurseTutor, launched in 2006. Freenursetutor.com is a unique and completely free website that lets educators and students use a collection of self-paced and learning activities with a focus on interactivity and individualized learning. FreeNurseTutor is now used as an educational supplement by healthcare instructors and students at hundreds of schools. In 2007, Diane followed the trends in healthcare technology and transitioned to a career as an Electronic Health Records trainer. Diane has developed curriculum and instructional materials and trained healthcare personnel during large scale EHR system implementations at major hospital systems. As an EHR trainer, and through continued contact with healthcare educators, it became clear to Diane that most career tech and nursing schools simply do not have a way to prepare their students for the new world of electronic records. She enthusiastically embraced this as a personal challenge and used her experience in education and electronic health records to create an academic EHR system: EHR Tutor. EHR Tutor is designed to immediately deliver the "missing piece" of electronic records to any school's program. More information regarding EHR Tutor can be found at ehrtutor.com.

The RejuveNation Collaboration is a bi-annual webinar series chock-full of strategies, tools, and resources to help you nurses practice better self-care. The host, Elizabeth Scala – herself a nurse and wellness coach – has assembled nine fabulous presenters with specific knowledge and expertise to leave you  Feeling energized and refocused, with renewed dedication to your personal and professional goals and ready to make more time for the relaxing, fun activities that leave you fulfilled. You’ll also find yourselves armed with a variety of supports for continued accountability and lasting success. The series has served over 350 participants worldwide and you’ll be pleased to know that the Collaboration has been approved by the Maryland Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The next RejuveNation Collaboration begins on October 21, but we have a special treat for you. On this episode, we’ll be hosting speakers from the RCIV right here on RN.FM radio. They’re going to tell us a bit about themselves and the topics they’ll be presenting on. Plus, for all who listen to that show on September 23,  you can register with the RC while we're live and on air and your name will be entered in a drawing to receive two RCIV Backstage Passes – that’s one for you and one for a friend. Those passes will get you access to all the live Collaboration presentations, their recordings, the series workbook, a week’s worth of daily meditations, and the conference swag bag filled with additional goodies from the presenters. Again, you must register during the show on September 23 to be part of the drawing and we'll be announcing the raffle winner at the end of the show. See you there!

Dr. Larry Berkelhammer has lived with several chronic conditions since childhood. A long-time mindfulness practitioner faced with this reality, he became curious whether mind training could stabilize and even improve his health. Dr. Berkelhammer is a sought-after teacher on pain management and chronic illness, providing instruction in reprogramming the brain. He works at The Center for Attitudinal Healing in Sausalito, CA, as has treated clients for 19 years in private practice using psychotherapy, psychophysiology, and psychoneuroimmunology. Please join us for an elightening conversation regarding the use of the mind and various mindfulness practices for the improvement of a vast variety of symptoms and conditions.

Karen Mercereau is a nationally recognized visionary leader in healthcare, known for her ability to transcend challenges, and create opportunity from complexity.  This was the quality behind her founding of RN Patient Advocates in 2002, for which she received a Purpose Prize Fellowship.     A clinical RN for 45 years in diverse intensive care as well as community health settings, Karen was also integral in developing the first hospice in Tucson, AZ.  Recognizing the dearth of public health programs available in the AIDS community in the late 1980’s, she chaired a countywide consortium to develop AIDs relief programs in Tampa Bay.  Karen has also been instrumental in the design and implementation of hospital and health care systems, lecturing nationally on their wider applications.  Currently, Karen heads the RN Patient Advocate Learning Intensive  in association with the University of Arizona College of Nursing.  This immersion learning program for qualified clinical RNs prepares them for the development of their own practices as independent RN Patient Advocates (iRNPAs). Karen is also the leader of the RN Patient Advocate Group Practice in Southern Arizona comprised of independent RN Patient Advocates who provide both individual RN Patient Advocate services as well as community health literacy programs.  She is the President of Health Education and Advocacy Leaders, Inc., a foundation she started to support community health literacy programs.  

Please join us on September 9th, 2013 for our second "Scrubs Magazine Extravaganza"! Scrubs Magazine is the leading lifestyle magazine for nurses, offering highly valuable content in a full-color hard copy magazine and a thoroughly robust website. During this special episode of RN.FM Radio, we'll be joined by several editors from the Scrubs team, as well as a handful of nurse writers whose contributions to the magazine regularly bring brilliantly written content to their many devoted readers. This will be a wonderful show, and we encourage you to listen in live if you can, call or tweet with questions and comments, or listen to the archived recording or podcast. Let's welcome Scrubs Magazine back to RN.FM Radio!

Carmen Kosicek is a nursing visionary who understands the paradigm shift of the fusion of nursing and business. Carmen has helped hundreds of nurses and nursing students to envision a bright nursing future filled with possibilities. With her love of business, she has assisted her nursing clients to increase their incomes by 20 percent or more within 18 months.  Carmen's first book, "Nurses, Jobs and Money--A Guide to Advancing Your Nursing Career and Salary", is a must-read for every nurse--and everyone who wants to become one! Join us as we continue our discussion with Carmen which began with her appearance on RN.FM Radio in July of this year! You can be sure that we'll dig deeper into Carmen's vision of nursing in the 21st century!

Founder of UNconventional Nurse and author of the #1 Amazon bestseller, “Unconventional Nurse: Going From Burnout to Bliss!”, Michelle is a Business Coach that teaches nurses how to use their nursing knowledge to re-invent rewarding and profitable careers so that they can continue to make a difference and live the lifestyle they desire. Michelle shares with nurses the business mindset, strategies and skills that enabled her to become a corporate executive overseeing the strategic, operational and technical areas of multi-million dollar companies. Her book also contains interviews with five highly successful UNconventional Nurses. Check out her website at UNconventionalNurse.com where you can sign up for her FREE newsletter and review her Coaching Services. Join us for what will certainly be an inspiring conversation about nurse entrepreneurship!

Jeanne Simard is an RN with a clinical background in cancer rehabilitation and critical care. A strong advocate for establishing survivorship as a distinct phase of cancer care, she is the corporate vice president of Oncology Rehab Partners (www.OncologyRehabPartners.com), the only healthcare company in the US that offers evidence-based cancer rehabilitation certification for clinicians and facilities, called the STAR Program® Certification. Hundreds of practitioners around the country have become STAR Clinicians and can now address the unique physical and emotional needs of cancer survivors. Please join us in learning about this exciting aspect of cancer care and the related opportunities for nursing!

Cate Lineberry is the author of "The Secret Rescue: An Untold Story About American Nurses and Medics Behind Nazi Lines". Using exhaustive research and accounts from survivors, "The Secret Rescue" is one of the greatest forgotten stories of World War II. When twenty-six Army Air Forces flight nurses and medics board a military transport plane in November 1943, they never anticipate a crash landing in Nazi territory, or their ensuing months-long fight to survive. Cate was a staff writer and Europe editor for National Geographic Magazine and the web editor for Smithsonian Magazine. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times. Originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, she lives in the greater Washington, DC, area.

Carmen Kosicek is a nursing visionary who understands the paradigm shift of the fusion of nursing and business. Carmen has helped hundreds of nurses and nursing students to envision a bright nursing future filled with possibilities. With her love of business, she has assisted her nursing clients to increase their incomes by 20 percent or more within 18 months.  Carmen's first book, "Nurses, Jobs and Money--A Guide to Advancing Your Nursing Career and Salary", is a must-read for every nurse--and everyone who wants to become one! Join us as we discuss the profession of nursing and nurse entrepreneurship with this fascinating, brilliant and successful nurse entrepreneur!  

Thom Namaya of Brattleboro, Vermont is a Family Nurse Practitioner,  Doctor of Homeopathic Medicine, writer, visual artist, poet, playwright, musician and humanitarian activist. Namaya is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Vermont My Home. His play Beatnik Café was produced in both NYC and Boston. He is a widely published author, with more than fifty articles, short stories, and poems published in national and international magazines. His book, "Journal of the Plague: Living and Working With AIDS", chronicles Namaya's work with terminal AIDS patients in the early stages of the epidemic in New York City, tracing the lives and stories of the men who arrived at a ward called "Paradise Alley."  It is through the stories of the patients and this writer's observations that we come to understand what AIDS means to us, both as individuals and as a society. Please join us for a conversation with this fascinating and multi-talented nurse, artist and humanitarian.

Lorie A. Brown, RN, MN, JD is a nurse attorney with over 30 years of combined experience as a Registered Nurse and attorney. She combines her specialties with a practice of medical legal consulting and representing nurses before the Licensing Board. Staying abreast of current legal trends and issues, Lorie has a passion for learning and personal growth. Lorie formed Empowered Nurses because she felt that nurses have the answers to the problems in health care. However, nurses do not feel comfortable speaking their mind for fear of getting in trouble or even losing their job.   Empowered Nurses provides tools to nurses to speak their mind, stand in their power and be a change agent to improve patient care while legally protecting their license.

Please join us for a lively roundtable discussion about the importance and contribution of Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses here in the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the demand for LPNs and LVNs will increase by 22% from 2010 to 2020. Other statistics show that there are at least 750,000 practical nurses currently working in the US, with 25% working in hospitals and 28% in nursing facilities and long term care. LPNs will likely prove crucial to the delivery of healthcare in the United States as the population ages. Let's discuss, celebrate and learn about the contributions of practical nurses to our profession, and to the healthcare industry at large.

Enid Shomer won the Iowa Short Fiction Award for her first collection of stories, "Imaginary Men", and the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal for her second, "Tourist Season". She is also the author of four books of poetry. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and many other publications. "The Twelve Rooms of the Nile" (Simon & Schuster, 2012), is her first novel. Ms. Shomer's work has been collected in more than fifty anthologies and textbooks, including "POETRY: A Harper Collins Pocket Anthology", "Best American Poetry", and "New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best". "The Twelve Rooms of the Nile" is a fascinating account of the fictional (and intellectually and emotionally intense) meeting in Egypt of a young Florence Nightingale and the French writer Gustave Flaubert. Shomer conducted extensive research about the concurrent Egyptian travels of Nightingale and Flaubert, and she has great insight into the early years of Nightingale's life. This will be an edifying and exciting interview in which the myth and story of Florence Nightingale will play a central role. In 2013, Shomer received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing from the Florida Humanities Council.   The author lives in Tampa, Florida.