The Handoff podcast: season two is here

Earlier this year we launched The Handoff, a podcast for nurses and nurse leaders. It joins the resources we share through our blog, events, private Facebook group, work with The DAISY Award, and weekly newsletter.

Season two starts today, with conversations about the work and decisions nurses are facing.

Guests from hospitals, universities, nonprofits, and businesses will discuss nursing during COVID-19, racial inequity in healthcare, careers, and leadership.

Kicking off the Handoff Podcast Season 2

Starting today, we’ll be releasing two new episodes each week, hosted by Trusted’s very own Head of Clinical Innovation, Dr. Nurse Dan Weberg. Dan is a nurse executive whose career spans bedside roles in acute in-patient hospital settings, in academia as a clinical faculty director, and as an innovator and leader within Kaiser Permanente’s National Nursing Leadership and Strategy Team and the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.

Dan will draw on that experience to ask what nurses can use in their own work, whether they’re caring for patients, managing a unit, or leading a health system.

Here’s what we’ll cover this season.

Career & Leadership Advice

We’ll be sharing insights into everything from whether now is a good time to look for a new job to building your confidence as a nurse leader. Among our guests on this topic are veteran healthcare executive and career coach Beth Brooks, who shares the best tools and resources for nurses who are thinking about their next career move, as well as advice on exploring a non-traditional career path. Dan also speaks with Duke University’s Dean of Nursing Marion Broome about what it means to lead through a crisis. ‍
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Innovation

Dan will be speaking with nurse entrepreneurs and other guests about both clinical innovation and how nurses can contribute to a culture of innovation in the workplace. Our very first episode of the season features Chris McCarthy and Christi Zuber who spent more than a decade working together as co-founders and leaders of Kaiser Permanente’s Innovation Consultancy. Together, they discuss why nurses are particularly well-suited to be change agents because of their skills as “conveners of people.” In another episode, Marion Leary, Director of Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, shares her thoughts on the intersection of nursing and design thinking and how nurses can incorporate design thinking into their everyday work. ‍
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COVID-19

Naturally, the pandemic is a recurring theme in nearly every conversation this season. We talk with guests about everything from learnings over the last few months to what nurses should be prepared for as COVID-19 continues to make its way across the country to how the pandemic has changed the experience of being a nurse. New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s Deborah Stilgenbauer gives a window into how her hospital is thinking differently as a result of their experience in the early epicenter of the pandemic, while AACN’s Megan Brunson speaks to how she thinks the pandemic will impact the future of critical care nursing and her advice for nurses working on the frontlines. ‍
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Health Equity

ANA Bioethicist Liz Stokes discusses the ethical questions nurses bring to her about racial justice and equitable care. That includes racism nurses experience from patients, as well as inequity in the care patients receive.

The first episode is available on our website, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, and the Health Podcast Network. To suggest a guest or topic, email thehandoffpodcast (at) trustedhealth (dot) com.