Podcasts by Head-to-Toe

Hearing Myself Talk Vol 4 - I can't do it all, and that's okay (A goodbye to podcasting) from 2020-08-05T07:41:19

Read the blog post (written version) of this podcast here. 

*The written version is slightly different, it's not a transcription. I encour...

COVID Takeaways Part IV – Jennifer Wallace, MSR, RN, FIEL – Nurse Educator, Mother/Newborn Nursing Innovator from 2020-08-02T12:00

Hackathons. Going to remote learning literally overnight. Supporting new moms in a quarantine world postpartum. Building community and on how we should educate nurses in pandemic 2020 and beyond...

COVID Takeaways Part III – Ashley Blackmon, MS, FNP-C – Heart Failure Management from 2020-08-01T12:00

Exhaustion. Being called a hero. Calling in the National Guard for angry visitors at hospital entrances. Just another day in the bougiest part of Atlanta.

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COVID Takeaways Part II – Kurt Schroeder, MSN, RN – Acute Care Inpatient Rehab from 2020-07-31T06:00

No family visitors. Low census and furloughs. Not enough PPE. Feeling the effects of COVID in a variety of ways.

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Best Stories 2019 from 2020-01-01T00:43:12

Best Stories 2019

A Labor and Delivery nurse sheds cynicism and rediscovers positivity. An ICU nurse endures being a patient for the first time. A new graduate nurse finishes his first year in t...

Trending Topics: Sports Medicine, with Dr. Jonathan Gelber from 2019-11-26T00:28:20

Trending Topics: Sports Medicine, with Dr. Jonathan Gelber

Magic Johnson and HIV. Len Bias and drug laws. Tommy John surgery and high school baseball today. Learn about the Cobra effects of thes...

Trending Topics: Matrescence – with Sarah Suhrstedt, Certified Birth Educator&Doula from 2019-07-09T16:38:16

Trending Topics: Matrescence – with Sarah Suhrstedt, Certified Birth Educator & Doula

Birthing babies. Teaching new parents. Just how scientifically real “mom brain” is and the physiolo...

Extraordinary Stories: Dead Woman's Pass and the H&M Scarf Splint from 2019-06-27T21:42:14

Show Notes

Read/listen to Dr. Zahir Basrai’s

Physician Grind Blog and Podcast here > www.physiciangrind.com

Music: Wesley Price –...

Nurses Week 2019 from 2019-05-12T04:13:43

Nurses Week 2019

Listen to President Barack Obama’s full address to the ANA from 2010 here: https...

Career Profile: Alison Escalante, MD - Pediatrician, Author, and TEDx Speaker from 2019-04-15T19:28:56

“You are what your baby needs, not your breast milk,”

“Before I only had anxiety and now, I have confidence,”

“What your patients need is you. It’s YOU.”

“But here’s the thi...

Career Profile: Anne Richardson, chaplain& spiritual director. “Our stories are sacred” – a discussion about spirituality in healthcare from 2019-03-14T02:57:01

Show Notes:

Download your state’s Advance Directive information > http://www.caringinfo.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=...

Hearing Myself Talk, Vol. 3 from 2019-02-01T05:38:41

Hearing Myself Talk, Vol. 3

Lost seals, anti-vaxxers, and measles, oh my! Guestless, Marie discusses the current buzz in healthcare news, reads listener thoughts on patients leaving AMA, and sha...

Best Stories 2018: Changing the Status Quo from 2019-01-01T04:52:54

Show Notes

BEST STORIES 2018: Changing the status quo

• LEON CHEN, ACNP in New York
  • Pioneering the use of point of are ultrasound by NPs and PAs in the Intensive Care Un...
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Best Stories 2018: Pride and Joy from 2019-01-01T04:49:38

Show Notes

Best Stories 2018: "Pride and Joy"

• DENETRA HAMPTON, BSN, MHA, Virginia
  • Going back to the beginning with her passion for education, watching a student face t...
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Trending Topics: Legal Issues in Nursing from 2018-11-22T22:33:03

Trending Topics: Legal Issues in Nursing

Spotlight on Jeff Powers, of The NP Dude podcast. An ANP, lawyer, and former civil engineer, Jeff sheds light on some of ...

Extraordinary Stories: Dean Hall is swimming in miracles from 2018-09-28T23:04:11

Dean Hall is swimming in miracles

Dean Hall swam the 184-mile Willamette River with active leukemia—and then, his cancer was gone. No chemo. Just the power of purpose. Listen to our discu...

Career Profiles: Dr. Dan’s Top 5 Survival Tips for Thriving in Emergency Medicine from 2018-08-01T17:49:41

Career Profiles: Dr. Dan’s Top 5 Survival Tips for Thriving in Emergency Medicine

Spotlight on Dr. Dan Magdziarz (aka Dr. Majors or Dr. Dan) and his top five pearls of wisdom from twenty years i...

Trending Topics: Speaking Tidal Volumes about RTs from 2018-07-26T04:46:02

Trending Topics: Speaking Tidal Volumes about RTs

From tank jockeys to ECMO pumps, Marie attempts to give RTs the spotlight they deserve. Special guests Chris Webb, RRT and Jon Inkrott, RRT, RRT...

Trending Topics: Graduation from 2018-07-01T01:23:06

Show Notes

You can hear the FULL INTERVIEWS of all five graduates on my Patreon page by clicking here>>> www.patreon.com/mariemacmillan...

Mixing Medicine and Art: A career profile with Jorge Muniz, PA-C and medical comic artist from 2018-06-16T19:45:03

Mixing Medicine and Art: A career profile with Jorge Muniz, PA-C and medical comic artist Spotlight on Jorge Muniz and how his comic art provides medical education to the masses

Jorge gives us t...

Career Profile: Echos on the Heart, a hospital romance from 2018-06-05T21:37:47

Spotlight on Mike and Pat Cyll, retired couple with combined ~90 years of experience in echocardiography and nursing. They’ve been married over 40 years.

From smoking in hospital breakroo...

Career Profile: Carmen Buck, Nurse Practitioner and Photographer from 2018-05-12T17:36:04

Career Profile: Carmen Buck, Nurse Practitioner and Photographer

Spotlight on Carmen Buck, nurse practitioner, photographer, and author. Her new book “Just See Me: Sacred Stories from the Other ...

Extraordinary Stories: Wellness in War Zones from 2018-04-24T18:01:35

Extraordinary Stories: Wellness in war zones Nina Ng, RN nurse administrator and wellness consultant for volunteers, enlightens us on what managing trauma is like in war-torn Middle Eastern cities....

Extraordinary Stories: Finding the Zebras from 2018-04-14T17:47:24

Extraordinary Stories: Finding the Zebras Spotlight on Jonathan Tan, PA

Chief complaint: refractory hiccups. Praise for preceptors. Finding the medical zebras. And choosing life over all your li...

Extraordinary Stories: Baptized in blood, and here's another chart. Welcome to the E.R. from 2018-03-21T15:55:11

Extraordinary Stories: Baptized in blood, and here's another chart. Welcome to the E.R. Dr. Zahir Basrai, an emergency room physician, shares a story from his residency days and how he was baptized...

Career Profile: Eileen Anderson, RN, CCRN Alumnus, Reiki Master Practitioner from 2018-03-18T17:49:02

Career Profile: Eileen Anderson, RN, CCRN, Reiki Practitioner “It gave me a good career. It gave me a good life.”

39 years of nursing later, Eileen reflects on decades of hospital work, performi...

Trending Topics: Silent No More, the origin story with Angela Simpson from 2018-01-31T21:29:23

“I can really harness this energy and use it for good.”  Spotlight on Angela Simpson, national director and founder of the Silent No More Foundation, and the origin story of #silentnomore  

Best Stories 2017: Making a difference from 2017-12-31T17:00:08

SHOW NOTES

Best Stories 2017 – “Making a difference” version

Opening an innovative hospital unit. Speaking at the Smithsonian....

Best Stories 2017: All the feels from 2017-12-31T16:47:29

SHOW NOTES

Best Stories 2017 – “All the feels” version

Life alt...

Episode 12 - Violence in the Workplace: "I'm sorry, we don't do brain transplants." from 2017-10-13T18:02:46

Episode 12 - Violence in the Workplace: "I'm sorry, we don't do brain transplants." Wanting the impossible, balancing customer service with safe patient care, and worrying about how you'll clock ou...

Episode 11: "There are no boundaries to the human condition." A personal history in nursing - Linda Sorensen, RN from 2017-09-03T05:42

Episode 11: "There are no boundaries to the human condition." A personal history in nursing - Linda Sorensen, RN

Patient names have been "bleeped" in order to protect patient privacy in a...

Episode 10: Happy 1st Birthday Head-to-Toe! - Hearing Myself Talk Vol. 2 from 2017-05-02T01:29:59

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Episode 9: A Personal History in Big Pharma - Jean Masonek, RN, retired Drug Safety Officer from 2017-04-24T03:16:29

Drugs, FDA, and “Viagra the Musical” – rare diseases and Googling, Big Pharma, FDA, and much more. I learned so very much from Jean Masonek. If you give drugs, take drugs, prepare or prescribe d...

Episode 8: "I would do it all again, I wouldn't change a thing" - Pat Petersen, retired nurse from 2017-02-19T01:31:54

Interview with 86-year-old Pat Petersen, lifelong Oregonian and retired registered nurse. She talks to me about her schooling, working while having a family, leading support groups for caregiver...

Episode 7: "God is here, give him your chair"& other memories from retired nurse Beth Reid from 2017-02-08T22:54:27

Beth Reid has more than 40 years of nursing history to speak from. Graduating from school in 1954 and retiring from the profession in 1995 - she gives us a glimpse into decades of change and per...

Episode 6: Best Stories 2016 from 2016-12-31T19:47:29

Peanut butter sandwiches, hospital pillows, baseball, and knowing it’s worth it. Best stories from 2016 from four exceptional healthcare workers. 

Episode 5: Alzheimer's = worse than Ebola. Fun at the OHCA Convention& Trade Show! from 2016-09-22T22:16:16

Fun times at the OHCA Convention & Trade Show at the Portland Convention Center on Monday September 20th, 2016! I interviewed two willing individuals - Kurt, an enthusiastic attendee, and Christy T...

Episode 4: Hearing Myself Talk from 2016-09-08T21:32:52

Guest-less, Marie divulges some of her own memorable workplace stories and discuss recent healthcare news in the fourth installment episode of "Head-to-Toe."  Check out Oregon Center for Nursing  American Nurses Association Code of Ethics  from 2016-05-27T02:13:05

Spoiler alert: I am NOT an expert audio technician. There's some bumps, but this episode is so worth listening to: “Nursing is such an all pervasive thing when you’re there, you’re just—you’re doin...

Episode 1 "Camp nursing is awesome" Marianne Rudd, RN from 2016-04-14T18:14:25

Episode 1 – “Camp nursing is awesome” I interview Marianne Rudd, registered nurse with 36 years of experience. We discuss her broad experience in home health and camp nursing, ...

An Introduction to Head-to-Toe from 2016-04-13T22:57:31

A series of interviews with experienced medical professionals--illuminating healthcare's history while projecting a light on its future. A project by Marie MacMillan (a registered nurse with a writ...