Nurse Rosa's INsights

Meet Angie Cauthorne, 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 like line dancing, plus quarterly Science of Aphasia sessions. Angie also discusses creating an Aphasia Fantasy Football League to reduce isolation through shared interests. Both explore scaling these models and answer a “$1B grant” question, emphasizing standardized post-discharge navigation, community access, survivor-centered research, early stroke recognition, improved EMS, vocational rehab awareness, and the non-linear reality of stroke recovery.

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 "food allergy tax," and makes the case for free, universal access to epinephrine.

The conversation also touches on the power of documentary film and graphic content in health education, and how everyday people can move from awareness to action, locally and at the federal level.

In This Episode:

Zoë's background in healthcare claims and subrogation

Childhood vs. adult-onset food allergies

Coping strategies and lifestyle adjustments

Recent research breakthroughs in allergy prevention

Her book Invisibly Allergic and its advocacy mission

The "food allergy tax" and the "pink tax" on allergen-friendly products

Using documentary film and storytelling to shift public perception

How to get involved in allergy advocacy, from local meetups to Capitol Hill

Resources Mentioned:


Invisibly Allergic by Zoë Slaughter (Amazon)

invisiblyallergic.com


May Contain My Life documentary

congress.gov

Connect with Zoë: Instagram @invisiblyallergic

Nurse Rosa's INsights is a nurse-led healthcare leadership and innovation podcast hosted by Rosa Hart, RN, available on the Health Podcast Library, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all major platforms.

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 as a Service model is shifting the burden of implementation away from health systems so they can focus on what matters most.

In this episode:

Why interoperability remains healthcare's most foundational unsolved challenge

How fragmented data contributes to clinician burnout and care gaps

What vendor-agnostic interoperability means and why health systems need it

How CliniComp's System as a Service model removes the implementation burden from clinical teams

Why workflow integration is the real key to making data meaningful at the point of care

Guest: Sandra Johnson, CDH-E, SVP of Client Services, CliniComp
🔗 linkedin.com/in/sandra-johnson-cdh-e-a96b9a

CliniComp: clinicomp.com

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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 changed everything, a contaminated splash to the face on a colorectal postoperative unit, and how it sparked the creation of Looey, a transparent shield that attaches to standard bedpan washers to contain biohazards and protect caregivers.

This episode covers nurse entrepreneurship, nurse-led innovation, healthcare worker safety, infection control, and why nursing ideas are the future of medical device development.

Topics covered:

Nurse-invented medical devices and nurse entrepreneurship

Occupational health and healthcare worker safety

Infection control and biohazard exposure prevention

Ostomy care and colorectal nursing

Bedpan washer safety and splash-back prevention

Nursing leadership and clinical innovation

Mental health gaps in nursing education and patient care

From bedside nurse to CEO: the nurse founder journey

Connect with Sarah Waimon:

Website: www.stopthesplash.com

Instagram: @stop_the_splash

LinkedIn

Pre-order Looey: [email protected]

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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 a morale problem, and what nurses and leaders can do right now to change the culture on their unit.

In this episode:

Why subtle, normalized workplace behaviors are more dangerous than the dramatic blowups

The founding story of the Healthy Workforce Institute

How the Healthy Workforce Framework gives organizations a real path forward

The direct connection between disrespect, staff turnover, and patient outcomes

How AI is expanding the reach of culture change in healthcare

Connect with Renee:
Website: healthyworkforceinstitute.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rtconnections
Facebook: facebook.com/HealthyWorkforceInstitute

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