Nurse Rosa's INsights

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
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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

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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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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.

In this episode you will learn why untreated hearing loss is linked to dementia and cognitive decline, how the ear-brain connection affects memory and longevity, what is driving the stigma around hearing aids and how that stigma is shifting, which innovations are expanding access to hearing care, and why early detection and treatment change long-term outcomes.

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levinehearing.com

on Instagram at @levinehearing and @madisonlistens, and on LinkedIn.

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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 editing and AI, KiraGen is engineering immune cells that can finally hear through the suppressive environment solid tumors create, and fight back.

In this episode, Aaron and Rosa talk about the journey from a small Kentucky town to the frontier of CAR-T cell therapy, what glioblastoma patients and their families need to know right now, and why the future of cancer treatment should show up in your community clinic, not just at elite academic centers.

In this episode:

Why CAR-T therapy transforms blood cancers but has largely failed solid tumors until now

The "noise-cancelling" science behind KiraGen's approach to glioblastoma

Aaron's concept of "Ms. Frizzles," the teachers and mentors who invest in potential before the outcome is certain

What an off-the-shelf cell therapy library could mean for everyday cancer patients

Why $250 million dedicated to pediatric brain tumors could accelerate progress by years

Connect with Aaron:

Website: kiragenbio.com

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