Nurse Rosa's INsights

Hear from orthopedic hand surgeon, best-selling author, and social media educator Dr. Erin Nance to unpack misdiagnosis, medical mysteries, and the app she built to close the gap between patients and doctors: Takeaway MD.

From a viral glomus tumor story to the diagnostic blind spots around Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and MCAS, this episode is a masterclass in why "rare" doesn't always mean rare, it often just means rarely diagnosed.

Dr. Nance also opens up about medical gaslighting, fake accounts impersonating her online, and her billion-dollar vision for peer-to-peer patient support through Takeaway Connect.

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@littlemissdiagnosed

Instagram: @doctorerinnance

Book: Little Miss Diagnosed

Website: takeawaymd.com (for the Takeaway Connect membership wait list)

Nurse Rosa's INsights is a nurse-led healthcare leadership and innovation podcast hosted by Rosa Hart, RN.

We explore nursing leadership, healthcare policy, primary care challenges, AI in healthcare, clinical practice transformation, and bold solutions from clinicians, founders, and thought leaders.

Subscribe for weekly episodes featuring evidence-based insights, expert interviews, and actionable strategies designed for nurses, healthcare professionals, system leaders, and advocates.

What does a critical care nurse have to offer the space industry? A lot more than you might think.

In this episode of Nurse Rosa's INsights, Rosa Hart sits down with Christine Rincon, a critical care nurse and space medicine expert, to explore a career frontier most nurses don't even know exists. Christine shares her journey from the ICU to space health, and makes the case that nurses already belong in aerospace medicine; in fact, some are already there.

Together they dig into how microgravity changes the human body, from blood volume to muscle mass, and why those profound physiological shifts create a real need for nursing expertise on future missions.

Christine also draws a fascinating parallel between rural healthcare and space environments; both demand creative, resource-limited problem solving, and both stand to benefit from the same telehealth innovations.

The conversation gets candid about the state of commercial spaceflight, including outdated medical infrastructure and the regulatory gaps that come with a fast-moving industry. And for nurses wondering how to get involved right now, Christine offers concrete starting points, from conferences to industry connections to resources you can explore today.

Whether you're dreaming of space or just looking for proof that nursing skills translate far beyond the bedside, this episode will expand your sense of what's possible.

In this episode:

Why nurses already exist in space medicine roles, and why so few people know it

Christine's path from ICU nursing to space health

The future of burn care and medical innovation in space

How microgravity affects blood, muscles, and the body during reentry

Rural health as an analog for space environments

Telehealth solutions that serve both astronauts and underserved communities

Regulatory challenges facing commercial space flight

What space TV shows get right (and wrong) about medicine

How space industry thinking could help fix terrestrial healthcare

Practical steps for nurses who want to explore aerospace careers

Chapters
00:00 Introduction to Christine Rincon and her space medicine work
01:57 Nurses in space medicine roles and awareness
03:04 Future burn care and space medicine innovations
04:01 Christine's journey from ICU to space health
09:01 Rural health as an analog for space environments
10:51 Space medicine conferences and industry connections
17:02 Patient care in space: astronauts and habitat management
19:57 Physiological effects of microgravity and reentry
24:59 Realism in space TV shows and implications for medicine
26:56 Outdated medical infrastructure in commercial space flight
38:04 How nurses can explore aerospace careers today
43:03 Using space industry insights to fix terrestrial healthcare
49:56 Biggest healthcare challenges and innovative solutions
54:57 Resources for nurses interested in space medicine

Resources mentioned:
NASA's Five Hazards of Space Flight
NASA Standard 3001
Space Nurse Podcast
Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs

Connect with Christine Rincon

Nurse Rosa's INsights is a nurse-led healthcare leadership and innovation podcast hosted by Rosa Hart, RN.

We explore nursing leadership, healthcare policy, primary care challenges, AI in healthcare, clinical practice transformation, and bold solutions from clinicians, founders, and thought leaders.

Subscribe for weekly episodes featuring evidence-based insights, expert interviews, and actionable strategies designed for nurses, healthcare professionals, system leaders, and advocates.

Topics include:
• Primary care system reform
• AI in nursing & health tech
• Clinical innovation & patient outcomes
• Workforce sustainability & nursing leadership
• Healthcare communication & advocacy

Listen on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts & all major platforms.

Heart disease is still the #1 killer, in a world where your watch monitors your heart 24/7. Something isn't adding up.

In this episode, Nurse Rosa sits down with Dr. Aline Pedroso, Assistant Research Scientist at Yale School of Medicine, to explore the gap between what's possible in healthcare and what patients actually experience.

Originally trained in Brazil, where she completed her master's and PhD in cardiovascular disease prevention, Dr. Pedroso now works at the intersection of cardiovascular data science, artificial intelligence, digital health, and wearable technology.

Together they dig into how AI, wearables, and patient-generated data can catch cardiovascular disease earlier, sharpen treatment decisions, and make care more proactive; and why none of that matters unless these tools are rigorously tested and built to serve diverse populations rather than widen existing disparities.

In this episode:

- Why patients are still diagnosed too late in an era of abundant health data

- How wearables and EHR data can move care from reactive to proactive

- What it takes to translate innovative tools into solutions patients and clinicians will actually use

- The equity question: making sure AI helps close gaps in care instead of deepening them

- Dr. Pedroso's vision for an equitable, learning health system, from interoperable data infrastructure to large-scale, real-world studies of AI and digital health tools

Connect with Dr. Aline Pedroso on LinkedIN

Nurse Rosa's INsights is a nurse-led healthcare leadership and innovation podcast hosted by Rosa Hart, BSN, RN, SCRN. Each episode features evidence-based insights, expert interviews, and actionable strategies for nurses, healthcare professionals, system leaders, and advocates.

Topics covered include AI in nursing and health tech, clinical innovation, workforce sustainability, nursing leadership, healthcare policy, and the future of patient care.

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What if new nurses could build gut instinct in months instead of years? Ryan Schmaltz, CEO and co-founder of PatientReady, joins Nurse Rosa to explore how AI-powered simulation is transforming clinical education and tackling the global nursing workforce shortage.

Ryan spent two decades in emerging tech, from Uber's global expansion to immersive VR and AR, before turning his focus to healthcare's most urgent problem: preparing clinicians for high-stakes decisions at scale. In this conversation, he and Rosa dig into AI patient simulations, the pandemic-era experience gap, nurse skepticism about AI, the faculty shortage, and the one thing technology can never replace: the human connection at the bedside.

Rosa even shares her own experience talking with "Lauren," PatientReady's AI patient, and asks Ryan her signature question: how would you invest $1 billion in healthcare? His answer might surprise you.

In this episode:

Why nurse gut instinct takes 5 years to feel and 10 to 12 years to trust

How pandemic-era graduates missed critical clinical reps, and what that means now

The AI debrief feature dividing nursing professors

How faculty are using AI to cut scenario writing from weeks to days

Why augmentation, not replacement, is the future of simulation labs

Timestamps
0:00 – Introduction: Meet Ryan Schmaltz and PatientReady
1:11 – What is the global nursing workforce crisis?
4:57 – Ryan's backstory: From Uber and immersive entertainment to healthcare
9:16 – The VR "rocking chair" moment: What is spatial computing actually good for?
15:05 – Meeting Dr. Leslie Battle and discovering the scale of the nursing shortage
22:55 – How PatientReady was born out of a university collaboration
27:48 – "Peanut butter and chocolate": Merging storytelling with clinical education
33:56 – Rosa's experience with "Lauren," PatientReady's AI patient
40:00 – The power of post-simulation feedback and emotional memory
45:23 – What is nurse gut instinct, and how long does it really take to develop?
47:31 – Ryan's global research: 5 years to feel it, 10–12 years to trust it
50:31 – Rosa's insight: The bedside experience gap from pre-COVID to today
56:27 – Pandemic-era nursing graduates and the missing clinical reps
1:07:03 – Nurses and AI: Addressing fear, skepticism, and job replacement concerns
1:14:00 – A conversation with chief nursing officers about AI policy
1:20:09 – What AI cannot replace: The human nurse-patient connection
1:23:25 – Why there aren't enough nursing instructors (and who's not taking those jobs)
1:28:09 – The cognitive load risk of AI taking over routine nursing tasks
1:30:53 – How simulation labs use PatientReady as augmentation, not replacement
1:23:53 – New grad nurse in a headset: What the experience actually looks like
1:35:12 – Pre-briefing, objectives, and NCLEX-aligned competency assessments
1:39:12 – AI debrief: The controversial feature that's dividing nursing professors
1:46:28 – Custom scenario design: How professors write their own simulations with AI
1:49:48 – Overcoming writer's block with AI: From weeks to days for scenario creation
1:53:27 – The billion-dollar question: How would Ryan invest $1B in healthcare?
1:55:28 – Ryan's honest answer: Nurses need a raise
1:55:56 – Role shifts in healthcare: EMS, NPs, PAs, and AI prescribing
2:09:49 – The origin of Rosa's $1 billion question (from the See You Now podcast)
2:14:48 – What Rosa finds consistently across every health system visited
2:23:10 – Where to learn more about PatientReady
2:30:44 – PatientReady ranked #5 Most Innovative Education Company by Fast Company
2:37:33 – How to connect with Ryan (LinkedIn & email)
2:39:10 – Closing thoughts and listener call to action

Links & Resources

PatientReady: getpatientready.com

Email Ryan: ryan@patientready.net

Connect on LinkedIn

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In this episode, host Rosa Hart sits down with nursing thought leader, keynote speaker, and bestselling author Sara Fung to talk candidly about the realities of nursing career transitions - from the bedside to remote roles and everything in between.

What we cover:

What networking actually is (and what it isn't) — and why nurses are already great at it

Why LinkedIn is not just for job seekers, and how to build your presence before you need it

The truth about remote nursing: what nurses assume vs. what it actually looks like

How to pivot into non-bedside roles and own your transferable skills

The "real nurse" identity trap and the mindset shift needed to move past it

Applicant tracking systems (ATS) — what they are and how to avoid resume formatting mistakes

AI in nursing: what's changing, what's not, and how to stay ahead

The "golden handcuffs" dilemma and how to decide when it's time to move on

Sara's billion-dollar proposal: better nurse-to-patient ratios and redefining full-time work for nurses

Resources mentioned:

Sara Fung on LinkedIn: Sara Fung (no H)

Sara's website: sarafung.com

Resume help: https://www.thernresume.com/

NurseFern (Emma) on LinkedIn

AI + Nursing Academy by Steven Ferreira

American Board of AI in Medicine (ABAIM) — free Wednesday office hours & WhatsApp group

Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs

Timestamps:

0:00 – Introduction & Sara's background

1:51 – Sara's career coaching work: bedside, remote & everything in between

3:21 – What networking actually is (and what it isn't)

4:56 – LinkedIn: not just for job seekers

13:37 – AI automation and nursing: which roles are most at risk?

15:02 – Remote work realities: what nurses assume vs. what it actually looks like

16:29 – Alternatives to the bedside: public health, pharma, med devices & more

20:41 – The "real nurse" identity trap & how to get past it

23:08 – Applying for jobs you're not fully qualified for — a gender gap conversation

25:38 – Salary transparency & Gen Z's job search expectations

27:01 – What nursing schools should be teaching but aren't

30:15 – Applicant tracking systems (ATS) explained

33:38 – Trends in remote nursing & what's not getting enough attention

36:29 – Sara's billion-dollar idea: nurse-to-patient ratios + redefining full-time

43:43 – Where to find Sara & closing thoughts

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