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Uplift: Provides financial, emotional and career support for healthcare workers. · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's get this show rolling. My guest is a dynamic
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  Speaker 1: advocate for healthcare professionals, entrepreneur and founder of Help for
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  Speaker 1: Healthcare Professionals HHCP. She recognizes the immense pressures faced by nurses, doctors,
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  Speaker 1: and frontline staff. H HCP offers tailor resources, financial literacy programs,
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  Speaker 1: and career guidance to help healthcare professionals regain control of
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  Speaker 1: their lives. Please welcome the Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Shelley
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  Speaker 1: Ann McKenzie. How you doing, Miss mackenzie.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Rashan, thanks for housing me. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Should I call you Nurse mackenzie? That sounds like you.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds like somebody on TV. Nose McKenzie.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I go by Shelley.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now this is Shelley Anne. Now are you Shelley
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  Speaker 1: or Shelley An? I say I'm Shelley Okay, cool. You know,
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  Speaker 1: because Shelley Anne's country. You know that's country. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you Some'm Shelley Anne or Shelley. I hear a
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  Speaker 1: little accent there, my friend. Can you give me a
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  Speaker 1: background on that accent because it is distinctive when you
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  Speaker 1: communicate that. Say, this is a bad thing. But where
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  Speaker 1: are you from? Originally born and raised?
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  Speaker 2: I am. I originally hail from the island of Jamaica,
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  Speaker 2: island of all.
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  Speaker 1: Islands of Jamaica. Now the next question is, because this
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  Speaker 1: accent is very distinct, when did you come over to America?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I came from America when I was twelve years old,
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  Speaker 2: and I went straight to New York.
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  Speaker 1: New York. And you still have this very beautiful accent.
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  Speaker 1: You just won't give it up? Are you are? Like
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  Speaker 1: you know, some people they are you know, like you
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  Speaker 1: know you're an English actor. When they act, they can
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  Speaker 1: talk real clear English. But then when you interview, like uh,
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  Speaker 1: interests elbows like that, you know, he always blows me away.
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  Speaker 2: Where you go?
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  Speaker 1: What the brother that? The brother I saw on a
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  Speaker 1: wire and the brother I saw wire? Where you come from?
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  Speaker 1: And so so now you're not putting on a Jamaican front?
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  Speaker 1: Are you right here?
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  Speaker 2: Are you not? Not? At this time? Good?
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  Speaker 1: I just want to have fun with yourn. My wife she's
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  Speaker 1: from the Island area, belife down there and belief in
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  Speaker 1: so it's America. So oh yeah, you know she she
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  Speaker 1: brags about it all the time every time she sees
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  Speaker 1: the commercial. I told you, tells you and h and
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  Speaker 1: so it's really good. But did the nursing profession. I
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  Speaker 1: have a sister in law season in the nursing profession,
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  Speaker 1: and so tell us about the pressure of being a nurse,
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  Speaker 1: because sometimes we take you guys for granted. You come
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  Speaker 1: in and we look at the doctor in a certain way,
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  Speaker 1: and we look at the nurse in a certain way,
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  Speaker 1: and then you have somebody called a nurse practitioner, which
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  Speaker 1: is kind of like a new role. If you got time,
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  Speaker 1: doctor don't have time for you, you can see the nurse practitioner.
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  Speaker 1: So tell us the difference between a nurse, a nurse practitioner,
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  Speaker 1: and then the doctor.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So there are different levels, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: and there are a number of roles that make up
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  Speaker 2: the healthcare ecosystem. Right, So I am a registered nurse batrade.
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  Speaker 2: So registered nursing nurses can have an associate's degree or
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  Speaker 2: a bachelor's degree, or you can even have LPNs, right,
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  Speaker 2: so that's a licensed life professional nurse. So you have
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  Speaker 2: LPNs and you have RNs. But then on the master's level,
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  Speaker 2: so that's a second degree. So on the master's level
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  Speaker 2: you have your advanced practice nurses. Nurses that hold a
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  Speaker 2: master's degree. The master's degree can be as a nurse practitioner.
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  Speaker 2: You can have my master's. I have a dual master's
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  Speaker 2: in nursing administration and informatics for that software and system design.
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  Speaker 2: You can have a nurse educator, you could have forensic nursing.
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  Speaker 2: So there are a number of different master's level master's
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  Speaker 2: level role you can hold with you know, on the
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  Speaker 2: same level with a nurse practitioner, including clinical nurse specialists, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And then you also have a terminal degree as with
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  Speaker 2: every career, you have a terminal degree in nurse and
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  Speaker 2: so that's where you end appearing that some nurses might
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  Speaker 2: have their doctorate, so they have a Doctorate of Nursing
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  Speaker 2: practice degree or a PhD in nursing, So that's essentially
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  Speaker 2: just a terminal degree for that nurses can hold. You
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  Speaker 2: can have a doctorate in business administration, you still call
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  Speaker 2: the doctor, right, But then a physician is a medical doctor, right,
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  Speaker 2: So that's your traditional medical doctor that specializes in diagnoses
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  Speaker 2: and treatment, okay. And the nurse practitioners are trained as
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  Speaker 2: well to be able to provide quality keyer along those
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  Speaker 2: same lines as providers and often function as an extension
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  Speaker 2: of the provider as you previously mentioned. So there are
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  Speaker 2: lots of opportunities to leverage nurse practitioners in different different settings,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's in the clinic or in rural So there
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  Speaker 2: are lots of opportunities to leverage nurse practitioners to be
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  Speaker 2: an extension. Why because nursing is the largest health profession
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  Speaker 2: there is globally.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you this, Shelly. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I have to look at a nurse from a different perspective.
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  Speaker 1: You threw up bout twelve titles set, and I've always
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  Speaker 1: I just loved everybody who came in my room nurse, nurse,
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  Speaker 1: and that's really kind of disrespectful. So I got to
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  Speaker 1: pull back. Now, how can I be more respectful to
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  Speaker 1: the nurse who comes in my room other than because
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  Speaker 1: because each one brings a certain amount of knowledge, and
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  Speaker 1: also each one has a title that amount of wherever,
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  Speaker 1: Why isn't that distinguished a lot more? Because I do
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  Speaker 1: know about the nurse, which right now I've realized is
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  Speaker 1: like a dozen different nurses, and then I know about
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  Speaker 1: the nurse practitioner by about fifty. So you even up
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  Speaker 1: the ma I got a math degree, so you just
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  Speaker 1: blew me out the water. So why is it?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 1: Can I say that the nurse position is not respected?
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  Speaker 1: Am I saying? Am I saying the wrong things? Because
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  Speaker 1: of the fact that you say there are fifty different
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  Speaker 1: positions that you can call nurse, But the salaries and
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  Speaker 1: the respect for the roles that y'all play, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's being underserved at least through this interview based on
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  Speaker 1: the information you're giving me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I wouldn't say we're one hundred percent disrespective
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  Speaker 2: because there are a number of us in the nursing
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  Speaker 2: profession that are held in extremely high esteems. There are
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  Speaker 2: some some things that we advocate for that that's one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that advocacy is not middle name, but
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  Speaker 2: there's some things we want to be seen as quality
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  Speaker 2: care providers, right right, So that's one of the that's
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  Speaker 2: every now and again it can be interpreted as a
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  Speaker 2: low disrespect. Why because we want to be able to
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  Speaker 2: practice to the highest level of what we were trained
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  Speaker 2: to do, right, to be able to provide access to
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  Speaker 2: care for so that Georgians and and just the people
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  Speaker 2: that live in our communities can have better access to healthcare.
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  Speaker 2: So at times there can be some disrespect there, but
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  Speaker 2: we just want to make sure that we're working together
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  Speaker 2: because as part of the interdisciplinary team, we all have
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  Speaker 2: our roles to play and there's no need to you know,
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  Speaker 2: put up barriers and roadblocks the kere if we can
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  Speaker 2: help as nurses, if that makes sense. Well, just like
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned, there are different levels of nurses. So one
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  Speaker 2: of the things you said initially was how can you
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  Speaker 2: put more respect on it? It really just depends on
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  Speaker 2: the setting that you're in, right, right, So if you're
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  Speaker 2: in a clinic and you might have a medical assistant
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  Speaker 2: you as part of the team. You may have a
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  Speaker 2: medical assistant, a registered nurse, and you might have a
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  Speaker 2: nurse practitioner. So just just be respectful and kind. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it really just depends on the setting that you're in,
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  Speaker 2: is what i'd say. Because in the hospitals, as we know,
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  Speaker 2: the nurses provide more care time on the midside than
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  Speaker 2: do any other health profession. But we work collaboratively as
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  Speaker 2: an interdisciplinary team to here for the patients and you know,
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  Speaker 2: try to keep the story straight and make sure the
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  Speaker 2: communication is there so that you're in going on with
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  Speaker 2: your here and you know, we can streamline some things.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, nurse, I'm gonna tell you,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta see you now, you got me. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: respect you now. So I'm sorry, I'm sir, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta call your nurse mackenzie now, okay, Nurse McKenzie.
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  Speaker 1: When we talk about is there a shortage of nurses?
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  Speaker 1: Because I've always heard that rumor that there's a shortage
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  Speaker 1: of nurse in the trafficer. Why is there a shortage
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  Speaker 1: of nurses? Isn't it a well paid job?
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  Speaker 2: Well, again, it depends on the setting that you're working.
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  Speaker 2: The hospitals play different from nursing homes. Nursing homes pay
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  Speaker 2: different from clinics. If you're an academia and you're a
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  Speaker 2: professor in an institution, that pays a different salary as well.
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  Speaker 2: But there's a shortage of nurses because as people get older, right, so,
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  Speaker 2: there are people leaving the profession, and we don't have
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  Speaker 2: enough younger of the younger generation trained and skilled to
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  Speaker 2: essentially take over. It's a high stress job. We work
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  Speaker 2: extremely long hour this high level of burnout and turnover
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  Speaker 2: and so many things that come with it. So it
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  Speaker 2: is a challenge and it remains a challenge. If we
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  Speaker 2: don't have enough professors in nursing in academia to train
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  Speaker 2: the students, then you have to put a cap on
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  Speaker 2: how many nursing students you can accept, right So it's
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  Speaker 2: pretty cyclical. So we want to make sure that we're
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  Speaker 2: doing everything we can, not just as individuals, but as
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  Speaker 2: a community to be able to sustain that healthcare workforce. Pipeline.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Nurse McKenzie, Now you said, hi, burnout rate, you
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  Speaker 1: say physically challenge, you said it stress. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: figure out how brought you to hype up nurses and that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you got to start hyping up the nurse the nurse
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  Speaker 1: program over here, go ahead, because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm playing with you as well as gaining information.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the fact that I have a sister law
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  Speaker 1: I've seen this, I've seen her. You know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people come into hospitals who are overweight. You have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with that. You know a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are physically challenging when they're coming. You got to deal
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  Speaker 1: with that as a nurse, moving bodies that you aren't
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  Speaker 1: capable of moving, that you have to move with certain times,
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  Speaker 1: and people who are bedridden, and then building dealing with
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  Speaker 1: honorary patients and things like that. What attracted you to
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  Speaker 1: the nursing business, Well, I.
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  Speaker 2: Was volunteld to try nursing. I was a pre farm
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  Speaker 2: major previously, so I actually wanted to become a pharmacologist.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to make the drugs, and you know, when
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  Speaker 2: that didn't work out, those early morning classes and those
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  Speaker 2: organic chemistry. My mom said, don't feel bad.
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  Speaker 1: Don't feel bad. Physics stopped me from being an engineer.
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  Speaker 1: So to understand, we have a club. Something turned us
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  Speaker 1: a way, and guess what, we're still successful, all right,
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  Speaker 1: don't feel bad, speak to worth.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, I definitely don't feel bad because it
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  Speaker 2: was shows before me. So I was in and I've
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  Speaker 2: tried it, and I think for me, the most rewarding
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  Speaker 2: part of nursing has always been the privilege for showing
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  Speaker 2: up for people in their most vulnerable moment. Right It's
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  Speaker 2: like on the scared when they're hurting, when they're unsure
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  Speaker 2: of what's going on, and being able to be that
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  Speaker 2: translator for what does the doctor just say? Did he
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  Speaker 2: just did he just tell me I have so and so?
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  Speaker 2: That type of thing, and just being the steady voice
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  Speaker 2: of hope, and being there to advocate for the patients,
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  Speaker 2: you know, even when they didn't even know that they
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  Speaker 2: needed an advocate. Right. So it's all about humanity and
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  Speaker 2: the human connection. So even though it's a high stress job,
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  Speaker 2: it's extremely rewarded. I knew where you would go with that,
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  Speaker 2: but it's extremely rewarding and I can't see myself doing
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  Speaker 2: anything else. So I'm here to help champion and continue
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  Speaker 2: to enhance our career, our profession. My ENIMI is necessary.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this. I spent thirty days in
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  Speaker 1: the hospital in Los Angeles, nineteen ninety thirty days. So
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  Speaker 1: when I talk about the hospital experience, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: spend telling everybody. When you spend thirty days in the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: you start making up your own hospital food, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because they bring it and you start mixing up. So
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  Speaker 1: now can you give me the apple sauce with the
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  Speaker 1: strawberry ice? You can you mix that up?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: When you spend thirty days.
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  Speaker 2: In the house, you know, telling the truth, you really can.
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  Speaker 2: You start to concoct somethings right.
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  Speaker 1: And I would tell you from a nurse perspective, you know, people,
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  Speaker 1: people need to understand there's a journey in the process
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  Speaker 1: of fear when you walk in, when you go in
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  Speaker 1: the hospital, there's the fear is attached to that because
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants to be in the hospital. No I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: nobody saying, you know, I'm volunteered to go in the hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody does that. And so the person that I always
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  Speaker 1: felt relaxed, always felt championed me. Always felt were more
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  Speaker 1: of a straight shooter in their way. They could straight shoot.
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  Speaker 1: What's the nurse? Now? The doctor come through that door?
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  Speaker 1: I said, okay, what you about to say? Brother? Come
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  Speaker 1: on now?
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  Speaker 2: What you what?
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  Speaker 1: What news you about to tell me?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Because I stayed in Osford thirty days, so you
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  Speaker 1: stay in Ostford thirty days. You know that doctor came
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  Speaker 1: through that door with a lot of stuff I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to hear. Oh, we wanted to keep you a
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  Speaker 1: couple of but the nurse. The nurse kept me up
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  Speaker 1: and kept me motivated, kept the right medicine, looked at
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  Speaker 1: my charge, making sure that I was there. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: a big advocate of it. And when I had an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to bring because you're the I've had nurses on
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  Speaker 1: my should today, but none like you. Because you're an
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  Speaker 1: advocate and you put together an organization that the health
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  Speaker 1: for Healthcare Professionals. Why was it important to put together
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  Speaker 1: the HHCP.
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  Speaker 2: Well, simply put, I thought that no one else was
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  Speaker 2: coming to save us. So during COVID and knowing that
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  Speaker 2: I've lived the burnout, I've walked in their shoes, I've
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  Speaker 2: had the mental strain, and I've watched I was literally
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  Speaker 2: watching the healthcare system crumble in real time. But I
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  Speaker 2: also saw it as an opportunity to be able to
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  Speaker 2: create some type of intentional program to care for the
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  Speaker 2: healthcare workforce.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a huge feat. But when I started, I
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  Speaker 2: simply wanted to just mobilize people and the community to
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  Speaker 2: help the healthcare workforce because working in the healthcare workforce
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  Speaker 2: for probably almost two decades at that point, we didn't
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  Speaker 2: get anything like the benefits, right. It just depends on
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  Speaker 2: again the setting that you work in and so on.
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  Speaker 2: But we didn't really qualify. We didn't qualify for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of stuff. So there are about forty percent of
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  Speaker 2: healthcare professionals that twenty four percent of healthcare professionals that
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  Speaker 2: live in poverty and they struggle from day to day
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  Speaker 2: making ends meet. You also have registered nurses that things
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  Speaker 2: happen right life life, You know how the kids say
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  Speaker 2: life be lifing and they struggle with different things. So
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  Speaker 2: I just had the opportunity to be able to create
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  Speaker 2: the nonprofit to not just react to crisis, but design
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  Speaker 2: a revenue generating program that could solve a more systemic problem.
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  Speaker 2: So these aren't just charity cases. It's a business imperative
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  Speaker 2: when you look at things like workforce shortage, mental health
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  Speaker 2: and equity.
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  Speaker 1: My guess is a dynamic advocate for healthcare professionals Let's
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  Speaker 1: be real entrepreneurs. She's founded a health for Healthcare Professional
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  Speaker 1: organization because she recognizes the immense pressures faced by nurses, doctors,
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  Speaker 1: and frontline staff HHCP, which offers tailor resources, financial literacy programs,
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  Speaker 1: and career guidance to help healthcare professional regain control of
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  Speaker 1: their lives. Right there, when you say regain control of
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  Speaker 1: their lives, helped me understand the overall culture that that
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  Speaker 1: allows you to make a statement like that in that profession.
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  Speaker 1: Because you mentioned the nurses, doctors and frontline staffs, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: the stress and the burnout so high that they lose
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  Speaker 1: control of their lives. Please explain tomorrow. This is what
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  Speaker 1: you're talking.
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  Speaker 2: About, all right, So there are a number of different
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  Speaker 2: things we do to be able to provide comprehensives support
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  Speaker 2: to healthcare professionals. So when you have that mental wellness aspect,
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  Speaker 2: or you know, you might feel down or depressed, different
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  Speaker 2: things like that, we have a referral program where we
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  Speaker 2: could get you the mental health help that you need.
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  Speaker 2: If you have someone that passed away and you've you know,
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  Speaker 2: facing some hardships financially and so on, we provide grocery
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  Speaker 2: gift cards, reprovide gas and different things like that to
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  Speaker 2: help support you while you're facing your hardship. So I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you can't be insurance, just different things, and we call
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  Speaker 2: you to screen you and we're able to provide some
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  Speaker 2: help in that arena. But under our education programs, what
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  Speaker 2: we're able to do is provide professional development opportunities as well.
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  Speaker 2: You may have practicing healthcare professionals that aspire to become entreprenurs,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't know the first step on how to
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  Speaker 2: do it. So what do we do. We come out
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  Speaker 2: and we provide training and workshops and a series of trainings.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: If necessary, we can customize something and then we're able
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  Speaker 2: to provide that training for those particular healthcare professionals to
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: be able to become entrepreneurs and understand the nuances and
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: how things are different. And I've been there right clinical. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just a nurse. I'm not a business person, you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: initially is what I used to say, because I'm trained clinically.
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  Speaker 2: But then how do you look for opportunities where you
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  Speaker 2: can learn and then become both, right, so that you
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  Speaker 2: can be successful in your career. So are some of
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  Speaker 2: the things that we do to be able to provide
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: support to healthcare professionals, including scholarships, providing internship opportunities for
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: aspiring healthcare professionals and first responders. Nurse.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, So do you base Atlanta correctly? Yes, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Now do you obviously funds are needed based on what
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  Speaker 1: you just said, gift cards and services and educational platform.
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  Speaker 1: How do you raise money?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we are federal grant recipient, so we are registered
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  Speaker 2: five O one see three nurse owned nonprofits and we
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: receive federal grants. So a primary source of funding, either
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: grants or individual donations. So we've been around for April
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  Speaker 2: first is actually our fifteen year as impact in this
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  Speaker 2: state that we're placed to continue to grow up programs.
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  Speaker 2: But federal to answer your question, federal grants and individual donations.
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  Speaker 1: So you have any programs like any award show or
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  Speaker 1: any receptions or any galos that you throw annually that
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you can tell our audience about. And you know a
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: lot of people, you know, they're type people. They hold
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: on to that money. But if you tell them you
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: go get a free or supply it tied to a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: chicken dinner, they might show up. So are some dance
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: music or somebody singing? They might show up. So let's
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: talk about that because you know from Jamaica. And now
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I know you got it going on. Now see. I'll
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: just telling you something I'm getting going on for you.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Now see. Because we've been at this little level, I
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: gotta get up to that Bob Marley level with you
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: out there. Let everybody know and we want to take
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  Speaker 1: it all the way. We gotta know that because we
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: try to raise some money for you. We try to
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: get people to understand that you know, their nurses out
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: there walking through that door and pain. Sometimes sometimes they
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: might need to get in bad with you and you
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: get out the bed, and that a lot of people
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: don't know that. But the more importantly you have events
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: that are raising Monday their events out there, we hear that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the current administration is cutting back on all
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: kind of challenges, so you the grant you might have
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: in twenty four might not be available in twenty five
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: or twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: So that is a very true statement.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: So how can we help?
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: All right? So one of the first things that needs
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: you to do is donate and tell your friends to
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: donate and tell your neighbors to donate. We have to
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: piggyback on what you were saying. A night of grind
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  Speaker 2: and gratitude. It's our Charity Awards. It's a healthcare getting
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  Speaker 2: law that hosts annually and this year's theme is building
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  Speaker 2: the Pipeline for healthcare Future.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: So it's our most important night of the year because
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  Speaker 2: it's real purpose needs power, and we're calling on businesses,
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  Speaker 2: health care, tech, education, community leaders to invest in what
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  Speaker 2: really matters because every dollar that we raise fuels our
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: education programs, like our Youth Med program for youth ages
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  Speaker 2: thirteen to twenty that want to join the healthcare workforce.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: We have a Physician Pathway, Nursing and Allied health and
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: we even have a health tech academy that's set to
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: launch this year as well. And yeah, so donate, donate, donate,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: And it's just a strategic investment in the future of healthcare.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: But I like the fact that you are out there
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: seeking young people and educating them and then engaging them
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: in the process of saying this is a very viable
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: option for you to look at and move forward on.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: And because of the fact that when you have these
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  Speaker 1: events like that, they're important for us all to participate
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: because that nurse that might come to this event might
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  Speaker 1: be the nurse that saves your life or be a
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: part of your life saving process ten years from now,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: twenty years and now thirty years and that or it
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  Speaker 1: might be in a nursing home forty years from now
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: which you are going through a life crisis. So it's
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: really important. I've always looked at life, you know, as
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: you go old, that's a gift that you want to
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: have in your life, to grow older. I never run
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: from people tell me. I never hide my age because
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I figured, in order for me to do something in life,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: nurse begins, I gotta get older. So for me to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: sit up in trying to be frozen at twenty nine
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: or frozen at thirty nine. How am I gonna look
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: at somebody? Guys going look at it. There's a whole
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: lot of experience over here. But I'm only thirty nine,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: but you look older, mister McDonald's eah, keep that to yourself.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Just one more thing though, that youth med program,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: it's about youth opportunity for unpower training in healthcare, medicine,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: education and development. So we designed it as a literal
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: answer to that pipeline building. So when we designed it,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: we wanted to remove the barriers, not just by inspiring
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: the students to walk them through the industry. We provide
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: exposure in one on one experience with neurosurgeons and different
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: types of healthcare professionals, and provide transportation and workshops and
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: TPR certifications and just a bunch of different things. Because
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: our team is into disciplinary so healthcare future is broad.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: So this program is one hundred percent tuition free and
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: we like to keep it that way. So we're designing
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: it to be a year round program that we can
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: scale anywhere in the country. Applications are even open right now,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: so you could just go to our website Www. Dot
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  Speaker 2: help forhealthcare Professionals dot org and donate, buy a ticket,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: register for the program this year. And the gala is
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: just to raise fund so we could keep the programs
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent tuition free.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: And the day for the gall again is when.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: April five, twenty twenty five.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: All right, my friend, that's a Saturday. See boy, got
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  Speaker 1: them dates on lockdown. You know what I'm saying again,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you to date.
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  Speaker 2: Right Atlanta Mariot.
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  Speaker 1: Marquis just downtown.
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  Speaker 2: You better know it, not the Markey, the Atlanta Marriout
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  Speaker 2: north East right about em.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I know exactly what they're saying. Okay, you just got
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a straight out your brother to give them that bad information. People,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Marque's going.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Where's the where's the gala? Shot? Say it? All right?
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: So one more time on April five, twenty twenty five,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: join us for our Night of grim and Gratitude Charity
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  Speaker 2: Awards Healthcare Gala at Atlanta Marriout North East every area
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: at six am.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Loved, I appreciate you taking the time to come on
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the show, and please thank you for allowing me to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: be honest in my conversation now and you as a
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: nurse has been a blessing to me because I'm telling you,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: thirty days in the hospital you learn to respect nurses,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: doctors and people of all the medical profession because when
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I went in there, I did not expect to be
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: in there thirty days and they tried to check me
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: out two three times and they told me you got
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: to go back. And mister McDonald and I want to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: thank you for coming to my show and then educating
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: us about the life and your program and what you're doing.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Nurse mackenzie, stay safe and then come on my show
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: anytime because I know you're gonna be busy. You're gonna
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: be busy. I'm gonna need you in the summer time.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, we honor.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you. As we close out the show, remember
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: to always realize that I put this show together for you,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and putting the show together for you, it's it's really
• 26:38
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• 26:41
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• 26:45
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