439 - The Nursing Crisis With Nurse Alice
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Even before COVID-19, the US was facing a shortage of nurses which has now become a full blown crisis. Nurse Alice, Chief Nursing Officer at nurse.org and host of the Ask Nurse Alice podcast talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the many factors behind the crisis, how the pandemic exacerbated an already untenable situation, and what needs to be done now to address it. Nurse Alice also shares her advice for those aspiring to be nurses or who might be considering leaving the profession.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former |
| 0:19.1 | health commissioner here in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| 0:21.7 | Our goal with this podcast is to bring scientific evidence and experience to shed light on critical |
| 0:27.5 | health issues. If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health |
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| 0:42.3 | Hey listeners, it's Lindsay Smith Rogers, producer of Public Health On Call. And for two years, we've brought you COVID-19 in public health news. |
| 0:50.3 | But the podcast is just one of the ways you can learn more about the evidence and experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
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| 1:06.5 | The newsletter contains the latest on how we're working to understand, manage, and eventually |
| 1:11.1 | end the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare us for future outbreaks. |
| 1:15.3 | We also cover the school's groundbreaking research and insights on climate change, mental |
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| 1:38.5 | Today we have a very special guest, Alice Benjamin, a family nurse practitioner and chief |
| 1:44.0 | nursing officer at nurse.org. |
| 1:46.7 | She is the host of the Ask Nurse Alice podcast, and today she speaks to our own Dr. Josh |
| 1:52.3 | Sharfstein about the state of nursing in the U.S. Let's listen. |
| 1:56.8 | It's my great pleasure to welcome Nurse Alice Benjamin, otherwise known as Nurse Alice, to the Public Health On Call podcast. |
| 2:04.3 | Let's start with a basic question. Tell us about your career in nursing. |
| 2:08.8 | Yes. Thank you first for having me. It's my pleasure to join you. I have been a nurse for over 23 years, |
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