Navigating the Healthcare Maze: Advocacy, Safety, and Patient Empowerment | Julie Siemers
The Lindsey Elmore Show
Lindsey Elmore
5.0 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Siemers holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Touro University, Nevada. She brings more than four decades of experience and expertise in nursing practice, education, and executive leadership in the healthcare arena.
She spent 15 years in nursing education, serving in roles ranging from Professor to Dean, and as Executive Director of several of the largest nursing universities in the country. She has a rich background in direct patient care, with experience in various roles on the medical/surgical floor, in the Intensive care Unit, and in Emergency and Trauma Departments. Additionally, she served as a flight nurse on the trauma helicopter in Las Vegas for 10 years.
Since 2009, Dr. Julie has been educating students, colleagues, and the broader medical community on the vital skills needed to recognize patient deterioration and ensure safe nursing practices. Now, as a patient safety expert and the founder of Lifebeat Solutions, she is on a mission to save a million lives and make healthcare safer for everyone.
Topics covered in this episode:
Medication Safety And Reconciliation
Patient Advocacy And Family Roles
Post-Discharge Safety And Planning
Advanced Directives And Autonomy
Transparency In Medical Error Handling
Navigating Healthcare Communication Barriers
Preventing Medication-Related Harm
Improving Systemic Patient Safety Practices
Supporting Patients Through Hospital Stays
Trust-Building In Healthcare Systems
To learn more about Julie Siemers and her work, head over to www.drjuliesiemers.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody to this week's edition of the Lindsay Elmore show. Today we are going to be talking about how to become informed and educated about some basic health care principles that can empower you and your families to create stronger provider patient relationships and how you can receive optimal care in the hospital. We're going to talk about the importance of two-way communication |
| 0:23.6 | that must occur between health care providers and patients |
| 0:27.7 | in order to improve patient safety. |
| 0:31.1 | We're going to talk about how to choose a safe hospital, |
| 0:34.5 | rights that you have as a patient, |
| 0:37.4 | how you can speak up and better understand your |
| 0:41.2 | health care information and become an active participant in your own health care. We're going to |
| 0:46.5 | talk about tools that we can use to communicate more effectively with health care providers |
| 0:51.1 | and learn the dire consequences that can happen if we don't speak up |
| 0:57.6 | and communication breaks down between patients and health care providers. My guest today is Dr. Julie |
| 1:04.4 | Seymers. She is a patient safety consultant, industry leader, an educator, and the author of surviving your hospital stay, |
| 1:12.7 | a nurse educator's guide to staying safe and living to tell about it. If you're ever going to step |
| 1:18.4 | foot in the hospital, and especially if you're ever going to be admitted, today is a do not miss |
| 1:23.9 | episode. This is the Lindsay Elmore Show. Welcome to the Lindsay Elmore Show, a podcast for |
| 1:31.1 | people who deserve to be healthy with honest, open, and enlightening conversations with doctors, |
| 1:37.5 | thought leaders, creatives, and spiritual gurus, you'll walk away with simple and tangible tips and tricks that allow you to live your healthiest life so you can pursue your dreams, overcome obstacles, and leave your mark. Dr. Julie Seymers is a patient safety consultant, industry leader, and educator. She is also the founder of Life Beat |
| 2:02.9 | Solutions and the author of the best-selling book Surviving Your Hospital Stay, a nurse educator's |
| 2:09.4 | guide to staying safe and living to tell about it. She holds a doctor of nurse practice degree |
| 2:15.3 | from Toro University in Nevada. She brings more than four |
| 2:19.3 | decades of experience and expertise in nursing practice, education, and executive leadership to the health care arena. |
| 2:27.5 | She spent 15 years in nursing education, serving in roles ranging from professor to dean, and as executive director of several of the largest |
| 2:37.7 | nursing universities in the country. She has a rich background in direct patient care with experience |
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