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Emergency nurse Dayna James thought she had the most secure job in the world, but the pandemic knocked her out of work and wondering how her family would pay its bills. James tells 2020 ENA Foundation Chairperson Jim Hoelz about...

Mother and daughter Nanette and Natasha Logan attended the same nursing college but experienced very different paths to careers in nursing. Listen to their candid conversation about the hardships they overcame to become successful nurses.

Penny Vaughan, a founding leader of AACN, and Connie Barden, AACN chief clinical officer and AACN past president, have been influential in the leadership and evolution of the critical care nursing industry in the United States. In this conversation, Penny...

American Steve Desroches (47) and Canadian Paul Boyd (50) talk about what the United States and Canada have in common, and what they don't.

My experience going to Ethiopia and visiting my uncles clinic.

Kelsey Haglund talks about her journey to be a PA and family life.

My best friend Lyle has been transitioning from female to male over the past 3 months, so i thought I'd ask him a few questions regarding what it's like to be trans in our generation.

I interview my friend and co-worker about her careers over the years.

ENA 2021 Foundation Chairperson Sally Snow and ENA member Alexus Moore talk about the Foundation’s record setting 30th year and how paying it forward helps drive the Foundation’s support for the future of emergency nursing.

Kristin Sollars and Marci Ebberts are longtime friends, critical care nurses and clinical nurse educators at Saint Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri. In this conversation, part of AACN’s Nurse Stories Project in partnership with StoryCorps, Kristin and Marci discuss —...

As critical care nurses and social media advocates for nurse wellness, Anna Rodriguez and Christiaan Letsinger understand how easy it is for nurses to burn out when they’re putting their patients before themselves. In this conversation, Anna and Christiaan discuss...

2022 ENA Foundation Chairperson Jeff Solheim interviews international conference scholarship recipient Nurul’Ain Ahayalimudin about how the Foundation made an impact on her in 2022.

Questions were asked about the health care system and education for the town and county

2021 ENA President Ron Kraus and ENA CEO Nancy MacRae look back on the year and how the association adapted, overcame, and elevated itself amid new pandemic-driven challenges in 2021.

[Recorded Monday, February 21, 2022] Karen (58) and Amy (62) recorded a One Small Step conversation together in Charlottesville, Virginia. They discussed motherhood, military service, health, and media literacy.

Jason Becker And Joewell Jackson, two Radford University students, talk about the finer points of healthcare.

2022 ENA President Jennifer Schmitz and ENA CEO Nancy MacRae discuss how ENA and emergency nurses recharged in 2022.

ENA Senior Manager of Education Program Development Monica Kolbuk talks with Jen Johnston, a nurse educator who saw firsthand the important value of ENA’s Emergency Nurse Residency Program.

[Recorded: Monday, September 11, 2023] Julie Wiedmer (19) and Marissa Vicchio (19) participated in this One Small Step conversation as part of their Public Service Pathways 1-credit UNST course at UVA. Julia describes her experience finding community at UVA, and...

Sandra Perez and Nyssa Entrekin talk about similar experiences as care givers and navigating grief. We talk about our relationships with our parents, navigating the healthcare system, and managing grief. This was inspired by Sandra Perez's dad, Rodrigo Perez (who...

As they worked on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dustin Bass and Jamie Stephens-Davenport also faced the daunting challenge of pivoting the biggest conference for emergency nurses from a celebration in Las Vegas to a fully virtual experience....

We talked about her medical practice for the past thirty years in Rural Alaska.

The 2019 Rural Health Scholars conversed about the underutilized practice of medical home visits in a rural setting with Dr. Mike Collins.

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[Recorded: Thursday, September 7, 2023] Dami Ayandipo (19) from Ashburn, VA, and Virginia Warren (19) from Midlothian, VA participated in this One Small Step conversation as part of their Public Service Pathways 1-credit UNST course at UVA. Both students have...