Dr. Rich & Dr. Smith-Coppes: Rasmussen University Nursing Program (Raise the Line)
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And they have some great advice for people starting careers in healthcare as well. I hope you will watch these highlights and then go listen to the full podcast interview wherever you get your podcasts.
Right? Hi, I'm Jna Ami.
And today on raise the line, I'm happy to be joined by Joan Rich. John Smith.
Kae. Doctor Rich is the vice president of the School of Nursing.
And Doctor Smith is the vice president and executive director of Nursing at RS Muslin University. So we normally like to start with having our guests to share some of their backgrounds and for your highlights.
Uh So John, do you wanna start first here, John, I'm happy to and uh to listeners, you know, life is funny, the directions that it takes you sometime.
And I grew up the son of a physician thinking to myself, I'm gonna get as far away from medicine as I possibly can, I ended up uh in higher education.
Uh After, after being an entrepreneur, have taught, have coached and have spent time in administration. And uh I actually got a chance to partner up with Doctor Rich here about uh seven years ago.
So I've been here at the institution at the university for about 10 years. Yes.
And I always loved healthcare. I started out as a hospital volunteer as a teenager.
And uh then I, when II went into nursing, I knew I wanted to be a nurse and got my bachelor's at and then I worked in a practice setting in a newborn intensive care, pediatric intensive care in the emergency department.
So I evidently I like that high paced uh environment, which is good because that's what Rasmusson University is all about.
We go fast and furious, but we're very excited in all the innovations we, we are able to do. I've always loved pediatrics and had the opportunity to, uh get my license as a school nurse.
And I worked with teen moms and their babies in a clinic as I did, uh, education for a pediatric nurse practitioner. And then I knew that I really, uh enjoyed the teaching piece of it and I was able to be a public health nurse consulting, working on immunization policies in our state and also working with the homeless shelter, uh health care initiatives in our state.
And that's what really kind of got me in academics is. Um you really do as, as a nurse, as you know, you really get to do a lot of teaching d with your patients, with families in communities.
You know, that we have a lot of students um you know, that are listening right now, a lot of people that are early in their career that are health professionals and I would love to hear what your advice to them is about meeting the challenges of this moment and approaching their career in health care.
Sure, I'll take it first. I, you know, I think that individuals that are successful in their career are individuals who have been able to align their vocation with their advocation, their calling with their livelihood.
And I think there's a reason that the nursing profession is one of the, you know, typically the, the most trusted profession uh in the world.
It, I think it's because many nurses are following their heart uh and really going into something that they are that they are called to do.
Um I think that's, that's the biggest charge, the biggest challenge uh to, you know, the next generation of nurses or individuals that are just entering that profession is, you know, keep following your heart and following the charge um to take care of others uh to, to, to do what is that, that thing that fills you up, John, that was great.
That was perfect. And uh we certainly, sometimes we say we share a brain together and, and I couldn't agree more that really, you have to have that passion for nursing.
I would say the challenge is, please don't go into nursing because there's a nursing shortage and the pay is good. I would say please avoid that because I know there are people that need that job and are wondering what to do.
But I always had that passion. I'm sure you did too.
Jonah. And uh, John's wife is a nurse too and I know she's got the passion, but you must have that passion in your heart.
And I'm a person of faith and I believe you go where your heart leads and you do the best you can every day because that's what nurses do.
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