Amplify Nursing

In this episode of Amplify Nursing, Dr. Wanda Montavo shares how her own experiences with healthcare access shaped her commitment to social justice and health equity. She also discusses her work leading the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Pennsylvania, an ambitious effort to address primary care shortages by fully supporting nurse practitioners who choose to serve communities with the greatest need. The conversation explores what it means to invest in nurses not only as healthcare providers, but as leaders who can help create more equitable systems of care.

In this episode of Amplify Nursing, we’re talking about food allergies, nursing education, and innovation.

Our guest is Olga Kagan, a nurse, innovator, and founder of the Food Allergy Nursing Association. Olga shares the personal and professional experiences that led her to this work and why she saw a need to help nurses become better prepared to care for people with food allergies.

We also talk about gaps in nursing education, the challenges people with food allergies face every day, and Olga’s own journey as an innovator—from learning to problem-solve in a resource-constrained healthcare system to finding her community in the nursing innovation space.

In this episode of Amplify Nursing, we’re talking about the power of communication, connection, and finding your voice as a nurse leader. Our guest is Britt DiNatale, a nurse leader, communications expert, and founder of Clinical Insight Collective. Britt brings a unique perspective to nursing, drawing on a career that spans clinical practice, business, marketing, and communications.

We talk about her unconventional path back to nursing, why she describes her career as a “labyrinth” rather than a ladder, and what she has learned about leadership along the way.

Britt also shares her thoughts on nursing identity, storytelling, authenticity, and the unique clinical and human expertise nurses bring to an increasingly AI-driven healthcare landscape.

In this episode of Amplify Nursing, we take a different approach, bringing you a live conversation from the Johnson & Johnson Nurse Innovation Fellowship. Nurse leaders from across the country share what inspired them to pursue innovation, the challenges they hope to solve, and how human-centered design is helping them reimagine the future of nursing and healthcare.

In this episode of Amplify Nursing, we talk with Mark Lazenby, Dean of the UC Irvine School of Nursing, as he reflects on his journey from philosophy scholar to oncology nurse practitioner and academic leader.

Drawing from his work as an educator, clinician, and author of Caring Matters Most and Toward a Better World, he discusses leadership through the lens of trustworthiness, relational care, honesty, and ethics, and explores how nursing can help create a more compassionate and equitable healthcare system.