Nurses Outside the Box

Ebony is a Nurse Practitioner, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and Functional Wellness Nurse Coach.  She values the power of helping people get to the root cause of their health concerns.  Her goal is always to assist the body's innate ability to heal itself naturally, with the support of proper diet, rest, exercise, stress reduction, and natural supplementation. Ebony uses her knowledge as a nurse practitioner and a functional wellness specialist to help other nurses optimize their personal health naturally, with ease and guidance.  She has been able to improve her personal health, manage her congenital heart disease, and take herself off of prescription medications with proper diet, lifestyle, and natural supplementation alone. Nurses often dedicate so much time and effort into helping other people, that they don't do the best job of taking care of their own health and wellness needs.  This leads many nurses to have problems with weight loss, chronic fatigue, and chronic illnesses that they are unable to effectively manage themselves. Ebony's goal is to transform the health of as many nurses as possible, so they can become the healthiest and happiest versions of themselves, allowing them to better care for others.

Dr Celia McIntosh is a nurse practioner, speaker, author and Human Trafficking Awareness Educator. Join us for this one of a kind interview with this phenomenal nurse.

Dr. Celia McIntosh DNP, RN, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, SCRN, CEN, CCRN, CNRN is the President of the Rochester Regional Coalition Against Human Trafficking (RRCAHT) and a Nurse Practitioner in the Neuroscience Center at Rochester Regional Health in Rochester, NY. Celia received her associate's in nursing from Monroe Community College, a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Brockport State University and her master’s degree in nursing, and her Doctorate of Nursing Practice degree from St. John Fisher College. Professionally, Celia has worked as a nurse for a number of organizations, including the Rochester General Hospital and Highland Hospital. She has worked as a family nurse practitioner in the Department of Neuroscience and the Medical Observational Unit Rochester Regional Health System. Celia is an inspiring leader in the Rochester community both in her professional work and her commitment to educating the public about the ubiquity of human trafficking.

Celia combines her medical training with her commitment to raising awareness about trafficking victims through the development of educational programs for Health Care Professionals. She presented “Human Trafficking 101: For Emergency Medicine Providers” at Rochester General Hospital’s Best Practices Seminar, the Genesee Valley Chapter Emergency Nurses Association, and URMC Anti-Human Trafficking Conference. Most recently, she presented the “Human Trafficking: Globally, Locally and its Impact on Human Rights” at the United Nations Association of Rochester, “Sexual Health: Sex Trafficking Violence and the Pandemic” for the CEI Sexual Health Center of Excellence, on a panel for the Wyoming County Safe Harbour Summit, and  the 7th Judicial District Statewide Human Trafficking Intervention Court Web Series. Celia is passionate about ending human trafficking and becoming a voice for policy and social change in the fight against human trafficking.

David is the Founder and CEO of Digitalis Medical, a digital growth agency that helps businesses focus their marketing, with an emphasis on taking businesses to the next stage of growth. He is still an active registered nurse in the Emergency Department and the founder of a nonprofit addiction center called Life Transformation Recovery. He lives in Prescott, Arizona with his beautiful wife April and their four red-headed boys.

Dr. Dan Weberg is an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation and human-centered patient design with extensive clinical experience in emergency departments, acute in-patient hospital settings and academia. He currently serves as the Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health, the staffing platform for the healthcare industry, where he helps drive product strategy and works to change the conversation around innovation in the healthcare workforce. Prior to joining Trusted, Dan spent seven years at Kaiser Permanente, where he held executive roles in nursing innovation, research, and technology strategy across eight regions, 38 hospitals, 60,000 nurses. He was also part of the founding faculty for the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. Dan is on the faculty at The Ohio State University College of Nursing and multiple innovation fellowship programs. He previously taught on nursing innovation and leadership at Arizona State University. He is on the editorial board for Nursing Administration Quarterly and has authored two dozen peer-reviewed articles and two textbooks, including Evidence Based Innovation Leadership for Health Professions and Leadership in Nursing Practice. Dan earned his Bachelors in Nursing, and was in the first cohort to graduate from the Masters in Healthcare Innovation program at ASU, as well as the first-ever graduate of the PhD in Healthcare Innovation Leadership program at ASU. His clinical background is in Emergency and Trauma nursing at level 1 trauma centers in California and Arizona.

Evans Rochaste is a dedicated and experienced Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry and business owner. He is  currently the owner of Integrative Wellness Psychiatry, PLLC – Mental Health & Wellness. Through his work with Integrative Wellness Psychiatry, he strives to treat psychiatric illnesses within the specializations of chemical addiction, mental health, and wellness concerns for minority athletes and the millennial generation.

BSN critical care nurse, YouTuber (A Couple Nurses), Podcast Host (Code Blue & Bullshit).

I am a Integrative Wellness Nurse Consultant. I have 20 yrs experience in healthcare ranging from ED to ICU. I began my own personal journey into holistic and Ayurvedic health for stress management, depression and pain approximately 6 years ago. I trained with high ranking Buddhist, Ayurveda Doctors and healers, and Yoginis, I became fully versed and initiated into ancient healing practices. The changes I experienced to my physical, emotional, and mental health were astronomical . I then began to study mindfulness, emotional intelligence, mental fitness and mindfulness. I taught these practices to my family, because I value and believe in these tools so much. I knew I had to tell as many people as I could about these tools that would help them live more peaceful, and fulfilling lives on and off the iob. I startes working with some old colleagues giving them mindfulness and resilience tools to help with work stress and burn out. I eventually began working with health facilities and schools implementing resilience and stress management tools to improve job satisfaction, engagement, productivity and foucus while decreasing stress, depression and burnout.

Manjeet Singh, a neuro trauma ICU nurse, who is passionate about healthcare workforce. He has worked as Travle Nurse, and wore many other hats as a nurse in different settings. Manjeet believes that every healthcare worker is equally important in the healthcare work force. “ If you are in the healthcare, you are HERO” is a tag line for Manjeet’s channel on YouTube called Global Healthcare HEROES. Manjeet’s ultimate goal is to build a global platform for the healthcare workforce, a platform dedicated to, by and for the healthcare workers.

Dr. Alisha Cornell is an experienced nurse leader, nurse educator, clinical consultant, and nurse informaticist, who understands the role of executive nurse leaders as well as the impact of healthcare on the lives of nurses. Her combination of formal education and lived experiences provides a platform of inspiring others through self-awareness and a purpose driven life. Her commitment to impacting the lives of nurses through servant leadership is driven by her history of managing dynamic nursing teams and conquering life one day at a time. She is a strong advocate for improving self-care among nurses, equal access to healthcare in underserved populations, and improving community health education concerning mental health and social determinants of health.

Brianna is a Johnson & Johnson Nurse fellow as well as a Home Health Care Manager.