Lighting Your Way
Lighting Your Way
Betty Long
Podcast featuring exciting, hilarious, heartbreaking, terrifying and joyful stories of real nurse advocates helping real patients get the best healthcare. Each week, Betty Long and one of her colleagues at Guardian Nurses will take you behind the curtain to help you better navigate the healthcare system when you or a loved one is sick or injured.
7.6 Second Opinion Saved a Leg
This week, Betty speaks to her colleagues on the Coastal HIF Mobile Care Coordinator team about various cases, including a leg that was saved with a second opinion.
May 9, 2024
29 min
7.5 Speak Up For Safe Hospital Discharges
This week, Betty speaks with Jeanette Meredith, RN, and Diane McCaffery, BSN, RN, about how unsafe hospital discharges lead to rehospitalizations.
May 2, 2024
27 min
7.4 The Right to Be Heard
This week, Alonda Wood, RN, BSN, shares a story about helping a patient whose antibiotic did more harm than good and an unresponsive medical team who made the situation even worse.
Apr 25, 2024
24 min
7.3 “The Navy Seals of Advocacy”
Guardian Nurses rookie Joe McLaughlin, RN, talks with Betty about his first memorable cases as a Nurse Advocate with the team.
Apr 18, 2024
24 min
7.2 In for the Long Haul
This week, Betty talks with Jeneane Fitzmaurice, RN, BSN, and Heidi J. Davis, MSN, RN, CPN, NPD-BC, who help teamsters stay on the road by supporting their healthcare journeys.
Apr 12, 2024
29 min
7.1 Another Type of Advocate
In our Season 7 opener, we’re learning about how social workers and nurse advocates can work together to help patients. With Damali N. Stansbury, LSW, MSW.
Apr 4, 2024
26 min
6.12 A Very Bad Primary Care Provider
In our Season 6 finale, Bianca Pollart, RN, BSN, shares a doozy of a cautionary tale about how a primary care provider who doesn’t listen to you can harm your health and well-being.
Dec 21, 2023
24 min
6.11 How to Appeal an Insurance Denial
Suzy Parker, RN, from Guardian Nurses, gives actionable advice on how to appeal when your health insurance company denies a claim.
Dec 14, 2023
24 min
6.10 A Profiled Patient
This week, we hear from Samantha Salerno, RN, BSN, who tells us all about a case in which a patient’s treatment for a painful condition was delayed — because his doctors and nurses made assumptions based on his tattoos.
Dec 7, 2023
23 min
6.9 Substance Use and Mental Health
This week, Betty speaks with her colleague Samuel Hirst, RN, BSN, about working with patients who have substance use and mental health issues. He also offers powerful advice for families and friends who want to support loved ones who are struggling with addiction.
Nov 30, 2023
19 min
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