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Listen to some of today's key nurses who work and practice in academia settings and talk about the challenges they face in today's modern medical world. Welcome to the host of All About Nursing, Dr. Joyce Bachelor. Good evening.
I'm your host, Dr. Joyce Bachelor, on All About Nursing, and we're live on the BBM Global Network and Tune in Radio. I have a very distinguished guest with me this evening, and I'd like to tell you a bit about him. My guest is Rob St.
John. He is the Senior Clinical Director for the Respiratory Monitoring and Solutions Division at Metronic. He's been with Metronic for over 22 years in a variety of roles, including sales, product marketing manager, marketing director, director of post-market clinical research, and most recently, Senior Clinical Director. Rob is a former pulmonary and critical care clinical nurse specialist and respiratory therapist at the Barnes-Dewish Hospital in St.
Louis, Missouri, which is part of the BJC healthcare system over a career spanning for 15 years. He completed an associate applied science degree training and respiratory therapy at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park, dual undergraduate degrees in business management and nursing at Webster University in St. Louis, Masters of Science degree in medsurgical nursing at St.
Louis University and opposed masters of adult nurse practitioner training at the Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Dewish College in St. Louis. Rob's clinical interest in associated publications include authorship over 20 scientific journal articles, five nursing and respiratory textbook chapters, and is a co-editor for the sixth edition of Egan's Fundamentals of Respiratory Care Review Workbook, his clinical interests are in the areas of adult infant, airway management, adult mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring and non-invasive assessment of oxygenation ventilation. As I was reading this earlier today, I think I remember using that book when I was learning critical care nursing, so I really appreciate all your expertise, Rob.
So welcome to the show. Thank you very much. I'm really glad to speak with you this evening. I think it would be great if we could start off by having you just tell us a little bit about when and how did you decide to become a nurse?
Okay, great. Well, it was an interesting path for myself. At the time, I was actually a second-year student in studying respiratory therapy at the community college, and there was some exposure as a student's respiratory therapist in training working in the hospital. I had a chance to have some interactions early on with RNs and thought that this might be an interesting way to sort of manage my career and expand my knowledge in taking direct care of patients in a way that would be a little bit different than as a respiratory therapist.
One of the secondary interests that I had too was maybe leveraging the respiratory background and a nursing background and then pursuing a career as a CRNA or as a nurse anesthetist. So either way, I thought it would be a good opportunity to just further my knowledge in education and chose nursing as that next step immediately after graduation from the respiratory program. That's great. And on prior shows, we've talked about the fact that you've become a nurse in so many different ways and altered entry students and baccalaureate associate diploma and all of that, so I was impressed that you did a dual undergraduate degree, which I'm sure you've blended some of the knowledge of all the different programs.
It would be great if you could just share some highlights of your career. Sure, thank you. I would say that probably one of the most gratifying aspects at least into the career was working as a critical care nurse upon graduation from the nursing program. One, it allowed me to work with technology and a lot of that technology involved caring for patients with either primary or secondary respiratory problems, and that was a great way to really leverage the experience and training that I had as a respiratory therapist.
As you mentioned earlier, I continued my education completing undergraduate degrees in nursing and then went on to graduate school, and it allowed me to gain some of the additional knowledge and experience to operate at a higher level within the nursing ranks. And so that afforded me the opportunity then to move into a clinical nurse specialist role, which did. Now, one of the other interesting things that many of us, the CNS, as a clinical nurse specialist did during those years, I would say, around 1994 was to complete a post-masters nurse practitioner program. At the time, nurse practitioners in the acute care setting, there were some, but not nearly like there are today.
And so it was an opportunity to get some additional training, which would allow us if we chose to, to pursue a collaborative practice agreement with a physician or operate again as an advanced practice nurse. And I went through the training, but around that time as well, I had begun to do some consulting work for a medical device company. And shortly after completing that training, I thought that this might be another area where I could leverage and use my nursing background, but in a completely different way. That is working within the medical device industry to help make products more useful for clinicians, particularly those that were caring for patients that had cardiac arrest.
And so I elected then to leave the acute care setting or the formal hospital environment and begin a new career in the medical device industry. I think it's great that you're discussing this because I think that having the kind of expertise that you brought to a medical device company is certainly of extreme value to the consumers as a whole. In the sense that your expertise is really helping people create the kinds of products that be aware of, the kind of care issues that you know firsthand from all the experience that you had, both as a clinical nurse specialist and a nurse practitioner. So I think that's really great.
I'm just kind of curious around the time of doing this. Did you have any hesitation moving away from the acute care hospital and into moving into a role? Sometimes I hear nurses say you've gone to the dark side when you go work for a vendor or you are now a vendor, so I don't talk to you anymore. Did you have any concerns about that?
That's a great question and to be totally transparent, it was a concern of mine because I felt like I had built a very strong reputation and had a very solid career at the hospital. It was very active in a lot of the different nursing organizations like the AECN, American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and was very active with that group. And I thought, gosh, if I leave the hospital setting, how much would that really change? Well, I'd be able to adapt into the medical device industry, but I wasn't afraid to take a risk.
And one of the great things I think about having formal training as a nurse is that there's so many different directions that you can shift or maneuver your career, depending on where your passions lie and some of your own kind of personal goals. So I would say the first six months to a year, I think, was a period where I'd reflect back and decide, you know, did I really make the right move? But I'll tell you, when I look back now, 22 years later, I have no regrets at all. I have the utmost respect and amorations for nurses that are caring for these very sick patients in hospitals today, but I've really become very comfortable and very confident in representing medical products that are used to really help them do the job easier and help them enable good patient care.
Thank you, Rob. This is all about nursing. I'm Dr. Joyce Bachelor.
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Joyce Bachelor, the host of the show and I have a guest with me this evening and before the break Rob was telling us a little bit about his background as a clinical nurse specialist and advanced practice nurse and then making the transition from working in a hospital setting to now working for Medtronic. So I think it'd be great if we could start there with you describing a little bit about what your role entails as a senior clinical director at Medtronic with your respiratory and monitoring solutions division. Sure, thank you. So as a senior clinical director, one of the main, I would say, objectives of the functional role is to help the nurses and respiratory therapists that are on staff within our division that serve as clinical specialists.
So they help primarily with education and training on our products and so part of my role is to really help raise their clinical acumen by teaching, mentoring and providing them guidance along their career paths at Medtronic. I think myself, most of the nurses and respiratory therapists that work at Medtronic in my division all came from hospital settings and so they went through some of the similar adjustments that I did when I joined the company and I think just given the years of experience with the company, it's been very helpful to be a sounding board or just really offer advice from time to time on some of my key learnings and takeaways during the transition and then also help them along the lines of managing their own career as nurses or therapists within the medical device industry. Rob, what are some of the major issues you and your team are addressing? That's a great question.
Our products, the products that I'm working with primarily involve non-invasive respiratory monitoring. So these are devices like pulse-eximeters that are used to assess oxygenation status of a patient or another technology called capnography, which is measuring exhaled carbon dioxide. They measure as two very different processes that are going on in the body, but these products can be instrumental in terms of helping to identify changes in the patient condition and in particular we've been very keenly focused on patients that develop respiratory compromise postoperatively following surgery. As you know and as perhaps many of the listeners may be aware, within hospital settings there are an increased awareness of respiratory depression as a result of the use of parental opioids.
And so this type of non-invasive respiratory monitoring can be a very useful adjunct or tool for nurses caring for these patients that may be at high risk for respiratory compromise by identifying changes in status earlier and then also being able to help in the assessment of a patient following any type of intervention that might be deployed. And again, just because we have these types of technologies available, it doesn't obviate the need for the nurse to make his or her own assessment of the patient's condition, but rather it's a tool. It's an adjunct, it's an aid to help them. So we're very focused on helping to educate nurses in the hospital and the technologies and to understand its advantages as well as limitations.
As you're talking, I'm thinking about how in critical care there's so many what I call bells and whistles, there's just so many different devices that help the nurse at the bedside and physician and others really know what's going on with the patient. And they're all pretty invasive when you have arterial lines and they're on a ventilator, et cetera. What you're talking about really does aid the nurses respiratory therapists and other caregivers when they're out on our general medical surgical units or telemetry and an invasive manner, which is wonderful because we've always been taught to watch for signs of early respiratory depression. But it's hard to do if you're not standing there watching someone not stop, so having these kinds of tools I think is just really wonderful.
Are there certain kinds of outcomes that you and your team are really interested in achieving with the work you're leading? Yes, some of the partnerships that we have established with some of the hospitals that use our equipment are ones that are specifically aimed at improving outcomes in this area. So the areas that we look at specifically is if by deploying this capnography or anti-tital CO2 monitoring, are we able to identify respiratory compromise earlier? And we measure that by compared to perhaps let's say a baseline metrics on a particular nursing division, did the use of Narcan administration go down after deploying capnography?
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Some of our early indications by really looking at these very thoughtfully have been able to demonstrate improved that we believe improved outcomes. That's wonderful. And I was thinking as you were talking too that you mentioned being able to monitor patients after they've had surgery, but if somebody also has chronic disease issues like COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or a tendency to become asthmatic, I mean those are really important types of diseases for us to also really make sure that we're doing a good job taking care of the people that come in to be cared for by us. So I applaud that.
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Before the break, my guest on the show, Rob St. John, was sharing with us the kind of things that he and his team are working on as part of the Metronic Company that he works for that's doing, I think, a lot of very exciting work where there's opportunity to really monitor patients more continuously using capnography and other sorts of devices. That's really exciting, so thank you so much for sharing that, Rob. I would like to go back and just ask you again a little bit more about your interests and to health care, really, to start with you becoming a respiratory therapist.
Can you tell us a little bit about why you decided to become a respiratory therapist? Yeah, thank you. I was a high school junior at the time, and my dad's father, my grandfather, had been diagnosed a year earlier when I was a sophomore with lung cancer. During the last few years of his life, while being treated for lung cancer, he lived with us.
During that time, he had received oxygen and various breathing treatments and therapies in a home setting. I was really my first exposure to the field of respiratory care because there was a respiratory care home therapist that came to our house. I hadn't really decided, as a junior, what field of study I would be interested in, but that made up my mind very quickly that if I could help patients feel better, breathe better, that we're having problems, that would be a really worthwhile thing to do with my career. That's the direction I took.
At what point did you decide that you wanted to move on and go on to nursing school? It was really, when I was finishing my first year of the respiratory program and started working in the hospital as a student, that I had exposure to nurses working in a variety of settings. Mostly, I was very focused, or keenly focused in the critical care environment because of the training that therapists get with mechanical ventilators. But I also had some exposure to CRNAs, or the Certified Registered Nurse and Esteitis, and I thought, wow, this could be a really interesting field because so much of what they do involves airway management and airway protection as well as ventilation during surgery.
So I thought, gosh, this could be a really great opportunity to incorporate my training as a therapist and get some experience as a critical care nurse and then go into a CRNAs program. So that's what kind of led to the decision. And Joyce, one of the other interesting bits of that was I did apply for a CRNAs program through Washington University was accepted to the program. And about two weeks before the program, I was to start, I made a family decision because I was married and had a young family at the time decided not to do that.
And it was primarily because I just enjoyed so much working in critical care nursing that I thought, you know, maybe I just would rather focus on clinical practice in that area and then further my advanced training, undergraduate school and take it from there. But I'm so grateful that the nursing profession has just allowed me a lot of flexibility in different ways that I could shape my career. I think too, the fact that you have had the experience as a registered therapist and critical care nurse, you know, when you became an RN, I would just imagine that that combination of experience and all that was really advantageous. Can you share an example or so of how you were able to leverage the combined backgrounds?
Oh, sure. I would say probably in a couple of different areas, one was it led to an opportunity to play more of an educational or consultative role with nurses that were in training or nurses that were wanting more advanced level knowledge in doing that in the form of being a teacher. As a CNS or clinical nurse specialist, I was on adjunct clinical faculty for the school of nursing and we do block teaching for some of the students and focusing on respiratory. And then also did a lot of work collaboratively with the physicians and training.
So whether it's interns, residents, or even fellows that were specializing in pulmonary medicine. So working very closely with the pulmonary and critical care division at Washington University School of Medicine, where Barnes-Jewish Hospital was. I would imagine that as you worked in this in the Medtronic company that your experience also helps a lot with credibility when you are in fact talking to physicians, respiratory therapists, nurses, and critical care and others, because I would imagine that they would have some comfort with the fact that you've got the kind of knowledge and experience that you bring, which is different than if someone is coming from more of a sales representative perspective, but they really haven't done the clinical background pieces. Because I think we tend to be pretty tough on each other wanting to make sure that people have the kind of knowledge and expertise when we're learning something new.
So I would think that your background and the combination was pretty advantageous in many ways. Did you find that to be true as you worked with physicians and others? Oh, absolutely. I'm not going to be true.
And not only with the physicians, but also with nurses and other clinical folks that you would run across in the hospital. You know, experienced clinicians can size up somebody's knowledge and awareness on a particular topical area pretty quickly. And so I think having or being able to speak to these particular areas that I was involved in because I had a lot of experience from both domains as a nurse and as a therapist, I have those great conversations and go as deep as they'd like in terms of in-depth conversations. And I think it's very helpful with the dialogue and conversations to get clinicians comfortable with the products and how they're used.
I would think too from your story around the family member and really understanding the impact of when someone is not breathing well and has some kind of chronic respiratory issue that you can bring that patient perspective to the work that you're doing because I think that's one of the advantages I'm hearing from some of the things that you're describing, which I would think is a real positive for everybody involved. I was smiling because you know, critical care nurses, we are called critical care nurses because sometimes we are critical when I can say that having been a critical care nurse for years as well. So we tend to be tough on each other. So I appreciate that you have that expertise and can bring that to everybody.
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Joyce Bachelor, the host of the show. And just before going to commercial break, we were talking about the incredible opportunities and leverage that Rob was able to bring to his job by having experience about the respiratory therapist as well as then becoming a critical care nurse and advanced practice nurse. So being a critical care nurse in my past practice, I can say that it was hard for me to leave the bedside when I moved into leadership. And so I was curious, what helped you to make the decision and what kind of discernment did you do when you were starting to look at leaving active hospital practice as a clinical nurse specialist in critical care and moving into a medical device industry?
What did you do to try to figure out if it was the right thing or not? Yeah, no, thank you. I think I might have mentioned at the beginning of the program that as I was going through a postmaster's NP training program, I was also doing some consulting for a medical device company, which is actually, they've been acquired by another company, but that's the same company that I'm with now. And so I kind of reached a point in my career where most of the goals that I had really set out for myself to do while being a clinical nurse specialist.
When I looked back and reflected on that, I had achieved that. I wanted to do clinical research and published, which I was able to do. I was able to write some review papers. I wanted to teach.
I wanted to also run a training program for critical care nurses and training, both at a basic and advanced level. And so I really felt very satisfied that I had achieved most of those goals I had set out to do. But now during the times I was doing consulting for this medical device company, an opportunity for a full-time position became open in the marketing department, which was in the area of airway management. It was a tracheostomy tube line.
And since I did a lot of the tracheostomy tube changes in the critical care unit and on some of the med search floors, I gave it considerable thought and made a decision to leave hospital practice and try something completely different. And I thought that this would allow me to kind of grow professionally and get exposure to a different part of healthcare and again leverage that experience and nursing and respiratory, but in a very different way by helping others using these types of products in the hospital. You know, we've been talking on other shows about how highly specialized nurses are and the number of different places nurses work and the number of pathway changes that you may have come open to you. And I was just curious for nurses that maybe thinking, well, maybe I'd like to think about working for a medical device company sometime or a pharmaceutical company or do something that is in a not traditional role.
You know, what would you recommend they think about as they're starting to go through the discernment process of whether or not this is for them? You know, one of the best things that I would recommend if a nurse is considering wanting to go into again like medical device or pharmaceutical, some type of pharmaceutical role is to try to identify and speak with clinicians that are working in that environment. Sometimes they're some of your best sources of information and I certainly wouldn't limit it to just talking to one person but rather several. Now if you don't know any, one way that you can very easily identify folks that are in those types of roles might be through LinkedIn, social media, which is very helpful I think from a professional networking standpoint.
If you go to trade shows where there are exhibitors, vendors that are exhibiting their products, stop in and talk to them. But whatever it is that you're considering in terms of companies, so there's so many different companies and so many different products out there, it should be something, a product area that you're passionate about, something that really interests you professionally and one that you could get really excited about representing. If you do that, I think that goes a long way in really fulfilling perhaps a dream that you have to try to do something a little bit different in a different way. I think the other piece that you've said a little bit about too is that by attending these conferences and talking and looking at what the different vendors have to offer and want feedback on many times with new products that they're working on, that whole networking piece is really important as well as opportunities to find people that can mentor you and give you some advice or simply sit and help you think through the process because it's interesting how many choices you may have that come to you as you're going through nursing, but I also liked what you said about having a passion because I don't know what I really thought I would do eventually when I went into nursing, but it's through trying different things that I found my passion and it sounds like you did the same thing, which again I think that that's the part that's nice is that you buy something passionate about then you go for it and you may go on a different road than you've ever even thought about, which is pretty exciting.
Absolutely, absolutely true. So do you have any regrets at all in terms of moving away from the acute care hospital setting or have you really found your niche? I've definitely found my niche. Like I said, the first year was a difficult transition year for me because I had really identified myself as one that would always work in a hospital and care for patients directly and of course when you work for a medical device company, you're not doing any kind of hands-on care, but rather you're educating clinicians and in some cases you may get involved in family education not directly but through different tools and resources for the nurses that are doing that type of education with patients and their families.
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You are listening to all about nursing live from the Medium Global Network and TuneIn Radio. I'm Dr. Joyce Bachelor, the host of the show. Just before transitioning to our last break, I had started to ask Rob if he could tell us about his involvement and kind of influence that he's having with the company he's working for as we're starting to really look at the continuum of care and trying to be sure that we're providing care that helps to prevent people from being admitted but also prevent people from being readmitted once they have been hospitalized.
So if you could just say a little bit about that, Rob, that'd be awesome. Sure, sure. Well, particularly in the area of the division that I'm in, mechanical ventilation as well as non-invasive respiratory monitoring, we make products and solutions that really cover the continuum of care from the neonate to end of life with an adult. So our products are really used not only across all age groups but also all different care settings.
So whether it's a med search for or critical care, operating room, special procedural areas like GI endoscopy or interventional radiology, et cetera, they're used. Not only that, but many of our products are also used through EMS as well as in the home care setting. And so our products are designed and both the hardware, the monitors themselves as well as the sensors or sampling lines that patients are wearing to really be accommodating and comfortable for patients. So those are all designed with the intent to provide clinicians with useful information monitoring information that will hopefully result in better patient care through early identification of changes in status, whether it's positive or negative, but just early identification to monitor them effectively and safely.
That's great. And that kind of goes right along with the fact that you've also published a number of papers and textbooks, chapters in nursing and respiratory field. So what led to these opportunities and why do you enjoy writing so much? I think for me, just personally, I've always taken an interest in teaching and consider myself a lifelong student.
So educating others and being able to share what knowledge or experiences that I've gained over the years has always been very important to me. I've been very fortunate, both in the hospital setting, to do some adjunct teaching at the school of nursing from Barnes-Dewish Hospital where I work, but also having done some prior adjunct teaching at St. Louis University, where I did my graduate studies at, was a way of giving back or paying it forward for those programs that taught me so many things. But in Medtronic, I've been very grateful for the opportunity for them to support my continued interest in publishing.
And a lot of that Joyce really have been collaborative projects with other nurses that are in active clinical practice or at the university setting that I had known back when I was working in the hospital. But we continue to collaborate and interact and that led to some different writing opportunities. And just something I've just really enjoyed, unfortunately, the company's been very supportive in allowing me to participate in those kinds of activities. You've also been involved in a lot of clinical research over the years and not only at the hospital, but with Medtronic.
And I'm sitting here thinking to myself, you would be a great mentor for taking the fear out of publishing and taking the fear out of research. So maybe you could tell us a bit more about what the nurses who desire to get involved in research, what are some tips on how to get started? Yeah, that's a great question. And you know, many hospitals, so whether it's a magnet hospital or whether it is a hospital just has a very active nursing department with different committees that take a critical look at nursing practice and ways to improve.
That's a great starting point, to be honest with you, where you try to ask and answer fundamental questions regarding different aspects of nursing care that you have identified or you and a team of other nurses have identified there's an opportunity to make improvements in care that hopefully will result in either better workflow efficiency by nurses and or better patient outcomes. And so a lot of times research, as you know, really begins with just asking very simple fundamental questions of things you do day in and day out in practice. And it's something that you're all qualified to do just because you're actively providing care or using a particular type of product in the course of patient care. And so you're in a prime position to help make some assessments.
If you can mentor with another nurse who's done some publishing, that's also very helpful. And there's many different courses and classes that are taught and resources I think available out there to kind of help nurses along their way, if they have a desire to publish and share their experiences. That's great. And I think it's very important that nurses know that they can and back reach out to others and ask to be mentored.
Sometimes it just looks like it may be a daunting task. But once you have somebody help you go through how you really do publish or how to get started doing research, it's really, it's not so bad. And I think the system, you know, I can tell you that was one of the things I focused on in my tenure there was how to get nurses to not be afraid to do research as well as to take the fear out of getting published. So I think that's pretty exciting.
Is there something that you've published that you're just most proud of or something that you just really have felt like was one of the best accomplishments that you've had in your career? There's a few projects that I'm particularly proud of within the domain of nursing. I would say having done some work with another nurse respiratory therapist that I've known for many years, Susie Burns at the University of Virginia. And a lot of her work through the AACN in publications in the area of respiratory nursing.
I've had the opportunity to collaborate on some different projects looking at research based clinical practice protocols. One was for catnography and another one was with airway management that I collaborated with a nurse specialist at Christiana Maureen Sechel. And so working with these clinicians and as well as in concert with some of the publication program of work through the AACN has been really rewarding. That's awesome.
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Joyce Bachelor on all about nursing or live on the BBM Global Network and Tune in Radio. And I have had my guests this evening, Rob St. Donne, who's just done phenomenal job sharing a lot of the things that he and his team have been working on that are very exciting with the respiratory monitoring and new creations and devices for critical care and outside of critical care. So in your travels around the country as a senior clinical director at Medtronic, you get to visit lots of different hospitals.
Are there any particular trends you're seeing in the hospitals which have important implications for the nursing profession? Yes, thanks for asking that question. There really are in my travels. And I mentioned earlier in some of the segments about the use of noninvasive respiratory monitoring with pulse oximetry and capnography, which is measuring ventilation through exhaled carbon dioxide of a patient.
We are seeing more and more facilities around the country that are looking to tie in that information that's made at the bedside. But then to transmit that, either to a central nursing station where clinicians can more easily or more readily see a change in status by as opposed to just in the patient's room that actually see the nurses' station. Additionally, that information that's used for the nurses and documenting patient care with the monitor, tying that into the hospital electronic medical record or EMR, there's tremendous workflow efficiencies for the nursing staff not having to chart this information where it's automatically and accurately captured by the monitor but put into the medical record. It also allows clinicians like physicians and other nurses or respiratory therapists actually to view this type of information on smartphones or in their physician practice offices if they have a need to see how an individual patient is doing in that patient room that's on one of those monitors.
So continuous safety vigilance monitoring is a real plus and I see this as an important trend. Lastly, hospitals are also taking that information and creating early warning scores. Some of them are well known with hospital use today, but these systems can be for specific use. So, we'll be very beneficial.
I think it's really exciting too that a lot of these changes and improvements are really going to help consumers in general feel more confident and comfortable that we have different types of devices that are going to be in place that really do allow, as you said, for more continuous monitoring. So subtle changes can really be noticed more readily rather than when you go in and just periodically check someone's vital signs. It's very different than if you can watch those kinds of things on a continuous basis. I think it's been exciting to hear all the different things that you're doing with your company and your whole career trajectory.
I was just curious if there's anything else you'd like to say as we're getting ready to end our show this evening. Well, just thank you for the opportunity to spend some time with you and also the audience. And again, I'm so proud to be a nurse. And again, I think it's one of the greatest professions that anyone can choose.
And thank you very much again for inviting me to speak with you this evening. It's been great having you on the show. And I think that your career path has again shown that you can become a nurse right out of school. You can become a respiratory therapist.
You can become a registered nurse. You could go back to school and become a nurse practitioner and all sorts of different choices. So thanks for being able to highlight how amazing the profession is and the various choices that people have once they've entered into it. So you've been listening to all about nursing live in the VBM Global Network and Tune Radio.
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