Broken and Brave: The Nurse Who Finally Said What Healthcare Really Costs/Tiffany Smith

For fifteen years she had a front row seat to one of the most important and most broken systems in human civilization.Tiffany Smith is a registered nurse who worked across critical care, emergency rooms, hospice, home health, and long term care. She watched patients and families become overwhelmed, financially strained, and emotionally exhausted trying to navigate a healthcare system that feels impossible to understand even from the inside. She watched healthcare workers quietly break under the pressure, especially during COVID while trying to hold everything together for everyone else.And then she said the thing nobody inside the system dares to say.Bedside nursing was killing her soul.So she wrote Broken and Brave: The Fight to Heal American Healthcare. Raw frontline experiences. The emotional realities of healthcare work the public almost never sees. The human cost of a system that prioritizes productivity and profit over people's lives. The conversations that happen behind the closed door that patients and families are almost never allowed to hear.And then she built Broken and Brave Health, a platform dedicated to helping family caregivers navigate the overwhelming realities of caring for someone they love, so they never have to feel as alone and as lost as the system makes them feel.In this episode of Beyond the Draft, Tiffany pulls back the curtain on everything. The gap between what patients believe healthcare is and what it actually is when the visitors go home. The real story of what COVID did to the people caring for the sick while the world watched the sick. The difference between burnout and moral injury, and why that distinction matters enormously for how we think about healing the healers. The conversations every family needs to have about end-of-life care that almost nobody has until it is too late. And what she most wants every exhausted caregiver to hear right now.This is the conversation healthcare has been avoiding.Tiffany Smith is done avoiding it.🎙️ Host: Imma🏥 Guest: Tiffany Smith RN/ Author/ Healthcare Advocate /Caregiver Champion📚 Broken and Brave: The Fight to Heal American Healthcare🌐 brokenandbrave.orgBeyond the Draft /Where the real story begins after the writing is done.Your words have power. Your story matters. Keep writing.