In this episode, public health nurse and health reporter Barbara Glickstein discusses the importance of the nurse voice with interviewer Giselle Gerardi. Ms. Glickstein discusses the economic, professional and social implications of speaking up as nurses and being heard through the media. Barbara provides advice to help nurses become engaged and be heard, while sharing her perspectives and experiences.

Barbara Glickstein is the Director of Communication, Media Projects at the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement at George Washington University School of Nursing. She is a nurse consultant to Carolyn Jones Productions and worked on the feature-length documentaries, The American Nurse and Defining Hope, and the multimedia project, Dying in America.

Giselle Gerardi is a full-time Clinical Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York. She holds a faculty position in the Applied Health Informatics Masters program, and is an Adjunct Clinical Instructor in the School of Nursing in the Stony Brook BSN program. Giselle's clinical experience focuses in Maternal-Child Health and she has a wide array of experience working with antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum women both in community and acute settings. Giselle is a co-private investigator in a project funded by the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. This project aims to help connect older adults with technology to improve their ability to access health information. She is a Jonas Health Policy Scholar for 2018-2020 and is currently working on her PhD in Nursing Science at the City University of New York at the Graduate Center.

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