Love n' Leary Nursing Podcast

The Love n’ Leary nursing podcast is where nursing leadership, innovation, and real talk come together. Hosted by nurse leaders Marion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN, and Rebecca Love, RN, MSN, FIEL, the show dives into the issues that matter most to today’s nursing community. Each episode features candid conversations, expert insights, and bold perspectives on healthcare, leadership, advocacy, and the future of nursing. Whether you’re a bedside nurse, nurse leader, or healthcare changemaker, Love n’ Leary offers thoughtful dialogue and practical takeaways to inform, inspire, and empower nurses at every stage of their careers.

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  Stand Up, Speak Out: The Politics of Science (with Colette Delawalla, PhD)

  Aug 17, 202629 min

  Stand Up for Science founder Colette Delawalla, PhD, joins Marion Leary and Rebecca Love to talk about what's happening to federal research funding — and why nurses belong in the conversation. Delawalla shares how a banned words list days before her grant deadline led her to organize a protest that drew tens of thousands, why she believes institutions won't lead this fight, and her practical advice for anyone who wants to get involved but feels overwhelmed: pick one issue, do one small thing a day, and vote in every election. A candid conversation about science, advocacy, and burnout for nurses at every career stage. "Pick a Lane": How Nurses Can Fight for Science Without Burning Out Skip ahead: 00:59: Marion introduces Colette and shares her own background with Philadelphia Science Action and the March for Science 02:37: The banned words list, the grant deadline, and the decision not to cut the word "woman" 05:30: Searching for a protest, finding none, and posting on Bluesky 08:19: Social media as the battleground for public opinion 11:22: Rebecca on showing up to the Boston rally and finding almost no nurses there 12:57: "Stand Up for Science, not Stand Up for Scientists": the big tent argument 14:14: The Nursing is STEM Coalition and the push for federal designation 18:00: Federal funding cuts and what Colette expects next 22:14: "Pick a lane" — practical advice for nurses who want to engage 25:03: Current Stand Up for Science campaigns and how to get involved 27:23: Closing thoughts Links: Stand Up for Science: https://www.standupforscience.net/ Nursing is STEM Coalition: https://www.nursingisstem.org/ ️ About The Love & Leary Podcast Thank you for tuning in to The Love n' Leary Podcast ! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with a colleague. Connect With Us Official Website: Visit nurse.org/lovenleary for episodes, articles, and exclusive nursing resources. Watch on YouTube: Subscribe to Love n' Leary Podcast YouTube to watch full video episodes and highlights. Follow the Hosts on LinkedIn Stay connected, network, and join the conversation with us professionally: Connect with Rebecca: Rebecca Love on LinkedIn Connect with Marion: Marion Leary on LinkedIn About Nurse.org: Empowering, entertaining, and uniting nurses worldwide. Explore more career guides, news, and community stories at Nurse.org .

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  When We Make It Harder for Immigrant Nurses to Practice — We Are Not Just Failing Them. We Are Failing Each Other (with Lulette Infante MSN, RN-BC, CPHQ)

  Aug 10, 202630 min

  The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode belong solely to the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the official policy, beliefs, or position of Nurse.org. Lulette Infante arrived in New York City from Manila at 18 with two suitcases and three younger siblings to help raise. Thirty years later, she's a nurse informatics leader, and she's sounding an alarm about what immigration enforcement is doing to patients, to the nursing workforce, and to the care pipeline every American will eventually depend on. In this episode of the Love n' Leary Nursing Podcast, hosts Marion Leary and Rebecca Love talk with Infante about her 25 years in pediatric hematology/oncology and ambulatory care, the LinkedIn post that resonated across nursing, patients who are now too frightened to show up for chemotherapy, and the history of Filipino nurses in the U.S. health care workforce. Plus: why she believes advocacy doesn't require being the loudest voice in the room, and what nurses can do on their very next shift. Timestamps 00:58 : Meet Lulette Infante MSN, RN-BC, CPHQ 07:57 : The article and the LinkedIn post that started it 10:44 : Thirty years in: what it feels like now 16:34 : The American dream, immigration policy, and the nursing pipeline 22:18 : The history of Filipino nurses in the U.S. workforce 28:56 : Closing thoughts and Lulette's LinkedIn quote Mentioned in this episode Infante's LinkedIn Post Nursing, Immigration, and Peace & Power by Patricia Regalado American Nursing Informatics Association (ANIA) Association of California Nurse Leaders (ACNL) Center for Nursing Value fellowship ️ About The Love & Leary Podcast Thank you for tuning in to The Love n' Leary Podcast ! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with a colleague. Connect With Us Official Website: Visit nurse.org/lovenleary for episodes, articles, and exclusive nursing resources. Watch on YouTube: Subscribe to Love n' Leary Podcast YouTube to watch full video episodes and highlights. Follow the Hosts on LinkedIn Stay connected, network, and join the conversation with us professionally: Connect with Rebecca: Rebecca Love on LinkedIn Connect with Marion: Marion Leary on LinkedIn About Nurse.org: Empowering, entertaining, and uniting nurses worldwide. Explore more career guides, news, and community stories at Nurse.org .

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  Nurses Waited a Century for Their Own Billing Codes — AI May Get There First (with Stephanie Witwer)

  Jul 30, 202625 min

  Nursing has never had its own CPT billing codes — but AI is about to get 288 of them. In this episode of the Love n' Leary Nursing Podcast, hosts Marion Leary and Rebecca Love sit down with Stephanie Witwer, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, a leading ambulatory care nurse expert and strategic advisor to AAACN, to unpack the AMA's proposed AI CPT codes and what they mean for the future of nursing. Stephanie explains how CPT codes work, why nursing work is billed as "incident to" physician services, and how $266 billion in annual nursing care remains invisible to payers. The conversation breaks down the three proposed AI categories — assistive, augmentative, and autonomous — and the legal, ethical, and economic risks of reimbursing AI while nursing stays unbillable. Could health systems be incentivized to invest in AI instead of nurses? Most importantly: there's something nurses can do right now. A CMS public comment period is open, and the hosts are calling for 100,000 nurse comments to get concerns on the permanent public record. Topics include: CPT codes explained, RVUs, incident-to billing, AI reimbursement, autonomous AI and nurse practice acts, nurse staffing economics, and how to submit a CMS public comment. Jump Ahead: 00:58 – Welcome and episode overview: AMA's proposed AI CPT codes and the CMS comment period with Stephanie Witwer 03:07 – CPT codes 101: the 1960s origin, AMA ownership, and how they became the national billing standard 08:58 – Are there any CPT codes for nursing? (Spoiler: zero) 14:55 – Assistive vs. augmentative vs. autonomous AI, and the nurse practice act problem 16:53 – The economics: what AI reimbursement means for nursing jobs 20:05 – The call to action: a billing taxonomy for nursing, how to comment to CMS 23:03 – Closing thoughts: the power of a unified nursing voice Resources: Comment on the CMS physician payment rule (CMS-1848-P, the PFS) by September 14, 2026. Comment on the CMS hospital outpatient rule (CMS-1850-P, which the ANA refers to as HOPPS) by August 31, 2026 . Register and comment on the AMA CPT Editorial Panel Meeting Interested Party through August 10, 3036 For additional background, see Nurse.org's in-depth coverage of AI billing and nursing reimbursement: Nurses Have Waited a Century for Billing Codes. AI May Get Them First (7/16) Nurses Have Never Had Their Own Medicare Payment Designation. Software May Get One First (7/20) The Evolution of CPT Codes and Their Emergence as THE National Healthcare Billing Standard (7/22) Becker's Healthcare coverage: New AI billing codes spark concern across nursing (7/17) Nurses’ AI pushback expands to new front (7/20) The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this episode belong solely to the hosts and do not necessarily reflect the official policy, beliefs, or position of Nurse.org ️ About The Love & Leary Podcast Thank you for tuning in to The Love n' Leary Podcast ! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with a colleague. Connect With Us Official Website: Visit nurse.org/lovenleary for episodes, articles, and exclusive nursing resources. Watch on YouTube: Subscribe to Love n' Leary Podcast YouTube to watch full video episodes and highlights. Follow the Hosts on LinkedIn Stay connected, network, and join the conversation with us professionally: Connect with Rebecca: Rebecca Love on LinkedIn Connect with Marion: Marion Leary on LinkedIn About Nurse.org: Empowering, entertaining, and uniting nurses worldwide. Explore more career guides, news, and community stories at Nurse.org .

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  Inside the Largest Nurse Strike in Massachusetts History

  Jul 6, 202629 min

  Hosts Marion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN and Rebecca Love, RN, MSN, FIEL welcome Shannon Vieira, RN and Kara Wilson, OT of MGB Home Care for an urgent conversation about one of the largest healthcare strikes in Massachusetts history. On July 8th, home care nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, social workers, dietitians, and speech-language pathologists will walk off the job for seven days. On the same day, inpatient nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital will also strike — and the hospital has announced it will lock them out for an additional four days. In this episode, Shannon and Kara walk through the changes to their working conditions that led up to the strike, the caseloads pushing home care clinicians past safe practice limits (up to 50 patients per clinician), the growing wage gap between frontline workers and executives at the seventh-wealthiest hospital system in the U.S., and what they're actually asking for. Marion and Rebecca connect the dots between staffing, cost of living, hospital economics, and the future of the healthcare workforce. Whether you work in home care, hospital nursing, or any patient-facing role, this conversation explains exactly why nurses and their colleagues across Massachusetts are drawing a line — and why the rest of the country is watching. Jump Ahead 00:58 — Welcome and introducing Shannon Vieira and Kara Wilson 02:10 — What led up to the strike: the point system, salaried pay, and lost overtime 03:22 — A new CNO, efficiency mandates, and a 20-25% productivity jump 04:13 — The UKG clock-in revelation 05:21 — Is this the first home care strike of its kind? 06:08 — The parallel Brigham and Women's inpatient nurse strike 07:04 — Same-day strike, plus a four-day hospital lockout 08:09 — Why the lockout feels like a strong-arm tactic 09:30 — Why nurses across the country are watching this strike so closely 10:29 — Caseload realities on the OT side: 34 patients in 32 hours 11:49 — Why home care is more than face time with the patient 13:39 — What Shannon and Kara are asking for 14:18 — The safe caseload research: 25 max, 18 ideal 15:59 — Sicker patients, faster discharges, and 30-day readmission risk 17:19 — The executive pay disparity and MGB's $35.8B in assets 18:10 — MGB reported $2 billion in net gains last year 19:12 — Why Boston's 53% higher cost of living matters 21:58 — Retention, hourly rate math, and clinician burnout 23:30 — Who sits on the MGB board of directors 26:07 — Shannon's final thought: the unionization wave was created by MGB 26:35 — Kara's final thought: self-care as patient care 27:55 — Marion's closing: "The people united will never be defeated" Listen now at nurse.org/news/love-n-leary-nursing-podcast. 🎙️ About The Love & Leary Podcast Thank you for tuning in to The Love n' Leary Podcast ! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with a colleague. 🌐 Connect With Us Official Website: Visit nurse.org/lovenleary for episodes, articles, and exclusive nursing resources. Watch on YouTube: Subscribe to Love n' Leary Podcast YouTube to watch full video episodes and highlights. 👥 Follow the Hosts on LinkedIn Stay connected, network, and join the conversation with us professionally: Connect with Rebecca: Rebecca Love on LinkedIn Connect with Marion: Marion Leary on LinkedIn About Nurse.org: Empowering, entertaining, and uniting nurses worldwide. Explore more career guides, news, and community stories at Nurse.org .

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  What the Media Gets Wrong About Nursing — and Why It Matters (With Sandy Summers)

  Jun 26, 202630 min

  Hosts Marion Leary, PhD, MPH, RN and Rebecca Love, RN, MSN, FIEL welcome Sandy Summers, RN, MSN, MPH, founder and executive director of The Truth About Nursing, for a powerful conversation about how the media shapes the way the public sees nurses — and why it matters far beyond entertainment. For 25 years, Sandy has been pushing back against the way nurses are portrayed on TV, in advertising, and in the news. From the early days of organizing nurses to challenge ER, to going after Hooters for a naughty nurse ad campaign, to today's fight with The Pit, Sandy walks through the stereotypes that won't go away and the real-world consequences of those portrayals on funding, policy, staffing, and the nursing shortage itself. In this episode, you'll hear how Sandy got the Washington Post to cover her first nursing media campaign in 2001, why she says the so-called nursing shortage was created by the hospital industry, how AI reimbursement codes are threatening to redefine nursing roles without nurses at the table, and what every nurse can do right now to join the fight. Whether you're a clinical nurse, a nurse leader, a nursing student, or a healthcare changemaker, this conversation is a call to use your voice. Jump Ahead: 00:58 — Welcome and introducing Sandy Summers 01:32 — The Truth About Nursing's mission 02:57 — Why nursing is the largest profession but still poorly defined in media 03:34 — How it all started: the 2001 budget cuts and the ER campaign 07:38 — Why The Pit is making the same mistakes ER did 08:52 — 25 years of progress: ad campaigns, billboards, and global media wins 11:09 — Why Sandy keeps going after 25 years 13:20 — "I can't tolerate the disrespect" 13:23 — How media portrayals affect policy, STEM designation, and funding 14:54 — Nursing education gets 1/50th of physician education funding 15:30 — Why the nursing shortage was created by the hospital industry 16:29 — The CPT codes problem: 288 for AI, zero for nursing 18:35 — How nurses can get involved with The Truth About Nursing 20:00 — Linda Aiken's research: doubling a nurse's workload increases mortality by 31% 23:28 — How to get more nurses fired up about this fight 26:30 — Turning anger into action instead of burnout 28:10 — Sandy's parting words to nurses 28:44 — Closing thanks 🎙️ About The Love & Leary Podcast Thank you for tuning in to The Love n' Leary Podcast ! If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a 5-star review, and share it with a colleague. 🌐 Connect With Us Official Website: Visit nurse.org/lovenleary for episodes, articles, and exclusive nursing resources. Watch on YouTube: Subscribe to Love n' Leary Podcast YouTube to watch full video episodes and highlights. 👥 Follow the Hosts on LinkedIn Stay connected, network, and join the conversation with us professionally: Connect with Rebecca: Rebecca Love on LinkedIn Connect with Marion: Marion Leary on LinkedIn About Nurse.org: Empowering, entertaining, and uniting nurses worldwide. Explore more career guides, news, and community stories at Nurse.org .

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