Nurse Week 2024 Special Episode: Healthcare: One of the Nations Most Violent Fields

From verbal abuse to physical assaults, nurses face a myriad of dangers while caring for patients and navigating the complexities of healthcare settings. On this episode of N&H we explore the alarming rise of violence against nurses, its root causes, and the urgent need for systemic change with special guest and CEO/ Founder of Cortex Gold, Mel Cortez RN, BSN. Mel is a Registered Nurse and believes that now more than ever, bedside nurses, healthcare administrators, and security professionals need her support. Mel Cortez graduated from Towson University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. As a Critical Care Travel Nurse for over 10 years, she has been in many facilities across the country. In addition to Nursing Supervision roles in acute care, Mel has held various management positions within Home Health, Hospice, and Long-Term Care prior to returning to the bedside to serve as a Critical Care Traveler in the Northeast in March of 2020. After 2 pivotal years caring for patients in the Covid 19 Pandemic, she then chose to launch the Cortex Brand, a solution-based business. Cortex’s latest project, Cortex Gold has a primary focus on creating a Gold Standard for Healthcare Security while reducing the rising violence at the bedside through tactical, practical innovations in the realms of product, training and research. She is a content expert in regards to Healthcare Workforce Satisfaction and Retention, Workplace Violence Reduction and the implementation of systems-wide training programs that are both cost-effective and delivered efficiently during operational tempo, Mel holds licensure in North Carolina and Texas and is a member of the TNA, ANA and IAHSS (International Association of Healthcare Security). This episode is sponsored by Rogue Nurse Media Empowering Nurses and Patients to tell their stories. Nurses get 1.0 FREE CE's go to and fill out the survey nursesandhypochondriacs@gmail.com Give us a 5 star rating on apple podcasts For The Well Written Nurse Writing and Storytelling classes go to: Join our email newsletter

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Nurse Week 2024 Special Episode: Healthcare: One of the Nations Most Violent Fields is an episode from The Nurses and Hypochondriacs Podcast by Ersilia Pompilio.

This episode is 51:50 long.

This episode was published on May 9, 2024.

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