In this two-part episode we are joined by Marcina Doze and Shannon Krebs.

Marcina Doze is an emergency and forensic nurse with more than four decades of clinical experience, serving as a SANE since 2005 and as a certified legal nurse consultant and expert witness in forensic cases across multiple courts. A national leader in forensic nursing education and advocacy, she has held leadership roles within IAFN and ENA, contributed to legislation reducing SAFE kit backlogs, and continues to shape the field through teaching, policy work, and courtroom expertise.

Shannon Krebs is an emergency nurse leader whose career began in the U.S. Navy as a Hospital Corpsman and has been defined by service, clinical excellence, and advocacy. Today, she manages the Malbis Freestanding Emergency Department and played a key role in building Baldwin County’s SANE program, expanding access to compassionate, locally available forensic care for survivors of sexual assault.

When their community lacked local forensic resources, Marcina and Shannon stepped up to create change. They unpack the clinical, legal, and leadership lessons behind building a successful SANE program—and how nurses everywhere can improve forensic care at the bedside. This two part episode is called, "Start with Believing: Doing the Right Thing for Forensic Readiness (Part One).”

Marcina can be contacted by email at: marcina.doze@infirmaryhealth.org

Shannon can be contacted by email at: shannon.krebs@infirmaryhealth.org

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In this episode we're joined by Michelle Novominski.

Michelle Novominski is a registered nurse at Lenox Hill Hospital, where she cares for patients on the cardiovascular telemetry unit and serves in a leadership role on her unit’s Night Collaborative Care Council. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Pace University and a recipient of the American Nurses Association’s Future Nurse Leader Award.

Michelle brings a broad clinical background from her student nursing experience in emergency and intensive care, and the pre-hospital setting as an EMT. Beyond the bedside, she has maintained a continued involvement in leadership, research, and mentorship, having served in executive roles with the National Student Nurses Association and currently as Vice President of Sigma Theta Tau’s Omega Delta Chapter. Known for her compassion, grit, and curiosity, Michelle is passionate about advancing nursing practice and lifting others up and paying forward the support that made her own growth possible.

It's a known truth that becoming a nurse doesn't happen all at once. Michelle offers an honest look at how leadership as a student, real-world learning, and early career challenges have influenced not just how she practices, but how she sees herself as a nurse. This episode is called, "The Quiet Moments that Shape a Nursing Career."

Michelle can be contacted on LinkedIn @MichelleNovominski or on Instagram @MichelleNovo_

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We invite you to visit us online at bcen.org for additional information about emergency nursing certification, education, and much more.

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In this episode, we’re joined by Nyssa Hattaway, an emergency, transport nurse, educator, and former art major who brings creativity to the profession of nursing.

Nyssa began her nursing career in a Level 1 Trauma Center, growing into roles as a preceptor, charge nurse, and department educator before transitioning to flight nursing, where she’s served the south Atlanta area for over a decade. She’s a preceptor, a principal investigator on research focused on family presence, and a co-host of both her company’s educational podcast, AMPED, and the emergency nursing podcast The Q Word. Nyssa is also a frequent national speaker and serves on the Exam Construction Review Committee for the CFRN and CTRN exams.

Nyssa joins us to talk about compassion in high-stakes care and what it means to show up fully—whether that’s at the bedside, in research, or in finding your voice as a nurse. This episode is called "Be Colorful in a World of Beige: Compassion & Creativity in Nursing."

Nyssa can be contacted by email at theqwordpodcast@gmail.com and TheQwordpodcast.com

BCEN & Friends Podcast is presented by the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing. Scan the QR Code to sign up for Learn Updates:

We invite you to visit us online at bcen.org for additional information about emergency nursing certification, education, and much more.

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