Can healthcare ask nurses for professional excellence without protecting their well-being?

In this episode of Let’s Get Real, Dr. Reneé Roberts-Turner sits down with Dr. Johanna Gaskins, Founder and CEO of Seek Wellbeing®, for an honest conversation about the people providing the care and what it takes to support them.

Dr. Gaskins shares how her own experiences in nursing shaped her approach to well-being, restoration, and nurse-led care. Together, they examine how depletion can become mistaken for dedication, why resilience cannot replace changes to the systems nurses work within, and how autonomy affects a nurse’s ability to practice with purpose.

In this conversation:
• Well-being as the foundation for personal and professional excellence
• Recognizing when nurses are pushing through depletion
• The connection between caregiver well-being, clinical judgment, and patient care
• Leadership’s responsibility to create conditions that support restoration
• Nurse autonomy, ownership, and opportunities beyond the hospital
• Seek Wellbeing’s approach to community-based, nurse-led care

Plus, our “Off the Charts” segment explores self-awareness, returning to yourself, and Dr. Gaskins’ vision for the future of nursing.

Let’s Get Real brings honest conversations about leadership, healthcare, and the realities behind the roles we hold.

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Can AI make nurses better—or are we asking the wrong questions?

In this episode of Let's Get Real, Dr. Renee Roberts-Turner sits down with Dr. Kellie Bryant, a nationally recognized leader in nursing education, healthcare innovation, and artificial intelligence, to discuss how AI is transforming the future of nursing.

From the classroom to the bedside, Dr. Bryant shares how AI is already improving documentation, supporting clinical decision-making, and reshaping the way future healthcare professionals are educated. Together, they explore why nurses must have a seat at the table as new technologies are developed—and why leadership requires the courage to adapt before everyone else does.

Whether you're a nurse, healthcare leader, educator, student, or simply curious about the future of healthcare, this conversation offers practical insights on embracing innovation without losing the human side of patient care.

In this episode, you'll learn:
• How AI is changing nursing education and patient care
• Why healthcare leaders can no longer ignore AI
• The biggest misconceptions about AI in healthcare
• Why nurses must be involved in developing healthcare technology
• How educators can better prepare the next generation of clinicians
• Leadership lessons on resilience, innovation, and taking chances
• The importance of staying adaptable in an ever-changing profession

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We are short 263,000 nurses — and turning away 80,000 people who want to join the profession. So what's really going on?

In this episode, Dr. Reneé Roberts-Turner sits down with Dr. Roberta Waite, Dean of Georgetown University Berkley School of Nursing, for a candid conversation about what it actually takes to get into nursing, who gets to lead, and where the system breaks.

They get into the road to the deanship — and why it was never a straight line. The faculty shortage, the financial barriers, and the policy decisions quietly limiting who can access nursing education. What social structure has to do with who moves up in leadership. Why the status quo is the biggest threat to the profession. And why nurses have more power than they think.

Plus — Dr. Waite stays for Off the Charts. Her go-to treat, her theme song for nursing, and the one thing every nurse needs to know.
This is the conversation nursing needs.

🎙 Let's Get Real is a candid conversation series about leadership, impact, and showing up authentically — hosted by Dr. Reneé Roberts-Turner, healthcare executive, speaker, and author of The Diamond Model.

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