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Arnold Blake on Nursing Education and the Future of Nursing · Becker’s Healthcare Podcast

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  - This is Scott Becker with the Beckers HealthCare
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  - very special guest.
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  - We're joined today with with somebody from the
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  - front lines of nursing education
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  - with Arnold Blake. Arnold's a nursing student at
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  - the Galen College of Nursing, an HCA Healthcare
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  - affiliate.
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  - So excited to visit with with Arnold. So
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  - many things changing in the world of nursing
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  - and nurse education. I am so excited to
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  - visit with you.
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  - Take a moment if you don't mind. Tell
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  - us a little bit about yourself and what
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  - led you to pursue a career in nursing.
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  - Absolutely.
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  - So my name is Arnold. I'm a nursing
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  - student, wrapping up my second year as a
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  - part of a three year program at Galen
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  - College.
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  - And,
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  - growing up, my mom really prioritized,
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  - public service.
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  - And so I got to witness my aunts
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  - and uncles and some other family members be
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  - in health care. So it was always something
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  - that kinda stick in the back of my
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  - mind.
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  - And after high school, I went to the
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  - military and I served in the Navy for
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  - a while,
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  - and I worked as a diesel mechanic.
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  - And during that time, I got to see,
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  - corpsman or who are known as the navy's
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  - nurses,
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  - operate and, perform on people. And so it
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  - was something that I really found fascinating.
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  - And so after I got out, I knew
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  - I wanted to work in public service, and
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  - I thought what better way to do that
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  - would than to go to health care and
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  - try to become a nurse.
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  - Thank you. Congratulations.
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  - And so needed.
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  - Just give us a bit about I'm gonna
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  - ask you some questions about sort of the,
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  - you know, your your clinicals and hands on
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  - work,
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  - and what's that taught you about nursing. So
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  - you've been doing your hands on clinical rotations
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  - and experience
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  - at HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center.
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  - What does that talk to you about nursing
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  - that you can't learn in the classroom? I
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  - assume similar to watching
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  - navy core members, things you couldn't have learned
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  - in the classroom. What what are the things
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  - you're learning in hands on quinone experience just
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  - in life as you apply them to nursing?
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  - And what are you saying?
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  - Yeah.
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  - My time at HCA Houston Healthcare Medical Center
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  - has been
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  - extremely valuable,
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  - because being in class, we do a lot
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  - of scenario based,
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  - like operations. We kind of brainstorm back and
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  - forth about the best way to go about
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  - treatments and all that kind of stuff and
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  - decide what the patient needs. But being hands
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  - on and working under nurses who have a
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  - ton of experience has been helpful because it
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  - helps us build our confidence.
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  - This specific location down in the medical center
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  - sees a lot of different cases, a lot
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  - of complex cases. And so getting to see
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  - those nurses use their expertise to
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  - really give their patients what they are looking
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  - for and
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  - and help them in the best way possible
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  - and being a part of that has been
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  - extremely valuable. There's, like,
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  - so many skills that I will continue to
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  - take on with me just because of my
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  - time here.
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  - And let me ask you this question. There's
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  - been such a shortage of nurses the last
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  - few years.
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  - It seems like nursing education is accelerating.
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  - We're really doing a great job of turning
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  - out more nurses than we were a couple
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  - years ago.
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  - You you're in the middle of it. What
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  - do you see out there that's making a
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  - difference? Because it seems like nurse education, we
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  - really started to fill the void, a lot
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  - of work to go.
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  - In doctor education, we're so far behind in
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  - the game.
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  - But what's going right in nursing education that
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  - you see on the front lines?
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  - They're really stressing the importance of safety, which
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  - is is paramount when dealing with people.
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  - And building that confidence and understanding and knowing
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  - that you are operating safely is really changing
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  - the game because it's letting a lot of
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  - graduates go into the world way more,
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  - prepared to handle the different kind of cases
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  - they may come across.
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  - No. I think that's just remarkable, and it's
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  - remarkable for me to see the improvement nursing
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  - education over the years and how much it's
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  - excelled and how what a great job the
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  - the nursing schools are doing, like Galen, like
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  - HCA, of producing nurses.
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  - When you look at as you enter the
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  - nursing profession,
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  - what changes or challenges in health care do
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  - you find most interesting?
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  - What what what what are you most focused
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  - on and excited about as you move forward
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  - in the next year or so?
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  - Okay. So there's a few things I'm excited
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  - about. One of them is, like, the way
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  - health care in general has been pushing and
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  - implementing different technology
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  - into the field, and I'm excited to see
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  - how that continues to progress.
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  - A challenge I think I'm looking forward to
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  - and kind of excited about would be,
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  - the pressure of being a nurse. One of
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  - my goals is to work in the emergency
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  - room, and I love the fact that you
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  - never know what kind of case is gonna
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  - walk in and you just have to be
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  - on your toes. And with my military experience,
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  - I love working under pressure. And so that's
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  - one thing I'm really excited about getting to,
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  - handle and address,
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  - because I I think I find it
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  - it makes the best kind of, you know,
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  - education,
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  - like, in the field.
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  - Fantastic. And when you talk to others, I
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  - mean, you've got this great background of
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  - military,
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  - nursing, I mean, set out to be a
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  - natural born leader.
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  - Talk a little bit about what advice you
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  - would give to emerging leaders, emerging nurses.
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  - What advice would you give to those entering
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  - nursing school and trying to make a career
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  - in nursing?
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  - The biggest piece of advice I could give
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  - to any other students is to when you
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  - go out to your clinicals, especially when you
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  - go out to your clinicals,
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  - to be a sponge. You wanna soak up
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  - as much information as you possibly can, especially
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  - being down in the medical center. The nurses
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  - there collectively have so much experience,
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  - and you get to work directly under them
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  - and pick their brains. So you get to
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  - ask them all the questions they know about
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  - medications,
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  - about operations, diagnosis,
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  - even pulling from their own experiences. They get
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  - to,
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  - take you under their wing a bit and
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  - kind of make you a way better nurse.
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  - Fantastic. And and and and talk a little
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  - bit about what surprises you in surprises you
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  - in nursing education. Is there anything that you
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  - ever wake up and say, why are we
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  - doing that? Or it's great that we're doing
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  - this? What what surprises you?
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  - What do you find particularly interesting when you
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  - look into things, Arnold? I always find the
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  - science behind everything so interesting. And so getting
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  - to see how the nurses know the pathophysiology
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  - behind the different, conditions and diseases,
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  - it always fascinates me because there's so much
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  - that we we know, but also so much
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  - that we're still figuring out.
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  - I I think that is so true. Arnold,
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  - you're you're the future of nursing in our
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  - country. We are so excited to have you
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  - on today.
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  - Thank goodness for you, and and thank you
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  - for what you're doing. There's such a shortage
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  - and such a need for for great nurses
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  - and great leaders. Thank you so much for
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  - joining us today, on the Becker's Healthcare podcast.
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  - What a pleasure to visit with you. Thank
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  - you so much, sir. Absolutely. Thank you for
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  - having me.