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Sound Leadership with DJ
Dr. Julie Siemers, with over four decades of nursing experience, shares her leadership journey, emphasizing patient safety, quality care, and the importance of recognizing "failure to rescue" in healthcare, while pioneering its integration into nursing education.
She highlights the value of empathetic decision-making, servant leadership, soft skills, and continuous self-evaluation, offering actionable insights for improving healthcare leadership and education.
On the Edge with April Mahony
Dr. Siemers is on a mission to save 10,000 lives by empowering patients and their families to become confident advocates for their health, equipping them with the knowledge to ask the right questions, demand clear communication, and ensure quality care.
As a Leapfrog Certified Coach, Dr. Siemers specializes in guiding patients through the complexities of healthcare, from selecting providers and understanding medical jargon to navigating treatment options, while leveraging her expertise in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey.
Found Down Podcast
Dr. Julie Siemers, with over four decades of nursing experience, shares her leadership journey, emphasizing patient safety, quality care, and the importance of recognizing "failure to rescue" in healthcare, while pioneering its integration into nursing education.
She highlights the value of empathetic decision-making, servant leadership, soft skills, and continuous self-evaluation, offering actionable insights for improving healthcare leadership and education.
Shadow Me Next!
Preventable harm is usually a systems failure, not a sudden surprise. Drawing on 46 years across ICU, trauma, flight, and leadership, Dr. Julie Siemers explains “failure to rescue” as failures to recognize, act, and communicate—highlighting early warning signs (like respiratory rate, ventilation vs. oxygenation, and subtle changes across her seven clinical pillars) that appear hours before a patient crashes, even when SpO₂ looks “normal.”
Culture, communication, and advocacy save lives. From helicopter medicine to bedside care, the podcast emphasizes that respect, closed-loop communication, simulation training, and empowered families (using tools like CUS words and the chain of command) are just as critical as protocols—making patient safety a shared, teachable, and solvable responsibility.
Prescription for Admission Podcast
Dr. Julie Siemers breaks down the real causes of patient harm—communication failures, medication errors, unsafe transitions of care, and “failure to rescue”—and explains how hospital culture and accreditation standards directly impact patient outcomes.
How Advocacy Saves Lives: Learn practical, actionable ways patients, families, and healthcare professionals can speak up, prevent errors, report near misses, and help build a safer, more transparent healthcare system.
Super Clinic Project Podcast
Why patient safety is still broken: Dr. Julie Siemers reveals how preventable harm continues in modern healthcare due to system failures—not bad clinicians—highlighting that up to 70% of patient harm stems from communication breakdowns. She shares real front-line stories and explains why transparency, better communication, and systems thinking are critical to saving lives.
How clinics, clinicians, and patients can drive change: This episode delivers practical strategies to empower patients and families to advocate for safer care, improve clinic communication and safety culture, leverage tools like hospital safety grades and emerging technology, and implement education that helps clinicians anticipate risks and prevent harm.
The Iferia Techcast
Dr. Julie Siemers, trauma flight nurse turned patient safety expert, breaks down why patient harm is now the third leading cause of death—and how “broken systems,” not bad people, drive preventable errors inside hospitals.
Real-world lessons from flight nursing, how communication failures put patients at risk, how technology like AI alerts and voice-activated charting can improve safety, and the exact questions patients and families can ask to protect themselves and their loved ones during a hospital stay.
New Nurses Uncorked - A Nursing Podcast
Delivering Nursing News
Nurse Erica and Dr. Julie Siemers discuss the decline in new graduate nurses’ preparedness, highlighting record-low NCLEX pass rates, diminished clinical experience since COVID-19, and concerns about cheating and assessment failures in nursing programs.
They emphasize the urgent need for curriculum reform to strengthen clinical judgment, safeguard patient safety, and address the critical challenges in nursing education.
The Bossy Nurse Podcast
Dr. Julie Siemers explains how missed warning signs, poor communication, and “failure to rescue” impact outcomes—and how nurses, patients, and families can act as powerful safety partners by spotting red flags, asking questions, and speaking up early.
Drawing on decades of critical care experience, Dr. Siemers shares how gaps in nurse readiness led her to create education tools, deliver a TEDx talk, and build Lifebeat Solutions to strengthen clinical judgment and amplify patient safety impact.
Delivering Health Podcast with Dr. John Neustadt
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Dr. Julie Siemers shares insights from her 40+ years in medicine on how to prevent these avoidable tragedies.
Key topics include medication errors, unrecognized patient deterioration, AI in healthcare, patient education, communication breakdowns, and surgical checklists.
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