Despite its rural location, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is the largest hospital in New Hampshire, taking referrals from over forty other hospitals in New England. It is also a major teaching hospital associated with Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine.
Karen is also the President of the Northern New England Association of Healthcare Executives, one of the sponsors of this podcast.
Karen is a nurse-executive whose roots are in emergency and trauma nursing. Her career began with an active duty tour in the Army’s Nurse Corps, then she returned home to Bangor, Maine where she progressed through the nursing ranks to become the Chief Nursing Officer of Acadia Hospital, a 100 bed freestanding psychiatric hospital. After 23 years with the Eastern Maine Healthcare System, she followed professional and personal opportunity to Dartmouth-Hitchcock, where her leadership skills quickly led her to the Associate Chief Nurse position.
In this podcast we talk about Karen’s career leading up to her current position at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, how Dartmouth-Hitchcock is changing to meet the challenges of an evolving health system, and how nursing is playing a role in that transition. We then talk about leadership, and Karen’s role in the Northern New England Association of Healthcare Executives and conclude with Karen’s recommendations for early careerists.
Links to the Podcast:
Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-health-leader-forge
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/healthleaderforge/id981989377
Transcript of the interview available here.
Podcast Outline
Time Topic
0:02:36 background, Army Nurse Corps
0:08:08 working up through the ranks, Eastern Maine Medical Center
0:18:49 Chief Nursing Officer, Acadia Hospital
0:25:34 coming to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
0:30:52 Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
0:33:55 role of Chief Nursing Officer and practice of nursing
0:37:44 use of advanced practice nurses (APRNs) at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
0:39:22 structure of nurses in the facility
0:40:18 Karen's professional growth at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
0:43:38 strategy
0:47:25 the future of health care and Dartmouth's approach
0:50:00 leadership
0:53:57 mentorship
1:00:32 women in leadership
1:05:30 ACHE/NNEAHE
1:10:36 advice to early careerists
Links to Topics Discussed:
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Nursing
we joke about Karen following her husband Peter, a previous guest, to Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
Army Nurse Corps - see also my interview with the Chief of the Army Nurse Corps
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