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Beyond the Battlefield: Addressing Unique Health Needs of America’s Veterans

Dr. Randy Moore, DNP, RN is a dedicated health care leader specializing in Veteran health and well-being. A Veteran himself, he is an Assistant Professor at the UAB Sc...

Heart to Heart: Innovations and Impact of Nurse-Led Heart Failure Clinics

Dr. Carla Turner graduated from Birmingham-Southern College in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and also received a Masters in Nursing and a Doctorate of Nu...

Navigating Dementia: Prevention, Care Strategies, and the Hidden Challenges of Frontotemporal Dementia

Dr. Rita Jablonski blends clinical research with clinical practice, offering persons with dementia and their caregivers the best of both worlds.She is a tenured Profes...

Bridging Gaps: Community Outreach at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center

Dr. Timiya S. Nolan is the Associate Director for Community Outreach & Engagement at the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center. In this role, she will be responsible for ...

The AI Clinic: Where Tech Meets Care

Chris Hickman has over 18 years of data and analytics experience. For the past 18 years, he has worked as a data analytics consultant, for multiple companies across va...

Bones and Beyond: A Conversation with an Orthopedic Nurse Practitioner

Dr. Andrea Boohaker is the Associate Vice President of Ambulatory Services at UAB. She was recently in the role of Director of Advanced Practice Providers overseeing a...

Summer Break

Clinical Pearls is taking a break this summer and will be back with new episodes in the fall! 

Fun in the Sun

Dr. Jeremy Jordan has over 12 years of experience caring for children, training the next generation of PNPs, and conducting research in pediatric injury. He is an Assi...

Practice Makes Perfect

Dr. Penni Watts is an Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for Clinical Simulation & Training, and Interim Associate Dean for The Office of Technology and Innovation. H...

Empowering Nurse Leadership

Prior to joining the faculty at UAB, Dr. Eagerton was a nurse and Chief Nursing Officer for 31 years in the Veterans Health Administration before retiring in October 2...

Improving Lives Through the Nurse-Family Partnership

The UAB Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) works by having specially trained nurses regularly visit moms-to-be, starting early in the pregnancy and continuing after the ba...

Using Generative AI in the Classroom

Perhaps one of the most frequently expressed concerns about the widespread use of artificial intelligence applications is the potential impact on academic integrity. W...

Pressure Points: Navigating Intraoperative Hypotension Challenges

Low blood pressure during surgery is common in patients having non-cardiac surgery under general anesthesia. This can be secondary to many factors but has been linked ...

Painful Inequalities: The Epigenomic Factor

Dr. Edwin Aroke is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Ph.D. Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing. He is a Certified Registe...

Medically Guided Weight Loss: Separating Fact from Fiction

Obesity is a chronic disease that affects approximately two out of five adult Americans. Among children and adolescents aged 2-19, approximately 16% are overweight and...

Birth After Transplant: Exploring Uterine Transplantation

Today we are joined by Emily Boydston, the only dedicated uterus transplant coordinator in the country. Emily is a graduate of the UAB School of Nursing and currently ...

State of the Nation's Emergency Departments

The American College of Emergency Physicians, Emergency Nurses Association and the National Alliance on Mental Illness all agree that work needs to be done to reduce o...

STOP THE BLEED® and Save a Life

The goal of the STOP THE BLEED® campaign is to better prepare the public to save lives by raising awareness of basic actions that can stop life threatening bleeding fo...

The Mind Unraveled

This episode explores a specific kind of dementia. Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) describes a range of progressive dementia syndromes associated wi...

Let’s All Get Along

According to the Joint Commission, poor communication accounts for two thirds of sentinel incidents in health care. Inadequate communication between nurses and doctors...

Your Voice Matters

Nursing is the nation's largest health care profession, with nearly 5.2 million registered nurses and more than 355,000 nurse practitioners in the United States. With ...

Combating Human Trafficking Through a Trauma-Informed Care Lens

On this episode of Clinical Pearls, we are joined by UABSON Assistant Professor Dr. Lauren Mays, a Family Nurse Practitioner who maintains a clinic practice at the Wel...

Phone a Friend

The future is here! Today’s guest is Paul Malito, Nurse Manager for UAB’s TeleICU. Malito says the lack of bedside experience among nurses is a problem nationally. On ...

Maternity Care Deserts

Access to health care has for a long time been used as an indicator on the health status of communities. Healthy people 2030 defines access to health care as the timel...

Season 10 Preview

Join hosts Dr. Tracie White and Dr. BJ Haamankuli as they preview the new season of Clinical Pearls. 

Nurse Practice Act for RN & Advanced Practice

Learn more about the laws for governing nurse practice. Panelists include Natalie Baker, DNP, CRNP, ANP-BC, GNP-BC, CNE, GS-C, FAANP, FAAN and Elizabeth Crooks, DNP, R...

Doctor of Nursing Practice Degree

Translate knowledge for improvements in clinical practice. Panelists include Curry Bordelon, DNP, MBA, CRNP and Terri Poe, DNP, RN, NE-BC

Adult-Gero Nurse Practitioner

Become an Adult-Gero Acute or Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. Panelists include Cori Johnson, DNP, CRNP, AGNP-C and Rebecca Suttle, DNP, CRNP, AGACNP-BC

Nursing Health System Leadership

Hone your skills for management and executive leadership in healthcare organizations. Panelists include Greg Eagerton, DNP, RN, NEA-BC and Marisa Wilson, DNSc, MHSc, R...

Choosing your Graduate Clinical Nursing Path

Expand your horizons in nursing fields. Panelists include Curry Bordelon, DNP, MBA, CRNP and Tedra Smith, DNP, CRNP, CPNP-PC, CNE, CHSE

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