Nursing the Nation
Nursing the Nation is a podcast where we dissect today's headlines through the uniquely insightful lens of the nurse. Join your hosts, Jamie & Melissa Anne, as they use their nursing expertise to navigate the complexities of national events, offering perspectives rooted in holism, advocacy, and nursing science. Beyond the medical jargon and political noise, they’ll explore the human element of current affairs, providing a grounded and compassionate understanding of the issues that impact us all. Because when it comes to understanding the pulse of our society, who better to ask than the most trusted profession?
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 14
- Years Active
- 2025
S1.E14- Soapbox Saturday: Bogus Bootstraps
Soapbox Saturday is a segment of Nursing the Nation where either Jamie or Melissa Anne step up on their figurative soapbox and talk about something they feel strongly about. Today's Soapbox is all a…
S1.E13 Political Threats to Women’s Health in the United States: A Discussion with Heidi Collins Fantasia, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FNAP, FAAN
In this episode of Nursing the Nation, Jamie and Melissa Anne sit down with Dr. Heidi Collins Fantasia to unpack how recent federal policies are threatening women’s health. From scrubbing women’s hea…
S1.E12- Why We Started Nursing the Nation
In this episode of Nursing the Nation, co-hosts Jamie Bourgeois and Melissa Anne DuBois share their personal journeys into nursing and why they launched a podcast at the intersection of nursing, poli…
S1.E11- Shout Out Saturday: Amanda Trebach
Today we’re launching Shout Out Saturday, a segment dedicated to celebrating nurses who live out the ethical core of nursing. This is a space to spotlight a fellow nurse who is truly living out the N…
S1.E10- Why Medicare Cuts Matter to Everyone: Breaking Down the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Jamie and Melissa Anne take on the Medicare changes in The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA), signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025. OBBBA makes significant (although less extensive than Me…
S1.E9- Why Medicaid Cuts Matter to Everyone
This week, we unpack the sweeping new law formerly known as the One Big Beautiful Bill—now signed into law by President Trump. While it promises tax breaks and rural relief, it delivers historic Medi…
S1.E8- Soapbox Saturday: Why Nurses Are Political
Soapbox Saturday is segment of Nursing the Nation where Jamie or Melissa Anne step up on their figurative soapbox and talk about something they feel strongly about. In today's Soapbox, Jamie explain…
MAHA & Make Our Children Healthy Again, Part 5.2: The misrepresentation of gender-affirming care
In the second half of our series finale, Jamie and Melissa Anne take on one of the most inflammatory claims in the MAHA commission’s MOCHA report: that gender-affirming care is “child chemical and su…
MAHA & Make Our Children Healthy Again, Part 5.1: Rx Overload?
In the (almost) final episode of Decoding “Make Our Children Healthy Again”: What Nurses Want You to Know, co-hosts Jamie and Melissa Anne examine one of the MAHA commission’s most controversial clai…
MAHA & Make Our Children Healthy Again, Part 4: American kids are overvaxxed?
In this episode, Jamie and Melissa Anne tackle the fourth major claim in the MAHA Commission’s MOCHA report: that American pediatric care is overmedicalized, with too many vaccines. While the origina…
MAHA & Make Our Children Healthy Again, Part 3: Lack of activity & chronic stress
Today we are tackling Part 3 of our Series MAHA and Make Our Children Healthy Again: What Nurses Want You to Know. In the last two episodes we discussed the history of the MOCHA report and its take o…
MAHA & Make Our Children Healthy Again, Part 2: Food dyes, pesticides, and forever chemicals
In part two in the series on the MAHA report, Jamie and Melissa Anne continue their critical look at the “Make Our Children Healthy Again” (MOCHA) report from a nursing perspective. This time they d…
MAHA & Make Our Children Healthy Again, Part 1: Ultra-processed foods & kids' health
Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA, is a movement largely associated with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. It's positioned as a response to what he describes as …
Welcome to Nursing the Nation!
Welcome to "Nursing the Nation," a podcast where we dissect today's headlines through the uniquely insightful lens of the nurse. Join your hosts, Jamie & Melissa Anne, as they use their nursing exper…