Matchwell Clinician Blog

Welcome to the Spring edition of Matchwell Time Out. This month we are talking with Tina Gerardi, MS, RN, CAE, and the Tennessee Nurses Association Executive Director. Tina puts the “pow” in power as an advocate for nurses and the larger community in Tennessee. Our conversation with Tina is...

Hope has arrived in the form of three vaccines for COVID-19. The world was told vaccine development could take years, yet human innovation and global collaboration allowed us to access one in under a year. For the first time in my life, the public watched the development of a vaccine from start to...

It's time for the second edition of Matchwell Time Out when we deliberately pause our busy schedules to highlight healthcare leaders who are positively impacting the healthcare industry. This month we are talking with Joy King, DNP, MBA, APRN, NP-C. Since March is Nutritional and Sleep Awareness...

Welcome to the first edition of Matchwell Time-Out, where we take a deliberate pause in our busy day and highlight healthcare leaders who are positively impacting the healthcare industry. You will learn about innovative nurse leaders, critical moments in their careers that got them to where they...

This year Matchwell announced our first-ever student loan giveaway sweepstakes. We are giving two healthcare workers $25,000 each to spend on education.  As a former educator and nurse, continuing education has always been my happy place. I remember, on the first day of my nurse residency, watching...

Matchwell, a healthcare technology startup with a goal of saving the healthcare industry $1 billion per year, announces a $50,000 sweepstakes to alleviate student loan debt for healthcare workers.  

The other night when I was putting my son to bed, we read one of my favorite children's books, The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. If you haven't read it before, you should. Despite reading this story many times, I was struck by the visceral sadness of the tale.   The Giving Tree is a children's...

Have you joined a nurse association? Well, you should. 

Communication is the underpinning of healthcare and is a vital part of our job. More importantly, it is what threads humanity into healthcare. It is why robots can't replace humans. By nature, humans are designed for relationships, and communication is the core of relationships. Like any other...

Mistakes are an inevitable part of learning in healthcare, especially nursing. And in today's environment, errors are more apt to happen. COVID-19 has frontline nurses working tirelessly, and even though it's not the sprint it was months ago, and we are now getting a moment to catch our breath and...