Скачать или смотреть 🎙 From Teen Motherhood to Saving Lives with Nurse-Family Partnership’s Maria Rush

Host ‪@KateTucker‬ sits down with Maria Rush in Cleveland, Ohio to hear her powerful journey from teen motherhood to saving lives in her work with Nurse-Family Partnership.

From Teen Motherhood to Saving Lives with Nurse-Family Partnership’s Maria Rush: Hope Is My Middle Name, Season 4, Episode 5.

Sometimes it just takes a moment to change someone’s life. That’s what Maria Rush understands as a nurse advocating for mothers and babies in Cleveland, Ohio. Maria has a superhero-sized calling, born from a near-death experience during childbirth at the age of fifteen. She’s dedicated her life to saving mothers and their babies just like the nurse who took a moment to see what Maria truly needed on that delivery room table, and to speak life-giving, literally life-saving words.

America has one of the highest mortality rates for mothers and babies among developed nations. The infant mortality rate more than doubles for Black babies, and Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy related cause than White women. These statistics are on the mind of Maria Rush every morning as she goes to work for the Nurse-Family Partnership, a nation-wide program that helps first-time moms have healthy pregnancies and healthy babies, become knowledgeable and nurturing parents, achieve education and employment goals and provide their children with the best possible start in life.

Join us for a powerful conversation on motherhood, breaking generational cycles, and the importance of community in caring for our children and families.

00:00 Becoming a Grandma Advocate
00:43 Introducing Maria Rush: A Dedicated Nurse
01:02 Overview of Nurse Family Partnership
01:59 U.S. Maternal and Infant Mortality Rates
03:09 Growing Up in Cleveland
04:20 Teen Pregnancy and Overcoming Adversity
05:19 The Impact of Compassionate Nursing
06:49 Deciding to Become a Nurse
07:01 Educational Journey and Early Career
07:25 Discovering Nurse-Family Partnership
08:10 Lack of Support During Teenage Pregnancy
10:12 Faith and Resilience
11:08 Breaking Cycles for Our Children
13:05 Escaping Through Reading
15:08 Labor and Delivery Experience
18:12 Holistic Care in Nursing
19:47 Mission to Empower Black Women
22:02 Early Motherhood Challenges
23:10 Prioritizing Education and Overcoming Obstacles
24:04 Living Independently at 15
25:07 Navigating the Welfare System
25:18 Support Systems and Personal Growth
27:37 What Nursing Can Teach Us About Motherhood
29:32 Career Path and Nurse-Family Partnership
30:44 Role and Impact of Nurse-Family Partnership
31:57 Challenges Faced by First-Time Mothers
33:29 Goals of Nurse-Family Partnership
35:36 Supporting Mothers Post-Birth
36:16 Client Success Stories
35:59 Success Stories and Personal Reflections
40:20 The Importance of Advocacy
44:38 Purpose and Impact
47:18 Reasons to Hope: Our Children
48:14 Closing Thoughts and Gratitude

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Hosted and executive produced by Kate Tucker, Hope Is My Middle Name is a podcast by Consensus Digital Media in collaboration with Reasonable Volume.

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