Talonda S. Rogers
Nurse Educator, Entrepreneur, & Author
Talonda Rogers “always wanted to be a nurse, but was talked out of it by well-meaning family members” by the time she graduated high school. Instead, she pursed a Bachelor’s in Marketing, but after a decade in the business world, she decided to fulfill her mission to become a nurse. She graduated in 2008 with her licensed practical nursing degree, in 2013 with her Associate of Science in Nursing, in 2015 with her Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing, and in 2018 with her Master’s of Science in Nursing. She has held numerous roles for over a decade including in nursing homes, vascular surgery, cardiac telemetry, and pediatric home home health. She is currently a full time clinical and classroom nursing instructor for the Practical Nursing Program at the Chester County Intermediate Unit, for the very program where she started her career as an LPN.
Talonda is also the founder of RISCQ by TALONDA Healthcare Consultants & Educators, LLC, a business focused on decreasing healthcare disparities in the United States through education, and is the the founder and leader of LOVED (Ladies of Value Encouragement and Determination), a women’s group that supports women’s issues in the surrounding community. Talonda recently won a pitch contest for West Chester University for her invention of a mobile app and its companion pregnant stuffed animal that is designed to reduce maternal mortality. She is motivated to help improve maternal outcomes because of her own near death experience giving birth to her first born child. Talonda is the author of Nursing School: What I Learned May Make Your Life Easier!, published in 2020, and is also a featured speaker. She sings as a hobby and lives in Downington, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Robert, and her children, Tayah, Rena, and Cameron.
View Talonda’s Nurses You Should Know Video here.
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Know Your History
- Nursing CLIO to engage with historians and scholars committed to deep work around historical accuracy in healthcare and nursing.
- American Association for the History of Nursing to attend monthly webinars on topics of nursing history, view the calendar here.
Examine Bias
- NurseManifest to attend live zoom sessions with fellow nurses on nursing’s overdue reckoning on racism or to sign their pledge.
- Breaking Bias in Healthcare, an online course created by scientist Anu Gupta, to learn how bias is related to our brain’s neurobiology and can be mitigated with mindfulness.
- Revolutionary Love Learning Hub provides free tools for learners and educators to use love as fuel towards ourselves, our opponents, and to others so that we can embody a world where we see no strangers.
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- National Coalition for Ethnic Minority Nurse Association to stay engaged with topics relevant to nurses of color.
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