THE WORLD OF
Lea
Sims
Nursing careers cross borders. So do the stories
Lea talks with nurses, workforce leaders and technology specialists about the decisions that shape a career in care.
Lea Sims
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer · TruMerit
TruMerit · Host of Care AnywherePage settings
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Care Anywhere
With Obafemi Arowosegbe
Early access to mentors expands the careers students can imagine.
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Nigerian nurse entrepreneur Obafemi Arowosegbe tells Lea how the Nightingale Summit grew from a student initiative into a place for mentorship, leadership and career development.
Published articleObafemi Arowosegbe · Guest
Original on MarketScale ↗Care Anywhere
With Earl Dalton
Ethical recruitment includes the nurse’s long-term career.
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Lea and Health Carousel’s Earl Dalton examine how recruitment connects with education, career development and investment in the communities nurses come from.
Published articleEarl Dalton · Guest
Original on MarketScale ↗Care Anywhere
With Robin Goldsmith
Connectivity underpins new clinical workflows.
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Robin Goldsmith joins Lea to discuss virtual nursing, resilient networks and care beyond hospital walls. Their focus is how those systems support the people delivering care.
Published articleRobin Goldsmith · Guest
Original on MarketScale ↗LEA / FROM THE CONVERSATIONS
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Show nursing students the paths beyond their first role
Obafemi Arowosegbe in conversation with Lea Sims
Obafemi Arowosegbe founded the Nightingale Summit while still a student. In his conversation with Lea, he describes bringing students together with mentors and showing routes into research, advocacy, education and leadership. Career guidance begins during training, when students are still forming their picture of the profession.
Discussion prompt
Which career paths can students see—and which remain invisible until after graduation?
Recruitment and local training belong in the same conversation
Earl Dalton in conversation with Lea Sims
Earl Dalton describes nurse-educator training in the Philippines and ICU training and a computer lab in Uganda alongside Health Carousel’s international recruitment. His examples give Lea’s workforce discussion a concrete question: how can mobility programs also contribute to the health systems nurses come from?
Discussion prompt
What investment remains in the sending country after a nurse takes a role abroad?
Design the connection around the clinical task
Robin Goldsmith in conversation with Lea Sims
Virtual nursing, remote monitoring and ambient voice tools depend on data reaching the right place reliably. Robin Goldsmith explains those dependencies to Lea, including network resilience and cybersecurity. Hospital-at-home programs extend the same design question beyond the hospital: what does the care team need to see, hear and act on?
Discussion prompt
What must keep working if the usual network connection is interrupted?
Bring nurses into the technology decision
Kathleen McGrow and Romina Elias in conversation with Lea Sims
Kathleen McGrow and Romina Elias describe ambient documentation and connected patient rooms, then return to who helps shape those tools. They argue for nurses’ involvement in development and decision-making. The question extends beyond whether a tool works technically to whether it fits the work nurses need to do.
Discussion prompt
Which nurses will help evaluate the tool before it becomes part of the workflow?
A credential should show what someone can do
Mary Dirks and Julia To Dutka’s explanation of pediatric nursing credentials
Mary Dirks and Julia To Dutka explain a pediatric nursing pathway that combines structured learning with assessment. In their conversation with Lea, completing a course and demonstrating mastery are separate steps. They also discuss international input and ways to make participation affordable. The distinction gives employers and educators a clearer question to ask of a credential: what capability has actually been assessed?
Make recognition specific enough to reconnect people with purpose
The DAISY Foundation’s perspective, discussed with Lea
Bonnie Barnes and Deb Zimmermann describe how patients, families and colleagues can recognize compassionate nursing through the DAISY Foundation. In their conversation with Lea, recognition makes work visible that may otherwise pass unnoticed. Their argument connects an individual expression of gratitude with professional purpose and career resilience. The value lies in acknowledging what a nurse did and why it mattered to another person.
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AWAY FROM THE JOB TITLE
Beyond the job title.
From clinical documentation to the teaching room
Lea spent 15 years in healthcare documentation before moving into teaching, writing and communications. She later authored a standards manual for clinical documentation specialists and developed allied-health curricula.
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About Lea.
Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
TruMerit
Connect on LinkedIn ↗Lea Sims leads marketing and communications at TruMerit and hosts Care Anywhere. Her career began in healthcare documentation, where she spent 15 years before moving into teaching, writing and communications. At AHDI, she directed professional practices and authored The Book of Style for Medical Transcription, third edition. She later led healthcare and life sciences marketing at Verizon.
On Care Anywhere, Lea follows the people behind healthcare workforce decisions. With Obafemi Arowosegbe, the conversation traces a nursing student’s response to a mentorship gap: building the Nightingale Summit. With Earl Dalton, it turns to what international recruitment should give back to the communities nurses leave. A discussion with Robin Goldsmith connects hospital technology to clinical work, from virtual nursing to care at home.
Her earlier Care Anywhere interviews widen that picture. With nursing-informatics leaders Kathleen McGrow and Romina Elias, Lea explores the routes into technology roles and the need to involve nurses in designing their tools. The show began in 2024 at CGFNS International, with Peter Preziosi and Julia To Dutka discussing career mobility, certification and work across professional boundaries.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Early career
Healthcare documentation and education
Fifteen years in healthcare documentation, followed by teaching and curriculum development.
- AHDI
Director of Professional Practices
Led credentialing, advocacy and editorial programs; authored The Book of Style for Medical Transcription, third edition.
- Verizon
Healthcare and life sciences marketing
Led global marketing for the healthcare and life sciences practice.
- Current
TruMerit
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer; host of Care Anywhere.
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About the media selection
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Lea Sims
Lifetime Achievement Award
Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity
Recognition for sustained contributions to healthcare documentation and the association.Lea Sims
Educator of the Year
Florida Association of AHDI
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