About Nurse Keith

I’ve been a nurse since 1996, and I’ve worked in a variety of clinical settings, including home health, travel medicine, community health, case management, public health, hospice, and nursing education. I’ve held management and leadership positions, including Chief Nursing Officer and Director of Nursing.

I’m a Board Certified Nurse Coach (NC-BC) under the auspices of the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation. With equal passion for nursing, coaching, writing, public speaking, and podcasting, I translate those skill sets into a desire to help nurses experience the most satisfying lives and careers possible.

I’m a popular freelance nurse writer and blogger with a long list of clients for whom I’ve written, including a large number of respected nursing websites and publications.

My award-winning blog, Digital Doorway, was one of the first nursing blogs on the internet, and although it is no longer on active duty, it remains online as a record of my efforts in the nursing blog universe. I’ve also been published in several non-fiction nursing books.

My podcast, The Nurse Keith Show, was launched in January of 2015, and offers interviews with fascinating people from the worlds of nursing, medicine, healthcare, and entrepreneurship. At the end of 2025, the Nurse Keith Show ceased active publication, but its more than 500 episodes will remain online for your listening pleasure. 

I was one of the co-founders and co-hosts of RNFM Radio, a popular nursing podcast that happened to be one of the very first nursing podcasts in existence. RNFM focused on nursing careers, nurse entrepreneurship, and nursing and healthcare innovation. We began broadcasting in January of 2012, with several incarnations of co-hosts (with me as the constant common denominator) through the show’s sunset in 2017.

Personally Speaking

I grew up in central New Jersey. As a young man, I studied painting and printmaking, and summarily dropped out of two Philadelphia art schools in the early 1980s. I’ve also lived in southern Maryland, eastern and western Massachusetts, southeastern England, an Israeli kibbutz, and in an RV on the open road for a fascinating year-long journey across the United States.

I now reside in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I currently live with my wife, Shada McKenzie, a gifted, empathic, and highly skilled traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot who I joyfully married in May of 2024. Shada frequently works with many of my career coaching clients, who all benefit greatly from the synergistic combination of holistic career coaching and the deep insight and wisdom of astrology. You can contact Shada at shada@thecircleandthedot.com for more information about her valuable and deep work that benefits so many people around the world.

In my own life, I’ve experienced enormous challenges, including loss, burnout, and personal tragedy; great joy and extensive travel; parenting, marriage, divorce, and remarriage; and a deep desire to serve others. I love knowing that I can have an impact on many levels, including the personal, organizational, local, regional, and global, and it’s my joy and humble honor to offer my services to both individuals and organizations.

I love languages, speak semi-fluent Spanish, and have always wished I could speak French. I love animals and nature, and I enjoy traveling, the visual arts, watching movies, reading both fiction and non-fiction, listening to music and podcasts, and spending time with Shada.

Final Thoughts

If you’d like to download my media kit to learn more about me as a keynote and motivational speaker, please click here. And if you have specific questions about anything I do in relation to nursing, careers, podcasting, writing, etc., I offer a complimentary 15-minute strategy session to anyone who’d like to pick my brain.

Thanks for stopping by, and feel free to contact me to schedule a complimentary 15-minute strategy session!