Meet Jamie Rollins BSN, RN | Head of Clinical Operations, KetaMD

We had the good fortune of connecting with Jamie Rollins BSN, RN and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Jamie, what role has risk played in your life or career?
I probably think about risk much differently than most do because of my years working as a crisis care hospice nurse. After sitting with over 500 dying patients I learned that you have one very short and precious life and it is entirely up to you to create the life you want. So is it a risk to find what lights you up, motivates you, inspires you, makes you curious and then pursue those endeavors with tenacity OR is the risk not doing it?

What others would call taking risks I call “following my purpose or intuition”. If it doesn’t feel right it usually isn’t.
I wasn’t however, willing to risk being miserable and depressed for the rest of my life by staying put in a broken healthcare system that didn’t see the value in patients or nurses. I knew I was meant to influence patients’ health in a much broader and holistic way. So I chose to trust my intuition and risked starting my own cannabis consulting firm, which then led me into psychedelic medicine, and then to developing the first telehealth certified ketamine Nurse Guide program,with KetaMD.

What is made for you will find you, if your intentions are clear and you take daily action, so I’m not even sure I like to consider anything I’ve done in life a “risk” at this point. They are all just divine detours and inner knowing moments.

Can you give our readers an introduction to your business? Maybe you can share a bit about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
Currently I’m working with a first of its kind, at-home Nurse Guided, ketamine telehealth company. I feel so blessed and honored to have been tasked with creating the Nurse Guide program at KetaMD, and creating a space for nurses to work in an environment that is supportive and values their worth.

I am so proud to be in a frontier space in medicine right now, where we are merging the mystical and the medical and we are doing it with client safety and comfort as our number one priority. I’m also proud of the fact that our second priority is creating an incredibly supportive work environment where we lead with emotional intelligence and compassion.

Our mission is to change the way we as a society address, manage and treat mental health. This is not easy work. This is legacy work. This is a company created by, and the work being done by a small group of individuals, who have all been personally and profoundly affected by the ravages of this mental health crisis. There have been many grueling days and nights, lots of sacrifices and lose, hurdles you never expect, emotions arise you didn’t know existed, rewards you never saw coming, and strength exposed you never knew you had! Start up life is a wild, exhilarating and harrowing ride, not for the faint of heart. The discomfort and excitement and all the highs and lows that come with building a revolutionary business are worth it though, because in my humble opinion, the mission is that important.
We are at a very exciting crossroads in time with this psychedelic renaissance upon us.

In general, I feel strongly the old adage is true….Find your passion and pursue it, relentlessly, without fear, then it doesn’t feel like work, it feels like fulfilling your purpose. My purpose is to be of service to humanity and I couldn’t be more grateful for how spirit has chosen to allow that to develop in my life. Someone once said to me as a nurse “you can’t save them all”, and my heart always would whisper “but why not”? It’s the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, who actually do.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
1.Top of Mt soledad for the view at sunset 2.Ride bikes on pacific beach boardwalk
3.Brunch at The Mission in
4. Golden Hill Farmers Market
5. Coronado Beaches

Shoutout is all about shouting out others who you feel deserve additional recognition and exposure. Who would you like to shoutout?
I love this! There are so many that supported me through this process!

Heather Sobel, founder of the Cannabis Nurses Network, has been an incredible mentor and friend, encouraging me to keep moving forward in the face of adversity and to do it with love and compassion always. She is an incredible trailblazer, healer and leader and I will forever be grateful for her help in my professional development.

Gina Kearney, Registered Clinical Herbalist and Business Coach mentored me in all things business so that I could successfully manage my financials, marketing and offered me incredible strategic advice to get me from starting from scratch to a local cannabis clinic, patient consulting services, physician/business consulting services and speaking at networking events. She pushed me to do the things I was not confident to do and I succeeded.

Kaia Roman, Chief experience officer KetaMD- I will always be grateful to Kaia. After an event we both attended we connected and I was sharing my mission to create an army of nurses so serve cannabis and psychedelic clients safely. She offered me the opportunity to develop the first ever ketamine telehealth nurse guide program, and we haven’t looked back since.

Website: www.truehealthconsulting.com

Instagram: psychguidern

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/psychguidern/

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Other: www.ketamd.com keta.md

Image Credits
Peter O’Hara