Ep6: The Nurse Who Acts and Creatively Cooks Up Recipes! Meet Bonnie Antonini

Guest: Bonnie Antonini, BSN, RN, Actor and food blogger “Vegetarian Cooking for Carnivores Blog”

Host: Author, Actor, Photographer, Poet Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN

Nursing and the Arts Podcast

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Nursing and the Arts is a podcast devoted to Nurses discussing their diverse artistic passions (or endeavors) such as visual arts/photography, journaling, comedy, podcasting, storytelling, writing/poetry, crafting, cooking, dance, theatre, music, film etc.

Join us on today’s 6th episode of the Nursing and the Arts Podcast for an informative and entertaining discussion with our guest Bonnie Antonini, BSN, RN.

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Ep6: The Nurse Who Acts and Creatively Cooks! Meet Bonnie Antonini, BSN, RN and Host Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN

Show Notes:

About Bonnie Antonini, BSN, RN, Actor and Food Blogger

In this podcast, Bonnie exudes lots of positive energy as she tells her story to host Susan J. Farese (that’s me)!

Bonnie and Susan met as actors portraying oncology clinic nurses on the set of “Men of a Certain Age” (the episode aired on 2011).

Bonnie had some experience as a Candy Striper during her teenage years with her best friend. She definitely did not want to be a nurse at first. Why? Because she didn’t want to give shots! So, Bonnie started out as an actor and after attending some college as a Psychiatric Tech (and finding out she’d ultimately need to give injections) she switched to nursing!

She is a BSN graduate at Sacramento State. She worked in Cardiac/Telemetry and then was a stay at home Mom to raise her two sons. Her husband is an Anesthesiologist.

She values nursing in that nursing has a variety of different specialties and change.

Bonnie started blogging years ago. She has written over 250 recipes on her blog named “Vegetarian Cooking for Carnivores Blog”!- The tag lines- “Recipes so good even a carnivore would love them”!
Also “An ex-carnivore’s struggle to eat vegetarian in a creative, delicious, and satisfying way”!

For fun the entire family enjoys hockey- the family loves to attend (and discuss games)! She also spends lots of time (for instance, up to 3 hours) on phone calls to their son in the military.

Bonnie has always had great concern for the prevalence of obesity and diabetes and started her blog to promote healthy eating. She emphases that many people eat out and spend lots of money – where they could start cooking and eating at home with her recipes from her blog.

Some of her acting roles were in Ford vs Ferrari, Smash (and more – Check out her IMDB link below)!

Bonnie’s words of wisdom about nursing: Nursing is a fabulous career, helps others, makes a difference in other’s lives, makes a good living and if burnout happens, one can change course and/or specialties.

Bonnie texted me this comment after this episode posted: “Just an interesting (and sad) statistic that recently came out: 74.4% of all Americans are overweight or obese. I wish I’d known this statistic for our podcast”.

Many thanks Bonnie!

Bonnie Antonini’s Links:

IMDB (Film/TV Acting credits): https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3647640/

Vegetarian Cooking for Carnivores Blog: https://vegcookingforcarnivoresblog.com/tag/bonnie-antonini/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bonnie_antonini/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bonnie.antonini/

Facebook Page for Vegetarian Cooking for Carnivores Blog: https://www.facebook.com/VegetarianCookingForCarnivores

Vegetarian Cooking for Carnivores Blog (Website): https://vegcookingforcarnivoresblog.com/tag/bonnie-antonini/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/bonnieantonini

Thank you so much Bonnie! It’s a pleasure “seeing” you again after 13 years on set!

About Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN, SJF Communications

Susan J. Farese, MSN, RN, a native of New Jersey, is the owner/ president of  SJF Communications, San Diego, CA.

Susan has diverse health care experience including military and civilian nursing with clinical, administration/management, staff development, research and consulting roles.

SJF Communications, originally established in 2002 in San Jose, CA, provides services including Public Relations, Publicity, Marketing, Websites, Filmmaking, Acting, Social Media, Writing and Public Speaking, Photography, Mentoring, Coaching and Nurse Consulting services. 

Susan is the author of the book Poetic Expressions in Nursing…Sharing the Caring (1993 and 2021), currently teaches ‘Capturing Your Creativity with Haiku‘ workshops, and has published poetry and articles on a variety of topics. She created and is the Host of the “Nursing and the Arts Podcast” and creator/admin of the Nursing and the Arts Facebook Group

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