Episodes
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Louise Webber has made wound therapies her life mission. It's a fascinating take on an area that is firmly owned by the nursing and midwifery space. We bring a unique skill set backed by an enormous body of peer reviewed scienitific evidence. And: what's amazing is that we can practice entirely autonomously. How I love when I hear that! And that's precisely what Louise Webber has done. She recognised that she possessed an advanced level of specialist knowledge and had a strong desire to share that, practice in that space and find a place in the world where it became her own pocked in the healthcare world. And that's precisely what she's done. She shares her story with Sue in how she came to be the queen of wound therapies.
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Beth Haley is a founder of Making a Difference in Uganda where her organisation provides amazing volunteer nursing opportunities that range from medical outreaches, education, women’s empowerment and caring for young people living in the slums. Her story is inspirational. A nurse of 33 years having undertaken volunteer nursing experiences for over 25 years, she found herself in Uganda and so began a love story with a country and her people. So, in 2017, she founded Making a Difference in Uganda which partners with local organisations to empower, provide hope and support those people who need it.
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The Vivian Bullwinkel story is one that quintessentially demonstrates what nursing is all about. Patient advocacy, sometimes at great personal cost, and one of everlasting camaraderie. Arlene Bennett, President of the Australian Nurses Memorial Centre, has joined us before when she talked to us here at the Nursing and Midwifery Emporium about how the ANMC honours past, present and future nurses. Arlene joins Sue once again but this time to take us through Vivian's profoundly terrible yet inspiring story of bravery and advocacy.
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So, here's the thing. Nurses and midwives account for 50% of the global health workforce. Did you know that? That's a lot! We're quite a force. What intrigues me more about that is that while we're 50% of the workforce, our representation at the policymaking, political level or the boardroom is... at best, scant. Our role bears witness to the real experiences of people who accessing health and community services at an international level across all geopolitical and social spectrums. Truly, we see it all. So why is our nursing and midwifery voice not being heard where decisions about how health and community services are delivered? There a lots of reasons, but one is opportunity. You can't just saunter in to a boardroom and just making decisions. Australian federal MP, Ged Kearney is a proud Australian example of one of our tribe who transitioned from nurse to policymaker. But Ged's journey was long, so how do we get our start in having the nursing and midwifery voice heard? Sue chats with one of our regulars here at the Nursing & Midwifery Emporium's podcast, Wendy McIntosh because she's got a solution for us that you might not have expected: Rotary for Nurses!
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Elissa O'Keefe a a queen at leveraging this little thing we call nursing, most notably in the world of cosmetic nursing. It could easily be said she's quite the pioneer in this clinical niche. Elissa has done a great many things as a nurse including a sexual health nurse and educator, but it's cosmetic nursing that's her passion and where she's made her mark. Elissa is the lead author of the first ever Australian standards and scope of practice document for cosmetic nursing, has published in peer-reviewed journals both nationally and internationally and is often called on for comment in the industry. She now has an award winning company that was born when, during her career in cosmetic medicine practice, Elissa realised that there was a need for flexible, high quality, post-graduate continuing professional development for health professionals with regard to lasers and other light-based therapies that was evidence based and pitched at the high level required of this complex landscape. Elissa is also the Head of Clinical Operations and a prescriber for Cosmetic Skin Therapies. So, Sue catches up with Elissa to find out more about her nursing journey
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If you ever wanted to know how far the rabbit hole for our mandate as patient advocate goes, then Toni’s story will answer that question. After working internationally, she started her Master of Bioethics and took a position at Bundaberg Base Hospital as the Nurse Unit Manager of a small ICU. The small country ICU appealed as she thought it would allow plenty of time to study. This was not to be the case when surgeon Dr Jayant Patel came to Bundaberg Base Hospital. For two years Toni raised concerns about his practice, outcomes and behaviour but these fell on deaf ears. In fact discrediting Toni was apparently easier than addressing issues surrounding Dr Patel. Sue talks to Toni about what whistleblowing in nursing looks like, and what the future holds, as Toni wants to continue to contribute to the profession of nursing by advocacy for patients and nurses by improving patient safety and in the education of nurses in Australia.
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Arlene Bennett is currently the President of the Australian Nurses Memorial Centre in Melbourne and is a member of the Finance committee, the Marketing and Fundraising Committee and she Chairs the History and Heritage Committee. Arlene is a profound advocate for memorialising those of our counterparts who found themselves in unspeakable circumstances in World War II. These amazing women are memorialised today in a unique way: through scholarships advocating nursing advancement, research and education. Arlene trained as a nurse at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1981. She holds certificates in Coronary Care and Midwifery nursing and completed a Graduate Diploma in Adult Education and Training at the University of Melbourne. She has held positions as a Charge Nurse and Nurses Educator at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She is a member of the Royal Melbourne Graduate Nurses Association and is on the RMGNA Committee. She is has also been a member of the Royal Melbourne Hospital’s History and Arts Committee for several years .She is the treasurer of the Lemnos - Gallipoli Commemorative Committee.
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Clinical supervision is something that I've actually never had much exposure to. And after listening to the fabulous Wendy McIntosh, I really wonder why. I know that clinical supervision is prevalent in the nursing niche of mental health. Given my background is entirely perioperative and emergency, then it stands to reason that this is the reason clinical supervision has missed my professional experience. Dr Wendy McIntosh, from Davaar Consulting has over 30 years as a health professional (clinical, education and research), 25 of those years in mental health. Areas of specific interest and passion for Wendy include: professional supervision, professional boundaries, professional identity, links between childhood trauma and mental illness and workplace bullying. Wendy has joined us before on the Nursing and Midwifery Emporium Podcast and joins us again this time to enlighten us on clinical supervision
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Lilliana Levada is an experienced healthcare professional, patient safety advocate and a visionary entrepreneur. Her professional experiences have led her to work in every role with the perioperative environment, publish her work, present at national and international forums, and work as a lead reviewer for ACORN Standards. She is passionate about the way nurses influence patient outcomes, about what we mean to them and to each other, and likes to see how science research translates into meaningful practice improvements. She presents regularly for the Nursing CPD Institute also.
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The fabulous Sue chats with Chris Carlin from Master Your Money Now, who are qualified financial planners and mortgage brokers specialising in helping nurses save for their first home, pay down debts, protect their loved ones, sort out their cashflow and build financial wealth so they can retire at a time they choose. Gold. Chris Carlin is the founder of Master Your Money Now, the only Australian financial services organisation dedicated to caring for nurses and midwives. Chris is passionate about helping nurses and midwives achieve their financial goals and live out their dream lifestyle. Chris is married to Natalie, a proud New Zealander and paediatric nurse.
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Yep, there's an app for everything and now there's a nursing app for helping you survive your shift! This is a nursing app that aims to help stave off burnout and enhance your wellbeing. Athol Hann has created this by considering what he calls, the "touch points" for nurses and midwives that create stress. It aims to help with the key hot spots for nurses: unpredictable schedules, poor lifestyle habits, pay errors, difficulty unwinding after work and disconnection from our teams. Fundamentally, Athol wants this nursing app to help us focus on self-care. One of my most favourite quotes is delivered by Athol in this interview beautifully, when he talks about self-care: "Self care is about your giving the best of you, not what's left of you"
Athol Hann is the founder of Fwards as well as a Clinical Emergency Nurse. From a dairy farm in country Victoria, he found a calling to help and learn more about people. Starting off his nursing career at Royal Perth Hospital, Athol has had the opportunity to work in a diverse array of settings across the country. Getting through the otherside of burnout, Athol found a deep desire to help others avoid the emotional turmoil of going through burnout. This has led to the creation of the nursing app fwards and The Fwards Thinking Nurse Facebook group. The nursing app and facebook group work alongside each other to support nurses to manage the demands of shift work and track how shift work affects their health and well-being.
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Leslie Cornwell is a Certified Nurse Midwife who owns and runs Mid Michigan Midwifery. Leslie has been passionate about giving women choices around birth having practiced across all birth settings, including hospitals, birth centres and home. Having had three prior home births herself and running past midwifery practices, the power of normal birth on a family's foundation became her professional mission. For our non-US listeners, a Certified Nurse Midwife is the US equivalent of an Eligible Midwife here in Australia. Essentially, a midwife who has met the skills and qualification requirements to practice independently in their own private practice. Leslie completed the requirements requiring in the United States to become a Certified Nurse Midwife in 2012 and been part of birth world since 2008. The breadth of her experience has given her the opportunity to appreciate each setting's strengths and options to help families make best decision for themselves. Birth is a normal process and many women are most comfortable birthing in their home and Leslie finds joy in the privilege of seeing instinctual birth that is rarely seen in a hospital setting. Leslie perceives her role and her honour to help women have options for personalized childbirth. I chat with Leslie to explore what she loves about independently practicing as a Certified Nurse Midwife in her state of Michigan in the US, what brought her to this point as well as the challenges of this role which transcend healthcare systems
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So let's talk Nursing Professional Boundaries
It's a disconcerting topic, if I'm honest: nursing professional boundaries. While there are certainly a few psychopaths amongst us in the nursing and midwifery profession, research tells us they are few and far between. So, therefore, it stands to reason that while it happens, none of us go out of our way to violate our nursing professional boundaries. Yes, as the fabulous Dr Wendy McIntosh reveals to us, sometimes it's hard to know how our gestures, words and actions can be perceived by others until we see them played out before us. That is indeed Wendy's specialty. She is an educator with a special interest in nursing professional boundaries and works with many people who have experienced a boundary transgression. So, Sue takes a deep dive into boundaries, transgression and professional supervision and Wendy reveals the most amazing four questions we can ask ourselves about a given interaction to analyse whether we have indeed crossed a line.
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Episode #20: Emily's question on Career Crossroads
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Ok, well there'll be no surprise to regular listeners that perioperative nursing is absolutely my bag. God, how I love it. Now that I'm doing other things, I pine for it. Other people would ask me at dinner parties what I did for a living and I'd say "I work in operating theatres" and there'd be instant fascination. I'd tell my favourite stories - gross, hilarious, bloody - generally gratitious. Always satisfying. Of course, there was the odd goat who'd say "Oh, don't hand instruments to the doctor?" and I'd feel an almost irresistable urge to "accidentally" knock the glass of red wine they'd just sanctimoniously poured themselves. There's a lot to this gig of ours: it's surprisingly vast and complex. It's no surprise that I could lecture you until I'm blue in the face as to why perioperative nursing is so more than handing instruments. But you what - I'm going to leave that to the true expert. The fabulous CEO of the Australian College of periOperative Nurses (ACORN), Rebecca East.
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The Nurse Practitioner options resonates beautifully with the "Clinician" pathway when we find ourselves faced with the Classic 3 options: stay a clinician, become an educator or follow the leadership path. Advanced practice with expert knowledge with a whole new scope of practice and most notably, a plethora of totally different ways to deliver care to your clinical specialty patients.
But the nurse practitioner pathway is a bit mystical. How do you go about? What's the expertise level required to gain entry into the program? How many jobs are there really as a Nurse Practitioner? Is my specialty knowledge relevant as a Nurse Practitioner? Am I too old for this now?
Well, peeps, enter Leanne Boase. As the president of the Australian College of Nurse Practitioners, she's joined me to demystify how you might go about becoming and NP
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So, I think Rural Area Nursing would be incredibly fascinating. The destinations are diverse, the patient mix is diverse, the culture is vastly different from that which we see in large tertiary referral metropolitan facilities. It presents an amazing opportunity to advance skills or work while you travel.
In fact, Elissa Slingsby from Curis Recruitment is an expert in rural area nursing and finding great options for nurses and midwives to find short and long term permanent placements. Elissa says that there are two groups of nursing mainly attracted to rural area nursing, as well as regional placements: those who have graduated about 5 years ago and are looking to advance their skillset in a challenging way or empty nesters who are looking to combine work and travel. Elissa helps both of those demographics finds a great opportunity.
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We've talked about nursing CPD before on our podcast with Sue Walker, who is the absolute guru on meeting your obligations to AHPRA with ongoing education and maintaining your professional commitment to currency and recency of your nursing knowledge. Sue does an amazing job of a variety of options to meet those obligations.
Now enter Jason. Jason Dawson, from Education at Sea, offers a very niche way of meeting your obligations. He does that through travel CPD. Jason partners with the Sue's of the world to deliver world standard conference content while you play.
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One of my most favourite mantras is that business and healthcare can be an awkward mix. As nurses, advocating for our patients, we feel that in every single clinical niche that we may touch. Aged Care. Acute care. Community and disability care. And, dermatology nursing is no different.
So, if you wanted to know how to balance that tension and stay true to your nursing values, Sue Walker brings you the ultimate evangelist. She chats with Sue Woodford (yep, a lot of Sue's in this conversation).
Sue was a trailblazer in dermatology nursing. She's been nursing for 50 years. She exemplifies what it means to balance that tension between business and healthcare. And delivers exceptional, person-centred outcomes for her patients.
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