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Welcome to episode seventeen of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: The Killer Beside Me Welcome to episode seventeen of the Ausmed Handover podcast. Nurses have always been good at self-regulation, and when someone’s performance is identified as being sub-optimal, they are quick to raise their concerns with management. But what happens when management ignores these concerns? In this episode I’ll be telling a true crime story, and how the failure of several hospitals to act on the concerns of their nurses led to one man becoming the worst serial killer the world has ever known. Transcript INTRO (00:10) Hello and welcome […]
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Welcome to episode sixteen of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: Ten Ordinary Nurses Who Were Simply… Extraordinary! Welcome to episode sixteen of the Ausmed Handover podcast. In this episode, I’ll be telling the stories of ten ordinary, everyday nurses who wrote their own extraordinary histories, yet are virtually unknown to the nursing profession today. Transcript THEME (00:10) Hello and welcome to the Ausmed Handover Podcast. My name is Darren Wake, and in this episode, I’m going to tell the stories of ten seemingly ordinary nurses who did some pretty extraordinary things. And I bet you’ve never heard of any of them. […]
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Welcome to episode fifteen of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: How to Find Meaning in Your Work Welcome to episode fifteen of the Ausmed Handover podcast. For so many nurses, their career will follow a familiar trajectory. As a new graduate, their world is exciting and driven by the challenges associated with applying their theoretical knowledge to a practical context, but over time, the unrelenting pressure, absence of positive feedback, and lack of clearly satisfying outcomes, leaves many nurses jaded, frustrated and frequently questioning if what they do has any real meaning. In this episode, I’ll be looking at how one […]
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Welcome to episode fourteen of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: Are You Prepared to End Someone’s Life? Welcome to episode fourteen of the Ausmed Handover podcast. Worldwide, the pro-euthanasia lobby is slowly but surely gaining traction, and in many jurisdictions, it is only a matter of time before voluntary euthanasia is deemed to be a lawful act. But there are issues associated with this debate that are being wholly ignored by the various stakeholders, and these have direct and deeply unsettling implications for the nursing profession. Transcript INTRODUCTION (00:10) Hello and welcome to the Ausmed Handover podcast. My name is Darren […]
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Welcome to episode thirteen of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: Bullying in Nursing – What’s it Like to be a Bully? Welcome to episode thirteen of the Ausmed Handover podcast. We are constantly told that bullying has reached epidemic proportions within the nursing profession on a global basis. But the statistics don’t tell us anything about exactly who the bullies are. So just what are the attributes of the archetypal bully, where do they lurk, and what’s it like to be one? Transcript INTRODUCTION (00:10) Hello and welcome to the Ausmed handover podcast. My name is Darren Wake, and in this […]
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Welcome to episode twelve of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: Why I Think Nursing is the Most Unreasonable Job… Ever! Welcome to episode twelve of the Ausmed Handover podcast. Sometime in our deep, dark past, society asked nurses to take on a role that, under scrutiny, simply can’t be done. That is, when one looks at the expectations of the nursing profession, they are completely unreasonable. Yet nurses rise up to the challenge of the impossible every day. How and when did this happen, and just why do nurses persist in trying to meet the unreasonable expectations of an impossible […]
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Welcome to episode eleven of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: How Much is a Nurse Worth? Welcome to episode eleven of the Ausmed Handover podcast. This episode is all about money. I’ll be calculating how much a nurse is worth at their most elemental level, how much a nurse actually costs to employ, how much a nurse can actually charge for their services, and, ultimately, what the cultural monetary value of a nurse actually is, which is the real question we should all be asking. Transcript Hello, this is the Ausmed handover podcast, my name is Darren Wake and in […]
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Welcome to episode ten of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: My Extraordinary Life: Graduate Nurse Welcome to episode ten of the Ausmed Handover podcast. Graduate nurses are the lifeblood of the profession, yet many of us will have forgotten what it was like to be a novice nurse thrust into a very high stress environment and expected to learn ‘on the fly’. In this episode of the Handover podcast, we will be talking to three amazing nurses who are currently on graduate or transitional programs about their experiences. This is an exciting and highly revealing episode both for those listeners […]
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Welcome to episode nine of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: Doctor Google has Arrived: What does this Mean for the Nursing Profession? Welcome to episode nine of the Ausmed Handover podcast. The internet- as we know it – has been around for over three decades now, and if you are a ‘user’, then companies such as Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Google have accumulated an extraordinary amount of very personal information about you. So much so that in early 2016 Microsoft, Google and an independent medical team all claimed that by analysing very large amounts of global browsing data they were […]
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Welcome to episode eight of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: How to Make the Nursing Profession Disappear Welcome to episode eight of the Ausmed Handover podcast. In this episode I’ll be examining how a simple and seemingly innocent trend in healthcare management actually threatens the continued existence of the nursing profession. Transcript Hello and welcome to the Ausmed Handover podcast, my name is Darren Wake, and in this episode, I’m going to tell you how to make the profession of nursing disappear forever. Oh, and it’s already happening. SOUND OF MONEY (0:02) “We need to cut back to […]
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Welcome to episode seven of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: How Hard is it to Get Onto a Graduate Nurse Program?
Welcome to episode seven of the Ausmed Handover podcast. Are you an undergraduate nurse? Do you believe that at the end of your degree you will simply walk into a Graduate Nurse Program? Think again: securing a position on a Graduate Nurse Program anywhere in the world is now an extremely competitive enterprise, with a significant percentage of graduates failing to secure a position on a program despite applying to multiple hospitals in several states. In this episode of the Handover podcast, I’ll be talking to three nurses who are currently on graduate nurse programs about why their applications were successful, and what they needed to do to stand out from the competition. Ausmed would like to thank Sue, Jane and Peter for participating in this episode.
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Welcome to episode six of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: Why do Incompetent Staff Always Get Promoted?.
Welcome to Episode Six of the Ausmed Handover Podcast. The delivery of competent care has always been one of the core objectives of the nursing profession, but why is it that incompetent staff always seem to get promoted? In this episode, we’ll be looking closely at how an incompetent person thinks, why managers choose to ignore all the warning signs that an incompetent person is, well, incompetent, why they promote them into positions that are clearly beyond their ability, and why once the incompetent steps up onto the career ladder, their ascent to the top is virtually guaranteed.Click here for a handy (.pdf) guide to choosing the right dressing for the right wound type.
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Welcome to episode five of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: What Happens When The Wolf Comes Home With You? (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).
What happens when the wolf comes home with you? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is virtually ignored as a phenomenon amongst nurses. Everyday, nurses see, feel and hear things that would be wholly intolerable to the public: trauma of the worst possible kind in every conceivable manifestation. Yet we are expected by our colleagues, managers and the public alike to ‘suck it up and get on with the job’. Nurses do just that, but the price of this stoicism can be catastrophic.The post Episode 5 – What Happens When the Wolf Comes Home With You? appeared first on Ausmed.
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Welcome to episode four of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: Tales of The Guinea Pig Club.
Teams are tricky things to manage effectively in any environment, and no less so in nursing. But, sometimes they work, and sometimes they work spectacularly well. In this episode, we’ll be looking at one of the most effective teams to have ever emerged in healthcare: the Guinea Pig Club. We’ll not only recount it’s story, but examine why that team was so effective, why teams so often don’t work, and suggest how to form a Guinea Pig Club of your own.Don't miss an episode - Subscribe to The Handover at the iTunes store.
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Welcome to episode three of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: The Nurses' Health Study.
The Nurses' Health Study is one of the largest and longest running epidemiological studies ever to be undertaken in the history of medicine. Over a quarter of a million nurses have been contributing health and lifestyle data to researchers at Harvard University on a continual basis since 1976, and the information being extracted from this database by scientists has influenced virtually every aspect of women’s health since.Don't miss an episode - Subscribe to The Handover at the iTunes store.
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Welcome to episode two of the new Ausmed Handover nursing podcast: The Sorrows & Woes of Night Duty.
Ever felt like you were dying at 4am when you were doing night shift? Well, you actually were. The World Health Organization listed night shifts as a Class 2A carcinogen in 2007, and in this episode of the Ausmed Handover Podcast, we look at how this affects nurses, the largest group of shift working professionals in the world.
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Welcome to the first episode of the new Ausmed Handover podcast, my name is Darren Wake, and today, I want to talk about drugs....
Why? Well, because there’s a ton of good quality research out there that’s been done with very large numbers of nurses over a long period of time that tells us exactly this sort of information, and most everyone has a vested interest and indeed a fascination with this kind of data: you’ll find similar research out there looking at the use of recreational drugs by doctors, dentists, pilots, policemen, firemen, ambulance officers and soldiers. Basically, everyone wants to know what the statistical likelihood is that the person to whom you have entrusted your life and wellbeing is stoned off their tree.
What I’m talking about here are drugs that are widely described as recreational, not medicinal. Although many of the drugs I’ll be talking about do have well-established medicinal uses, I’m really looking at those drugs that nurses take purely for the buzz the provide. I’ll be including both the legal and the not so legal varieties, otherwise the podcast just wouldn’t be fun, and we’ll be looking at who takes what, how much they take, how often, and if certain drugs are favourites amongst certain speciality areas of the profession. To wrap up the episode, I’ll be looking at how nurses compare to the population in general in the getting high stakes.
But first, let’s review those wonderful chemicals that are included in virtually all of the research I’ve been looking at.
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