Wendy McIntosh on Rotary for Nurses
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by Nic Nash-Arnold & Sue Walker
11M ago
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 he ..read more
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Elissa O'Keefe on Cosmetic Nursing
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by Nic Nash-Arnold & Sue Walker
11M ago
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 comme ..read more
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Toni Hoffman on Whistleblowing in Nursing
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by Nic Nash-Arnold & Sue Walker
11M ago
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 discredit ..read more
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Arlene Bennett on our WWII Nurse Heroes
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by Nic Nash-Arnold & Sue Walker
11M ago
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 hold ..read more
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Athol Hann on his Nursing App
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by Nic Nash-Arnold & Sue Walker
11M ago
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 ..read more
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Leslie Cornwell on being a Certified Nurse Midwife
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by Nic Nash-Arnold & Sue Walker
11M ago
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 qua ..read more
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Dr Wendy McIntosh on Nursing Professional Boundaries
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by Nic Nash-Arnold & Sue Walker
11M ago
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. Th ..read more
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Emily's question on Career Crossroads
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by Nic Nash-Arnold & Sue Walker
11M ago
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Rebecca East on Perioperative Nursing
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by Nic Nash-Arnold & Sue Walker
11M ago
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 ..read more
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Leanne Boase on being a Nurse Practitioner
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by Nic Nash-Arnold & Sue Walker
11M ago
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 speci ..read more
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