This episode Shaye speaks with Pumla Coleman. Pumla grew up in South Africa under apartheid becoming a nurse in 1972. Her story is one of incredible bravery - fighting against systemic racism and risking her life to advocate for the health, wealth and welfare of her community ..read more

On this week's episode of the Shift with Shaye we hear from Lesley Salem, nurse practitioner of 20 years and proud Wanaruah and Guringai woman. At age 48, Lesley followed her passions and decided to work in Aboriginal Medical Services as a nurse practitioner. As a nurse practitioner, Lesley is passionate about providing holistic care to patients and improving chronic health outcomes for First Nations people ..read more

Reflections on the pandemic and how nurses and midwives will ensure their voices are heard as the healthcare system moves forward. Linda Silas, President, Canadian Federation of Nurses Union Bonnie Castillo, Executive Director, National Nurses United, USA Shaye Candish, General Secretary, NSWNMA Linda Silas has fine-tuned her skills as a union leader at the local, provincial, national and international levels over the course of two decades. Starting her tenure as a full-time labour activist as the single mom of a 13-month-old son has shaped Linda in a very distinctive way. Linda has earned a r ..read more

COVID-19 and aged care: a pandemic of virtue, vicissitude and vanity. Joseph Ibrahim is a medical specialist in geriatrics and an academic Professor and Head of the Health Law and Ageing Research Unit at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University. Joseph has over 30 years of clinical experience as a doctor in the public hospital system providing care for older people, he brings that knowledge and insights to research work. Joseph’s research team focuses on reducing harm to older persons from neglect, poor care and abuse as well as seeking to improve the quality of life for older pe ..read more

SUSTAIN AND RETAIN Prof James Buchan is a Adjunct Professor at UTS in Sydney, and a Senior Fellow at the Health Foundation in the UK. He is currently working as a consultant with ICN and with WHO. His background includes employment with Health Woe4kforce Australia, and more recently as an advisor to the Scottish government health workforce department during the Covid- 19 pandemic. Here he speaks at the NSWNMA 77th Annual Conference in Sydney (originally recorded 3/8/22 ..read more

This episode Shaye speaks with Lorna Scott. Lorna is a nurse practitioner, women’s health nurse and NSWNMA Councillor and proud Scotswoman. Lorna moved to Australia from Scotland in the 80s for, as she puts it the “nicer weather”, but it wasn’t long before Lorna had thrown herself into the world of Australian nursing. In 1987 Lorna became one of the first Women’s Health nurses in Australia and in the 1990s was part of a groundbreaking nurse practitioner pilot. 33 years on, Lorna is still loving working as a nurse practitioner and women’s health nurse. She has some hilarious stories from her in ..read more

This week Shaye is joined by a giant in Australia’s nursing history, Valda Wiles AM. Valda commenced her nursing career in 1956, and was a pioneer in the field of critical care nursing. She was also instrumental in winning today’s clinical care structure and the introduction of Clinical Nurse Specialists in our nursing teams. On top of this, she was also a union stalwart and authored a book on the history of critical care in Australia. For her work, she was awarded an Order of Australia in 1997. **CORRECTIONS** **The use of cardiac defibrillators by RNs in response to cardiac arrest was in the ..read more

This week Shaye speaks with Deb Lang. Deb is a retired nurse and midwife, with an incredibly varied career. After training and working in hospitals in Sydney in the 1970s, Deb then spent time working in Goulburn and the Central Coast, retiring recently from her role as a rehab CNC at Gosford Private Hospital. She was a member of the NSWNMA Council for many years and still remains involved in our campaigns through our Retired Member Activist Group. Her passions include veterans health and voluntary assisted dying, which they discuss in this episode ..read more

This episode Shaye sits down with Nursing Unit Manager, Julie Latimer and Clinical Nurse Specialist, Marge White from the Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) in Kings Cross, Sydney. To find out more about Art from the Heart visit https://artfromtheheart.uniting.org ..read more

This week Shaye speaks with Lynda Balneaves, a registered nurse and cannabis researcher from Canada. Resources mentioned in the podcast; https://www.cannabisnurses.org https://ccic.net ..read more