Beyond Burnout: Trauma Takes a Toll on Patients AND New Jersey Nurses by Jennie Sherlock-Loeb and Mandy Irby Content includes discussion on: stillbirth, birth trauma, maternal death. Nurses are warriors. They’re always ready to answer the call, never knowing exactly what the next shift might bring. Nurses have strong connections to the individuals they serve and deep investments in the patient experience. They’re tasked with balancing the needs of their patients with their own self-preservation. It can be a difficult balancing act. Consider perinatal nurses: those who provide care to indi ..read more

Hey, Hi, Hello! We’re educators passionate about protecting patients and clinicians from birth-related trauma. Our founder, Mandy Irby, started the Birth Nurse after going through vicarious trauma as a delivery nurse and her own birthing trauma. We fiercely believe in protecting birthers from trauma as they bring new life into the world. We’re also passionate clinician advocates who arm nurses and the birth team with tools to protect themselves from vicarious trauma.  We educate individual parents and nurses in trauma informed birth care. But we also k ..read more

Listen to Episode 38 Watch the video Mandy speaks at her first nursing conference since leaving the bedside and we are sharing all of the feelings and thoughts on it in this episode of Pulse Check! Follow here @pulsecheck.podcast Pulse Check Podcast Transcript: Nursing Conference Speaker Breakdown [00:00:00] Hello. Welcome back to another episode of the pulse check podcast. I’m hehe and I’m Mandy. And today we are diving into a very interesting topic. Mandy just got back from speaking at a national conference designed for nurses. Yay, Mandy. We’re so proud of you. I kept ..read more

Listen to Episode 38 Watch the video Hear about how two nurse whistleblowers fight back against a facility with a track record of systemic retaliation, and their advice on how to stay safe in healthcare and how to learn more on navigating a whistleblower situation in the future. Follow here @pulsecheck.podcast Pulse Check Podcast Transcript: Nurse Whistleblowers File Retaliation Claims [00:00:00] Hey, welcome back to the pulse check podcast. My name is Mandy, I’m HeHe. And today we have two guests. We are talking about nurse whistle blowers and retaliation claims. We’re r ..read more

Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care for Perinatal Nurses Hi, I am Mandy Irby and I’m here with Maggie Runyan and Paula Richards as well. And we are all three co-founders of the trauma informed birth nurse program. We’re all bedside nurses. In addition to other specialties, such as nurse educators, AWHONN educator, parent educator entrepreneurs, nonprofit founders. And we were all three, so overwhelmed and frustrated by feelings of isolation in making improvements to birth outcomes. We felt swimming upstream, fighting uphill. These were almost universal when we looked outside of our o ..read more

Listen to Episode 34 No guest today! Mandy and HeHe dive into evaluating trauma informed care as Mandy shares her recent experience within the medical system.  Navigating a new office, provider, and opening up about a problem that has been ongoing and difficult for Mandy to seek care for.  HeHe and Mandy break down the positives and areas of growth seen in this experience through the eyes of a patient.  Listen @pulsecheck.podcast Pulse Check Podcast Transcript: Evaluating Trauma Informed Care as a Patient [00:00:00] Hey, and welcome back to the pulse check podc ..read more

Listen to Episode 35 On HeHe’s TikTok, a nurse comment on a video explaining patient rights and their right to informed refusal saying, “That’s fine. I will just document in your chart that you refused care and we’ll see how things happen from there.” Whether a patient declines or accepts your clinical suggestion shouldn’t dictate how they are treated in the medical system, but HERE WE ARE. This episode covers everything from threatening language and manipulation of patients to consensual and trauma informed care. We packed a ton into this conversation! Follow along with us: @p ..read more

Listen to Episode 33 HeHe’s great idea to solve the broken healthcare system in America? A Listserve. It takes years (and years and years) to see research backed change actually implemented in the medical system, but WHY? With all of the technology, resources, and money in the American Health Care system there has to be a better way.  Join us as we chat through policy change, standards of health care, AND everyone’s least favorite task…checking your email.   We want to know your thoughts! Share them with us @pulsecheck.podcast Pulse Check Podcast Transcript: Is ..read more

Special Guest: Dr. Chrissy Sheeler Listen to Episode 28 This episode is Part 2 of a discussion on the evolving language in medicine and the heavy lifting that is required by consumers of medical care just to understand what everyone is talking about! We’ve noticed a difference in language spoken between colleagues vs spoken to patients and differences in the outpatient setting, in-patient setting, and even social media. HeHe and Mandy sit down with Dr. Chrissy Sheeler, family practice physician in Canada, to share an interesting conversation we had in IG DMs that we wanted to con ..read more

This episode is a discussion on the evolving language in medicine and the heavy lifting that is required by consumers of medical care just to understand what everyone is talking about! We’ve noticed a difference in language spoken between colleagues vs spoken to patients and differences in the outpatient setting, in-patient setting, and even social media. HeHe and Mandy sit down with Dr. Chrissy Sheeler, family practice physician in Canada, to share an interesting conversation we had in IG DMs that we wanted to continue – so we hit record! You get to listen in on this conversation, an ..read more