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Nursing and Midwifery EmporiumLouise Webber on Wound TherapiesLouise 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...2020-12-2226 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumBeth Haley on Volunteer NursingBeth 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.2020-12-0500 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumArlene Bennett on Vivian Bullwinkel's storyThe 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.2020-11-1200 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumWendy McIntosh on Rotary for NursesSo, 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...2020-10-2100 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumElissa O'Keefe on Cosmetic NursingElissa 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...2020-10-1100 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumToni Hoffman on Whistleblowing in NursingIf 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 th...2020-09-1138 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumArlene Bennett on our WWII Nurse HeroesArlene 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...2020-09-0422 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumWendy McIntosh on Clinical SupervisionClinical 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...2020-08-2433 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumLilliana Levada on Nursing InternationallyLilliana 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.2020-07-0727 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumChris Carlin on Financial Planning for NursesThe 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...2020-06-2929 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumAthol Hann on his Nursing AppYep, 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...2020-06-2022 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumLeslie Cornwell on being a Certified Nurse MidwifeLeslie 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...2020-06-0723 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumDr Wendy McIntosh on Nursing Professional BoundariesSo 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...2020-05-2833 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumEmily's question on Career CrossroadsEpisode #20: Emily's question on Career Crossroads2020-05-1836 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumRebecca East on Perioperative NursingOk, 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...2020-05-1240 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumLeanne Boase on being a Nurse PractitionerThe 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...2020-03-2039 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumElissa on Rural & Remote NursingSo, 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...2020-03-1426 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumJason Dawson on Travel CPDHere's everything you need to know about Travel CPD by emoji:
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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...2020-03-1024 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumSusan Woodford on the Dermatology NurseOne 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...2020-02-1429 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumNicole & the Workplace Wellness Conference...2020-01-3118 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumGeorgina McGrath on the Independent NurseGeorgina McGrath is an independent nurse. She functions as a clinical nurse consultant in the community sector. It's the dream of many of us: we have a body of knowledge, passion for deploying that knowledge to be the architecture of real change in our patients and doing that without interference from bureaucracy or other professionals. But how do you actually do that.
Well, Georgia has done just that with McGrath Nursing. Georgie functions as an independent nurse, in the role of clinical nurse consultant in the disability and rehab space. Georgia walks us through the day in the life of...2020-01-2730 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumAnne Evans-Murray on Nutrition & NursingSo balancing nursing and nutrition. A hateful task. In my 25 years as a registered nurse, I've done a lot of shift work. Not as much as some, but still, I know the pull to the vending machine at 0100 and the desperate toast at 0500 that is all about survival and nothing to do with nutrition. We know lifestyle choices make a profound difference to our likelihood to acquire chronic disease. What we can't seem to agree on is what those lifestyle choice are. Anne Evans-Murray holds that tension brilliantly. As nurses, we have all held that tension: there's an evidence-based line w...2020-01-1730 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumBen Jenkins on being a New Graduate NurseThe new graduate nurse of 2018 onwards are well supported through the trials and tribulations of the experience of being a novice thanks to Ben Jenkins and his podcast, New Grad Radio. Ben offers a soft landing for novice practitioners by telling his raw story as a new graduate nurse in the Intensive Care Unit in a tertiary referral hospital in Queensland. What's brilliant about Ben's reality TV - no wait: podcast - episodes, are that they are relatable, not just for the new graduate nurse, but that nurse that I know is out there who's terrified of being...2020-01-0838 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumEvelyn Field on Bullying in NursingEvelyn works with in the space of dealing with bullying . Her expertise is immense. Which is great, because our problem with nurse bullying is immense. Evelyn M. Field OAM is a practising psychologist in Melbourne and a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. She provides regular training to schools and organizations, as well as training mental health professionals. She was as an Accredited Speaking Member of National Speakers Association of Australia. She has spoken in New Zealand, Belgium, Spain, USA, Vietnam, Norway, Copenhagen, Wales, Italy and Israel. She is one of the media spokespersons...2020-01-0135 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumLuke Yokota on Men in NursingSo let me start this post by saying, this guy is the definition of #NurseGoals. When Sue and I started this podcast and we wanted a category for a certain group of nurses who just great things, then this is the type of nurse we had in mind. Namely, Luke Yokota has been nominated as Young Australian of the Year 2020. That comes off the back of the work that Luke has recently done with campaigning for men in nursing. Luke is the Chair of the Australian College of Nursing's Working Party for Men in Nursing and has been instrumental in the...2019-12-2032 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumSandra Dewhirst & Tanya Mularczyk on Forensic NursingForensic nursing.... Truly, so many questions. What nursing interventions are on your menu as a forensic nurse. How do you cope with the fact that you know these people you're caring for have participated in violent and sometimes reprehensible conduct that have likely ruined their victims lives? How do you even cope with the curiousity of it all? How disconcerting is it when your patient comes with an entourage of custodial officers? Is it.....scary?????
Well, in the interests of nurses and midwives exploring what career transition options might be out there, this seemed like a no...2019-12-1331 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumPaul Armstrong on Career TransitionThis week, Sue and I get into career transition. Nic talks to Paul Armstrong, a leading career transition from Inner Sanctum Consulting, an expert who has had his own experience with career transition answers all the questions we have about "what's next"? He challenges us to think more broadly about our skill set. Nurses are pretty amazing creatures and we possess skills that we take for granted that other industries invest years and thousands of professional development dollars in growing in their own employees. Nurses can inherently think laterally: linear thinking is not useful when we're presented with a patient load...2019-11-2234 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumNicole Nash-Arnold on Nursing CultureNicole Nash-Arnold from Nurse Manager HQ is our second cohost of This Nursing Life podcast. Nic's all consuming passion is nursing culture. We used to be great at comaraderie. We used to be excellent at having fun, breaking rules and suffering the wrath of intimidating nursing supervisors who stalked our corridors. If anything shows our heritage, it's the show Call the Midwife. We're at risk of losing our sense of community and it's high time to take control. Nic's key message is take control of our destiny: we're more powerful than we...2019-11-1822 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumSue Walker on Nursing CPDToday, the Nursing & Midwifery Emporium takes some time out from our usual format of interviewing experts as we thought it was high time we introduce ourselves! First cab of the co-hosting rank, is the fabulous Sue Walker from the Nursing CPD Institute. Sue started out in the world of nursing CPD when she and a colleague identified a raging gap for nurses and midwives that seemed to exist no matter what clinical niche they went into: aged care, community and primary care, acute care, obstetrics.2019-11-0627 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumGareth Edwards on Laughter YogaGareth Edwards joins us to discuss the power of laughter yoga on defeating our nemesis, nursing burnout. I had absolutely no idea what that meant. When I was researching what Gareth Edwards did and read he was the expert on laughter yoga, a very specific story popped into my head. My previous boss, a 60+ year old emergency physician who sported an impressive belly, was treated to a fabulous weekend to Olivia Newton John’s sensational wellness resort, Gaia Retreat, for their wedding anniversary. He’s more of a indulgent lunch, loads of red wine, that morphs into a long...2019-11-0529 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumDr Pam Savage on Losing My RegistrationDr Pam Savage has an extensive background in clinical Nursing, education, and remote area Nursing both in Australia and overseas.
As a Lawyer and Clinician, this background is brought to her role as adjunct Lecturer to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as Aboriginal Health Workers.
Pam is a Barrister at Bar (NSW) and a published author and her book “Law for Student Nurses: applied principles” is now in its third edition.
A major focus of her current work has been designing undergraduate and postgraduate law courses for Nurses and community health workers. ...2019-10-2534 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumShona Grant from Pink Collar RecruitmentShona Grant from Pink Collar Recruitment joins Nic Nash-Arnold to reveal the secrets to landing your dream job. Shona & Nic dive into what nurses self-limiting beliefs are around our careers, the mistakes we're most likely to make and what to do if you're wanting to apply for a new role but your relationship with your current NUM (aka: your reference!) has soured. Sue & Nic, as usual, chat afterwards about Shona's services and the brilliant world of involving a recruitment consultant to your career planning team.2019-10-2524 minNursing and Midwifery EmporiumMark Aitken from Nurse and Midwife SupportNic and Sue chat with Mark Aitken from Nurse and Midwife Support. We take a deep dive into the Nurse and Midwife Support Service, the concept of self-care, and real strategies on how to do that.2019-09-2719 min