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The Five Things RBWH Nursing podcast is hosted by Dr Liz Crowe (She/Her) and Jesse Spurr (He/Him). Liz has PhD in the wellbeing of healthcare professionals and is an experienced social worker with over 25 years in critical care. Liz works as the staff wellbeing consultant at Royal Women’s & Brisbane Hospital. Jesse is is a critical care nurse and educator who has worked in a broad range of roles throughout the health service and has a particular interest in organisational psychology and team science.
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In this episode Liz and Jesse run without a guest for part 2 of our series on debriefing. This time we talk about debriefing to learn in clinical practice, how and why? Both Liz and Jesse have years – decades experience in facilitating debriefs in clinical practice settings and hope to see a continued path forward in creating these opportunities to learn and grow.
This episode marks an indefinite pause on our productions of Five Things as we move forward exploring plans for the future. Thank you for listening.
Our Five Things:
Debunked Debriefing Myths.
What is debriefing to learn?
Debriefing to learn can create opportunities for growth and development.
Debriefing to learn and insights into communication.
Debriefing to learn can create a sense of belonging.
In this episode Liz and Jesse run without a guest to tackle five big myths about debriefing to learn in clinical practice. Both Liz and Jesse have years – decades experience in facilitating debriefs in clinical practice settings and put a target on a few of the sticky myths that form barriers to creating these opportunities to learn and grow.
Our Five Debunked Debriefing Myths:
Debriefing causes harm.
Debriefs only happen after critical events.
Debriefs should be psychologically based.
You can’t lead a debrief if you were involved in the clinical situation.
There’s no time to debrief.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Rebecca Boparai to learn from her experience of being on the “other side” of healthcare. Rebecca works a Nurse Practitioner in Diabetes, but her story is about the impact that experiencing the healthcare system as a partner who lost her husband to cancer has shaped her professionally and personally. We were so pleased to provide a place for Rebecca to chare this wisdom forged through such a heavy personal experience.
Rebecca’s Five Things:
The patient is a person first.
Slow down and look for the small moments – they can have huge impact.
Empathy is different from sympathy.
Family, friends and community are incredibly important in this journey.
What will be our legacy?
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Lita Jeffries to learn about occupational violence. Lita is the clinical lead for Queensland occupational violence strategy unit. Lita connects here nursing experience in the emergency department to the complex nature of violence in our healthcare workplaces.
Lita’s Five Things:
What is occupational violence?
The multifactorial issues of occupational violence in healthcare?
What are the risk factors?
“Zero tolerance” and the real impacts of occupational violence on nurses?
Prevention and management of occupational violence.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Dr Leisa Turkington to learn about disordered swallowing (dysphagia). Leisa is a senior speech pathologist and clinical researcher at RBWH with three decades of experience and a PhD to top it all off. This is so much more than the basics.
Leisa’s Five Things:
What is disordered swallowing?
How do you assess for dysphagia?
Why is dysphagia dangerous?
Who is at risk of dysphagia?
Dysphagia and the bedside nursing considerations.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Bec Russo to learn about haemodialysis. Bec is a nurse practitioner candidate in kidney replacement therapies at RBWH. Super educational episode for health professionals, patients and families and friends of someone with kidney failure.
Bec’s Five Things:
What is haemodialysis?
Acute versus chronic
Vascular access for
Home dialysis.
The importance of the multidisciplinary team and goals of care.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Jacob Haberley to learn about inpatient falls. Jacob is an early career registered nurse working in a busy general medical ward at RBWH. Jacob is a strong ambassador for the Eat, Walk, Engage program aimed at reducing functional decline during acute hospital admission.
Jacob’s Five Things:
What causes a fall in hospital?
How do we screen for risk of falls?
What are the impacts of a fall?
How do we prevent falls?
The role of stakeholders in preventing falls.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Cathy Boyle to learn about clinical supervision for nurses and midwives. This may be unfamiliar to a lot of us, but Cathy, a nurse educator with decades of experience and now working in a state-wide clinical supervision project role, had us both informed and sold on this addition to nursing professional development and practice support. We were also joined, for our first ever in episode guest cameo, by Liz Pengelly, an emergency nurse working in rural and remote Queensland.
Cathy’s Five Things:
What is clinical supervision?
Why is it important?
How often, and who leads supervision?
How do you make clinical supervision a reality?
A lived experience of clinical supervision from a nurse.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Associate Professor Andrew Wong to learn about headaches and migraine. Andrew is the Director of Neurology and Stroke at RBWH. This episode is loaded with knowledge that could help us, or our family and friends, and our patients.
Andrew’s Five Things:
Not every headache is a migraine.
Migraine needed diagnosis to support specific treatments.
There are always new treatments for migraines, so don’t give up.
Migraine sufferers can have more than one type of headache.
Sometimes the headache isn’t the worst feature of migraine.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Liz Knox to learn about gynaecological cancer. Liz is a clinical nurse consultant in gynaecology oncology at RBWH.
Liz’s Five Things:
What is gynaecology?
Symptoms of potential gynaecological cancers.
Types of gynaecological cancers.
Risk factors for gynaecological cancers.
Treatments for gynaecological cancers.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Liz Wilkes to learn about midwifery (our sibling profession). Liz is the first state Chief Midwife in Australia, taking the lead for the profession in Queensland. We think this is an awesome episode on so much more than midwifery. There
are lessons on professional identity, scope, socio-cultural responsiveness and considered leadership through curiosity and representation.
Liz’s Five Things:
What is a midwife?
What is the scope of practice of a midwife?
Is midwifery a feminist issue?
Properties for midwifery today and into the future.
What people can expect from the chief midwife.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Professor Gail Robinson to help us understand memory. Gail holds a joint appointment with the Queensland Brain Institute and the School of Psychology at University of Queensland. This episode is all about memory, just in case you forgot already...
Gail’s Five Things:
What is memory?
Memory and emotion are linked.
Memory and brain injury.
Memory and dementia.
Can you improve your memory (or at least protect it)?
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Tu Ritchie to learn about burns. Tu is a clinical nurse, and current acting nurse manager, in the adult burns unit at RBWH. This episode is both a great learning resource, but also an example of a nurse who exudes passion and purpose in her career.
Tu’s Five Things:
First aid and immediate post-burn management.
Burn wound management.
Managing pain.
Burns nursing is so much more than wound care.
Burns care is truly a team sport.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Matt Stewart to learn about back pain. Matt is an Advanced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist at RBWH. This episode is as much for the health professional’s care of self, as it is for better knowledge in patient care.
Matt’s Five Things:
Back pain and the causes.
Prevention of back pain.
Early management of back pain.
When to seek professional help.
Indications for investigations.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Sandra Stewart, the Health Sector Lead for Buchan Architects. Sandra gives us an insight into large scale hospital design. We explore big picture planning, through to design hacks and work arounds to retrofit environments that we have inherited.
Sandra’s Five Things:
Importance of natural light.
Comfortable and functional spaces.
Biophilic design.
Importance of art and colour.
Technology integration.
Holiday special remix of one of our favourite episodes with improved audio quality.
Liz and Jesse are joined by Anne Hales, Clinical Nurse with the RBWH Palliative and Supportive Care Service. In this episode Anne shares her wisdom and experiences in providing quality care as death approaches.
Anne’s Five Things:
Symptom management – pharma and non-pharma
Maintaining dignity and identity
Recognising the dying process
Family care
End of life care is a team sport
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Bronte Moroney to pick up where our previous episode on eating disorders with psychologist, Erin Marsland finished. Bronte is now a Clinical Nurse working in a consultation liaison psychiatry service, but with a firm career grounding in eating disorder support and treatment. This episode looks at how we can best care for a patient living with an eating disorder when admitted to a non-mental health specialist ward environment in the hospital.
Bronte’s Five Things:
Let’s understanding what an eating disorder is and that meal times will be distressing.
What can health professionals do to support?
Be firm with the eating disorder, compassionate with the person.
Use recovery focused language at all times.
Consistency if the key!
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Sharlene Pyke to learn about Dementia. Sharlene is a Clinical Nurse working in a dementia outreach service.
Sharlene’s Five Things:
What is Dementia?
Signs and symptoms of dementia leading to diagnosis.
Who gets Dementia?
What is BPSD and validation?
What can we do to look after someone with dementia?
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Dr Olivia Hollingdrake to talk about stigma. Olivia is a Senior Lecturer with Queensland University of Technology. While working as a nurse with people living with blood borne diseases, Olivia stumbled into an interest in patient experience of stigmatised conditions. This lead her down a path of research that informed her PhD work.
Olivia’s Five Things:
What is stigma?
Language is crucial in stigma.
Pearls and pitfalls of tearoom conversations.
Get to know people with lived experience.
Why cultural safety is essential and it’s not about understanding everyone’s culture.
In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Dr Chirag Patel. Chirag is a consultant clinical geneticist at RBWH. We learned a lot about the world of clinical genetics right now and what is on the near horizon.
Chirag’s Five Things:
Genetics 101.
Complex vs pure genetic conditions.
What is clinical genetics?
Genetic testing.
Psychosocial and ethical considerations of clinical genetics.
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