WORKING SHORT: The Nursing Podcast

A good workplace culture has many components. This week Phil and I chat about what we find effective in fostering positive workplaces and where we think there may be opportunities for improvement.

This week Phil and I are joined by Eleanor, an Irish trained RN. Eleanor spent several frustrating and expensive years pursuing her Canadian nursing registration. Although the system has reportedly improved this process, Eleanor’s story is one that will leave no doubt on why a change was needed.

On this episode Phil and I chat about the mass exodus of nurses from the profession. We discuss the rapid burnout of new nurses and what we see as potential explanations. Redefining burnout from a mid and end career concern to a new nurse problem is worth further investigation as it leaves all of us working short. 

This week Phil and I take some time to get to know each other a bit better as nurses. We dig a little deeper into the things we like, don’t like, and hope to never have to do again as nurses. 

This week Phil and I chat with Taran about her road to becoming a nurse practitioner. Taran shares all the helpful tips on pursuing the NP role as well as what a day in the life looks like. Join us as we get the inside scoop on becoming an NP. 

Safe staffing ratios is a topic that has come up in nearly every conversation so far on Working Short and today we will be continuing that conversation. From working short, to not having enough nurses in the province, to waitlists to get into nursing school, and more, there is a clear shortage amongst all of these and it affects more than just nurses, it affects everyone in BC. Tune in this week as we talk with BCNU President and RN Aman Grewal, about the nursing staffing shortage and crisis here in British Columbia. Aman Grewal has been a nurse for 35 years and has seen the demand for more nurses and the staffing crisis throughout the years. But how do we get through the crisis we’re in now and move forward? 

Nursing can be a fitting career choice for many, but what happens and what options are there for when you want a change in your career? This week, we are talking with Carly Morrison, a registered nurse who started her nursing career as an oncology nurse, but has since become a travel nurse and traveled to many remote areas of Canada to be a nurse. A career in nursing can bring a lot of opportunities, and you don’t have to stay with just one if you want to change roles. 

As a nurse, Medication errors are something you hope never happens, but what happens when they do happen? Join us this week as we chat with Trish Danyluk, a practicing registered nurse and psychiatric nursing instructor in BC. We’ll be talking about the recent conviction of RaDonda Vaught, a nurse in Tennessee, who committed a fatal medication error, and what happens when medication errors are made. What does this case mean for nurses and medication errors regardless of the severity of the error and what does the impact this case have on nurses post-conviction and in Canada. 

Keeping desire and intimacy in a relationship alive and keeping that spark can be difficult to keep up with, especially when you are working shift work and odd hours, like nurses. Join us this week, as we chat with Psychotherapist and Sex Therapist, Dr. Teesha Morgan explain how to stay satisfied with your partner, how to find time, space and energy to prioritize intimate relationships, even after the honeymoon stage has ended and learn about sexual brakes and accelerators in you and your partners relationships.

Nurses take on a lot, and are expected to take on even more in their lives and in the lives of their patients. But how can they take care of their patients without taking care of themselves first. Join us as we talk to counselor Glenn Wood, on the importance of taking care of yourself and the difficulties behind accepting and dismantling your own defences through psychotherapy. 

What is Trauma Informed Care? Changing the narrative from “what’s wrong” to “what happened to you” and using that to better support patients as a nurse. In this episode we talk with Colleen Hinkkala, a RN and nursing instructor at BCIT, to learn how to recognize trauma to avoid retraumatizing the patient, as a nurse and how to better acknowledge what happened to the patient, and how it affects how they behave today and their decisions.

Our first episode will be released in one week (May 10, 2022). To learn more about the Host, Anthem Postnikoff, view upcoming interview guests and their bios, and even see photos of a really handsome good boy named Barkley, visit workingshort.ca.

Our first episode will be released on May 10, 2022. To learn more about the Host, Anthem Postnikoff, view upcoming interview guests and their bios, and even see photos of a really handsome good boy named Barkley, visit workingshort.ca.