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Endings, Beginnings, and the Power of Nursing Conversations
As we close our fourth and final season of Radical Nurse Talk, I’m filled with gratitude for the nurses who shared their stories and the listeners who welcomed these conversations into their lives. Though the podcast ends, the learning, inspiration, and voices behind it continue on.
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Building and Navigating Connections with Indigenous Patients
This episode features Dr. Aric Rankin sharing his nearly 20 years of experience working in Indigenous health care across remote and urban settings. The conversation explores building trust and therapeutic relationships with Indigenous patients through humility, cultural respect, and ongoing learning.
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Be Prepared Guides: How can we talk about palliative care emergencies?
Jennifer Campagnolo and Mallory Peters discuss the “Be Prepared Guides”, a practical resource designed to help family caregivers recognize and respond to palliative care emergencies. They share how these tools can reduce unwanted hospital visits, ease suffering, and empower caregivers to provide compassionate support at home.
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How can ‘nurse talk’ help people with chronic illness live better and avoid the ED?
In this episode, Dr. Connie Schumacher, RN, PhD, explores how nurse-led conversations can support people with chronic illness to manage their health, avoid emergency department visits, and live well at home. Drawing on over 25 years of clinical experience and current research into caregiver burden and chronic disease, Dr. Schumacher offers practical insights into relational…
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Digging Deep: How can we connect in the moments of care?
In this inspiring episode, Dr. Elise Tarbi challenges traditional clinical communication and encourages nurses to embrace deeper, human-centred conversations in serious illness care. Drawing on her palliative care expertise, she explores how meaningful dialogue fosters connection, dignity, and healing, reshaping what it truly means to care.
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Moving the dial on communication in critical care
Dr. Laura Istanboulian explores how to improve communication with mechanically ventilated ICU patients who cannot speak. She developed a bundled toolkit of practical, evidence-based tools co-designed with patients, families, and nurses, aiming to humanize care, challenge assumptions, and enhance patient safety.
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Oxygen in the Chaos – Nurses’ Relational Expertise: A Nurses’ Week Reflection
This article beautifully captures how nurses’ work is like oxygen: essential, often unnoticed, but absolutely life-sustaining. In the midst of personal and systemic chaos, nurses’ ability to communicate, comfort, and guide patients and families is critical-especially in moments of serious illness or uncertainty.
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Building trust, changing lives—one pregnancy at a time
Lindsay Croswell discusses how nurses in the Nurse-Family Partnership Program support vulnerable first-time parents, improving outcomes for moms and babies facing socioeconomic challenges through therapeutic care during pregnancy and postpartum.
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