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Celebrating Nursing Week 2024
In celebration of Nursing Week….To the guests who shared expertise, who inspired and mentored in their stories and to the listeners, I say thank you.
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Supporting patients’ decisions in advanced illness: Heart valve disease
How can nurses be involved in decisions that patients make about innovative heart valve interventions for which they may be eligible? In this episode Dr. Sandra Lauck thoughtfully describes her work and that of others in supporting nurses to have opportunities and language that open spaces for patients to question, understand and consider possible therapies.
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Showing Up and Standing Up for Patients
How can we show up in our relational work with seriously ill patients, and for ourselves as nurses in the moments that are available to us? Marie Cooper calls on each of us to stand up, use language and claim the relational work that makes what we do, nursing.
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How can we talk about healing after patient harm?
How can we talk about patient harm in a way that doesn’t incur further harm? In this episode Jo Wailling invites us to advocate for a restorative versus punitive lens, so that learning and healing can occur for everyone involved.
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Finding the Stories in Palliative Care Spaces
In this episode of Radical Nurse Talk, Dr. Wright describes in passionate detail the many ways in which nurses help seriously ill patients and families craft stories in the liminal spaces of care that exist outside of treatments procedures.
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Hearing and Supporting Caregivers
In this episode Janet Lovegrove shares practice tips and language we can use across practice settings to support caregivers of people living with serious life-limiting illness.
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Indigenous and Northern Lens on Communication in Serious Illness
In this episode, we explore the context created at the intersection of geography, history, language, culture, and healthcare resources when Indigenous people in Canada’s far north require care for serious illness.
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Awake and Communicating in the ICU
Have you ever thought of communication as a vital sign for patients in the intensive care unit? In this episode you will hear Kali Dayton, DNP AGACNP and critical care outcomes consultant share her passion for using evidence that promotes what she terms “Awake and Walking ICU’s.”
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Dementia-Friendly Communication
Communicating with people living with advancing dementia and who require care can be challenging and frustrating for everyone. In this episode Mary Buck, an expert in fostering more effective communication practice in dementia, shares important information that also may challenge some of our usual practices.
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Supporting Families of Unborn and Newborn Infants with Life-Threatening Conditions
Having a baby is supposed to be a very happy event, but when a baby is diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening condition in the perinatal period, families are faced with new realities and require special support and understanding.
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