Category: Podcast Episode
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Advocacy at the End-of-Life: Nurses as “The Calm in the Storm”
In this episode, Mahoganie Hines discusses the vital role of nurses in advocating for patient-centered care at the end of life, offering expert insights and strategies to support families, navigate challenges, and ensure compassionate, palliative care during difficult times.
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From East Africa: Leading global change in palliative care
Erin Das, a Canadian-trained advanced practice nurse in Nairobi, explores challenges and strategies for supporting healthcare workers in under-resourced, culturally diverse settings. Specializing in pediatric palliative care and community health, Erin leads initiatives like Project ECHO to improve training and access to care for seriously ill patients in East Africa and beyond.
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Would you like your heart restarted if it stopped?
In this episode, Dr. Sharyn Milnes, an Australian critical care nurse, explores the complexities of discussing resuscitation preferences or code status with patients. She highlights how such conversations intersect with advanced care planning, and how nurses’ communication can significantly influence patient and family decision-making, using strategies like “circuit breakers” to enhance clarity.
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Finding Poetry in Nursing Presence
In this episode, we explore the powerful intersection of nursing and the arts through the work of Rekha Vijayshankar, a pioneering nurse in palliative care. Rekha shares her unique approach to helping dying patients write poetry, offering transformative insights into relational care.
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From the streets to echelons of power: Advocating for work spaces that promote nurses’ relational praxis
In this episode, Patricia Strachan explores this question with Dr. Leigh Chapman, a dedicated nurse and leader who is advocating at the highest levels across Canada to improve working conditions for nurses—helping them not only stay in the profession but thrive.
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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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