Episodes 36
Avg. Duration 50m
Activity Dormant
Since Sep 2023
Latest Episode Oct 2025

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
100%
Hosting
feed.podbean.com

About This Podcast

Conversations That Matter. This is Radical Nurse Talk, a podcast about nurses’ communication in serious situations and illness as a radical act of care. Join Dr. Patricia Strachan as she talks with nurses and others about nurses’ expertise, experience, courage, joys and frustrations in having conversations that involve serious situations and illness, loss, life-altering and unwanted change, living in uncertainty, declining health and end-of-life.

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Recent Episodes

Building and Navigating Connections with Indigenous Patients

Oct 29, 2025 54m

This episode of Radical Nurse Talk features Dr. Aric Rankin sharing his nearly 20 years of experience working in Indigenous health care across remote and urban settings. The conversation explores…

How can we talk about Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)?

Oct 15, 2025 47m

In this episode, we explore the sensitive and complex topic of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) in Canada, a legal medical procedure that can raise profound questions for nurses, health…

Be Prepared Guides: How can we talk about palliative care emergencies?

Oct 01, 2025 56m

In this episode of Radical Nurse Talk, Patricia Strachan is joined by Jennifer Campagnolo and Mallory Peters to discuss the “Be Prepared Guides”, a practical resource designed to help family…

How can ‘nurse talk’ help people with chronic illness live better and avoid the ED?

Sep 17, 2025 48m

In this episode, Dr. Connie Schumacher, RN, PhD and Associate Professor at Brock University, explores how nurse-led conversations can support people with chronic illness to manage their health, avoid…

Digging Deep: How can we connect in the moments of care?

Sep 03, 2025 47m

In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. Elise Tarbi invites us to move beyond traditional models of clinical communication and explore the deeper, more human side of nursing. Rather than focusing…

Moving the dial on communication in critical care

May 21, 2025 57m

How do you effectively communicate with people who require prolonged mechanical ventilation and thus cannot vocalize? How can we better connect with people who cannot speak for themselves? What…

The language of obesity: How can we do no harm?

May 07, 2025 42m

For generations, people have been judged, shamed, and blamed for their weight-by families, friends, healthcare practitioners, and society at large. These messages become so deeply internalized that…

Building trust, changing lives—one pregnancy at a time

Apr 23, 2025 54m

Although much of the conversation around health focuses on illness, this episode takes a different path—delving into the complex realities faced by pregnant individuals navigating socioeconomic…

How are YOU doing? Lifting the curtain on nurses’ grief

Feb 12, 2025 50m

Throughout any given shift, regardless of the practice setting, nurses regularly provide care to individuals who are grieving or have experienced various forms of loss. But what about the nurses…

A conversation about inclusivity

Jan 29, 2025 44m

Birgit Umaigba is a registered nurse and PhD student at Queen's University's School of Nursing. She is also a thought leader, speaker, health equity advocate, nurse educator, and consultant. At the…

Advocacy at the End-of-Life: Nurses as “The Calm in the Storm”

Jan 15, 2025 47m

In this heartfelt episode, Mahoganie Hines delves into the critical role of nurses in advocating for patient-centred care at the end of life. With passion and expertise, Mahoganie highlights how…

From East Africa: Leading global change in palliative care

Jan 01, 2025 52m

All over the world nurses work with seriously ill patients and their families, often in significantly under resourced conditions, difficult geographies, and within diverse cultural contexts. How can…

Would you like your heart restarted if it stopped?

Dec 18, 2024 44m

Have you ever asked a patient about their resuscitation preferences? Or what we refer to as code status—whether they would want their heart restarted if it stopped? Most nurses have asked this…

Finding Poetry in Nursing Presence

Dec 04, 2024 53m

In this episode, we explore the intersection of nursing and the arts—a rare but powerful combination in healthcare. In January 2024, The Telegraph, a renowned UK news outlet, featured an article…

From the streets to echelons of power: Advocating for work spaces that promote nurses' relational praxis

Nov 20, 2024 45m

How can a Chief Nursing Officer influence conversations about serious illness? In this episode, Patricia Strachan explores this question with Dr. Leigh Chapman, a dedicated nurse and leader who is…

Supporting patients’ decisions in advanced illness: Heart valve disease

Apr 03, 2024 45m

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…

Showing Up and Standing Up for Patients

Mar 27, 2024 47m

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? Grounded in professional and personal experience and yes,…

How Can We Talk About Healing After Patient Harm?

Mar 20, 2024 49m

It is well known that despite our best intentions preventable harm continues to happen to patients in healthcare systems. Further harm to patients, their families and to healthcare professionals,…

Finding the Stories in Palliative Care Spaces

Mar 13, 2024 59m

What do we mean when we talk about a good death? How can we describe the meaningful communicative work that nurses can do with dying patients and their families? In this episode, Patricia Strachan…

Hearing and Supporting Caregivers

Mar 06, 2024 51m

As a practicing Registered Nurse with extensive experience working in acute, critical, and community care settings, Janet Lovegrove has heard many caregivers' stories about feeling alone,…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Radical Nurse Talk have?

Radical Nurse Talk has published 36 episodes since September 2023, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Medicine.

Is Radical Nurse Talk still active?

Radical Nurse Talk is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 50m.

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