Radical Nurse Talk
Radical Nurse Talk
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Building and Navigating Connections with Indigenous Patients
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)?
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?
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?
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
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”
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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,…
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Radical Nurse Talk has published 36 episodes since September 2023, covering topics in Health & Fitness, Medicine.
Radical Nurse Talk is currently dormant with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 50m.
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