5 Things Nursing Podcast by RBWH

Ep 21: Five Things About Organ Donation With Lisa Mewburn

Liz and Jesse are joined by Lisa Mewburn, donation specialist nurse at RBWH, to learn more about organ donation.
 
Lisa's Five Things:
1. What is organ and tissue donation?
2. What is the process for organ donation?
3. When should donate life / donation coordinators be engaged?
4. Organ donation opportunities are incredibly rare.
5. What does organ donation mean to the families of donors?
 

Ep 20: Five Things About Kidney Health With Samantha Holman

Liz and Jesse were lucky to spend some time talking about renal health and function with Nurse Educator, Sam Holman. One of our most requested topics and Sam did not disappoint.
Sam's Five Things:
1. What does a healthy kidney do?
2. Warning signs that the kidneys are unwell.
3. Common causes of kidney disease.
4. Interventions and treatments for kidney failure.
5. Why we need to look after our patients kidneys (and our own.

Ep 19: Five Things About Stress With Prof Rob Orr

In this episode (another self care challenge embed), Liz and Jesse are joined by physiotherapist and stress and tactical performance researcher, Professor Rob Orr from Bond University.
Rob's Five Things:
Not all stress is bad.
Your body and personality are naturally affected by stress, learn your personal “tells” on how you manifest stressors.
The relationship between stress and performance is task specific.
Long term stress has health and psychological consequences, coping mechanisms can only get you so far.
There are basic things we can do to manage acute stress – physiologically such as controlled breathing techniques and psychologically such as message framing.

Ep 18: Five Things About Self Forgiveness With Stan Steindel

In this episode, Liz and Jesse continue with a self-care challenge focus and are thrilled to be joined by Dr Stan Steindel. Stan is a clinical psychologist with a special interest in compassion and self-forgiveness. This episode tackles some of the very really challenges that we, as health professionals have with being kind to ourselves and finding peace or some sense of resolution when we are involved in conflict, error or unfavourable patient outcomes. Many of these principles are covered in depth in Stan’s book “The gifts of compassion. How to understand and overcome suffering”.  
 
Stan’s Five Things:
What forgiveness is and what it isn’t.
What happens when we can’t forgive ourselves?
Self-forgives is an act of self-compassion.
How might we forgive ourselves? Some strategies.
Moving forward and making a commitment. Validation, reassurance, affirmation and encouragement.

Ep 17: Five Things About The 14 Day Self Care Challenge

In this episode, Liz and Jesse preview the 14 day RBWH self-care challenge that starts on February 13th. This is a labour of love from Liz and engaged hundreds of staff last year. The aim is to spread far and wide and help health care professionals test out and try a range of evidence based principles for improved personal wellbeing that are pragmatic and realistic to the unique work / life environments of our jobs.
If you miss the start on the 13th of Feb, you and your team can pick up the challenge and run it at any time.
Check out @LizCrowe2 and @inject_orange on Twitter or email Liz.Crowe@health.qld.gov.au for the Challenge Guidebook. 
Liz’s Five Things:
Our work is not normal.
Healthcare is one industry that never stops, we can’t ground the plane.
Self-care is patient care.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Our team is huge a reason for and a potentially powerful source of wellbeing and resilience.

Ep 16: Five Things About Patient Flow With Gareth Davies

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Gareth Davies, acting nursing and midwifery director of patient flow at RBWH to talk about…. Patient Flow.
Gareth’s Five Things:
Focus on quality and flow will come
Establish patient driven goals of care
Ask the question “where is this patient going next?”
Explore alternative models of care
A call to arms to get creative for the future

Ep 15: Five Things About Palliative Care With Anne Hales

Liz and Jesse are joined by Anne Hales, Clinical Nurse with the RBWH Palliative and Supportive Care Service. In this episode Anne shares her wisdom and experiences in providing quality care as death approaches.
 
Anne’s Five Things:
Symptom management – pharma and non-pharma
Maintaining dignity and identity
Recognising the dying process
Family care
End of life care is a team sport
 

Ep 14: Five Things About What Happens at Night With Tom Hendy

Liz and Jesse are joined by Tom Hendy, Nurse Navigator with the RBWH Up Late Program. We weave through some of the things that hit different after dark. 
Tom's Five Things:
Surviving night shift
Communicating with Ward-calls
discussion of what is ward-call, what to expect. Examples of SBAR for communication.
Sometimes less is more
what should you be doing for your patients overnight?
Making the most of your time
non-patient contact tasks that have impact on patient outcomes
      5. Escalation of Deterioration