5 Things Nursing Podcast by RBWH

Ep 24: Five Things About Diabetes With Heike Krausse

Liz and Jesse are joined by Heike Krausse, Clinical Nurse Consultant for Diabetes at RBWH, in a MASSIVE episode to explore five things to deepen our knowledge, and make us better at supporting and providing education for our patients with diabetes.
Heike’s Five Things
Know your (patho)physiology
Self-management and home blood glucose monitoring
All about hypoglycaemia
Diabetes medications – not just insulin
Healthcare language really matters

Ep 23: Five Things About Getting Ready For Surgery With Georgia Hampson

Liz and Jesse are joined by Georgia Hampson, a registered nurse with the day surgery unit at RBWH. Georgia pitches a great five things aimed at nurses new to the surgical and perioperative process, about getting patients ready for surgery.
Georgia's Five Things:
Be aware of the patient experience.
The importance of informed consent.
Fasting and clear instructions for patients.
Making sure your patient is fit for surgery.
The perioperative process is important for safety.

Ep 22: Five Things About Mental Health in Hospital With Stacey Deaville

Liz and Jesse a joined by Stacey Deaville, Clinical Nurse Consultant with the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry team at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital. CL Psych provides mental health support to admitted patients in the acute health setting, who require additional supports related to their mental health risk or diagnosed illness during an admission. 
Stacey's Five Things:
What is mental health?
Importance of building a therapeutic relationship.
De-escalation of emotions / aggression.
Mental health assessment - mental state examination.
When and how to refer to consultation liaison psychiatry team.

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.