5 Things Nursing Podcast by RBWH
This a podcast produced by, for and with the amazing nurses and health professionals of the Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital community. Our purpose is to inspire, educate and connect our local and global healthcare community as we collectively move from surviving to thriving in our personal and professional lives.
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Episodes
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Bonus episode for Transgender Awareness Week.
Liz and Jesse are joined by Bec Cooley, a social worker who is the Gender Services Coordinator at RBWH. Bec gives us a clinician's crash course to help provide more supportive and aware care to Trans and Gender Diverse patients and be a better ally at work and in the community.
Bec's 5 things:
1. Know what gender diversity is and what it means.
2. Pronouns, Names and Language.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Only ask gender-related questions if/when clinically relevant.
5. You actually have a duty and responsibility as an employee to be inclusive.
6. (This one is for life) Be a good ally!
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
In our second episode, Liz and Jesse are joined by Kerrie Coleman, nurse practitioner for complex wound management at Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital. Five Things was so fortunate to sit down for an amazing reflection on 40 plus years of nursing wisdom as Kerrie closes this professional chapter of her life and leaves an amazing legacy as she retires on the day that this podcast drops. Thank you to Kerrie for the inspiration and for sharing the story of the skin.
The skin is the largest organ, check it every day.
The skin tells us a story, and like any good story it has layers.
The skin is everybody’s responsibility, including the patient & family, educate and recruit.
Wounds aren’t as scary, even the scary ones.
The skin and tissue integrity is a (multidisciplinary) team game.
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
Thursday Nov 03, 2022
In our very first episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Michael Handy and discuss his journey from an aspiring wolf of Wall Street to Assistant Nursing Director of Trauma and Orthopaedics at RBWH. We then dig a little deeper into Michael's 5 Things on Patient Assessment.
1. Be tactile, touch your patients. Take a pulse, don’t rely on technology.
2. Trust your gut. If you feel something is wrong, it probably is.
3. Talk to your patient, ask them how they feel.
4. What can do to improve the situation?
5. Don’t be afraid to escalate.
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Your Hosts
The Five Things RBWH Nursing podcast is hosted by Dr Liz Crowe (She/Her) and Jesse Spurr (He/Him). Liz has PhD in the wellbeing of healthcare professionals and is an experienced social worker with over 25 years in critical care. Liz works as the staff wellbeing consultant at Royal Women's & Brisbane Hospital. Jesse is the Nursing and Midwifery Director of Education at RBWH, a critical care nurse and avid learner who has worked in a broad range of roles throughout the health service and has a particular interest in organisational psychology and team science. You can connect with Liz and Jesse on Twitter.
Always Was, Always Will Be
The Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital Five Things Nursing Podcast acknowledges the Turrbal and Yugara as the First Nations owners of the lands where we now tread. We pay respect to their Elders, lores, customs and creation spirits. We recognise that these lands have always been places of healing, teaching, and learning. We also wish to acknowledge the First Nations people of the lands of our global community and encourage our listeners to seek out, listen and learn from the knowledge held in your shared spaces.
Podcast Music
Thanks to the amazing producers of creative commons royalty free music, available on Pixabay, for providing the backing beats for 5 Things Podcast.