Tenderness for Nurses
Once a week, Nurse Practitioner Bek Woodbine will unpack issues that impact all nurses from self care to growing professionally as a nurse. With over 35 years of nursing experience and with her raw and honest style, Bek aims to offer sage advice to all nurses with help from amazing guests each week. Ordinary people performing the extra ordinary in the field of health, leadership and self care.
Episodes
Today on the podcast I chat with co-founder of Orange Sky, Nick Marchesi. He and his friend Lucas Patchett decided to set up a laundry service for people experiencing homelessness and hardship through access to free laundry and shower services, as well as the opportunity for regular connection.
We provide a supportive, welcoming, and inclusive space for anyone experiencing loneliness or disconn...
Today on the podcast, we chat with Justine Holloway who is the Regional Nurse Manager for Donate Life Victoria.
Justine is passionate about leadership and our chat encompasses this, management of a team nurses and being very aware of caring for her team in an area of nursing where burnout and emotional fatigue can occur.
Justine’s passion around strong leadership in nursing is injected in to every aspect of our conversation a...
Today we chat with the remarkable Donation Specialist Nurse Georgie Callaghan.
I had a wonderful chat with Georgie about her background as an intensive care nurse and how her experience in this specialty has allowed her to work within organ donation. We discuss her role in assisting families in making the often heart-rending decision to donate a loved one’s organs due to many differing circumstances. We also chat about how do...
While Bek is taking a short break, please enjoy one of her earlier episodes!
Kath Flannigan is an ADON in a large Brisbane hospital. She discusses what being a nurse means to her and the importance of care for self and staff in large hospitals.
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This episode we're joined by Nic Bignall from Therapy and Support animals Australia. Nic and Bek explore the value of therapy dogs in the health setting and the value they offer patients and nurses.
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n this episode Bek is joined by Angela Koning, a leadership coach with her own business called Equenti. Due to her own experience with burnout, Bek and Angela discuss burnout, how to avoid it and how to manage it.
You can contact Ange at www.equenti.com
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While Bek is taking a short break, please enjoy one of her earlier episodes!
Jason Harrison is a nurse practitioner in Rockhampton in the drug & alcohol space. Hear about what his work involves and what to do if you're a nurse that needs help.
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While Bek has a short break between seasons, we thought we would release her story for those that haven't yet heard it. This is the reason Bek started Tenderness For Nurses xx
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Today on the poddy we chat with Dr Leona Yip. She is a medical dermatologist who is a huge advocate for sun sense/safety and loving the skin you are in.
We chat about all things medicine, life, being a working Mum, owning and running her practice called Skin Partners, and just taking time for herself.
Leona and I have been pen pals (sounds a little weird) for a long time. Recording ...
Today on the podcast we chat with Kayla-Jane Mooney.
7 years ago Kayla’s life irrevocably changed when she found out she was pregnant and within a matter of weeks, found out her husband, Sean, had terminal cancer.
Kayla and I talk about her journey. The joy Maxwells birth brought to her and Sean. How she coped with a newborn, Sean’s treatment and, finally how she is moving forward with her life after Sean&rs...
Today we chat with psychologist Shannon Swales about burnout.
We talk about Shannon’s own journey with burnout and through that, how she now specialises within this field of psychology.
Shannon delves in to what burnout is, and how we as nurses can care for ourselves and each other within the healthcare space.
This podcast is full of great information around burnout. What the signs are, tips and tricks arou...
Today we continue our discussion around gambling harm here is Australia.
Both Zen and Kate chat about their knowledge and personal experience around gambling harm and the impact it is having on Australians.
Gambling harm is continually brushed under the carpet as an addiction. It’s easy money for the government and I can only assume that’s why it isn’t addressed more urgently, however, the impact it is havin...
Today on the podcast we chat with two remarkable women who are helping to assist the community around gambling harm.
Zen, is a social worker and counsellor for Turning Point . Her role is to assist clients who call or reach out for assistance with their gambling concerns.
The statistics are clear; as a nation of 27 million Australians , there was a loss of 32 billion to gambling last year.
Young men are the fa...
Today we chat with Dave Kramer about his burning desire to make young adults aware of the impact of speech, actions and how to treat each other with respect.
Dave lost his best friend Hannah Clarke and her 3 children, 5 years ago, in a horrific domestic violence incident that shocked Australia.
The impact this has had on Dave has been profound. We discuss how he cared for
himse...
Today on the podcast we chat with the remarkable Cathy Peel.
Her life changed dramatically after the results from her “poo test” came back with an urgency for further assessments.
After significant surgery, chemo, radiation therapy and rehab, a complete change in her life has occurred.
Cathy now requires assistance in some of her day to day activities. She mobilises with the assistance of a wheel chair and moving...
Today on the podcast we chat with Registered Midwife, Sophie Dheda about her birthing experience.
Sophie herself is a registered midwife, and when it came time to birth her first baby, things didn’t quite go to plan.
A home birth ensued and thanks to the actions of her cousin (who was there as a support person) but is also a registered midwife, both Sophie and her baby survived this birthing experience.
However, this...
Today on the podcast I chat with Victoria Parker, CEO of this remarkable trust.
Victoria and I chat about what the trust is and who it assists. As Queenslands oldest trust, (it commenced in 1885) the trust has now been providing safe and stable housing for young women and their children who have been impacted by domestic violence and homelessness.
This year is 140 years of service to women-at-risk. Unfortunate...
Full Circle was founded by Rebecca Cavallaro, a registered nurse, medicare-endorsed midwife and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC).
She has over 17 years of Australian and UK experience in clinical midwifery care, women’s health research, neonatal intensive care nursery and maternal fetal medicine. She specialises in gestational diabetes, pregnancy after loss, palliative pregnancies, neonatal com...
Today I chat with the remarkable Geri. Geri took time out of her very busy schedule to chat about her role in assisting asylum seekers.
We discuss Geri’s background working within alcohol and other drug rehabilitation, her assisting ex-offenders returning to work and society and her role with these men and women.
Most importantly we discuss how Geri cares for herself in roles that require huge empathy, no bias and at times ca...
Today on the podcast we chat with Simon Reader-Alexander
Simon has been practicing as an Endorsed-Enrolled Nurse (EEN) for more than five years, specialising in ENT and plastic and reconstructive surgical nursing with a focus on skin and wound care.
Simon had already established an extensive career in hairdressing when a serious family illness provided first-hand experience in the devoted care that nurses can provide to loved ones ...
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