The Swab with Georgie Carroll
G'day there SWABBERS! Are you a daring dolphin, phenomenal penguin or outrageous orca? Then this podcast is for you! Join comedian and nurse Georgie Carroll as she speaks to nurses far and wide who share with us the stories that led them to nurse and the hilarious and unbelievable moments that only Nurses have on the job. From Chihuahua ashes in a patient's possessions to patients wearing lingerie in hospice care. We know it's been an absolute shit show the last few years, and nurses have been through the wringer, so hopefully,The Swab can be a slice of much-needed TLC and giggles in your day. If you're a nurse and want to share a funny nursing story - or if you know a legendary nurse who does amazing nursing things. Send an email, or better, a 1 min voice note to hearhere@ampel.com.au For more on Georgie Carroll and her comedy gigs - check out https://www.georgiecarroll.com/ To buy Georgie Carroll's hilarious book about nursing, "Off The Charts", visit https://www.amazon.com.au/Off-Charts-Georgie-Carroll/dp/176098244X Producers: Sarah O'Neil & Brittany Frappell. The Swab is produced by Ampel. Check out their website here to learn more: https://ampel.com.au Stay sane, stay safe and stay swabbing!
Episodes
In this final episode of Season 3, Georgie is joined by the Two Humerus Nurses Alisha and Kelly who do live up to their name and bring some laughs!
If you want to check out their podcast, you can do it here: https://twohumerusnurses.podbean.com
And find them on insta, ya can't miss 'em.
Hope you have enjoyed Season 3 and we will see you next time!
If you’re not already following Georgie on her social media here are her links:
Christian has some great stories from his life as a male midwife in the wild north of Australia! If you’re not already following Georgie on her social media here are her links:
Georgie Carroll Facebook Georgie Carroll Instagram Georgie Carroll Youtube
For more on Georgie Carroll and her comedy gigs - check out https://www.georgiecarroll.com/.
The Swab is proudly sponsored by the Australian College of Nursing.
With graduate ce...
Generally speaking, as a nurse, if all your patients die, you are doing it wrong. Hospice Nurse Julie, however, is doing her own thing. In this hilarious episode of The Swab, Nurse Georgie Carroll does not listen, because she still doesn’t plan on dying, ever.
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Rachel Steadman has a spent a decade on the ED and is still in the waiting room awaiting treatment. Only kidding! She works there. Who doesn’t love a natter with an Emergency Nurse? Georgie does for sure, come eavesdrop. If you’re not already following Georgie on her social media here are her links: Georgie Carroll Facebook Georgie Carroll Instagram Geo...
Lucy Osborn nurse kids, bleugh! Someone has to, because children are disease riddled and cloddish. More parents than children were harmed in the making of this episode. Georgie discovers that children say the darndest things, but you have to sedate them to get the really good stuff. Follow Lucy Osborn for funny nursing videos and content on Instagram Lucy Osborn Instagram
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Georgie believes Tik Tok is no place for death rattle, it might start a craze then all the kids will be doing it. Penny on the other hand bloody loves it, what is wrong with hospice nurses and why will they not shut up about dying.
If you want to to follow Penny for some funny and helpful nursing content, here are her socials:
Hospice Nurse Penny Tiktok Hospice Nurse Penny Instagram Hospice Nurse Penny Facebook If you’re not alr...
Georgie welcomes back her pet dolphin @nursemollyphoebe. She wraps herself in PPE and saves the plague riddles, she influences, and she says no to shifts she doesn't feel like are in her best interests! These COVID babies are built differently. You might remember Molly from The Swab live Podcast show, link here to watch: click here
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Welcome to a shiny new season of The Swab!
Orca Matt Tyson AKA the Barefoot Nurse is a nomad, beach bum and a ‘try hard’’. From the army into nursing life, he loves life-long learning. Listen to the pod and then chase him down to steal some of his CPD hours - he has enough for all of us.
If you want to to follow The Barefoot Nurse for some funny and helpful nursing content here are her socials: The Barefoot Nurse Facebook The Ba...
LAUNCHING THIS THURSDAY!
A brand spanking new season of The Swab with Georgie Carroll is here! New nurses, new stories, not to mention NEW SEGMENTS like a quiz section! Don't tell me that isn't intriguing... Grab your nurse mate, follow 'The Swab" on your pod player and enjoy!
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Season 2 has wrapped and we loved bringing you the eight great nurses featured! Please enjoy this selection of our fave clips!
CLIP 1 - Kelly Giddings: One Shot Wonder
New Nurse Kelly Giddings tells Georgie the story of visiting her soon to be high-school and getting a javelin thrown into her eye for the trouble!
Kelly has an amazing attitude to this life-changing accident, and has never let having one eye get in her way!
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Bron Parker has been Nursing 54 years and shows no signs of stopping. Bron comes from a simpler time, a time before incident reporting systems and a time your patient could set themselves on fire smoking in bed. Georgie is gripped as this legend narrates her through a career that predates CPR!
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Fitness model/ Winemaker/ ICU Nurse Sacha Clifton talks with chubby wine guzzler Georgie about the thing they have in common- making time to chase dreams outside of Nursing. Turns out all you do is work at the hospital less and do the dream thing more.
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Sexual health nurse consultant Sim Sheridan and Georgie chat about her
roles (there are a few, she is the roles, all of them) and sexual assault in the workplace. Turns out, it still counts if the aggressor doesn't know they did it. You can read a Sim-inspired book https://www.ailsawild.com/book/the-care-factor/ but make sure you listen first. Sim is driven to have the conversations no one wants to have and boy, do we love to li...
It's International Nurses day, so of course we've got a treat for you! The SWAB Inaugural live podcast. Nurse and comedian Georgie Carroll pits a dolphins, penguins and orcas against one another to work out once and for all the answer to the question none of them are asking ‘’WHO BE THE SOVEREIGN RULER OF THE HOSPITAL STAFF ROOM?’’
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In this episode of The Swab, Georgie probes Nurse Bradley Chesham as he lays in a hammock post-night shift and sips whiskey. There are monkeys, Taliban, virtual reality nursing and Prince Harry in this one. Not to be missed, https://bundleofrays.com/ doing contact-free nursing before it was fashionable. Come and check out The Swab Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/1048571625868027/
Georgie and Nurse Kelly commentate a school sports day injury that
left her with just the one eye and many visits to the creepy old eye maker. This episode has the bones of a Disney classic. C’mon you gory bunch, you know you love it.
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Georgie says ‘’Howdy partner’’ to Az, the Psych Nurse Consultant who
left Australia to Nurse in the Good Ol’ U S of A. With just two weeks annual leave and a chance you will be listing weapons as valuables on admission, why would you bother? Az argues that you get to power up your skill set and then get paid what you are worth without feeling the need to use the weapons you just confiscated.
Georgie banters with Nurse Practitioner Katie East, the king
hitter of SWAB episode three. You asked for more and she does not disappoint. After going 10 rounds with the pointy end of QLD covid response this super spreader of ridiculous is truly up for a swabbing.
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Indie by name, Indie by nature. This episode Georgie babbles on with this
anthropologist turned independent midwife about living and working in Ethiopian town of Cheha woreda with no blood bank, no birthing unit and an average of 4 births per woman. Have a day off will ya?
Learn more about Indie and her work here:
Nurse Georgie talks to Nic Rooney about her ridiculous decision to swap power dressing for power pushes. We all cry at one born every minute, but we don't all quit a corporate cocktail lifestyle to retrain as a midwife, especially not while you
are a single mom to 4 under 12.
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