The Pulse Check Podcast
Inside the halls of American hospitals, millions of people find comfort, healing, and support. But for many doctors and nurses, this couldn’t be further from the truth. This podcast will dive into the shadows of American healthcare to investigate and uncover the abuse, control, and political power plays that leave the very people responsible for our nation’s health, broken and battered. We’re sharing stories of professionals in medicine that have experienced horrendous treatment at the hands of a broken system that does nothing to stop the trauma. As the Association of American Medical Colleges states, “Long before the #MeToo movement, women in medicine have instinctively banded together to counter a culture that too often tolerated harassment.” From systemic trauma to abuse of power to the unspoken rules of cover-ups and corruption, Mandy Irby and HeHe will take you to the darkest corners of healthcare in America so you can have an inside look at bringing humanity back to medicine!
Episodes
Sit down with Mandy and HeHe as they celebrate the end of their first season of the Pulse Check Podcast! Stay to the end to hear all their thoughts and feelings about Season 1 AND get a sneak peak at whats in store for Season 2.
Before they leave you for 2022, Many and HeHe are diving into Patient Code of Conduct as a Boston Hospital recently publicly released theirs. What does this look like? Is it just for show? How would this ne...
Mandy and HeHe sit down to speak with guest, Amanda, a Nurse and IBCLC. Amanda shares with us today her story of violence in the workplace. Sharing a multilayered story of advocacy, injustice, blurring of boundaries, and the bottom lines ruling hospital hierarchy.
Today HeHe and Mandy sit down with Nurse Melissa, who originally intended to share her story anonymously. After some consideration, she decided to share her identity and shift her share into a story about nursing. Combining a history of 15 years of nursing details and crafting one powerful (and at some points hard to hear) story about patient advocacy in the birth room.
This story may resonate deeply with you, because her story...
Mandy sits down to chat with Nurse Adriane RN, Owner of Trusted Guardian Patient Advocates. Another look inside how creative nurses are paving their own path toward happiness - we meet Nurse Adriane this week! She’s a board certified patient advocate, and she’s using her experience and expertise to provide supportive, patient care outside of Big Medicine. You’ve got to hear about her new career path. We’re probably all going to ne...
Over half the public are in favor of having choice over pregnancy and not having strict abortion bans. 44% of abortion trainees lost their training in their state
Resources:
https://www.ansirh.org/research/ongoing/turnaway-study
Aidcaccess.org
abortion funds.org
Turnaway study
Goodmocker inst.
Jessica velinti
Abortion access front
reproaction.org
Let us know your thoughts in the comments or on our IG: @pulsecheck.podcast
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Self Empowerment and Healing Ourselves with Nurse Missy
What would love do? That’s what our guest today has us asking ourselves now! We invited Nurse Missy onto the podcast, and we had no agenda. You’ll love where the mood takes us, from how do people heal themselves? We talk a bit about stress as a spiritual affliction - we did not anticipate that! And we even get a few history lessons on Jesus and bible stories, which were surpri...
Nurse Arrested After Video of Woman Giving Birth Reportedly Shared on Snapchat: HIPAA Rules and Healthcare Professionals on Social Media
HeHe and Mandy are discussing the active criminal case against nurse Rachel Fastow, of Macon, Georgia. We don’t even need all the details of this case to know that it’s a warning to other healthcare professionals. We also consider who should regulate social media accounts of healthcare professiona...
Functional Medicine: Using Nursing Fundamentals to Become True Healers
Today we have guest with us who finally found a way to be healer and advocate while helping her patients empower themselves toward wellness. Brigitte Sager shares her journey from critical care nurse to becoming a “manager of disease;” the more she learned, the more frustrated in her job she became.
Now, as a nurse coach and in her functional medicine consultin...
Today’s guest is Hilary Erickson from Pulling Curls and Pregnancy Nurse to talk about feeling her feelings as a bedside nurse as a case study for secondary traumatic stress in labor and delivery nurses. We’re so grateful to her for being candid with us as she shares about her intense anxiety before her shift - even starting the night before. Hilary shares that even in nursing school she believes that nurses are taught to blame them...
Ever felt so ready for a career change that it feels like the next frustration or backwards new policy might just put you over the edge to changing jobs? That’s exactly what this week’s guest did after just 3 months at her nursing job! Bridget Burke was motivated by frustration - a lousy orientation, retaliation for safety-reporting, and the pettiness and bullying was obvious from day one. She knew she wouldn’t thrive as a nurse in...
This week, our guest, Madi, shares examples about what she calls, “a toxic work environment,” that I bet you can relate to, too. She tells us how she tried to improve conditions for her and her fellow nurse colleagues, and then shares the heartbreaking story of the last straw before leaving the job she loved.
She’s about to begin a new job next week, and you might be surprised to hear what she’s doing now with her nursing license!
There are so many red flag practices taught in medical school that are even obvious from the outside looking in. It seems as if the culture of becoming a medical professional teaches out a bit of moral integrity. How does this ultimately impact unit culture and team culture; and how does it impact patient treatment down the line? Mandy and HeHe have not been through medical school or residency, and we’ll share examples with you of ...
When Nurse Whistleblowers Then File Retaliation Claims
Have you ever felt like your job might be on the line for doing the right thing? Our guests today are two nurses who were fired for advocating for patient safety. Hear about how they fight back against a facility with a track record of systemic retaliation, and their advice on how to stay safe as a professional in healthcare and how to learn more on navigating a whistleblower s...
How does post-Roe v. Wade impact the care that healthcare professionals can give? This week we discuss how the reproductive healthcare landscape is changing before our eyes after just a couple months post Roe v. Wade being overturned.
You can find the video and transcripts of all episodes here: https://mandyirby.com/pulse-check-podcast/
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/08/10/1116024857/young-obgyns-indiana
Dr. Caitli...
Mandy speaks at her first nursing conference since leaving the bedside and we are sharing all of the feelings and thoughts on it in this episode of Pulse Check! If you are a nurse, educator, or considering leaving the bedside- you don't want to miss this!
On HeHe's TikTok, a nurse comment on a video explaining patient rights and their right to informed refusal saying, "That's fine. I will just document in your chart that you refused care and we'll see how things happen from there." Whether a patient declines or accepts your clinical suggestion shouldn't dictate how they are treated in the medical system, but HERE WE ARE. This episode covers everything from threatening language and m...
No guest today! Mandy and HeHe dive into evaluating trauma informed care as Mandy shares her recent experience within the medical system. Navigating a new office, provider, and opening up about a problem that has been ongoing and difficult for Mandy to seek care for. HeHe and Mandy break down the positives and areas of growth seen in this experience through the eyes of a patient.
HeHe's great idea to solve the broken healthcare system in America? A Listserve.
It takes years (and years and years) to see research backed change actually implemented in the medical system, but WHY?
With all of the technology, resources, and money in the American Health Care system there has to be a better way. Join us as we chat through policy change, standards of health care, AND everyone's least favorite task...checking your ...
One might expect that a term used frequently across many medical settings would have a universal definition. However, through our experiences as a nurse and doula - we have seen the struggle to define what it means to be a patient advocate as a nurse. We share our thoughts today- and would love to hear yours!
Connect with us! @pulsecheck.podcast
Opening up the conversation on why Nurse's week (or really any profession with a dedicated 'week' or 'day') is BS. What started as a joke between HeHe and Mandy quickly jumped to the dark reality behind these 'acts' of gratitude within the industry. We want to hear your thoughts! Get in touch.
Instagram: @pulsecheck.podcast
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