Good Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Bad Nurse Andrea Yates

Please be advised that this episode contains disturbing content (mentions of self-harm and violence against children) and may not be suitable for all listeners. Please use discretion and take care of yourself.

Mark, our entire IT department and Tina's husband, is back in the studio to guest host this episode! As the spouse of a nurse, Mark provides his perspective on the case of Andrea Yates. This story has garnered national media attention over the last couple of decades, and it continues to shock audiences. Yates, a nurse in Texas, gained notoriety when she drowned her five children, one by one, in the bathtub of her suburban Houston home. 

Our Good Nurse segment focuses on the tragic story of June Onkundi, a psychiatric nurse practitioner in North Carolina, and why safety reform is needed to protect healthcare professionals.

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Sources for this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Yates#cite_note-TQ-8

https://www.oprah.com/omagazine/andrea-yates-a-cry-in-the-dark

https://www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/12/11/court.archive.yates7/index.html?_s=PM:US

https://culteducation.com/group/1234-michael-woroniecki/22286-a-mysterious-preacher-and-the-childrens-killer.html

https://murderpedia.org/female.Y/y/yates-andrea.htm