In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Sharlene Pyke to learn about Dementia. Sharlene is a Clinical Nurse working in a dementia outreach service.

Sharlene’s Five Things:

1. What is Dementia?

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Dr Olivia Hollingdrake to talk about stigma. Olivia is a Senior Lecturer with Queensland University of Technology. While working as a nurse with people living with blood borne diseases, Olivia stumbled into an interest in patient experience of stigmatised conditions. This lead her down a path of research that informed her PhD work.

Olivia’s Five Things:

1. What is stigma?

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Dr Chirag Patel. Chirag is a consultant clinical geneticist at RBWH. We learned a lot about the world of clinical genetics right now and what is on the near horizon.

Chirag’s Five Things:

1. Genetics 101.

In this episode Self Care Challenge inspired episode, Liz and Jesse are joined by Mel Kettle. Liz searched high and low for someone to help us understand how kindness can impact the workplace. Mel is a strategic leadership consultant who helps business and organisational leader to develop greater connection. Mel also hosts a podcast called “This Connected Life” where she interviews leaders from across many industries.

Mel’s Five Things:

1. What does it mean to be kind?

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Dr Mia McLanders, research manager at Clinical Skills Development Service Queensland. Mia trained in psychology and moved into research and practice specialising in human factors and ergonomics in healthcare. This moves from introduction to deep dive in understanding what impacts the way we work. A longer episode for us, but not a minute is wasted!

Mia’s Five Things:

1. Human factors and ergonomics, an origin story.

Remix of a favourite episode to improve sound quality and align with the 2024 Self Care Challenge.

In this episode, Liz and Jesse continue with a self-care challenge focus and are thrilled to be joined by Dr Stan Steindel. Stan is a clinical psychologist with a special interest in compassion and self-forgiveness. This episode tackles some of the very really challenges that we, as health professionals have with being kind to ourselves and finding peace or some sense of resolution when we are involved in conflict, error or unfavourable patient outcomes. Many of these principles are covered in depth in Stan’s book “The gifts of compassion. How to understand and overcome suffering”.  

Stan’s Five Things:

1. What forgiveness is and what it isn’t.

Remix of a favourite episode to improve sound quality and align with the 2024 Self Care Challenge.

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by physiotherapist and stress and tactical performance researcher, Professor Rob Orr from Bond University.

Rob's Five Things:

1. Not all stress is bad.

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Cath Willis, Physiotherapy Team Leader for the Babies, Obstetric and Pelvic Service at RBWH. Cath comes on to teach us a lot about the pelvic floor and why it is probably relevant for a lot of our inpatients.

Cath’s Five Things

1. What is the pelvic floor?

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Esther Cohen. Esther works as a nurse practitioner for HIV and sexual health. This episode is a must listen to both improve our own health literacy as staff and to provide better care for our patients.

1. What IS sexual health and why is it relevant to the bedside nurse?

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Julia Brownlie for the 3rd time! Julia works as a nurse practitioner in emergency at RBWH and is currently working in a practice in novation role with the Office of the Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer (OCNMO) Qld. Julia came by to lay the foundations about nursing scope of practice. This episode will be a launchpad for the conversations about expansion of scope to be undertaken throughout Queensland by OCNMO.

1. What IS scope of practice?