Liz and Jesse are joined by Janeen Johnson a clinical nurse with the Heart Support Service at RBWH. In this episode Janene helps us understand heart failure.

Janene’s Five Things

1. Signs and symptoms of heart failure.

Liz and Jesse are joined by Alison Backler, Clinical Nurse Consultant Alcohol and Drug Service RBWH. In this episode we look at drug and alcohol addiction and considerations for the acute hospital environment.

Alison’s Five Things

1. Addiction doesn’t discriminate.

Liz and Jesse are joined by Sophie Lloyd, Cardiology Nurse Practitioner with RBWH and Redcliffe. Sophie lays the foundations for a series of future episodes about the heart. 

Sophie's Five Things:

1. The gross anatomy of the heart.

2. The heart function as a pump.

3. Understanding cardiac output.

4. How the bedside nurse can assess heart (dys)function.

5. What is heart failure?

Liz and Jesse are joined by Julia Brownlie, a Nurse Practitioner in the Emergency & Trauma Centre at RBWH. Julia has a special interest in women’s health and helps us navigate through some considerations in navigating challenging and uncomfortable conversations, particularly with relation to women’s health issues.

Julia’s Five Things:

1. There are a series of topics clinicians struggle to talk about, particularly with gendered issues.

Liz and Jesse are joined by Angela Spencer CNC for Epilepsy at RBWH to discuss seizures. This is one of our most requested topics and we think Angela does an amazing job of breaking it down.

Angela’s Five Things:

1. What are Seizures?

For loads of resources head to the Internal League Against Epilepsy website

https://www.ilae.org/

Liz and Jesse welcome Michelle Doidge, CNC for the RBWH Infection Monitoring and Prevention Service. We jump in to discuss the vital nature of nurses as agents to prevent infection.

Michelle’s Five Things:

1. Know your bugs; love your bugs.

In this episode Liz and Jesse are joined by Anthony Carr, CNC with the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service at RBWH. We discuss personality disorders, with a particular focus on emotionally unstable (borderline) personality disorder.

Anthony’s Five Things:

1. What is personality (disorder)?

Liz and Jesse are joined by Sue Chaffey, Nurse Practitioner in Cancer Care, with a special interest and focus on emergent acute care. There is no one better to have a learning conversation about acute on chronic illness than Sue.  

Sue’s Five Things

1. Defining acute vs chronic

Liz and Jesse are joined by Danny Hindle, Nurse Educator for Medical Emergency Response at RBWH. In this episode we explore how to master the recognition and management of the deteriorating patient.

Danny’s Five Things.

1. Educate yourself.

Liz and Jesse are joined by Jessica Doellinger to talk all about urinary catheters. Jessica is a Urology Nurse Practitioner at RBWH.

Jessica’s Five Things

1. Indications for urinary catheterisation.