Welcome to On Nursing Potential, the podcast from the Journal of Research in Nursing.

In this episode, we chat with Irena Papadopoulos, founder and former head of the Research Centre for Transcultural Nursing and Professor of Transcultural Health and Nursing at Middlesex University. Irena is also the lead author of the Journal of Research in Nursing's 2023 Veronica Bishop Paper of the Year Award winning paper, Empowering Refugee Families in Transit: The Development of a Culturally Competent and Compassionate Training and Support Package.

Irena joins us to discuss the wider project from which this paper is taken (Intercultural Education of Nurses in Europe, or, IENE), her experience of working on creating a JRN graphic paper, and her deeply personal experience of refugeedom and its lasting impact on her contributions to transcultural nursing research and practice.

Link to the Paper of the Year research paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17449871211018736

Link to the Paper of the Year graphic paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17449871241258830

IENE Project Website

Welcome to On Nursing Potential, the podcast from the Journal of Research in Nursing.

In this episode, we chat with Ann Keen - the former Labour Health Minister and MP, who began her career as a nurse.

Ann walks us through the challenging experiences that galvanised her into a life of service, both as a nurse and politician. She discusses the changes in nursing training and education, the expectations and perceptions of nurses over time, and how nurses can play a leading role in affecting change.

Content warning: this episode contains themes and topics that some listeners may find distressing, including discussions of forced adoption, neglect, and death.