Radical Nurse Talk

Context is very important in healthcare. In this episode, we explore the context created at the intersection of geography, history, language, culture, and healthcare resources when Indigenous people in Canada’s far north require care for serious illness.

Our guest, Lianne Mantla-Look, is a Registered Nurse currently living and working in northern Canada. She has worked extensively in clinical roles both in hospital and community settings. Lianne works fluently in both her Indigenous language, Tłı̨chǫ, and English.

In a wide-ranging conversation, Lianne shares her knowledge, reflections, and healthcare experience from her perspective as a nurse and an Indigenous person living in the Northwest Territories.

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Have you ever thought of communication as a vital sign for patients in the intensive care unit?

Communicating with people living with advancing dementia and who require care can be challenging and frustrating for everyone. Despite our best intentions, dementia is a serious progressive life limiting illness that has major consequences for the person diagnosed with dementia, their families and family caregivers.

In this episode Mary Buck, an expert in fostering more effective communication practice in dementia, shares important information that also may challenge some of our usual practices.

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Having a baby is supposed to be a very happy event, but when a baby is diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening condition in the perinatal period, families are faced with new realities and require special support and understanding.

Everyone needs access to an inclusive, equitable palliative approach to care. Palliative and end of life care is regarded in the western world as a necessary service to which everyone is entitled, and yet if we look closely, significant inequities exist in people living on the margins of societal norms, such as those who are homeless and without support who do not have equal access to such care.

In this episode of Radical Nurse Talk we speak with Dr. Kelli Stajduhar, a Professor in the School of Nursing and Institute on Aging & Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria and Research Chair in Palliative Approaches to Care in Aging and Community Health. Kelli has led the call for change for people who are precariously housed and without resources to access the compassionate end of life care they require.

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What do you think of when you hear the word “palliative”?

In this episode, Matthieu Payette, Clinical Nurse Specialist at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton and Adjunct Lecturer/Clinical Instructor McMaster University School of Nursing, describes his experiences in various contexts in which people require help in a mental health crisis. He shares some possibilities for others who must respond to people in crisis and step into the moment to make a connection, build trust, maintain safety and provide dignity.

In this episode, Dr. Erin Ziegler, champion and advocate for inclusive and dignified care of people who identify as LGBTQ2SA describes how words, and the assumptions that are behind them, can build or destroy the trust that is so integral to building therapeutic relationships especially in serious illness.

Has a patient or family member ever asked you about medical assistance in dying (MAiD)? If someone did ask you, what would you say in this conversation?

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What does a trauma-and-violence informed approach mean for communicating in serious health situations?