I had a lot of fun interviewing Leonie for this episode. Leonie has had an interesting nursing and midwifery career in Perth Western Australia. Her career began in Geraldton and finished in Bunbury Regional Hospital. Leonie is a great storyteller and has a great sense of humour,  there was a point in this episode where the tables were turned and Leonie interviewed me! Leonie describes a bygone era of nursing that was very regimented and routinised care was the norm. She describes how she preferred Nursing administration to hands-on clinical care and talks about her experiences of midwifery along with her Director of Nursing role.

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In this episode, I interview Trish who has just retired from nursing after 43 years working as a nurse in Manchester in the UK.  It seemed very appropriate that this interview took place on International Nurses day 2020 as Trish trained at the very first NHS hospital, Park hospital in Trafford in 1973. Trish has had a really interesting nursing career but her heart truly was in community nursing. Trish has advocated passionately for older people and her trainee assistant practitioner students will know and love her for this. Trish has championed ageism and passionately promoted person-centred care for older people. Trish highlights the importance of life-long learning and gives lots of examples of this in her interview. Trish talks about the importance of mentorship, role modelling, reflective practice and team resilience and much more!

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In this episode, I interview Hazel who is a registered nurse working In an Emergency Department in Perth Western Australia. Hazel has a very gentle, caring and empathetic nature and is passionate about being an ED nurse. She shares how she manages stressful situations with her team through debriefing and self-reflection as well as looking after her own self-care. She talks about death, grieving and caring for family members when a loved one has died.

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Listen to Rebecca's nursing career journey, we start with her nurse training in Melbourne, cover working in rural and remote nursing and working with indigenous communities in Australia, midwifery and aged care and coaching to mention just a few! 

Rebecca talks openly and honestly about how burnout affected her and shares some of the life lessons that she has learnt as a result of her experience.

Rebecca is a passionate advocate for aged care and has some great suggestions for how to attract nurses to work in the often misunderstood nursing speciality.

There are some great takeaways in this interview.

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