Sheila Wilson’s guest today is Thomas Carey Cowart. Thomas spent 30 years working in the healthcare system. They spoke about healthcare and what the pandemic has done to many healthcare workers, a discussion about the trauma of seeing so many patients die caused by the pandemic! He knew he needed to take a break and he stopped working.

Through the help of his family, friends, and music to bring more to his life. He found his heart and soul again. Now he is providing a place for wear travelers especially the healthcare and frontline that are dealing with the everyday effects of this pandemic.
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Sheila Wilson's guest today is Betsy Sloan a wonderful, active advocate for Alzheimer’s disease. We spoke about how she had to teach herself about caregiving, checking out the internet when she could. We also spoke about her caring for her mother-in-law and then her husband, knowing caregiving for a 24-hour job. Speaking about mistakes, learning curves, frustration, anger, and tears.


Betsy spoke about finding resources to help the caregiver. Depending on where people live, what is available to help, don’t be afraid to ask! Counseling was also mentioned, speak to someone, don’t be ashamed.  Knowing that her own self-care was important she stressed that point. Caregivers need to take care of themselves!

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Today My guest was Samantha Wilding, she spent a 14-year career in emergency and critical care in Emergency Medical System. We discussed the hazards of working in that field and the violence that she saw and was subject to.  Being in an ambulance and taking care of patients is very different than working in the Emergency Rooms.
She ended up BURNED OUT, the physical and mental anguish of being burnt out is not an easy road to travel. It takes time to get back to your normal self, a lot of learning, understanding, commitment, and time.
She is now the founder and lead coach Of Healing Healthcare Burnout, with the mission to end burnout in the health professions.

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Sheila Wilson’s guest today is a registered nurse Laurie Spahl R.N. that has been on strike for 301 days! Returning to work will be very exciting she stated, she will go back to a job she loves! Laurie spoke about how she and coworkers handled the strike, the walking, the weather, the hardships of being on strike.
The community was one of the biggest supporters and the nurses themselves stuck together supported each other when things got tough. When they were walking, people in cars would blow their horns, yell encouragement out the windows that gave them support.
They had donations from the community of food, diapers, formula, and a lot of other items. They felt going on strike was the right thing to do to protect their patients. They stayed together thru thick and thin and showed us all that if we do stick together for something so important it will work. For more information and contact https://bit.ly/3tA3VJ9

During the interview, we discussed the violence and the issues that can occur when someone is having a difficult time. We discussed the use of security guards and if there were hands-off or hands-on and also what the staff needed to do if they were assaulted.
We also spoke about “what would it be like to have something that the patient has been diagnosed with ” How would it feel, if it was happening to us? One example that was said, is a patient couldn’t get the voices in his head to stop talking all day and all night it was awful for him. For all the patients we need to have compassion, understanding, and to step back and ask what is s/he going through?
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Sheila Wilson, the host of Stop Health Care Violence, recently interviewed a nurse the was brutally assaulted by a patient in a psychiatric locked unit. In this interview, she tells Sheila she was with a patient and the next thing she remembered was waking up from being unconscious. She heard a person yelling he is killing the nurse! The voice she heard was from a patient and she stated if it wasn’t for him, she probably would be Dead! He saved my life!
Her story is frightening, that this type of violence could happen in a hospital. The care received from the staff was also appalling!
Be prepared to listen and try to understand how this happens in a hospital setting. Violence from the patients towards the staff is unbelievable but true.
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Sheila Wilson, President of her non-profit Stop Health Care Violence. Sheila is doing this series to bring more awareness of the injuries that many nurses have experienced in the Emergency Room. This series was created before the pandemic Coronavirus-19 happened. We realize that this pandemic is bringing much anxiety but this violence will still continue to the health care worker. It is still important that we still provide a platform for the many that have been injured throughout the years. Their stories need to be told and heard even in this time of a world pandemic.

Time is still moving forward and how you choose to be part of the solution that is up to you.

Sheila Wilson speaks to Virginia Weymouth Ferreira a Nurse that loved her profession as a Nurse, finally left ER Nursing because of the assaults she had encountered. It is very sad that you cannot be safe in a profession that you love.
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Thank you, Jeanne White

Sheila Wilson is interviewing a Nurse about issues in the ER and other places in the Hospitals. This Nurse speaks about an incident that happened to him. What happens to the Nurses and Physicians in the ER is unacceptable. Please send your comments or suggestions on this interview to Sheila Wilson at [email protected] The website is https://stophealthcareviolence.org/
To read this blog about Sheila and her guest http://bit.ly/2WpBQUG Thank you, Jeane White