Welcome to episode eight of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: How to Make the Nursing Profession Disappear Welcome to episode eight of the Ausmed Handover podcast. In this episode I’ll be examining how a simple and seemingly innocent trend in healthcare management actually threatens the continued existence of the nursing profession.     Transcript Hello and welcome to the Ausmed Handover podcast, my name is Darren Wake, and in this episode, I’m going to tell you how to make the profession of nursing disappear forever. Oh, and it’s already happening. SOUND OF MONEY (0:02) “We need to cut back to […]

Welcome to episode seven of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: How Hard is it to Get Onto a Graduate Nurse Program? Welcome to episode seven of the Ausmed Handover podcast. Are you an undergraduate nurse? Do you believe that at the end of your degree you will simply walk into a Graduate Nurse Program? Think again: securing a position on a Graduate Nurse Program anywhere in the world is now an extremely competitive enterprise, with a significant percentage of graduates failing to secure a position on a program despite applying to multiple hospitals in several states. In this episode of […]

Welcome to episode six of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: Why do Incompetent Staff Always Get Promoted?. Welcome to Episode Six of the Ausmed Handover Podcast. The delivery of competent care has always been one of the core objectives of the nursing profession, but why is it that incompetent staff always seem to get promoted? In this episode, we’ll be looking closely at how an incompetent person thinks, why managers choose to ignore all the warning signs that an incompetent person is, well, incompetent, why they promote them into positions that are clearly beyond their ability, and why once the […]

Welcome to episode five of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: What Happens When The Wolf Comes Home With You? (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). What happens when the wolf comes home with you? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is virtually ignored as a phenomenon amongst nurses. Everyday, nurses see, feel and hear things that would be wholly intolerable to the public: trauma of the worst possible kind in every conceivable manifestation. Yet we are expected by our colleagues, managers and the public alike to ‘suck it up and get on with the job’. Nurses do just that, but the price of this […]

Welcome to episode four of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: Tales of The Guinea Pig Club. Teams are tricky things to manage effectively in any environment, and no less so in nursing. But, sometimes they work, and sometimes they work spectacularly well. In this episode, we’ll be looking at one of the most effective teams to have ever emerged in healthcare: the Guinea Pig Club. We’ll not only recount it’s story, but examine why that team was so effective, why teams so often don’t work, and suggest how to form a Guinea Pig Club of your own. Don’t miss an […]

Welcome to episode three of the new Ausmed Handover podcast: The Nurses’ Health Study. The Nurses’ Health Study is one of the largest and longest running epidemiological studies ever to be undertaken in the history of medicine. Over a quarter of a million nurses have been contributing health and lifestyle data to researchers at Harvard University on a continual basis since 1976, and the information being extracted from this database by scientists has influenced virtually every aspect of women’s health since. Don’t miss an episode – Subscribe to The Handover at the iTunes store. Click here for a handy (.pdf) […]

Welcome to episode two of the new Ausmed Handover nursing podcast: The Sorrows & Woes of Night Duty. Ever felt like you were dying at 4am when you were doing night shift? Well, you actually were. The World Health Organization listed night shifts as a Class 2A carcinogen in 2007, and in this episode of the Ausmed Handover Podcast, we look at how this affects nurses, the largest group of shift working professionals in the world. Don’t miss an episode – Subscribe to The Handover at the iTunes store. Click here for a handy (.pdf) guide to choosing the right […]

Welcome to the first episode of the new Ausmed Handover podcast, my name is Darren Wake, and today, I want to talk about drugs…. Why? Well, because there’s a ton of good quality research out there that’s been done with very large numbers of nurses over a long period of time that tells us exactly this sort of information, and most everyone has a vested interest and indeed a fascination with this kind of data: you’ll find similar research out there looking at the use of recreational drugs by doctors, dentists, pilots, policemen, firemen, ambulance officers and soldiers. Basically, everyone […]