In this episode https://youtu.be/8lXaZJCQq20, we welcome Eti Rosenberg! A Chief Executive Nurse coming all the way from Israel to share her heartwarming story on how nursing is not just a profession but a way of life, Eti’s amazing career thus far is one of many that need to be heard. Join us as she talks […]

This week’s Episode 32 is with Jemell Geraghty, Nurse Consultant for Tissue Viability which is now live: https://youtu.be/iMvtIXaIfpo. In this interview, Jemell Geraghty speaks about tissue viability nursing and discusses her research into experiences of injecting drug users living with leg ulceration and how she believes that much more should be done to fight the […]

VON Episode 31 with Kristin Ferguson, Clinical Operations Manager and Nurse Manager at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in the USA, treasurer and a board member at Oncology nurse society, Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Outreach Chair and Helpsy Health Clinical Advisor now live: https://youtu.be/n33Hnjf6dcc.

In this interview, Kristin will talk about her rewarding career in Oncology Nursing and discuss how fast cancer treatment therapy is evolving. Knowing that the profession of nursing can prove to be challenging at times, Kristin will stress the importance of networking, leadership opportunities, education and self-care for nurses.

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VON Episode 30 with Austin Purkeypile, COO of AdventHealth Orlando Hospital in Florida is now live: https://youtu.be/Ba0qhJBHu6k. In this interview, he will compare the American and British healthcare systems and explain how Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare works. He will share the discussions between his family members many of whom are nurses about various challenges healthcare staff in the USA are facing at the moment and address some of the current problems hospitals try to cope with. Having 14 years of experience in the medical field, he is going to share some of his most important experiences and will try to predict how medical care is going to develop in the nearest future.

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VON Episode 29 with Teresa Chinn MBE, a social media nurse, founder of WeNurses and Agency Nurse twitter pages with more than 80 000 followers is now live: https://youtu.be/cRGrP3UwNbk. In the interview, she will speak about what motivated her to start these projects and how her goals have changed to help nurses to speak up. One of her main objectives is to encourage nurses to be conscious of their physical and mental health through Nursing Active, NHS 1000 Miles campaigns and other available channels, and that giving support to fellow nurses is fundamental to bring a change. She will share her experience in giving social media management talks and workshops to various healthcare organisations and give advice on how to use these platforms in a professional way to enable nurses to deepen their knowledge.

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The VON Episode 28 with Dr Parveen Ali, Senior Lecturer at The University of Sheffield, Nurse and editor at Nursing Open is now live: https://youtu.be/rZLsqEShHpw. She will share her career journey starting from getting her Diploma in nursing and midwifery in Karachi, Pakistan and then PhD in Sheffield, working as a nurse and then entering the academic field. Dr Ali will speak about her roles as a senior lecturer, Programme Director for MMedSci in Advanced Nursing Studies and Chair the School of Nursing and Midwifery’s Research Ethics Committee. She will talk to Adrian Treacy about her prestigious Mary Seacole Leadership Award and ‘Emerging Nurse Researcher’ award by Sigma Theta Tau, International and discuss her research into gender-based violence and inequalities in health.

The VON Episode 27 with Dionne Daniel, senior nurse & Project Lead for Nursing Workforce Remodelling Research Project is now live: https://youtu.be/YmO9nj-RPBE. She will speak about the challenges she faced as an overseas nurse and how she influenced the change in the international nurses hiring process. She will discuss how nurses make a huge difference for patients and how important it is to develop different pathways for more people to enter nursing. She will share her thoughts on the necessity of getting a nursing degree and how it helps to deal with the generation of patients who prefer to google their symptoms. Lastly, Dionne will talk about the #NHS1000miles campaign and amazing work Cavell trust is doing to help nurses, midwives and healthcare support workers.

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The VON Episode 26 with Jane Brocksom, Senior Urology/Continence Nurse Specialist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and President of the British Association of Urological Nurses is now live: https://youtu.be/BeDrc1KjZXw. In this interview, she will speak about the crucial role of nurses in giving patients a voice and how urological nurses help them overcome the stigma. She will discuss how Getting It Right First Time program helps to make the speciality better, learn from the best practice and optimising the patient care. She will also try to encourage nurses to be loud about what they do and to be proud of what they do. #voiceofnursing #hellomynameis #nhs #healthcare #nurse #urologicalnurse Adrian Treacy

The VON Episode 25 with Mark Foulkes, Lead Cancer Nurse, a Nurse Consultant in Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is now live: https://youtu.be/30w2sn17Rq8. He will talk about the challenges in cancer nursing and what excites him about his speciality. He will share his concerns that nursing is a very undervalued profession by society, and that this perspective must change. He will also discuss his work as a board member for UKONS – oncology nursing society

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The VON Episode 24 with Kenny Gibson, The National Head of Safeguarding at NHS England and Mental Health Nurse is now live: https://youtu.be/x-iMlnBj1AM. In this interview, he will speak about his career from been inspired to be a nurse while working as a laundry assistant in the mental health unit aged 16 to various system leadership roles. He will emphasise how important it is to stay in touch with nurses when you progress to a management position and to learn from excellence as opposed to incidents. He will also share details about his safeguarding work fighting child abuse and exploitation, sexual violence and human trafficking to make communities more secure and ensure that people have access to the safeguarding services.

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