Showing Up and Standing Up for Patients
How can we show up in our relational work with seriously ill patients, and for ourselves as nurses in the moments that are available to us? Grounded in professional and personal experience and yes, ev...
27 Mar 202447min
How Can We Talk About Healing After Patient Harm?
It is well known that despite our best intentions preventable harm continues to happen to patients in healthcare systems. Further harm to patients, their families and to healthcare professionals, incl...
20 Mar 202449min
Finding the Stories in Palliative Care Spaces
What do we mean when we talk about a good death? How can we describe the meaningful communicative work that nurses can do with dying patients and their families? In this episode, Patricia Strachan wel...
13 Mar 202459min
Hearing and Supporting Caregivers
As a practicing Registered Nurse with extensive experience working in acute, critical, and community care settings, Janet Lovegrove has heard many caregivers' stories about feeling alone, overwhelmed,...
6 Mar 202451min
Indigenous and Northern Lens on Communication in Serious Illness
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 i...
28 Feb 20241h 1min
Awake and Communicating in the ICU
Have you ever thought of communication as a vital sign for patients in the intensive care unit? In this episode, you will hear Kali Dayton, DNP AGACNP and critical care outcomes consultant, share her...
21 Feb 20241h 2min
Dementia-Friendly Communication
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 limit...
14 Feb 202457min
Supporting Families of Unborn and Newborn Infants with Life-Threatening Conditions
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 requir...
7 Feb 202454min
