Tenderness for Nurses

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Once a week, Nurse Practitioner Bek Woodbine will unpack issues that impact all nurses from self care to growing professionally as a nurse.
With over 35 years of nursing experience and with her raw and honest style, Bek aims to offer sage advice to all nurses with help from amazing guests each week. Ordinary people performing the extra ordinary in the field of health, leadership and self care.

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Being an elite athlete - Julia Robinson

May 12 2024 29 mins  
We chat with elite sportswoman Julia Robinson today on the podcast. She is a Jillaroo, State of Origin player and Broncos team member who advocates for strong, beautiful, athletic bodies. We equate how habits she has developed can be used by nurses to help their mental health and cope with stressful situations in the workplace. We chat about how the online trolls attacked her afte

6 months in a leaky boat!

May 05 2024 27 mins  
Okay, maybe not 6 months. Amin left Iran 11 years ago. He paid a smuggler to get out Iran, then to Malaysia,Indonesia and finally on a boat to Australia. The wooden boat had holes in it, the engines stopped working, the smuggler fled the boat and they were left on their own. To flee a country where your whole life is under threat takes immense bravery and courage. No one would mak

Legal support for nurses

Apr 28 2024 25 mins  
If you would like to support the show and help me keep creating this content please click this link - https://www.patreon.com/tendernessnurses Today we chat with Kathryn McLochlin who is a senior lawyer for a law practice that deals mainly with family matters. Kathryn has many years experience in this area of law and offers valuable advice around what can be done when the family u

Cheryl Leavy and what it means to her to be a First Nations Woman

Apr 21 2024 40 mins  
Today I speak with the fabulous Cheryl Leavy. Cheryl is a proud First Nations woman, who generously gave of her time to discuss her culture with me. She relates how we can approach First Nations people with tenderness in the health care setting and in general life. We discuss the diversity of our indigenous peoples differing countries and how important it is to just ask them about

A Nurses Intuition

Apr 14 2024 30 mins  
Pippy Marshall is alive because a nurse trusted her intuition. Not long after Pippy delivered her second child, Billy, via caesarian, she started to develop neck pain which progressed to stabbing pain and difficulty when breathing. On assessment, all her vitals were normal. As the pain progressed, an experienced nurse asked Pippy to describe what she had been experiencing and her h

Nursing: a new graduates experience

Apr 07 2024 33 mins  
Today we chat with Gemma Carroll about her experiences of going through uni, the process to get a grad position in a hospital and how she has found the journey. She talks about the stress of uni, the application of trying to find a graduate hospital position but also how she is enjoying nursing. We discuss boundaries she has set herself. The pathway she has chosen to follow since

I am what I am

Apr 01 2024 29 mins  
TRIGGER WARNING This episode includes talk about sexual assault; listener discretion is advised. Please call Lifeline on 13 11 14 if you need help. Today on the Pod, I chat with one of my dearest friends, Peter Woodward. Pete, or Aunty Pete as he is called by everyone, shares his story of growing up gay in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Pete, very bravely, shares his experiences of

Covid nurses part 2

Mar 24 2024 34 mins  
Today we chat with the two very brave nurses who shared their story of abuse and violence during Covid, at a Melbourne hospital. We discuss when they realised that they couldn’t nurse anymore and their diagnosis of PTSD. We chat about their self care, the management of their conditions and the impact having PTSD has had on their families. I cannot tell you how brave these women a

Post Natal Depression

Mar 17 2024 38 mins  
With such a large number of women in nursing, odds are, you have worked with someone who has had, or experiencing post natal depression . In today’s podcast, we chat with Rachel Thiaday. Rachel is the wife of rugby league legend, Sam Thiaday and has been in the public eye due to Sam’s career. She talks honestly and openly about her experience with post natal depression. What s

When medical staff don’t believe you!

Mar 10 2024 29 mins  
Today on the Pod we chat with Kate. We hear her harrowing story about her daughter Phoebe. Phoebe became seriously ill in a matter of a few hours. The paramedics who were called treated Kate and Phoebe with disdain and contempt.That behaviour followed them in to the emergency department where Kate was treated like hysterical mother and her concern that Phoebes condition was, in fac