The Handover

In this episode of The Handover, host Erika speaks with Marieven Budiongan, Clinical Nurse Manager here in St James’s Hospital. Marieven has been working as a CNM on the Private 1 ward for almost 10 years, an acute medical ward that is highly lauded by our student nurses in terms of the learning opportunities available to them and the staff that deliver those opportunities. Marie

In this episode of The Handover, host Erika speaks with recently qualified nurse Nicole, who is working as a Staff Nurse in the Intensive Care Unit here in St James’s Hospital.Nicole offers her perspective on the journey to becoming a qualified nurse, certain challenges she faced and how COVID made things particularly difficult during what was already a challenging time for her a

In the second episode of The Handover, host Erika speaks with Graham King, Student Counsellor in the academic partner of St James’s Hospital, Trinity College Dublin. Erika posits the unique position student nurses find themselves in, navigating the world as both new adults and new healthcare workers. Graham offers unique insight into this position from the perspective of a psycho

Welcome to the first episode of St James's Hospital's 'The Handover', a podcast made for student nurses, by student nurses. The first episode is a conversation between host Erika, Clinical Placement Coordinator, and Emily McCarthy, a recently qualified Staff Nurse working here in St James’s Hospital.Emily speaks about a range of topics in this episode, including her nursing journ