A Nurses Lift to work?

A lift to Work , is a chance for you to hop in the back of the car with Kate and Tina. Tina and Kate are two Nurses and NLP Coach practitioners. They chat about NLP (Neuro Linguistic Progamming), Work and changing your thinking. Its a light,informative lift to work. Landing weekly, the lift to work podcast will offer you tips on how to keep on an even keel at work, whatever your job. (Thisincludes...

Tina and Kate take a moment to reflect on 100 episodes.  Wow  Talking about life long learning and their own journeys in the creation of this resource for unurses. what have they learnt ? and what can you learn as well? How can we become our own best friends, and advocates. How can we do this thing that so many of us find difficult? Love ourselves    Contact Tina at tina@thedevoncoach.co.uk  Conta...

Sheila McGovern from the Foundation of Nursing Studies joins Kate and Tina to talk about person centred practice, and about resilience based clinical supervision.  This is a wonderful conversation about nursing, systems language , humanity and self care among many other things  Resources  Foundation of Nursing Studies  Article to person centred practice book McCormack and McCance  Video "What...

Kate and Tina pop into your lives to remind you about how important it is to fill your cup and caring for yourself .  Resource  Filling your cup a resource  We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina & Kate Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain,...

Rose Gallagher MBE a Professional Lead for Sustainability at the Royal College of Nursing. Joins us to talk about Sustainability and the sustainability agenda.  Listen in for some ideas about how you can connect with this work  You can contact Rose at rose.gallagher@rcn.org.uk  Reources  RCN position on climate change  UK health alliance on climate change  CQC Standard around sustainability  Wanle...

In this episode we are joined by guest Nurse leader Sally Gilborson who is an independent nurse prescribing and advanced practice lead at the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in the UK.  This is such a good chat about advance practice and nurse prescribing , vulnerability and confidence, gratitude  you even find out Sally's favorite board game.  Tune in for a great chat...

There are times when we get involved in the moment and might not make good decisions or respond well a a result. listen in to Kate and Tina talking about this and sharing top tips  Recommendation  Useful Positive Psychology article on this subject  We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina & Kate Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a bett...

Wow 2500 ~Downloads and counting  Tina and Kate take a moment to celebrate this milestone and signpost you to some of the useful and most popular episodes  Recommendations  Above and Below the line Episode  Have you ever made a mistake episode  Reframing episode  Guest episodes you might try  Vicky the Clinical Director in a Hospice  Chloe the Nurse Lecturer  Gina the strategic Nurse talks about e...

Sarah James joins the show. She is an executive nurse and Chief Governance and improvement officer at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.  Sarah talks about what this role involves, her own journey into governance as a nurse. How Nurses in all roles can engage with governance and quality improvement She also shares how coaching has helped her navigate her way to a role she finds so rewardin...

Kate and Tina chat about the impact of the small and simple things that nurses can do.  Resources   six simple  things to improve patient satisfaction  We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina & Kate Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain, shar...

Kendal Andreason joins the podcast for a chat about her roles as Royal College of Nursing lead for Emergency medicine, Nurse with world extreme medicare and Nurse in the TA.  This episode covers a lot of bases, including what helps when you want to have multiple jobs as a nurse, mindset for change and whats happening with the RCN to support early careers nurses.  listen in and enjoy.  Resources  F...

This episode explores how we sabotage our voice being heard by apologising before our point is made.  Tips are offered for being heard yourself and for making space for others to be heard to in healthcare.   We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina & Kate Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nur...

Gina chats to Tina and Kate about her career, the inspiration of her mum as a nurse from the wind-rush generation, her nursing work as a practice nurse and independent and Hayden Magazine for nurses.  We cover lots of bases, and there is a lot of laughter as we need help from Gina to close the episode.  Resources and links  Nursing voices of the Windrush generation  Hayden Lifestyles magazine  We...

Tina attended the excellent international Shame and Medicine conference hosted at Exeter University.  She shares some of the highlights and her refkecitons with Kate  you can find excellent resources for this stand out conference here  Resources and links  link to the shame and medicine conference presentations  theshamespace.com link  shameandmedicine.org  the nocturnists podcast featuring shame...

This episode is with Vicky Atkins a newly qualified nurse who is yet to find a qualified nurse role in her area. She talks to kate and Tina about the parliamentary petition she has started in the UK, the attention it is getting and her reasons for being determined to be the nurse she trained to be  Tips are offered for interviews and resources are shared here  Resources and links  link to the peti...

This episode discusses the Hello My Name is campaign and the continued importance of introducing ourselves in health care roles.  The four main reasons for doing this and the ways we can use it to build rapport are chatted through by Tina and Kate   the link to the Hello My name is website  NHS England Update  We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina & Kate Join Tina and Kate in...

Here are 3 Tips for getting a conversation inexactly the place you need it to be . 1. tell them what you want to talk about  2. tell them the outcome you are looking for  3. Get them to agree to this before you start the conversation, also called by in  We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina & Kate Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a...

This episode hears Kate and Tina exploring this topic of sickness at work.  Looking at the ideas about presenteeism and absence from work.  Its a hot potatoe topic but we try and unpick how the beliefs we have about work, our wellbeing and time off for ill health play out at work.  Resources  Paper Presenteeism a public health hazard  RCN Sickness guidance  Guardian article stress and sickness  We...

What is Psychological safety at work? what does this mean? Tina and Kate chat about this and what a leader can do to support this to happen? What is is NOT and what helps create it for us all.  Resources  previous episode on best ways to give and receive feedback  article on How leaders can build psychological safety at work Amy Edmondson The Fearless Organisation  We would love to hear from you,...

There is some preparation for nurses as they move to the early part of their careers, but what mindset is helpful. What helps when adapting to that shifting responsibility? Listen in for a thought provoking conversation.  Resources  Joy O'Gormans Nursing Times Article  Duty of Care RCN  We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina & Kate Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conve...

The "Let them" Theory is very much under discussion at the moment. Listen in to see what Tina and Kate think is helpful about it for nurses and where the cautions may be.  Resources  Let Them poem Cassie Philips  Let them Mel Robbins  We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina & Kate Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better w...

In this episode we are joined by Chloe who is a lecturer in adult nursing at Plymouth University  She also is leading a project on curriculum review for undergraduate nursing programmes. Chloe is an RCN Learning Rep, and mentor with the Citizenship for Life charity, supporting young people with increasing their life skills, build resilience, self-confidence and developing skills including team bui...

Kate attended the RCN 2025 Congress in the UK.  She shares her reflections, impressions and thoughts from her time there.  Resources  RCN Congress 2025  We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina & Kate Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain, sha...

How can you best support student nurses when you yourself are newly qualified or in the early part of your career? Listen in to Tina and Kate as they explore this topic with you, picking up hints and tips along the way.  Resources  Click the link  NMC providing student support  Queens Nursing student and newly qualified resources  We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina & Kate J...

Building Rapport is some thing that is a cornerstone of nursing. listen in for tips on how to make this work for your patients or clients, for you as a practitioner and for a smoother running of shifts and team work.  Resources  Click for the links  Approaches to building rapport article from clinical medicine  Hello my name is Campaign  We would love to hear from you, Send us a message Tina &...