Real Nurse Stories

This is a fabulous interview with Jacquie who started her nursing career wanting to make a difference to the care of pregnant women by becoming a midwife. Jacquie describes her career path as a spiders web with many twists and turns, seizing opportunities as they arose and always learning from the opportunities that presented themselves. Jacquie gives an honest account of some of the struggles in...

It was a real pleasure to Interview Jamie about his nursing career for this episode. I learnt about the Losada Ratio which is something I didn't know before interviewing Jamie! Jamie is a passionate advocate for creating positivity at work as a leader and in his life generally. By his own admission studying positive outcomes has taken up his brain space over the last few years. Jamie has had a div...

In this episode, I interview Wes who works in the emergency department in Resus. Wes started his nursing career more by accident than planning. He began a business degree and then realised that he hated numbers! He enrolled on a nursing degree course as a way to get into radiology and after one year was hooked on becoming a nurse. Through a series of personal events in his life, it took Wes 5 year...

In this episode, I interview Joanne who is a registered nurse working in an emergency department in a regional hospital in Australia. Nurses working in an emergency department never know what is going to come through the door and they deal with trauma on a daily basis. Working in an environment where there is daily exposure to trauma can deplete resilience and it is so important to have personal s...

In this episode, I interview Tracy Churchill and Emma Versluis who are senior nurses and the authors of a series of four articles that was published on Linkedin in June 2020. This episode explores how the authors became interested in the topic, along with the responses that they received as a result of publishing the articles. The articles and this podcast interview lift the lid on an important an...

This is a midwife's story who is working in Australia. The midwife's anonymity has been preserved for the purposes of this interview, which has allowed a candour to this career story. The story documents this Midwife's journey from her midwifery training in London in the UK to her present role. working as a clinical midwife in Australia. The story is raw and powerful and covers topics that are not...

In this episode, I interview Amanda who is a community nurse team leader working in Tameside and Glossip in the North West of England. When Amanda was 15 someone told her that she wasn't clever enough to become a nurse. Amanda's story illustrates how this comment made her even more determined to achieve her goal to become a nurse. Amanda's journey starts as an Assistant nurse and follows her story...

I had a lot of fun interviewing Leonie for this episode. Leonie has had an interesting nursing and midwifery career in Perth Western Australia. Her career began in Geraldton and finished in Bunbury Regional Hospital. Leonie is a great storyteller and has a great sense of humour,  there was a point in this episode where the tables were turned and Leonie interviewed me! Leonie describes a bygone era...

In this episode, I interview Trish who has just retired from nursing after 43 years working as a nurse in Manchester in the UK.  It seemed very appropriate that this interview took place on International Nurses day 2020 as Trish trained at the very first NHS hospital, Park hospital in Trafford in 1973. Trish has had a really interesting nursing career but her heart truly was in community nursing....

In this episode, I interview Hazel who is a registered nurse working In an Emergency Department in Perth Western Australia. Hazel has a very gentle, caring and empathetic nature and is passionate about being an ED nurse. She shares how she manages stressful situations with her team through debriefing and self-reflection as well as looking after her own self-care. She talks about death, grieving an...

Listen to Rebecca's nursing career journey, we start with her nurse training in Melbourne, cover working in rural and remote nursing and working with indigenous communities in Australia, midwifery and aged care and coaching to mention just a few!  Rebecca talks openly and honestly about how burnout affected her and shares some of the life lessons that she has learnt as a result of her experience....

Welcome to Real Nurse Stories celebrating 2020 the year of the Nurse and Midwife. Real Nurse Stories Podcast provides an important platform for nurses to talk about their career, share some insights into their role and pass on some words of wisdom and importantly celebrate the diversity of nursing roles that have evolved in modern-day nursing. Jayne shares her story with humour and passion about h...