Tenderness for Nurses

Today we chat with Mikki Fisher. She is the founder of The Red Tent, psychic medium and has the podcast The Village Crazy Lady. After our chat with Carly about the ghost of Adelaide Billing, we had so many of you ask questions about this, reach out about your own spiritual experiences in hospitals and asked for further information about ghosts, mediums and spirits. You asked, I listened and organi...

Today we chat with Meg and Lauren. Meg talks about her experience working on the first Covid ward in Philadelphia and how tough it was as there had been nothing like this to deal with in modern medicine times. Lauren talks about her experiences working in a busy ED in St Louis where drugs, guns and violence is a day to day workplace concern for nurses. Two gutsy nurses who openly share their exper...

Happy New Year everyone! My New Year’s resolution for 2024 is to continue to talk about tenderness and how we can actively be more tender to ourselves and to others…especially in the health space. So to start the new year off, I thought it was fitting to share 2 interviews with two amazing nurses I have become friends with from America. Alyse lives and works in Utah and Emily in Arizona. From just...

On this special bonus podcast, we chat with Plastic Surgeon and aesthetic industry disrupter, Dr Christian Subbio. The aesthetic side of medicine is full of KOL’s, rock star injectors and influencers. Sometimes it’s hard to discern if the information that is disseminated is being promoted because of the big bucks people are being paid by pharma to promote that product, or it is genuinely a great t...

In September this year Bek and her colleague, Charlotte Wolfenden attended NeedleArt 2023. This conference is based in Philadelphia and run by plastic surgeon and known aesthetic space disruptor Dr Christian Subbio. In the this episode, Charlotte and Bek discuss the conference. The differences between this conference and others they have attended and why they enjoy going abroad for conferences. Th...

Today we chat with Dr Toni Hains. Toni is a Nurse Practitioner who has gone on to do her PhD comparing patient and surgical outcomes between medical and non-medical surgical assistants who assist surgeons perform surgical operations. Toni is highly regarded in the cardiac field as a surgical assistant to cardio-thoracic surgeons in Brisbane and The Gold Coast. She has been fighting for improved MB...

This episode we delve in to what workplace culture is and how we can all strive to have healthy work cultures. We chat with Emma Hall, who owns and runs Emjoy. Emma believes we can all achieve healthy workplace cultures and offers advice on how this can be achieved. Emjoy works with well known brands across Australia helping them redefine their cultures with joy. Emma spent 15 years with Virgin Au...

Dr Lily Vrtik is a plastic and reconstructive specialist surgeon in Brisbane. Delving in to how Lily has found herself in the role of health care advocate, health law graduate and specialist plastic surgeon, Bek and Lily chat about their combined experiences that have led them to having an in-depth discussion around moral injury, psychology safety, colleague compassion and self care. This is a fas...

On this episode of Tenderness for Nurses, we chat with Dr Harb, a renown plastic surgeon from the UK. Dr Harb has developed a procedure for treating noses without surgery, using fillers. This procedure is called a Non-Surgical Rhinoplasty. Treating noses with fillers is one the most high risk procedures in the non-surgical space, and numerous cases of blindness and tissue necrosis have been caused...

Welcome to Season 2 of Tenderness for Nurses! I want to take this opportunity to say thank you all for your support. I have been blown away by the feedback, the messages of encouragement and love. It is truly appreciated. I also want to say thank you to everyone who has given up their precious time to chat with me. I have learn't so much. I am surrounded by wonderful, amazing humans. Thank you all...

Today is our final podcast for season one.  I have had lots of messages asking about what is required to get in to the aesthetic stream of medicine in Australia.  So I took the opportunity to chat with Cath McCahon who has practiced in aesthetic medicine for over 20 years. Cath and I chat about aesthetics, pathways to become an injector. Good practice and support of each other, burnout and ethical...

Rana Kennelly is a powerhouse in the aesthetic industry. Rana is renown for her quality education, knowledge and skill within this health speciality. She is passionate about improving the aesthetic industry and teaching safe and effective techniques. Today we chat aesthetics, how to work abroad as a nurse and how Rana manages running a busy practice with a young family in Chicago.  This episode is...

In this episode of the Podcast we talk about law and nursing with the principle lawyer Evonne Smyth from QNMU Law. Evonne is the principle lawyer with 25+ years experience in this space. Her passion is helping nurses navigate legal concerns. This encompasses a large range of issues for nurses. Her knowledge and compassion have assisted many nurses in Queensland and she has a wealth of knowledge th...

Today we speak with Jodie Gamble.  Jodie is the Conference Registrar, Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Brisbane Registry Jodie Gamble is a lawyer and a nationally accredited mediator.  She was appointed as a Conference Registrar in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) in 2006. She has 25 years’ experience working as an alternative dispute resolution lawyer in merits review organisations inclu...

Nicci Korff is the Community Operations Manager for Wandering Warriors. Wandering Warriors is an organisation that assist Special Operation veterans. She has also worked on the task force with DVA Open arms. With family members who have been and are in defence, Nicci brings personal insight in to what our defence personnel face once they leave the Defence Space, but also whilst working for Defence...

Kath Flanigan is an ADON in a large Brisbane hospital. She discusses what being a nurse means to her and the importance of care for self and staff in large hospitals. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tendernessnurses See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This episode we're joined by Nic Bignall from Therapy and Support animals Australia. Nic and Bek explore the value of therapy dogs in the health setting and the value they offer patients and nurses. You can contact her at www.brisbanetherapyanimals.com.au Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tendernessnurses See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode Bek is joined by Angela Koning, a leadership coach with her own business called Equenti. Due to her own experience with burnout, Bek and Angela discuss burnout, how to avoid it and how to manage it. You can contact Ange at www.equenti.com   Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tendernessnurses See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jason Harrison is a nurse practitioner in Rockhampton in the drug & alcohol space. Hear about what his work involves and what to do if you're a nurse that needs help.  Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/tendernessnurses See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bek is a Nurse Practitioner who own and runs her own clinic, Perfectly Smooth. Bek’s aim for this podcast is to encourage nurses and other health practitioner to care for themselves and their colleagues in the quickly evolving health care space. In this episode she talks openly about her own mental health struggles and why it's important for her to help other nurses. Support the show: https://www....

Welcome to Tenderness for Nurses. 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 hea...