The Education Hub - Conversation with the experts

Having surgery an be a daunting time for anybody, let alone a child with neurodiversity being placed into an unfamiliar environment and taken out of their routine. Join Grace Curran associate Nurse Unit manager of Elective surgery & Clinical Nurse Specialist in pre admissions resource clinic and Nancy Puente PARC Nurse as they discuss how to best care for children with neurodiversity as they t...

In this episode Camille Foley speaks to two lived experience advisors Deanna Carr and Carmen Ludeman about lived experience in mental health, its origins, the importance of embedding the expertise of consumers, families, and carers into system design, policy, and practice, and how this can transform services, reduce stigma, and improve care.   Resources: Lived experience | health.vic.gov.au Tandem...

In this episode, Camille Foley (Senior mental health clinician and education fellow) speaks with Adam Blake (Psychiatric Nurse Consultant) and Kate Coward (family peer-support worker) about non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) in adolescents, exploring its prevalence, risk factors, relational and family impacts, and how compassionate, evidence-informed treatment and responses can move us beyond stigma...

In this episode we are chatting with Dani Gold, who is a senior social worker in the Family Violence team at the RCH. Dani’s current work focuses on supporting healthcare workers to understand and respond to children and families experiencing Family Violence. Today we are delving into Family Violence as well as gender-based violence, which are both health issues. As healthcare workers, by recognis...

This is the final part for our Wadja mini-series. We'll be asking our guests questions like; Why is it important to have an understanding of families and kinship systems when working with First Nations children and their families? What are the common issues that Aboriginal Children present to RCH with? What should we keep-in-mind when we care for children and young people being cared for at RCH? J...

Hosted by Emma King with special guest A/Prof. Michelle Rodrigues Skin of colour deserves centre stage in dermatology conversations. In this podcast, Emma King sits down with internationally recognised dermatologist A/Prof. Michelle Rodrigues to explore the unique challenges, misconceptions, and advances in caring for diverse skin types. From disorders of pigmentation to atopic dermatitis, the dis...

In this episode, host Camille Foley explores an important topic: anxiety in children and young people, viewed from two distinct perspectives. In the first section, Steph an adult, shares her lived and ongoing experience with anxiety. She is someone who has always experienced anxiety but received a formal diagnosis later in her adult life. The second section features insights from Senior Clinical P...

Losing a child is a really difficult time for any family. Families are given the option of organ donation to make an everlasting legacy for their child. To coincide with donate life week, this podcast features Mellissa Short CNC Organ Donation and Karen Sullivan Operating Theatres who talk about the rarity of organ donation and the incredible journey and intricacies of organ donation.    Resources...

In this episode of Conversation with the Experts, host Camille Foley speaks with consultant psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Court and paediatrician Dr. Alex Cussen about Medically Unexplained Symptoms (MUS) in young people, real physical symptoms like pain or fatigue that don’t have a clear medical cause. The episode also provides suggestions for service delivery for MUS presentations and provides insight...

In this final episode of our three-part narrative medicine mini-series, join us for a conversation on Jackson’s Opening. A poem by Andy Jackson. We unpack the layers of meaning within our wounds, challenging us to rethink scars and the narratives that emerge from them.  Link to the poem Opening by Andy Jackson . 

In this episode from the Royal Children’s Hospital, we dive into the practical challenges of giving medicines to kids. Join host Amanda Stock, Paediatric Emergency Consultant, as she chats with Clinical Pharmacist Natalija Bogunovic, and Child Life Therapist Anne-Maree Leahy. Together, they explore common concerns and share expert advice on how to give tablets and capsules, safely part-dose medici...

In this second - bonus narrative medicine episode - we discuss Zdravka Evtimova’s haunting short story, Blood of a Mole. Join us as we reflect on themes of empathy, detachment and burnout. Like in the previous podcast, we'd like you to get involved in the writing component during our chat. This will help you digest the story better as well as give you an opportunity to create your own ending to th...

Today’s episode provides a deep dive into trauma and trauma-informed preventative care (TIPC), and how it guides the way we approach care for children, young people, and families, and for ourselves as healthcare providers.   Listen as Rachel Tolan, a senior mental health clinician and credentialed mental health nurse, speaks about the clinical side of TIPC, as well as guest Carmen Ludeman, a lived...

This is a BONUS mini-series from our sister show 'Teach, Think, Treat' (TTT). These episodes are first published on that channel before coming here to CWTE. We wanted to share this fascinating series with you, on the concept of narrative medicine. Join us for a thought-provoking three-part mini-series on narrative medicine, where storytelling meets the art and science of care. Featuring Dr. Mariam...

Monitoring and managing the health of kidneys in the neonatal population is important for their longevity. In this podcast, we talk with paediatric nephrologist, Dr Tom Forbes, as he discusses the whys and hows of monitoring the health of kidneys in premature infants. Tom also talks about the Neonatal Kidney Collaborative Guidelines for the follow-up of ex-neonatal patients with respect to their k...

Did you know that about 10% of the population avoid seeking medical care due to fear associated with medical procedures?    Early healthcare experiences shape future responses and poorly managed procedural distress can have long-term negative effects.    When a procedure is anticipated to be particularly painful or distressing, we may need consider the use of procedural sedation.    But which seda...

Whilst iron is important for red blood cell production in the body, about a third of the population are deficient in iron. Treatment in adults is a relatively simple process but is more complex in children. Join us as we talk with paediatric haematology trainee, Dr Cara Lacey as she discusses the recognition and treatment of iron deficiency in children.     https://www.rch.org.au/clinicalguide/gui...

In this BONUS episode from our sister show Teach Think Treat, we delve into what the Education Hub at the RCH has done during this year. From running multiple escape rooms to producing regular podcasts and creating new face-to-face conversational education sessions, we’ve done a lot! We ponder the pitfalls of education in a large hospital setting, the power of outreach and how to inspire people to...

Whilst there are thousands of them dotted across the country, farms are a very unique place of work. And the reason for this is that farms are the livelihood of the farmers themselves and almost always, the farmers live on the farm. This means, if the farmers have children, the children are also on the farm and in many cases, they will work on the farm, often from a young age.   But just like any...

In paediatrics, we are used to vomit. Lots of vomit. Sometimes it feels as if just looking at the child in the wrong (or right) way makes them vomit.   In this podcast with Dr Jeremy Friend we discuss a sensible approach to the vomiting child and ask the question, why did they vomit? 

As we shift our focus from, "what’s wrong with you?” to “what’s happened to you?”, we can be better informed about a child or young person's situation and approach their care accordingly. This is known as trauma-informed preventative care (TIPC).    In this episode, paediatric anaesthetist and Campus Mental Health Strategy TIPC program lead, Dr Catherine Olweny, talks about the TIPC framework and...

About 15% of children globally have high blood pressure and many may not know it until it causes problems in adult life. Early detection is therefore critical to prevent cardio-vascular disease. PhD candidate, Jonathan Glenning from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute’s Heart Research Group gives us an overview of high blood pressure in children and talks about his vision of drastically incr...

How do you approach the common clinical presentation of constipation? In this case-based episode, we are joined by paediatric gastroenterologist, Dr Mark Oliver. Mark is given 4 typical age-related presentations, where he discusses how best to manage these.   RCH Encoporesis Fitness Training Diary:  https://www.rch.org.au/uploadedFiles/Main/Content/kidsinfo/constipation-encopresis-diary.pdf    RCH...

Learning from Wadja is a new sub-series for health professionals who work with aboriginal patients and their families. Wadja is at The Royal Children's Hospital, Australia on Wurundjeri land. In this first podcast, we ask Selena and Mick from Wadja Aboriginal Family Place how they run culturally sensitive services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families who visit RCH...

This episode with Professor Jim Buttery dives into the complexities of healthcare data sharing, the barriers created by privacy laws and disparate systems, and the potential solutions to these challenges. Key highlights include discussions on the issues with interoperability within Australian healthcare, the impact of historical systems like EMRs on data sharing and emerging technologies that coul...