The Shift Podcast

This episode Shaye discusses the road to ratios with nurses Jess, Sam and Alicia.

This week Shaye speaks with Charlotte Ismay. Charlotte is a Drug and Alcohol Nurse in the Hunter Region. Charlotte is passionate about dispelling misconceptions and stigma around substance abuse within nursing as well as within the wider community to improve support for those who seek treatment.

This episode Shaye speaks with Pumla Coleman. Pumla grew up in South Africa under apartheid becoming a nurse in 1972. Her story is one of incredible bravery - fighting against systemic racism and risking her life to advocate for the health, wealth and welfare of her community.

On this week's episode of the Shift with Shaye we hear from Lesley Salem, nurse practitioner of 20 years and proud Wanaruah and Guringai woman. At age 48, Lesley followed her passions and decided to work in Aboriginal Medical Services as a nurse practitioner. As a nurse practitioner, Lesley is passionate about providing holistic care to patients and improving chronic health outcomes for First Nati...

Reflections on the pandemic and how nurses and midwives will ensure their voices are heard as the healthcare system moves forward. Linda Silas, President, Canadian Federation of Nurses Union Bonnie Castillo, Executive Director, National Nurses United, USA Shaye Candish, General Secretary, NSWNMA Linda Silas has fine-tuned her skills as a union leader at the local, provincial, national and internat...

COVID-19 and aged care: a pandemic of virtue, vicissitude and vanity. Joseph Ibrahim is a medical specialist in geriatrics and an academic Professor and Head of the Health Law and Ageing Research Unit at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University. Joseph has over 30 years of clinical experience as a doctor in the public hospital system providing care for older people, he brings that kn...

SUSTAIN AND RETAIN Prof James Buchan is a Adjunct Professor at UTS in Sydney, and a Senior Fellow at the Health Foundation in the UK. He is currently working as a consultant with ICN and with WHO. His background includes employment with Health Workforce Australia, and more recently as an advisor to the Scottish government health workforce department during the Covid- 19 pandemic. Here he speaks at...

This episode Shaye speaks with Lorna Scott. Lorna is a nurse practitioner, women’s health nurse and NSWNMA Councillor and proud Scotswoman. Lorna moved to Australia from Scotland in the 80s for, as she puts it the “nicer weather”, but it wasn’t long before Lorna had thrown herself into the world of Australian nursing. In 1987 Lorna became one of the first Women’s Health nurses in Australia and in...

This week Shaye is joined by a giant in Australia’s nursing history, Valda Wiles AM. Valda commenced her nursing career in 1956, and was a pioneer in the field of critical care nursing. She was also instrumental in winning today’s clinical care structure and the introduction of Clinical Nurse Specialists in our nursing teams. On top of this, she was also a union stalwart and authored a book on the...

This week Shaye speaks with Deb Lang. Deb is a retired nurse and midwife, with an incredibly varied career. After training and working in hospitals in Sydney in the 1970s, Deb then spent time working in Goulburn and the Central Coast, retiring recently from her role as a rehab CNC at Gosford Private Hospital. She was a member of the NSWNMA Council for many years and still remains involved in our c...

On this episode Shaye speaks with Jenel Anderson, a transport nurse based in the Lower Hunter, and Sue Cameron, who is based in South West Sydney. Patient transport nurses play a critical role in our healthcare system. Whether it’s transporting patients between hospitals, to and from nursing homes to health facilities, or taking people home after their stints in hospital, they play a vital role in...

This week Shaye speaks with Emergency nurse, James Adams. James is an ED nurse in Western NSW, and is the President of the NSWNMA’s Bathurst Branch. On top of this, he’s a trained paramedic, a TV extra and an organ donor. He has also been awarded the Oberon Young Citizen of the Year and the St John Bravery Award, and has featured on Family Feud along with some of his ED colleagues. Talk about a fu...

This episode Shaye sits down with Nursing Unit Manager, Julie Latimer and Clinical Nurse Specialist, Marge White from the Uniting Medically Supervised Injecting Centre (MSIC) in Kings Cross, Sydney. To find out more about Art from the Heart visit https://artfromtheheart.uniting.org

This week Shaye speaks with registered nurse Matt Tyson aka 'The Barefoot Nurse'

This week Shaye speaks with Lynda Balneaves, a registered nurse and cannabis researcher from Canada. Resources mentioned in the podcast; https://www.cannabisnurses.org https://ccic.net

This week Shaye speaks with Sonia Kokuru, 2021 New to Practice Nurse of the Year.

This week Shaye speaks with nurse Diane Lang, a NSWNMA Councillor and long time aged care activist about the recent Federal Election and the pre-budget announcements for health by the NSW Government.

This week Shaye speaks to Sue Walton, an aged care AIN who is fighting to see real change in the aged care sector.

This week Shaye speaks to Jocelyn Hofman, an aged care nurse who knows how important the outcome of the 2022 Federal Election is to the aged care sector.

This week Shaye speaks with Kelly Falconer, an emergency clinical nurse specialist and president of the Wyong Branch of the NSWNMA.

This week Shaye speaks with Skye Romer, a mental health nurse and secretary of the Prince of Wales Mental Health Branch of the NSWNMA about her experience and the current state of mental health nursing.

This week Shaye sits down with Sarah Morton, a dual registered midwife and nurse from Wollongong, to talk about the current midwifery crisis in NSW.

This week Shaye speaks with Corey Sclater. Corey is a nurse who has stepped up to the challenge of working towards ending COVID-19 overseas. He is currently based in Papua New Guinea as part of the international response to COVID-19 in the country. Corey was the 2020 NSW Health New to Practice Nurse of the Year, a recipient of the Champions of Change Award, and is an NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Assoc...

This week Shaye is joined by Associate Professor Martin O’Brien (University of Wollongong) to talk about the contribution of public sector wages to Illawarra’s economy during the prolonged crises of Black summer bushfires and COVID-19.

This week Shaye speaks with the ANMF’s federal secretary Annie Butler to discuss how our organisations will be working together over the upcoming year.