Your Nurse Voice Matters

What shapes a healthcare professional who refuses to stay silent when patient safety and workplace culture are at stake? In this first episode of a compelling two-part conversation, Wendy sits down with experienced midwife and healthcare leader Alicia Hyland, whose career has taken her from England to the Middle East, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Alicia reflects on the people and experiences th...

What happens when your professional values, personal convictions, and career collide? In this powerful and deeply personal episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, Wendy Trevarthen sits down with registered nurse Ella King to discuss her extraordinary nursing journey—from securing a graduate position at Queensland Children's Hospital to losing her nursing career during the C%$ID-19 vaccine mandates. E...

In this powerful episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, Wendy Trevarthen sits down with emergency nurse, paramedic, humanitarian volunteer, and PhD candidate Helen Zahos to explore what it truly means to serve on the front line of global disasters and humanitarian crises. From the Bali bombings and the Nepal earthquake to refugee camps in Greece, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and conflict zones...

In this powerful episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, Wendy sits down with nurse academic, researcher, and advocate Alan Ramsay for a confronting and deeply honest conversation about the realities of modern nursing.  Alan challenges the idea that nurses need more resilience training, wellness workshops, or moral distress lectures to survive healthcare, arguing instead that the real problem is the...

Some nursing experiences aren’t just experiences… they’re wake-up calls. ⚠️ (Warning: this may trigger some listeners. If this affects you, seek trusted, professional support.) What happens when a nurse does the right thing—and everything falls apart? When speaking up leads to isolation, investigations, and a system that turns its back? This powerful, confronting conversation with Anne Jones is ab...

In this episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, Wendy sits down with Registered Nurse and Workplace Health & Safety expert Kylie Long to explore what it truly means to expand your nursing career — without walking away from it. With over 30 years of experience in cardiac and emergency nursing, Kylie shares how her early passion for prevention and systems thinking led her into a second career in wo...

Are you feeling stuck in your nursing career… or wondering what else is out there? In this eye-opening episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, Wendy Trevarthen dives into the world of non-traditional nursing roles—and there are far more opportunities than you might think. From digital health and telehealth innovation to humanitarian work, education, entrepreneurship, legal consulting, and even media—...

In this powerful and honest conversation, Wendy sits down with Nurse Rob Timmings — known to many as Nurse Rob from ECT4Health — a nurse educator with 37 years of experience spanning ICU, emergency, flight retrieval, rural and remote nursing, hyperbaric medicine, and now international nurse education. Rob shares his journey from a St John Ambulance cadet with dreams of becoming a paramedic, to hos...

In this powerful two-part solo series on Your Nurse Voice Matters, Wendy explores two closely connected themes that many nurses experience but rarely pause to examine: the hidden costs of staying in the same role too long, and how frustration can actually be a signal for growth. In the first episode, Wendy unpacks five often-overlooked consequences of remaining in one position without intentional...

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses patient harm, medical misconduct, death, and systemic failures within healthcare. Some listeners may find the content distressing. Please take care while listening and seek professional support if needed. In this powerful and confronting episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, Wendy speaks with renowned nurse and patient advocate Toni Hoffman about one of the m...

 Many nurses reach a point in their career where they quietly ask, “Is this all there is?” And yet, they often carry guilt for even thinking it. In this episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, I continue the nursing application and career mindset series by unpacking career restlessness — particularly for mid-career nurses who’ve invested years into their roles, taken on responsibility, and still feel...

🎙️ In this solo episode, Wendy brings together two powerful live recordings from the Your Nurse Voice Matters (previously known as Healthy Options Now) Facebook group to explore a question many nurses quietly ask themselves: Is this burnout, or have I outgrown my role? In the first half, Wendy unpacks the signs that you may have outgrown your nursing role. Key themes include: Loss of enjoyment — b...

In this inspiring episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, host Wendy Trevarthen speaks with Dr. Sue Gledhill, registered nurse, midwife, academic, researcher, community volunteer, and lifelong learner. Sue shares her extraordinary journey, beginning with a turbulent childhood and no high-school education, through to becoming a respected clinician, manager, researcher, and educator. Sue reflects on he...

After 36 years as a Registered Nurse, I never imagined my path would lead to helping aspiring authors bring their stories to life 📚. My journey with Ultimate 48 Hour Author began back in 2018, when I published my very first book with the amazing Natasa Denman. Since then, I’ve gone on to publish further books — both independently and as part of her team — which has deepened my passion for guiding...

In this inspiring episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, host Wendy Trevarthen sits down with Kerri Anne Dooley, Member of Parliament for Redcliffe and CEO of MyCare Enterprises. With a career spanning decades in nursing, community care, and palliative services, Kerri Anne shares her remarkable journey, from international volunteer work in West Africa and Asia to founding a 24/7 palliative care serv...

In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, I sit down with home birth midwife Kelly Zarkaroff to explore the challenges, heartbreak, and resilience that come with working in one of healthcare’s most demanding roles. Kelly opens up about a critical moment in her career—losing a baby during a home birth—and the subsequent AHPRA investigation that placed restrictions on her practice. She shar...

In this episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, Wendy Trevarthen sits down with Tammy Copley, a nurse and midwife with 44 years of experience across hospitals, communities, universities, and leadership roles. Tammy is also the founder of Nurses and Midwives Against Bullying Australia, and together they unpack the complex and confronting issue of workplace bullying. You’ll hear three key insights: Def...

In this episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, Wendy Trevarthen takes on the important and often unspoken topic of ageism in nursing. Drawing on her own career experience, Wendy explores how age-related assumptions can impact both younger and older nurses, sometimes in subtle but damaging ways. You’ll discover three key insights: Defining Ageism in Nursing – how it can affect nurses across all ages,...

This episode features Marianne, the founder and CEO of Quantum Leap Global, an organization she created in 2020 to transform how individuals and teams thrive through psychological safety 🌱. With over 20 years in large corporations—rising from office junior to COO—Marianne brings deep expertise in leadership, team dynamics, and cultural change. Her passion is helping people show up authentically,...

This week, I’m thrilled to introduce the incredible Di Riddell — confidence coach, speaker, author, and proud retired nurse. With a career spanning decades, Di brings heart, humour, and wisdom to our conversation about nursing then and now. ✨ Key takeaways from our chat: Nursing in the '60s was nothing like today — uniforms, rules, and the matron’s eyes were intense! Di’s wild ride from trainee n...

In this high-value episode, we chat with Joanne Glover —a senior management executive with a powerful story and a clear passion for supporting nurses. Jo breaks down big leadership lessons into fast, relatable insights that will shift your thinking. You'll hear about: The defining moment that sparked her path Quick mindset shifts that helped her navigate career changes How to lead teams with clari...

Burnout, shift work, metabolic chaos—sound familiar? In this eye-opening episode of Your Nurse Voice Matters, we chat with RN and health coach Joff Ylarde, who takes us behind the scrubs and into the heart of a personal health transformation. Jof shares the raw reality of being a nurse who gave everything to the job—until his health forced him to hit pause. Now 40 kilos lighter and off medication,...

In this inspiring episode, we sit down with Sue Cosgrove—a nurse whose leadership journey began not in a boardroom, but in the heart of her rural community. With decades of experience across clinical care and executive roles, Sue shares how values like compassion, advocacy, and connection have shaped her career. From the early days on the floor to navigating major systemic changes, she speaks cand...

In this powerful episode, we meet Kylie Craven—The Real and Raw Nurse Mentor—whose journey from burnout to breakthrough is nothing short of inspiring. From failing high school to becoming a respected clinical leader in fast-paced emergency departments, Kylie's path proves that where you start doesn’t define where you can go. After 16 years on the frontline, she hit stage 12 burnout—battling chroni...

In this final episode of the current series of Your Nurse Voice Matters, Wendy reflects on the courageous stories shared by guests throughout the season. Episodes covered topics from personal transitions, burnout recovery, and wellness advocacy, to advancing nursing roles and addressing challenging healthcare issues like dementia and voluntary assisted dying. Wendy closes with a heartfelt passage...