How can nurses be involved in decisions that patients make about innovative heart valve interventions for which they may be eligible? In this episode Dr. Sandra Lauck thoughtfully describes her work and that of others in supporting nurses to ha

Showing Up and Standing Up for Patients

Mar 27th, 2024 47m 57s

How can we show up in our relational work with seriously ill patients, and for ourselves as nurses in the moments that are available to us? Grounded in professional and personal experience and yes, even the theoretical, Marie Cooper calls on ea

How Can We Talk About Healing After Patient Harm?

Mar 20th, 2024 49m 19s

It is well known that despite our best intentions preventable harm continues to happen to patients in healthcare systems. Further harm to patients, their families and to healthcare professionals, including nurses, can be made worse by the ways

Finding the Stories in Palliative Care Spaces

Mar 13th, 2024 59m 55s

What do we mean when we talk about a good death? How can we describe the meaningful communicative work that nurses can do with dying patients and their families?In this episode, Patricia Strachan welcomes Dr. David Wright, a registered nurse,

Hearing and Supporting Caregivers

Mar 6th, 2024 51m 20s

As a practicing Registered Nurse with extensive experience working in acute, critical, and community care settings, Janet Lovegrove has heard many caregivers' stories about feeling alone, overwhelmed, or invisible when providing care to people

Indigenous and Northern Lens on Communication in Serious Illness

Feb 28th, 2024 1h 1m

Context is very important in healthcare. In this episode, we explore the context created at the intersection of geography, history, language, culture, and healthcare resources when Indigenous people in Canada’s far north require care for seriou

Awake and Communicating in the ICU

Feb 21st, 2024 1h 2m

Have you ever thought of communication as a vital sign for patients in the intensive care unit?In this episode, you will hear Kali Dayton, DNP AGACNP and critical care outcomes consultant, share her passion for using evidence that promotes wh

Dementia-Friendly Communication

Feb 14th, 2024 57m 8s

Communicating with people living with advancing dementia and who require care can be challenging and frustrating for everyone. Despite our best intentions, dementia is a serious progressive life limiting illness that has major consequences for

Supporting Families of Unborn and Newborn Infants with Life-Threatening Conditions

Feb 7th, 2024 54m 23s

Having a baby is supposed to be a very happy event, but when a baby is diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening condition in the perinatal period, families are faced with new realities and require special support and understanding.Jennif

Palliative Care Beyond Societal Margins

Jan 31st, 2024 59m

Everyone needs access to an inclusive, equitable palliative approach to care. Palliative and end of life care is regarded in the western world as a necessary service to which everyone is entitled, and yet if we look closely, significant inequit

Befriending the Dreaded ’P’ Word

Dec 6th, 2023 40m 8s

What do you think of when you hear the word “palliative”?In this final episode of season one of Radical Nurse Talk, Kath Murray discusses the importance of words in serious illness. Words such as "palliative" that we use – or avoid using - ca

Making Connections in Mental Health Crises

Nov 29th, 2023 42m 16s

In this episode, Matthieu Payette, Clinical Nurse Specialist at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton and Adjunct Lecturer/Clinical Instructor McMaster University School of Nursing, describes his experiences in various contexts in which people requi

Talk That Matters in LGBTQ2SA Healthcare

Nov 22nd, 2023 37m 46s

In this episode, Dr. Erin Ziegler, champion and advocate for inclusive and dignified care of people who identify as LGBTQ2SA describes how words, and the assumptions that are behind them, can build or destroy the trust that is so integral to bu

Talking About Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)

Nov 15th, 2023 45m 14s

Has a patient or family member ever asked you about medical assistance in dying (MAiD)? If someone did ask you, what would you say in this conversation?In this episode, I explore that situation with Jane Slemon, a director of care at a hospic

Trauma Informed Communication

Nov 8th, 2023 56m 52s

What does a trauma-and-violence informed approach mean for communicating in serious health situations?Dr. Susan Jack, a champion of and advocate for the training of health care professionals on trauma-and violence-informed approaches to care,

Talking with Children About Serious Illness and Death

Nov 1st, 2023 58m 59s

How can we talk with children about grief, about losses of any kind, dying and death?Drawing from years of experience as a registered nurse and psychotherapist, Andrea Warnick inspires us to learn how best to communicate with grieving children

Reflections on Communication When Nurse Becomes Patient

Oct 25th, 2023 45m 39s

What are the lessons learned when nurse becomes patient? In this episode, best-selling author, nurse and advocate, Theresa Brown shares reflections on communication following her diagnosis of and treatment for breast cancer and in the context o

Critical Conversations in Critical Care

Oct 18th, 2023 38m 24s

Sarah Crowe, a critical care nurse practitioner and Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Critical Care Nurses discusses nurses' communication in critical care settings, particularly the difficult and challenging conversations with fami

Serious Illness Conversations and Advance Care Planning

Oct 11th, 2023 50m 30s

How can we talk with patients and their families about a future that includes living with advancing illness, dying and death? In this episode with Sandra Andreychuk, N.P., Healthcare Ethicist, Advocate/Coach and Navigator we explore how to talk

Talking with Families Experiencing Serious Illness

Oct 4th, 2023 48m 44s

How do nurses build relationships and talk with families when serious illness hits? In this inaugural episode, communication scholar and champion of nurses Elaine Wittenberg shines a light on the essential communication work nurses do with fami

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Talking with Families (Teaser)

Sep 25th, 2023 1m 27s

This is Radical Nurse Talk, a podcast about nurses’ communication in serious situations and illness as a radical act of care. Join Dr. Patricia Strachan as she talks with nurses and others about nurses’ expertise, experience, courage, joys and

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