Calling All Nurses
by Betty Tate, Martha Russell, and RaeAnn Hartman
As newly retired nurses, we continue our passion for helping the public understand the scope, challenges, and rewards of contemporary nursing practice, using the lived experiences of point of care nurses. In Season 1 we spoke with nurses making change with challenges of social concern, such as Indigenous health, the toxic drug poisoning crisis, planetary health, public health and the pandemic, and challenges in acute care. In Season 2, we are speaking with nurses in positions of influence provincially, in B.C., nationally, in Canada, and internationally as well. Have a listen! In Season 3, we highlight initiatives that speak to the strength of collaboration, particularly across nursing practice, research, and education. Nurses empowering each other and communities to create change. Season 3 is now available!
Episodes
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Calling All Nurses - S3, Episode 6: Bernie Pauly - Making Systems Change through Collaborative Research with Marginalized People
Send a text Listen as Dr. Bernie Pauly describes her research projects over time, making change with people on the margins. She discusses how she got there, what motivates her and how the teams she worked with made it happen. Dr. Bernie Pauly is a Professor in the School of Nursing, a Scientist...
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Calling All Nurses - S3, Episode 5: Alysha Jones, Keara Allen, and Shona Lalonde: Creating Education about Environmental Racism for Nurses through Collaboration
Send a text An Introduction to Environmental Racism for Nurses is an online heart, arts, and land-based continuing education course for nurses. This course is designed to empower nurses across Canada with essential knowledge on the critical issues of environmental racism and environmental…
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Calling All Nurses - S3, Episode 4 - Evelyn Voyager, Paul Willie and Joanna Fraser: Deconstructing Systemic Racism through Collaboration in the Learning Our Way Project
Send a text The Learning Our Way project aims to address systemic racism and promote health equity for Indigenous peoples through field schools led by Indigenous Knowledge Holders. This three-year project, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), is a partnership between,...
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Calling All Nurses S3, Episode 3 - Mariko Sakamoto: Addressing Needs of Older Adults through Research Collaboration
Send a text Welcome to Season 3, Episode 3 of Calling All Nurses! Listen as Mariko discusses her collaborative research with both older adults and caregivers lived experiences to enhance outcomes at home, or in community, for older adults. Mariko Sakamoto joined the School of Nursing at the...
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Calling All Nurses - S3, Episode 2 - Kent Soltys and Lenora Marcellus: Supporting Early Career Nurses through Collaboration
Send a text Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 3! Listen as Kent and Lenora discuss the current landscape of clinical nursing and how frustration with the impossible situations new nurses were expected to navigate, turned into research. Channeling the frustration of new nurses leaving the profession,...
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Calling All Nurses - S3, Episode 1 - Celise Hack: Creating Health in Collaboration with Rural Saskatchewan Communities
Send a text Welcome to Season 3 of Calling All Nurses! We are excited to present episodes this season that draw a picture of collaboration between nursing practice, nursing education, nursing research, and communities to improve the health and wellbeing of both populations and the lives of…
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Calling All Nurses - Season 2 Episode 10 - Live at NIC
Send a text Listen as NIC faculty alumni and Calling All Nurses co-hosts Betty Tate, RaeAnn Hartman, and Martha Russell discuss with their guest, Shanyn Simcoe, how her nursing education at NIC led her to political advocacy and change making in community health policy against the backdrop of the...
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Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 9 - Summer Summary
Send a text Get set to listen as some of our Season Two guests convene and reflect collaboratively on key takeaways from listening and learning from each other at Calling All Nurses and their greatest wish for nurses and nursing right now. In Episode 6, Adriane Gear compared the current landscape...
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Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 8 - Aggie Black and Planetary Health
Send a text The Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment BC Committee (CANE BC) is a group of actively practicing as well as student and retired nurses. Their work began many years ago throughout the province. They are now joining forces as one provincial committee to have a greater...
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Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 7 - Christine Penney and BC Nursing Regulation
Send a text The British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives [BCCNM] is the health regulator for five distinct professions— licensed practical nurses, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, registered psychiatric nurses, and midwives. Regulation allows BCCNM to set standards for nurses and...
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Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 6 - Adriane Gear and the BC Nurses' Union
Send a text The BC Nurses' Union protects and advances the health, safety, social and economic well-being of their members, the profession, and communities (BCNU, 2024). Listen as BCNU President, Adriane Gear discusses the recently negotiated minimum nurse-patient ratios, led by BC, as well as…
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Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 5 - Leigh Chapman and Canada's Chief Nursing Officer position
Send a text After approximately a decade, the Chief Nursing Officer [CNO] position in Canada is FINALLY reinstated and we are thrilled with both the reinstatement and appointment of Dr. Leigh Chapman, Canada's Chief Nursing Officer. Listen as Leigh talks about her federal position, engaging with...
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Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 4 - Zak Matieschyn and the BC Nursing Policy Secretariat
Send a text The Nursing Policy Secretariat [NPS] for the BC Ministry of Health is the branch that helps support provincial nursing initiatives, guides policy, and provides a nursing voice to government. Listen as Zak discusses his new role within the BC Ministry of Health, his aspirations for...
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Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 3 - Patrick Chiu and Professional Regulation
Send a text Professional regulatory authorities are government agencies or public organizations that have authority delegated by law from government. They provide oversight and certification to specified regulated occupations in B.C. (Government of BC, 2024). Professional regulation of the…
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Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 2 - Angela Wignall and the BC Professional Nursing Association
Send a text The Association of Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of British Columbia [NNPBC] is the professional association that represents the voice of all four nursing designations in BC – RNs, LPNs, RPNs and NPs. By bringing all nursing designations under one roof, our association is a first of...
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Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 1 - Introduction to Season Two
Send a text We are back and so excited to bring you Season 2! Season 1 focused on conversations about nursing voice and advocacy with an amazing group of point of care nurses and how they brought leadership and change into their practices, despite challenging times. Season 2 focuses on the...
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Calling All Nurses Episode 8 - Summer Summary
Send a text Listen as all our Season One guests convene and reflect on their collective perspectives and hopes, garnered from listening to each other and learning about the variety of leadership roles represented. And true to these guests, Episode 8 Summer Summary was aptly reframed as a Love...
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Calling All Nurses Episode 7 - Colleen Salter and First Nations Health and Wellness
Send a text The First Nations Health Authority [FNHA] is the first and only provincial health authority in Canada, working to transform and reform the way health care is delivered to First Nations people in BC. The FNHA works towards the health and wellness of all First Nations in BC through its...
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Calling All Nurses Episode 6 - Laura Hoyseth with the Pandemic and Public Health
Send a text Public health, in general and at all levels, focus on health promotion, disease and injury prevention, primary health care, and population health. Two primary distinguishing factors of public health from other components of the health system are the focus on populations as a whole…
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Calling All Nurses Episode 5 - Josh Duncan with Acute Care and New Graduate Transitions
Send a text In 2019, in response to the Nightingale Challenge, a global initiative encouraging health employers to provide leadership development for new nurses and midwives throughout 2020, Island Health and the University of Victoria joined forces, establishing the New Graduate RN Council. The...
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Calling All Nurses Episode 4 - Megan Tomlinson and Planetary Health
Send a text The Canadian Nurses Association [CNA] believes that the public expects nurses to be aware of and know how to promote Canadians’ health in the context of environmental health issues. This is accomplished through nurses’ roles in clinical practice, education, research, administration…
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Calling All Nurses Episode 3 - Shanyn Simcoe and the Toxic Drug Poisoning Epidemic
Send a text Approximately 11,171 deaths are attributed to the toxic drug poisoning since the public health emergency was declared in April, 2016. In B.C., the Coroner’s service reports approximately 6 lives lost every day to drug toxicity. These numbers will only continue to climb by day, month,...
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Calling All Nurses Episode 2 - Dawn Tisdale with Anti-Indigenous Racism in Healthcare
Send a text Indigenous stereotyping, racism, and discrimination is not only widespread in healthcare, but limits medical access and treatment, particularly disproportionately impacting Indigenous girls and women (In Plain Sight, 2020). Healthcare personnel, administrators, educators, and...
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Calling All Nurses Episode 1 - Introduction to Season One
Send a text This introductory episode introduces the co-hosts Betty, Martha, and RaeAnn and explains how and why they chose to do this podcast. There are a new generation of nurses making change in challenging times and in Season 1, this trio want to give voice to their advocacy, innovation…
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About this show
As newly retired nurses, we continue our passion for helping the public understand the scope, challenges, and rewards of contemporary nursing practice, using the lived experiences of point of care nurses. In Season 1 we spoke with nurses making change with challenges of social concern, such as Indigenous health, the toxic drug poisoning crisis, planetary health, public health and the pandemic, and challenges in acute care.
In Season 2, we are speaking with nurses in positions of influence provincially, in B.C., nationally, in Canada, and internationally as well. Have a listen!
In Season 3, we highlight initiatives that speak to the strength of collaboration, particularly across nursing practice, research, and education. Nurses empowering each other and communities to create change. Season 3 is now available!
Hosted by
Betty Tate, Martha Russell, and RaeAnn Hartman