Real Nurse Stories
by Eva Storey Nurse Coach
Real Nurse Stories emerged as a tribute to nurses during the 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, honouring Florence Nightingale's 200th anniversary. Our mission was to empower nurses by providing a platform for them to share their journeys and find solidarity in their challenges.Going beyond recognition, we aimed to modernise the image of nursing careers, highlighting the diverse opportunities available today. This served two crucial goals: educating the public about the demanding training nurses undergo and offering new graduates valuable career insights.
Episodes
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Margaret's Story
Margaret’s Story A Real Nurse Stories Podcastathon Special Episode This episode is very close to my heart. A few years ago, I had the privilege of sponsoring a young woman from Kibera, one of the largest informal settlements in Africa, through three years of nurse training in Kenya. That young...
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Liam's NursePreneur Academy story
Intro: In this engaging conversation, Eva interviews Liam Caswell from NursePreneur Academy, who shares his transformative journey from nursing to entrepreneurship. After experiencing a devastating loss in a fire, Liam reflects on how this event catalysed a significant life change, leading him to...
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Deanne's Story
Keywords nursing, palliative care, burnout, self-care, nursing education, graduate nurses, mental health, holistic care, nursing culture, support systems Summary In this episode of Real Nurse Stories, Eva Storey interviews Deanne Geddes, who shares her personal journey into nursing, her…
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Trina's Story- The Journey to Nursing & Navigating the Challenges of Nursing Education
Keywords nursing, burnout, workplace bullying, coaching, self-care, nursing education, nursing culture, empowerment, career development, mental health Summary In this episode of Real Nurse Stories, Trina Pitts shares her journey from aspiring nurse to nurse educator and coach. She discusses the...
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Cynthia's Story
Cynthia's Journey: From Uncertainty to Passion in Nursing.The Power of Human Connection in Healthcare In this episode of Real Nurse Stories, Cynthia Delgado shares her 33-year journey in nursing, focusing on her experiences in mental health and the importance of resilience and emotional labour.…
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Julia's Story
Key words: nursing, naturopathy, self-care, stress management, menopause, holistic health, intensive care, burnout, health education, nurse stories Summary: In this episode of Real Nurse Stories, Eva interviews Julia Chazan, a nurse turned naturopath and health educator. Julia shares her journey...
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Jackson's Story - learn about the diversity that a nursing career can provide.
Welcome to Real Nurse Stories! Today, we're joined by Jackson Heilberg, a passionate entrepreneur and a nurse, who recently established The Nurse Collective. Jackson's journey into nursing is a story of unexpected turns and a deep desire to make a meaningful impact. Starting with an Arts degree…
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Jenn's Story: The Importance of Listening to Your Intuition
In this episode, I interview Jenn Johnson, RN, a dedicated nurse with over 16 years of experience in emergency rooms across Northern and Southern Ontario, Canada. A front-line worker through the most challenging times, Jen has witnessed firsthand the intense pressures of the profession, from...
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Rethinking Nurse Burnout: Trauma, Healing and systemic change
In this compelling episode, Dr. Lorre delves into the nursing burnout crisis. She challenges the traditional self-care narrative and explores why it is insufficient for addressing the root causes of nurse trauma. Here’s what we cover: Key Discussion Points: The Burnout Narrative & Its Flaws: Dr...
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Aussie Nurse Recruiters
In this episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing two dynamic leaders who have spent the past year establishing Aussie Nurse Recruiters—a forward-thinking recruitment agency dedicated to transforming the hiring process in nursing. Liam Caswell and Michelle Mexted, the Co-Founders and Directors...
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"Empowering Nurses: Margot's journey with Nurse Coaching"
Join me as Margot, a nurse, shares her transformation experience with coaching. Discover how Margot's journey began with curiosity and a leap of faith into the world of nurse coaching. Overcoming doubts and fears, she found herself on a path of self-discovery and growth. Fast forward two years,...
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Unleash Your Nursing Superpowers: The Surprising Mindset Shift for a Confidence Boost
Welcome to Real Nurse Stories! In this episode, I address a common issue among nurses - the struggle with confidence, especially in new roles. Acknowledging that this is a universal challenge, I share a powerful mindset hack: adding 'yet' to negative statements. This simple adjustment transforms...
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Lorna's Story - how to be successful as a nurse entrepreneur, co-founder, Chemo@home
In this episode, I interview a remarkable guest, Lorna, whose journey from an unexpected entry into nursing to becoming a successful entrepreneur is nothing short of inspiring. Despite initial reservations, Lorna's nursing career took her from a strict, militaristic hospital to the…
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Liam's Story - bedside nurse to coaching graduate nurses to be successful with job applications.
In this episode, I have the pleasure of interviewing Liam Caswell who is a nurse, a life coach and Director of Liam Caswell Coaching and Podcaster of High-Performance Nursing. Liam and I are kindred spirits and have many things in common when it comes to coaching and nurses. We share the same...
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Teresa's Story- Nurse Entrepreneurship, becoming the CEO of your own company
Welcome to a new season of Real Nurse Stories. In this episode, I interview Teresa, a nurse and an entrepreneur from Kansas in the midwest of America. Teresa is a vocal major who never expected to become a nurse and have a 32-year-long career in nursing! Teresa shares her journey into nursing and...
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Why as nurses do we find it so hard to ask for help for ourselves?
It has been a tough two years for the nursing profession. Many nurses are considering leaving the profession and many are reporting symptoms of burnout and exhaustion. As a profession, we need to acknowledge these struggles, listen to nurses' experiences and importantly take urgent action to...
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Iris's story - embracing rural nursing in Western Australia as a graduate nurse.
In this episode, I interview Iris who is currently a Grad nurse on placement in Rural Western Australia. Iris never wanted to be a nurse and always thought that she would go into paramedicine but became hooked on Nursing We cover her journey into nursing and her experience working as a Graduate...
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Cynarra's story - a rewarding career in disability nursing
Cynarra, always knew that she wanted to be a nurse, nursing runs in her blood. Her mum was a nurse and Cynarra grew up with an older sister with complex disability needs. These early influences led Cynarra to follow a career in disability nursing and more recently teaching nurses as a nurse...
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Emillee's Story - Psychiatric liaison nursing in a regional ED western Australia
In this episode, I interview Emillee who is currently working as a Psychiatric Liason nurse in ED in regional Western Australia. Emillee always wanted to be a Doctor and entered into nursing thinking that she would become a Doctor at a later point. She wasn't able to get a grad position and was...
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Jacqui's Story - nurse entrepreneur and founder of Heart Place Hospital for Carers.
In this episode, I interview Nurse Jacqui as she is affectionately known by the clients that she works with. Jacqui is a passionate nurse, a confidence coach, champion of carers and a BeYOUtiful Mentor. Jacqui shares her journey into why she became a nurse and her journey into entrepreneurship as...
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Sonia's Sunny Street story as a nurse leader, entrepreneur, and CEO.
In this episode, I interview Nurse Sonia Goodwin who is a passionate nurse leader, entrepreneur, CEO and founder of Sunny Street. Sunny street is a Doctor & Nurse-led outreach service providing primary healthcare and complex coordination services for homeless and vulnerable individuals and…
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Samantha's Story - a Koori woman from Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri country and closing the gap.
Samatha's story is the final episode of 2020 where I started out to interview a nurse a month as part of the 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Most of my interviews have been with nurses working in Australia and it seemed only right to include the experience of an Australian nurse...
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Grace's story - a student nurse volunteering in Nepal, Kathmandu, a shining star experience!
Grace's story is one of my favourites so far! Grace is a student nurse studying to become a registered nurse. Her journey into nursing was inspired by a condition that she was born with as a premature 26-week old baby. Her love of human biology is testament to the great person-centred care that…
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Athol's Story - from farming to nursing, burnout, and app development
Athol grew up on a dairy farm and never dreamed of becoming a nurse. He had a love of anatomy and human biology and thought that he was going to study exercise science. His Grandmother suggested Nursing to him and the rest is history as they say! In this episode we talk about Athol's nursing...
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Nic's Story - navigating from clinical nurse into a leadership role, feeling a fraud and an imposter
In this episode, I interview Nic who is a nurse and an entrepreneur. Nic runs her own business helping nurses who are new to a management role by offering training and support and is a passionate advocate in helping nurses to transition from a clinical to a leadership role. Nic talks about her...
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Jacquie's Story - from midwife to senior nurse leader and everything in between!
This is a fabulous interview with Jacquie who started her nursing career wanting to make a difference to the care of pregnant women by becoming a midwife. Jacquie describes her career path as a spiders web with many twists and turns, seizing opportunities as they arose and always learning from…
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Jamie's Story - how to stay positive in your career as a nurse.
It was a real pleasure to Interview Jamie about his nursing career for this episode. I learnt about the Losada Ratio which is something I didn't know before interviewing Jamie! Jamie is a passionate advocate for creating positivity at work as a leader and in his life generally. By his own…
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Wes's Story - ED Nursing and how to set yourself up for success.
In this episode, I interview Wes who works in the emergency department in Resus. Wes started his nursing career more by accident than planning. He began a business degree and then realised that he hated numbers! He enrolled on a nursing degree course as a way to get into radiology and after one...
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Joanne's Story - how travel broadened nursing experience and applying resilience in tough times
In this episode, I interview Joanne who is a registered nurse working in an emergency department in a regional hospital in Australia. Nurses working in an emergency department never know what is going to come through the door and they deal with trauma on a daily basis. Working in an environment...
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Nurse Cannibals - Eating Their Young
In this episode, I interview Tracy Churchill and Emma Versluis who are senior nurses and the authors of a series of four articles that was published on Linkedin in June 2020. This episode explores how the authors became interested in the topic, along with the responses that they received as a...
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A Midwife's Story - from the UK to Australia, how trauma and burnout affect resilience
This is a midwife's story who is working in Australia. The midwife's anonymity has been preserved for the purposes of this interview, which has allowed a candour to this career story. The story documents this Midwife's journey from her midwifery training in London in the UK to her present role....
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Amanda's Story - Community Nursing with a passion in the UK
In this episode, I interview Amanda who is a community nurse team leader working in Tameside and Glossip in the North West of England. When Amanda was 15 someone told her that she wasn't clever enough to become a nurse. Amanda's story illustrates how this comment made her even more determined to...
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Leonie's Story - a retired nurse who experienced a bygone era of nursing in Geraldton, WA
I had a lot of fun interviewing Leonie for this episode. Leonie has had an interesting nursing and midwifery career in Perth Western Australia. Her career began in Geraldton and finished in Bunbury Regional Hospital. Leonie is a great storyteller and has a great sense of humour, there was a point...
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Trish's story - a retired community nurse who has championed ageism and person centred care.
In this episode, I interview Trish who has just retired from nursing after 43 years working as a nurse in Manchester in the UK. It seemed very appropriate that this interview took place on International Nurses day 2020 as Trish trained at the very first NHS hospital, Park hospital in Trafford in...
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Hazel's Story - managing stressful situations as an emergency room nurse, debriefing and reflection
In this episode, I interview Hazel who is a registered nurse working In an Emergency Department in Perth Western Australia. Hazel has a very gentle, caring and empathetic nature and is passionate about being an ED nurse. She shares how she manages stressful situations with her team through...
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Rebecca's story - remote and rural nursing career,working with indigenous communities in Australian
Listen to Rebecca's nursing career journey, we start with her nurse training in Melbourne, cover working in rural and remote nursing and working with indigenous communities in Australia, midwifery and aged care and coaching to mention just a few! Rebecca talks openly and honestly about how…
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Jayne Nurse Manager Western Australia
Welcome to Real Nurse Stories celebrating 2020 the year of the Nurse and Midwife. Real Nurse Stories Podcast provides an important platform for nurses to talk about their career, share some insights into their role and pass on some words of wisdom and importantly celebrate the diversity of…
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About this show
Real Nurse Stories emerged as a tribute to nurses during the 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, honouring Florence Nightingale's 200th anniversary. Our mission was to empower nurses by providing a platform for them to share their journeys and find solidarity in their challenges.Going beyond recognition, we aimed to modernise the image of nursing careers, highlighting the diverse opportunities available today. This served two crucial goals: educating the public about the demanding training nurses undergo and offering new graduates valuable career insights.
Hosted by
Eva Storey Nurse Coach