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The Gritty Nurse, 100 episodes.

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Credibility on Trial: Women's Health, Women's Rights to Choose and Nursing's Duty to Speak Up with Amy Cadoret

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The True Cost of Care: Storytelling, Profit Motives, and Front-Line Advocacy with Nurse & Best Selling Author Theresa Brown

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Free Labour: The Real Cost of Becoming a Nurse

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Good Grief & How Healthcare Teaches Us To Bury It

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Silence Isn't Safety, It's Strategy: Inside St. Joe's Fight Against Workplace Violence

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A Battle Cry for Change: Postpartum Psychosis, Systemic Failure, and the Case of Lindsay Clancy

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Why Thousands of Nurses Are Walking Out Across North America? (And Who's Replacing Them)

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The Handover: What a 40-Year Gap of Experience Can Teach the Nursing Profession

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7 Years Ago, I Hid Under My Desk--And Seven Years Later, Almost to The Day... She Was Walked Out.

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Follow The Legislation, Fix The Insurance! Nurse Psychotherapy Supports Mental Health

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From KOBO to Digital Health: Disrupting the Status Quo In Healthcare with Mike Serbinis

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From the ICU to the Page: Nurse Author Tilda Shalof on Why Nurses Must Tell Their Stories

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What Nurses Don't Know About the Law Could Cost Them Everything w/ Dr. Cambria Nwsou DNP, RN, LNC

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Let's Talk About Birth, Disparities, and Shifting the System: With Mama Nurse Tina!

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Exposing The Barriers: Why Are Nurse Practitioners Not Practicing To Their Full Scope in Canada? Discussions with CEO of NPAO Dr. Michelle Acorn

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The Obedient Nurse: How the "Good Nurse" Myth Quietly Paves the Way for Authoritarianism— and learning Hope Is a Discipline

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Nursing Needs A Defibrillation: We Are The Shift, We Are The CHANGE with Dr. Danielle McCamey & Gloria Barrera

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Taking Care: The Untold Story of The History of Nursing with Sarah DiGregorio

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Crisis as a Catalyst: How Compassion, Meditation and Psychedelics Was the Path To Healing with ED Physician Dr. William Berk

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Perimenopause, Pleasure Principles and Purpose: Menopause On MY Terms with Shirley Weir

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The Power of The Pivot: Rediscovering Your Love For Nursing In Non-Traditional Nursing Careers

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From the Frontlines of Healthcare to the JUNOS: Muscian & Mental Health Strategist Catherine Harrison on The Cost of Caring In Nursing and Entertainment Industries

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Ink or Expertise: Discussing the Pardox of Professionalism With The Tattooed Nurse Jesse Barmby

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Cluck around and find out: Why your birth plan needs more Birth Vibes and less fear with Jen Hamilton RN

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Is Education a Right? A Father's and Public Servant's Fight to Make Education and Healthcare a Constitutional Right For Children With Autism & Learning Disabilities

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Dismissed and Unprotected: Nurse Danielle Gibbs Koenitzer Experinece at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital

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Nursing Voice is CRITICAL in AI and HealthTech: Why Tech Giants Can't Disrupt Healthcare Without Us with Rebecca Love RN, BS, MSN, FIEL

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End of the Status Quo: A Revolutionary Blueprint for Canadian Healthcare with The Honourable Marjorie Michel~Federal Minister of Health

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From Surviving Nursing To Thriving In Nursing! Driving Change Through Oppurunity and Impact with Dr. Katie Boston-Leary

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Sonographers have feelings too! Beyond the Screen & Compassionate Conversations with Expert Ultrasound Jessi Dressler

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Why Everything You Know About Food Allergies is Changing: Early Introduction, Testing Myths, and Health Equity with Pediatric Allergist & Immunolgist Dr. Zainab Abdurrahman

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Finlay's Voice: A Mother's Fight to Fix Canada's ER Crisis with Hazel van der Werken

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96% Vote to Strike: Seattle Children's Nurses Fight for Safety w/ Kara Yates & Therese Hill

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Dying to be Seen: The Gritty Truth Is We ALL Need To Fight for Canadian Medicare

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Nursing Ratios & Union Power with Michael Hurley President of Ontario Council of Hospital Unions/CUPE

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Sepsis, Equity, and the Fight for a National Standards In Canada with PhD. Candidate & Prominent Researcher Fatima Sheikh

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Why Boys Need Anti-Manosphere Education: Feminism, Neurodivergence, and Challenging Patriarchy

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Hospice Nurse Penny on "Influencing Death," End-of-Life Myths, and The Difference Between Hospice and Palliative Care

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Screaming to be Heard: The Urgent Fight to Save Black Moms and Their Babies (Karrie Jones and Mercedes Wells Horrifying Experinces with Birth in the US)

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Are You A Caregiver in Crisis? Discussing Support & Solutions with Ontario Caregiver Organization CEO Amy Coupal

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When The Nurse Becomes the Patient: Emily Edwards on Her MS Diagnosis and Fighting to Be Heard

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EVERY Nurse Has a Ghost Story: The rule of 3, Crash Carts Outside of Rooms and Never Say The "Q" Word

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Healthcare Can Be Horror: Examining Nursing Portrayals, Asylum History and Medical Phobias in Healthcare

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What's Your Fight Language? Decoding Conflict and Communication in Healthcare with Lena Morgan

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The Maligning Manager: We Must Address Substance Use in Healthcare Workers Without Shame!

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A $20M Wake-Up Call:The Landmark DonQuenick Joppy Case, Racism, Retaliation, and the Future of Nursing

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U.S. Healthcare Reform or Disaster? Breaking Down RFK Jr.'s "Big Beautiful Bill"

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Is Nursing a Profession Worth Dying For? No, it's Not...

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Embracing Change in Nursing: The Gritty Nurse is Back

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I Got Ghosted, But I am Still Alive To Tell The Tale: Ghosting is NOT Boundary Setting

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The Illusion of Support to Increase Social Capital: Unmasking Peformative Allyship and HACKtivism

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Mindfulness Monday – Focus on YOU (Not Them!) with Amie Archibald-Varley

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Cheater, Cheater, Pumpkin Eater: When Personal Actions Cost Professional Trust

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Finding Your Anchor: A 5-Minute Mindfulness Practice for Uncertainty

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Life is not TYPICAL: Unravelling the Illusion of a Linear Life

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Beyond the Bedside: Our Healthcare Future (with Former Minister Mark Holland)

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The Cure That Should Be Written Into Policy: Prescribing Housing for Health with Dr. Andrew Boozary

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F*ck the Cake, WE WANT Change: Maybe It's Not Time For Celebration For Nurses Week

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We Need Another Leader: Navigating Difficult Times with Authentic Leadership, Courage and Clarity

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Does the CMA Apology Go Far Enough? Indigenous Sovereignty of Health And The Pathway To Healing with Dr. Jamaica Cass

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Speaking Through Silence: Broken Oaths & Healthcare's Lack of Morality On The Crisis in Palestine with Dr. Yipeng Ge

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We Need a Prescription for Leadership: Hamza Khan on Leading vs Managing

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Decoding the Deception: RFK Jr.'s RACIST Vaccine Lies and the Fight Against Medical Misinformation

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Fraud, Felonies and Murder: True Crime in the Medical World From the Medical Investigators Notebook

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Fractured Innocence: An NICU Nurse's Betrayal

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That's a Holiday Wrap: Our Gritty Insights for 2025!

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Climate change and Healthcare: The Hurricane Effect in Health with Nurse Jessica Sites and Raluca Ralu

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The Mo-ment of Truth: A Hairy Discussion on Men's Health & Prostate Cancer

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Women's Bodies Are On the Ballot, Our Choice Is On The Line: The Right To Choose With Leader of NDP Jagmeet Singh

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Halloween Hospital Hell: Tales From the Dark Side of the Hospital Room

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Vacation from Hell! You Never Get to Hang Up Your Stethoscope!

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Your Personal Health Information up for Ransom: Hospital Cyberattacks Are On The Rise

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Health Equity, Medical School & Creating Healthy Changes: Toronto Metropolitan School of Medicine with Dean Dr. Teresa Chan!

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We're ALL Nurses, but not all TREATED like Nurses: Spotlight on The Registered Practical Nurse

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The Dangers of Sleep Deprivation: A Nurse Drives Off a Parking Garage and a Nurse at a Strip Club

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You Left WHAT in my Body?! A Patient's Worst Nightmare!

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Reconciliation is more than a Checkbox: An Important Conversation with Len Pierre

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Leaving the Bedside for the Bedroom: The Hottest Job Trend in Nursing~ Working from Home with Nurse Fern!

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National Nursing Staffing Ratios --Why Don't We Have Them? With Nurse Jessica Sites & Nurse Erica

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Nursing Seniority: A tradition or a travesty?

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National Nursing Week conversation with the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau

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Nurses Getting Sh*t DONE: The Wisdom of Nurses is a #1 National Best Selling Book!!!!

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Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP): There's a New Kind of Nurse in Town!

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What is the HARDEST specialty in nursing? Move out of the way ICU....

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A Historic Document For Nursing Retention: Collaboration, Consultation & Connection: For us, by us!

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Nursing: The most Trusted Profession but the LEAST RESPECTED Profession

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Lucy Letby: Nurse and Serial Killer of Babies in The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

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Criminalization of Miscarriage: Brittany Watts and The Black Maternal Health Crisis

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Quick and Gritty Takes: News Ep. 2

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"Mother knows best?" When your parents health remedies Do Not Match Your Health Science Background

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Quick & Gritty Takes: News Ep 1

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The Rise & Popularity of Ozempic Use: What is the "skinny" truth of this "wonder" Drug

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A Book, A Baby, A Renewed Focus for 2024: Year End in Review

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What Will it Take to Retain Nurses? Tangible, Measurable, NURSE- LED interventions

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Medicine Needs a #MeToo Movement: How can a Doctor be Suspended 3X For Sexual Assault STILL Practice?

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Nursing During Times of War: Healthcare Should NEVER be Military Targets

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Gritty Nurse Halloween Edition: What Makes Hospitals So Scary???

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Learning How to Own our Own Struggles: A Road to Recovery with Minaa B~ Social Worker, Author & WONDERMIND Mental Health Advisor

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Privatized Healthcare is no ROYALE with CHEESE

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Are you a Nursing Advocate or a Nursing Influencer? Healthcare Professionals in the Spotlight