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The Gritty Nurse — 113 episodes

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1

Free Labour: The Real Cost of Becoming a Nurse

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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)

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

Embracing Change in Nursing: The Gritty Nurse is Back

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

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

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

Fractured Innocence: An NICU Nurse's Betrayal

61

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

62

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

63

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

64

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

65

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

66

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

67

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

68

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

69

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

70

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

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

Nursing Seniority: A tradition or a travesty?

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

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

81

Nursing: The most Trusted Profession but the LEAST RESPECTED Profession

82

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

83

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

84

Quick and Gritty Takes: News Ep. 2

85

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

86

Quick & Gritty Takes: News Ep 1

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

Privatized Healthcare is no ROYALE with CHEESE

95

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

96

Healthcare, Gender Expression and Combatting Hate: Trans Rights are Human Rights with Advocate Fae Johnstone!

97

A Nursing Retention Strategy FOR US, BY US: Discussions with Chief Nursing Officer of Canada Dr. Leigh Chapman

98

A Historic Wage Increase for Nurses...But not ALL Nurses...

99

More than "Just a Nurse" with Nurse Blake: Advocate, Entrepreneur and Comedian

100

Is the Florence App Uber for Nurses? The intersection of Health & Tech with Shelly-Ann Rampersad

101

In Between Life and Death: Chat with Hospice Nurse Hadley!

102

The Controversial Use of Agency Nurses: Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game!

103

As You Get Older Will We Care For You?: Interview with the Minister of Seniors of Canada

104

Notorious Nurses: Fraud, Scandal and Murder

105

The Intersection of Healthcare and Comedy: Two Gritty Nurses, a Doctor and a Comedian!

106

Nurses Murdered by their Partners: The Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence

107

Manslaughter Charges Dropped & Unequal Justice: The Nurse DonQuenick Joppy Story

108

Bad NICU Nurse: What Happens When a Nurse is the One Abusing Patients

109

Becoming Your Own Boss: Rise of the Nurse Entrepreneur with Janine Kelbach

110

Ep 3. NYC Nurses Striking to Save Our Patients, Healthcare System & Profession

111

Destroying the Public Healthcare System to Fund a Private One: The New Wave of Healthcare in Canada

112

As a Nurse, We Have a Nursing Ick: It's Nurses Doing Ick Videos About Patients

113

Over 1700+ Minutes, Listened to in 27 Countries and Top 5% of Podcasts: The Gritty Nurses Say Goodbye to 2022!