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The Gritty Nurse — 108 episodes

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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

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

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

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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)

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

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

36

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

37

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

38

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

39

Embracing Change in Nursing: The Gritty Nurse is Back

40

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

41

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

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

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

47

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

48

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

49

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

50

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

51

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

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

Fractured Innocence: An NICU Nurse's Betrayal

56

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

57

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

58

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

59

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

60

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

63

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

65

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

66

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

67

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!

69

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

70

Nursing Seniority: A tradition or a travesty?

71

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

72

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

73

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

74

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

75

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

76

Nursing: The most Trusted Profession but the LEAST RESPECTED Profession

77

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

78

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

79

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

81

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

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

89

Privatized Healthcare is no ROYALE with CHEESE

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

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

96

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

97

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

98

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

99

Notorious Nurses: Fraud, Scandal and Murder

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

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

105

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

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

107

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

108

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