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Let’s Talk about Medication Errors

As a nurse, Medication errors are something you hope never happens, but what happens when they do happen?

Join us this week as we chat with Trish Danyluk, a practicing registered nurse and psychiatric nursing instructor in BC. We’ll be talking about the recent conviction of RaDonda Vaught, a nurse in Tennessee, who committed a fatal medication error, and what happens when medication errors are made. What does this case mean for nurses and medication errors regardless of the severity of the error and what does the impact this case have on nurses post-conviction and in Canada.

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Let’s Talk about Desire and Intimacy!

Keeping desire and intimacy in a relationship alive and keeping that spark can be difficult to keep up with, especially when you are working shift work and odd hours, like nurses.

Join us this week, as we chat with Psychotherapist and Sex Therapist, Dr. Teesha Morgan explain how to stay satisfied with your partner, how to find time, space and energy to prioritize intimate relationships, even after the honeymoon stage has ended and learn about sexual brakes and accelerators in you and your partners relationships.

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Let’s Talk about Psychotherapy

Nurses take on a lot, and are expected to take on even more in their lives and in the lives of their patients. But how can they take care of their patients without taking care of themselves first.

Join us as we talk to counselor Glenn Wood, on the importance of taking care of yourself and the difficulties behind accepting and dismantling your own defenses through psychotherapy.

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Let’s Talk about Trauma Informed Care

What is Trauma Informed Care?

Changing the narrative from “what’s wrong” to “what happened to you” and using that to better support patients as a nurse.

In this episode we talk with Colleen Hinkkala, a RN and nursing instructor at BCIT, to learn how to recognize trauma to avoid retraumatizing the patient, as a nurse and how to better acknowledge what happened to the patient, and how it affects how they behave today and their decisions.

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Coming Soon!

Starting May 10, every other Tuesday on Working Short I will invite a guest to share their stories and point of view. We’ll talk about burn out, taking on new roles, and how to make time for things like: sleep, sex, and self care.

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Starting May 10, every other Tuesday on Working Short I will invite a guest to share their stories and point of view. We’ll talk about burn out, taking on new roles, and how to make time for things like: sleep, sex, and self care.

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