Calling All Nurses
As newly retired nurses, we continue our passion for helping the public understand the scope, challenges, and rewards of contemporary nursing practice, using the lived experiences of point of care nurses. In Season 1 we spoke with nurses making change with challenges of social concern, such as Indigenous health, the toxic drug poisoning crisis, planetary health, public health and the pandemic, and challenges in acute care.
In Season 2, we are speaking with nurses in positions of influence provincially, in B.C., nationally, in Canada, and internationally. Season 2 is available now!
Episodes
23 episodes
Calling All Nurses - S3, Episode 5: Alysha Jones, Keara Allen, and Shona Lalonde: Creating Education about Environmental Racism for Nurses through Collaboration
An Introduction to Environmental Racism for Nurses is an online heart, arts, and land-based continuing education course for nurses. This course is designed to empower nurses across Canada with essential knowledge on the critical issues of envir...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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49:18
Calling All Nurses - S3, Episode 4 - Evelyn Voyager, Paul Willie and Joanna Fraser: Deconstructing Systemic Racism through Collaboration in the Learning Our Way Project
The Learning Our Way project aims to address systemic racism and promote health equity for Indigenous peoples through field schools led by Indigenous Knowledge Holders. This three-year project, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Resear...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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35:47
Calling All Nurses S3, Episode 3 - Mariko Sakamoto: Addressing Needs of Older Adults through Research Collaboration
Welcome to Season 3, Episode 3 of Calling All Nurses! Listen as Mariko discusses her collaborative research with both older adults and caregivers lived experiences to enhance outcomes at home, or in community, for older adults. Mari...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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30:35
Calling All Nurses - S3, Episode 2 - Kent Soltys and Lenora Marcellus: Supporting Early Career Nurses through Collaboration
Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 3! Listen as Kent and Lenora discuss the current landscape of clinical nursing and how frustration with the impossible situations new nurses were expected to navigate, turned into research. Channeling the fr...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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41:29
Calling All Nurses - S3, Episode 1 - Celise Hack: Creating Health in Collaboration with Rural Saskatchewan Communities
Welcome to Season 3 of Calling All Nurses! We are excited to present episodes this season that draw a picture of collaboration between nursing practice, nursing education, nursing research, and communities to improve the health and wellbeing of...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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27:34
Calling All Nurses - Season 2 Episode 10 - Live at NIC
Listen as NIC faculty alumni and Calling All Nurses co-hosts Betty Tate, RaeAnn Hartman, and Martha Russell discuss with their guest, Shanyn Simcoe, how her nursing education at NIC led her to political advocacy and change making in community h...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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23:05
Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 9 - Summer Summary
Get set to listen as some of our Season Two guests convene and reflect collaboratively on key takeaways from listening and learning from each other at Calling All Nurses and their greatest wish for nurses and nursing right now. In E...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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38:16
Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 8 - Aggie Black and Planetary Health
The Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment BC Committee (CANE BC) is a group of actively practicing as well as student and retired nurses. Their work began many years ago throughout the province. They are now joining forces as one p...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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34:13
Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 7 - Christine Penney and BC Nursing Regulation
The British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives [BCCNM] is the health regulator for five distinct professions— licensed practical nurses, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, registered psychiatric nurses, and midwives. Regulation allows...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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41:45
Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 6 - Adriane Gear and the BC Nurses' Union
The BC Nurses' Union protects and advances the health, safety, social and economic well-being of their members, the profession, and communities (BCNU, 2024). Listen as BCNU President, Adriane Gear discusses the recently negotiated minimum nurse...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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35:35
Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 5 - Leigh Chapman and Canada's Chief Nursing Officer position
After approximately a decade, the Chief Nursing Officer [CNO] position in Canada is FINALLY reinstated and we are thrilled with both the reinstatement and appointment of Dr. Leigh Chapman, Canada's Chief Nursing Officer. Listen as Leigh talks a...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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32:00
Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 4 - Zak Matieschyn and the BC Nursing Policy Secretariat
The Nursing Policy Secretariat [NPS] for the BC Ministry of Health is the branch that helps support provincial nursing initiatives, guides policy, and provides a nursing voice to government. Listen as Zak discusses his new role within the BC Mi...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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32:23
Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 3 - Patrick Chiu and Professional Regulation
Professional regulatory authorities are government agencies or public organizations that have authority delegated by law from government. They provide oversight and certification to specified regulated occupations in B.C. (Government of BC, 202...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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28:12
Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 2 - Angela Wignall and the BC Professional Nursing Association
The Association of Nurses and Nurse Practitioners of British Columbia [NNPBC] is the professional association that represents the voice of all four nursing designations in BC – RNs, LPNs, RPNs and NPs. By bringing all nursing designations under...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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32:04
Calling All Nurses - S2, Episode 1 - Introduction to Season Two
We are back and so excited to bring you Season 2! Season 1 focused on conversations about nursing voice and advocacy with an amazing group of point of care nurses and how they brought leadership and change into their practices, despite challeng...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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9:09
Calling All Nurses Episode 8 - Summer Summary
Listen as all our Season One guests convene and reflect on their collective perspectives and hopes, garnered from listening to each other and learning about the variety of leadership roles represented.And true to these guests, Episode 8...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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31:28
Calling All Nurses Episode 7 - Colleen Salter and First Nations Health and Wellness
The First Nations Health Authority [FNHA] is the first and only provincial health authority in Canada, working to transform and reform the way health care is delivered to First Nations people in BC. The FNHA works towards the health and wellnes...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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34:16
Calling All Nurses Episode 6 - Laura Hoyseth with the Pandemic and Public Health
Public health, in general and at all levels, focus on health promotion, disease and injury prevention, primary health care, and population health. Two primary distinguishing factors of public health from other components of the health system ar...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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39:57
Calling All Nurses Episode 5 - Josh Duncan with Acute Care and New Graduate Transitions
In 2019, in response to the Nightingale Challenge, a global initiative encouraging health employers to provide leadership development for new nurses and midwives throughout 2020, Island Health and the University of Victoria joined forces, estab...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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36:24
Calling All Nurses Episode 4 - Megan Tomlinson and Planetary Health
The Canadian Nurses Association [CNA] believes that the public expects nurses to be aware of and know how to promote Canadians’ health in the context of environmental health issues. This is accomplished through nurses’ roles in clinical practic...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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27:25
Calling All Nurses Episode 3 - Shanyn Simcoe and the Toxic Drug Poisoning Epidemic
Approximately 11,171 deaths are attributed to the toxic drug poisoning since the public health emergency was declared in April, 2016. In B.C., the Coroner’s service reports approximately 6 lives lost every day to drug toxicity. These num...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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29:00
Calling All Nurses Episode 2 - Dawn Tisdale with Anti-Indigenous Racism in Healthcare
Indigenous stereotyping, racism, and discrimination is not only widespread in healthcare, but limits medical access and treatment, particularly disproportionately impacting Indigenous girls and women (In Plain Sight, 2020). Healthcare ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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28:08
Calling All Nurses Episode 1 - Introduction to Season One
This introductory episode introduces the co-hosts Betty, Martha, and RaeAnn and explains how and why they chose to do this podcast. There are a new generation of nurses making change in challenging times and in Season 1, this trio want to give ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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