The Gritty Nurse Podcast

By Amie Archibald-Varley & Sara Fung

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You can't have integrity without grit, right? Our podcast examines hot topics related to health and healthcare. We shy away from nothing, discussing topics such as mental health, social justice, women's health and women's rights. We are story-tellers and love hearing how healthcare has impacted individuals' lives. We want to discuss the good, bad and ugly . We also provide a platform for empowerment and shared experiences, where we represent voices that have been silenced, underrepresented and marginalized --so they can share their stories of hope, change and inspiration. Episodes are informative, gritty, humorous and educational.

Episode Date
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP): There's a New Kind of Nurse in Town!
Apr 18, 2024
What is the HARDEST specialty in nursing? Move out of the way ICU....
Apr 04, 2024
A Historic Document For Nursing Retention: Collaboration, Consultation & Connection: For us, by us!
Mar 21, 2024
Nursing: The most Trusted Profession but the LEAST RESPECTED Profession
Mar 07, 2024
Lucy Letby: Nurse and Serial Killer of Babies in The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Feb 22, 2024
Criminalization of Miscarriage: Brittany Watts and The Black Maternal Health Crisis
Feb 08, 2024
Quick and Gritty Takes: News Ep. 2
Feb 02, 2024
"Mother knows best?" When your parents health remedies Do Not Match Your Health Science Background
Jan 25, 2024
Quick & Gritty Takes: News Ep 1
Jan 18, 2024
The Rise & Popularity of Ozempic Use: What is the "skinny" truth of this "wonder" Drug
Jan 11, 2024
A Book, A Baby, A Renewed Focus for 2024: Year End in Review
Dec 14, 2023
What Will it Take to Retain Nurses? Tangible, Measurable, NURSE- LED interventions
Dec 07, 2023
Medicine Needs a #MeToo Movement: How can a Doctor be Suspended 3X For Sexual Assault STILL Practice?
Nov 23, 2023
Nursing During Times of War: Healthcare Should NEVER be Military Targets
Nov 08, 2023
Gritty Nurse Halloween Edition: What Makes Hospitals So Scary???
Oct 26, 2023
Learning How to Own our Own Struggles: A Road to Recovery with Minaa B~ Social Worker, Author & WONDERMIND Mental Health Advisor
Oct 05, 2023
Privatized Healthcare is no ROYALE with CHEESE
Sep 21, 2023
Are you a Nursing Advocate or a Nursing Influencer? Healthcare Professionals in the Spotlight
Sep 07, 2023
Healthcare, Gender Expression and Combatting Hate: Trans Rights are Human Rights with Advocate Fae Johnstone!
Aug 25, 2023
A Nursing Retention Strategy FOR US, BY US: Discussions with Chief Nursing Officer of Canada Dr. Leigh Chapman
Aug 10, 2023
A Historic Wage Increase for Nurses...But not ALL Nurses...
Jul 27, 2023
More than "Just a Nurse" with Nurse Blake: Advocate, Entrepreneur and Comedian
Jul 13, 2023
Is the Florence App Uber for Nurses? The intersection of Health & Tech with Shelly-Ann Rampersad
Jun 29, 2023
In Between Life and Death: Chat with Hospice Nurse Hadley!
Jun 15, 2023
The Controversial Use of Agency Nurses: Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game!
May 31, 2023
As You Get Older Will We Care For You?: Interview with the Minister of Seniors of Canada
May 18, 2023
Notorious Nurses: Fraud, Scandal and Murder
May 04, 2023
The Intersection of Healthcare and Comedy: Two Gritty Nurses, a Doctor and a Comedian!
Apr 20, 2023
Nurses Murdered by their Partners: The Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence
Apr 06, 2023
Manslaughter Charges Dropped & Unequal Justice: The Nurse DonQuenick Joppy Story
Mar 23, 2023
Bad NICU Nurse: What Happens When a Nurse is the One Abusing Patients
Mar 09, 2023
Becoming Your Own Boss: Rise of the Nurse Entrepreneur with Janine Kelbach
Feb 24, 2023
Ep 3. NYC Nurses Striking to Save Our Patients, Healthcare System & Profession
Feb 09, 2023
Destroying the Public Healthcare System to Fund a Private One: The New Wave of Healthcare in Canada
Jan 26, 2023
As a Nurse, We Have a Nursing Ick: It's Nurses Doing Ick Videos About Patients
Jan 12, 2023
Over 1700+ Minutes, Listened to in 27 Countries and Top 5% of Podcasts: The Gritty Nurses Say Goodbye to 2022!
Dec 22, 2022
Does Teamwork Actually Make the Dream Work? Discussing The Power of Teamwork with Dr. Brian Goldman
Dec 15, 2022
Can the Role of a Nurse Practitioner Save Primary Healthcare?
Dec 08, 2022
Pay Me What You Owe Me: Bill 124 and Women Talking About MONEY
Dec 01, 2022
Fined, Bullied and Silenced over a Facebook Post? Carolyn Brost Strom's Story and Victory for Patient Safety and Patient Care
Nov 22, 2022
Hiding The Harm in Hospitals: Sounding the Alarm in Healthcare with Tracy Zambory- President of The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses
Nov 10, 2022
They Don't Give a F*ck About Nurses or They Would Protect Us: Nursing Homicides
Nov 03, 2022
Haunted Hospitals: A re-release of our own scariest stories
Oct 27, 2022
Pregnancy and Infant Loss & Perinatal Mental Health: When it's more than the Blues
Oct 20, 2022
Nurses and the Supernatural: Fact, Fiction or Fun?
Oct 06, 2022
So we got a Lawyer here to talk about Nursing Strikes...Part 2!
Sep 29, 2022
The Dark Side of Working in Healthcare: Violence towards Healthcare Workers
Sep 22, 2022
15,000 Nurses Walk off the Job...
Sep 15, 2022
There's a New Role in Town- The Chief Nurse Officer: Our Gritty Expectations
Sep 01, 2022
Dental Care: It's NOT Universal and You'll Be SHOCKED To Find Out Why
Aug 25, 2022
Gun Violence in America: A Healthcare Issue That Is In Our Lane with Dr. Mark Shapiro
Aug 18, 2022
Transverse Myelitis, Nursing and Advocacy: How Andrea Dalzell became The Seated Nurse
Aug 11, 2022
Yes There's A Nursing Crisis....and Nurses are Kinda Pissed that The Government is NOT Listening
Aug 04, 2022
Justice & Answers for Baby Patel: Apologies & Disclosure in Healthcare
Jul 28, 2022
Treat YOU Better: What Healthcare Can We Learn from Shawn Mendes
Jul 21, 2022
The Gruel of Nursing School
Jul 07, 2022
Abortion is Healthcare: We got some “choice” words…Post Roe Vs Wade
Jun 30, 2022
Amie & Sara in the Multiverse: What Would We Be if We Were Not Nurses
Jun 23, 2022
Inflation, Gas Prices and Mental Health- A Gritty Nurse Perspective
Jun 16, 2022
Inflation, Gas Prices and Mental Health- A Gritty Nurse Perspective
Jun 16, 2022
Highways over Healthcare: No, Life isn't a Highway
Jun 09, 2022
For Pox Sakes! Should We Be Concerned About Monkeypox?
Jun 02, 2022
Is it the Breast Choice? The Best "Formula" for Feeding Your Baby
May 26, 2022
Keep the CHANGE, You Filthy Animal! Navigating Change with Nurses and in Healthcare
May 19, 2022
Reproductive Justice: Abortion Rights in a Post Roe World?
May 12, 2022
Give Yourself Permission To Say NO: Matters of the Mind
May 05, 2022
What You Don't Know About Long Covid...Can Hurt You
Apr 28, 2022
Fake Nurse Throws herself "Nurse of the Year Party"- No You Can't Make This Ish Up
Apr 21, 2022
Let's Talk About Sex...Baby? The Gritty Nurses Talk Sex Education
Apr 14, 2022
Disrupt and Reimagine Nursing for the Future: Hot Topics with PatMacRN!
Apr 07, 2022
The Story of RaDonda Vaught: A Comedy of Errors, Cover-ups and Criminal Charges
Mar 31, 2022
Man Cold or Massive Blood Clot? When the “Walk it Off” Approach To Your Health Does Not Work So Well - With Ryan Lindley 
Mar 24, 2022
Is It Too Late Now To Say Sorry? Apologies, Accountability and Calling out the Bullsh*t
Mar 17, 2022
Andre Picard & Fixing a Broken Healthcare System: Let's Start with Accountability
Mar 10, 2022
1010 Moments! Making the Best Out of The Small Things In Life
Mar 03, 2022
Anti-Black Racism in Healthcare: When Cell Phone Use is More Important Than Providing Care
Feb 24, 2022
The "Blockades" Need an Enema: Flushing out the Toxic Waste, Nursing Edition
Feb 17, 2022
Long-Term care, Palliative Care and Home Care: The Forgotten Sectors of Healthcare
Feb 10, 2022
Code White: How Do We Address Violence in Nursing?
Feb 03, 2022
Doctors and Nurses Who Kill: Behind the Murder Curtain with Special Agent Bruce Sackman
Jan 27, 2022
Monoclonal Antibodies, New Therapies & How Omicron Has Changed The Game
Jan 20, 2022
One of the Most Powerful Voices in the ICU: Birgit Umaigba's Experience of Grit, Poise and Advocacy in the ICU
Jan 13, 2022
What's the secret sauce? Children's Mental Health, Equity and Enriching Nursing Education
Jan 06, 2022
49 episodes, 23 Countries, 2000+ mins: This has been a Gritty Nurse Year!
Dec 16, 2021
From Bedside Nurse to CEO: Interview with Christine Buckley
Dec 09, 2021
The Surgical Safety YELL List: Creating a Language of Mutual Respect in the Operating Room
Dec 02, 2021
From the Bedside to the Courtroom: Why former ICU Nurse Jennifer Groenewold became a Lawyer
Nov 25, 2021
"I was punched in the face several times by my patient": Addressing Online Hate and Violence in Healthcare
Nov 18, 2021
A comedy of errors: Nursing Shortage, High Grades and Nursing Attrition
Nov 11, 2021
Being Neurodivergent in Healthcare: ADHD and Nursing with Jami Fregeau
Nov 04, 2021
Oh death, where is thy sting? Healthcare, Death and its depictions
Oct 28, 2021
Horror Stories From The Hospital Bedside- The Gritty Nurses do Halloween!
Oct 21, 2021
Integrating Technology and Healthcare- Let's Make a Deal!
Oct 14, 2021
Solidarity & Synergistics: When Doctors Stand With Nurses
Oct 07, 2021
Undervaluing My Mental Health: Retiring Early After Over 30 Years of Nursing
Sep 30, 2021
Scrubs, Stethoscopes and Social Media: A Powerful Tool for Change and Knowledge Translation
Sep 23, 2021
Hands Off My Uterus- The Real Meaning Behind My Body, My Choice!
Sep 16, 2021
I Became A Nurse By Accident - Interview with Adrianne Behning From Nursing Uncensored
Sep 09, 2021
Putting People over Political Image: Discussions on What is Right Vs What is Easy with Dr. David Fisman
Sep 02, 2021
The 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse: Combating The Crisis of Misinformation in Healthcare
Aug 26, 2021