Calling All Nurses Episode 5 - Josh Duncan with Acute Care and New Graduate Transitions
05/10/23 • 36 min
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, establishing the New Graduate RN Council. The purpose of the New Graduate RN Council is providing new nurses with opportunities to contribute to and be mentored in leadership, governance, and change. (Island Health, 2020). Building on the research of Judy Boychuk Duchscher, who studied new graduate transitions, the New Grad RN Council seeks to understand and support new graduates through the transition process from education to practice. Josh Duncan chairs the New Grad RN Council and will talk about both transitions of new grads as well as mentorship, leadership, and working as a new nurse during a global pandemic and why intravenous starts are not the most important skill in nursing.
Josh Duncan has been a registered nurse for five years, having worked primarily in Med/Surg and the ICU. He is passionate about new graduate nurse advocacy, transition to practice, and baking the ultimate pie. Although blackberry pie will always be one of his personal favourites, his caramel apple and chocolate cherry pies are forces to be reckoned with.
Island Health Grad Transition Infogram:
https://www.islandhealth.ca/sites/default/files/careers/documents/new-grad-transition-stages.pdf
Instagram: @calling.all.nurses
Comments and feedback can be sent to our email: [email protected]
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, establishing the New Graduate RN Council. The purpose of the New Graduate RN Council is providing new nurses with opportunities to contribute to and be mentored in leadership, governance, and change. (Island Health, 2020). Building on the research of Judy Boychuk Duchscher, who studied new graduate transitions, the New Grad RN Council seeks to understand and support new graduates through the transition process from education to practice. Josh Duncan chairs the New Grad RN Council and will talk about both transitions of new grads as well as mentorship, leadership, and working as a new nurse during a global pandemic and why intravenous starts are not the most important skill in nursing.
Josh Duncan has been a registered nurse for five years, having worked primarily in Med/Surg and the ICU. He is passionate about new graduate nurse advocacy, transition to practice, and baking the ultimate pie. Although blackberry pie will always be one of his personal favourites, his caramel apple and chocolate cherry pies are forces to be reckoned with.
Island Health Grad Transition Infogram:
https://www.islandhealth.ca/sites/default/files/careers/documents/new-grad-transition-stages.pdf
Instagram: @calling.all.nurses
Comments and feedback can be sent to our email: [email protected]
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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 practice, education, research, administration and policy (CNA, 2017). Eco-literacy in nursing education focuses on the impact of climate change to human health, and the impacts are growing. In B.C. alone, we only need to consider a deadly heatwave that took the lives of over 600 people, seasonal wildfires, and atmospheric river devastation. Listen as Megan reveals her work with planetary health and the considerations nurses can adopt.
Megan Tomlinson is a Registered Nurse residing on the Unceded Traditional Territory of the K’ómoks First Nation. She is passionate about the protection of the natural world and is a member of the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment, including the BC chapter. In addition to her work as a community nurse, Megan is a yoga practitioner with a special interest in creating low barrier spaces and increased access to the healing modality of yoga.
References:
Canadian Nurses Association. (2017). Nurses and Environmental Health Position Statement. Ottawa: Author.
https://cne-aiie.ca
https://cane-aiie.ca/bc/
https://www.cna-aiic.ca/en/policy-advocacy/policy-support-tools/position-statements
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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 are the focus on populations as a whole, and health promotion, prevention, and control of disease and injury rather than treatment of diseases. Listen as Laura describes how public health nurses were able to do what they do best in the most challenging of times, creating change and making history during the worldwide health emergency, called a pandemic.
Laura Hoyseth is a Registered Nurse of mixed settler ancestry living in the traditional and unceded territory of the K’omoks First Nation, where she’s had the privilege to raise her family for 26 years. Laura began her career as a Community Health Nurse for the Wuikinuxv, Dzawada'enuxw and Homalco Nations, providing nursing care and community development support in Indigenous led health care systems. Alongside this work, Laura worked in Community and Acute Care Mental Health and Primary Health Care Nursing with a focus on Chronic Pain Management. These rich community experiences and teachings fed her passion for Health Promotion and Prevention, eventually leading to a focus on Public Health Nursing with a scope including perinatal, infant, school aged and adult health with a specialization in reproductive health certified practice. During the COVID 19 Pandemic, Laura was a front line Public Health Nursing Clinical Coordinator responding to the Pandemic as it unfolded and leading teams to roll out the COVID 19 Immunization program. Laura is currently a Regional Immunization Operations Clinical Coordinator within the Population and Public Health portfolio at Island Health. Laura’s work is focused on translating overarching global, national and provincial health promotion and prevention goals to front line Public Health services within communities across the region. Laura is passionate about the profession and discipline of nursing, and its place in healthcare transformation.
Public Health Agency of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health.html
BC Centre for Disease Control: http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info
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