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Inside the halls of American hospitals, millions of people find comfort, healing, and support. But for many doctors and nurses, this couldn’t be further from the truth. This podcast will dive into the shadows of American healthcare to investigate and uncover the abuse, control, and political power plays that leave the very people responsible for our nation’s health, broken and battered. We’re sharing stories of professionals in medicine that have experienced horrendous treatment at the hands of a broken system that does nothing to stop the trauma. As the Association of American Medical Colleges states, “Long before the #MeToo movement, women in medicine have instinctively banded together to counter a culture that too often tolerated harassment.” From systemic trauma to abuse of power to the unspoken rules of cover-ups and corruption, Mandy Irby and HeHe will take you to the darkest corners of healthcare in America so you can have an inside look at bringing humanity back to medicine!
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Friday Dec 09, 2022
Friday Dec 09, 2022
Sit down with Mandy and HeHe as they celebrate the end of their first season of the Pulse Check Podcast! Stay to the end to hear all their thoughts and feelings about Season 1 AND get a sneak peak at whats in store for Season 2.
Before they leave you for 2022, Many and HeHe are diving into Patient Code of Conduct as a Boston Hospital recently publicly released theirs. What does this look like? Is it just for show? How would this need to be supported and reinforced for actual change to transpire?
If you were a healthcare working during the pandemic, this may be sensitive to listen to as we discuss staff abuse at the hands of patients. Feel free to fast forward to the end to hear all about our next season ahead!
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Friday Nov 18, 2022
Mandy and HeHe sit down to speak with guest, Amanda, a Nurse and IBCLC. Amanda shares with us today her story of violence in the workplace. Sharing a multilayered story of advocacy, injustice, blurring of boundaries, and the bottom lines ruling hospital hierarchy.
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Today HeHe and Mandy sit down with Nurse Melissa, who originally intended to share her story anonymously. After some consideration, she decided to share her identity and shift her share into a story about nursing. Combining a history of 15 years of nursing details and crafting one powerful (and at some points hard to hear) story about patient advocacy in the birth room.
This story may resonate deeply with you, because her story is all of ours. Whether you have been that nurse, on that medical team, a birthing human, or a support person. And this story needs to be heard.
Melissa's share does include topics like birth trauma, medical manipulation, abusive power relationships in the workplace - so if you need to listen at another time, pause, or fast forward- we encourage you to do what is right for you.
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Friday Nov 04, 2022
Friday Nov 04, 2022
Mandy sits down to chat with Nurse Adriane RN, Owner of Trusted Guardian Patient Advocates. Another look inside how creative nurses are paving their own path toward happiness - we meet Nurse Adriane this week! She’s a board certified patient advocate, and she’s using her experience and expertise to provide supportive, patient care outside of Big Medicine. You’ve got to hear about her new career path. We’re probably all going to need her services in our future.
You can follow Nurse Adriane RN https://www.tiktok.com/@nurseadrianern
https://www.nurseadrianern.com/
⭐️ As you enjoy this podcast, we’d be so grateful for a 5 star review! We love the love!
⭐️ If you have a question or comment but can’t commit to recording a show, we now have a recording line! Leave us a message here: https://mandyirby.com/pulse-check-podcast/
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Over half the public are in favor of having choice over pregnancy and not having strict abortion bans. 44% of abortion trainees lost their training in their state
Resources:
https://www.ansirh.org/research/ongoing/turnaway-study
Aidcaccess.org
abortion funds.org
Turnaway study
Goodmocker inst.
Jessica velinti
Abortion access front
reproaction.org
Let us know your thoughts in the comments or on our IG: @pulsecheck.podcast
Follow along with Melissa:
Follow Melissa on TikTok: @melonmedicine
⭐️ As you enjoy this podcast, we’d be so grateful for a 5 star review! We love the love!
⭐️ If you have a question or comment but can’t commit to recording a show, we now have a recording line! Leave us a message here: https://mandyirby.com/pulse-check-podcast/
If this podcast got you thinking in all the creative ways, we’d really appreciate it if you told us in a 5 star review! Reviews help us reach other listeners on our journey to improve healthcare through story. Thank you!
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
Self Empowerment and Healing Ourselves with Nurse Missy
What would love do? That’s what our guest today has us asking ourselves now! We invited Nurse Missy onto the podcast, and we had no agenda. You’ll love where the mood takes us, from how do people heal themselves? We talk a bit about stress as a spiritual affliction - we did not anticipate that! And we even get a few history lessons on Jesus and bible stories, which were surprisingly well-timed, especially for the non-religious.
HeHe and Mandy both felt like Missy’s message was meant for us this week, and we are curious if you feel the same way after listening.
Let us know your thoughts in the comments or on our IG: @pulsecheck.podcast
Nurse Missy, RN, Soul Coach, Hope Influencer
Follow Nurse Missy on TikTok: @thatnursemissy
Missy’s podcast on forgiveness
⭐️ As you enjoy this podcast, we’d be so grateful for a 5 star review! We love the love!
⭐️ If you have a question or comment but can’t commit to recording a show, we now have a recording line! Leave us a message here: https://mandyirby.com/pulse-check-podcast/
Trauma-Informed Birth Nurse Program mentioned in video: www.traumainformedbirthnurse.com
If this podcast got you thinking in all the creative ways, we’d really appreciate it if you told us in a 5 star review! Reviews help us reach other listeners on our journey to improve healthcare through story. Thank you!
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Friday Oct 07, 2022
Nurse Arrested After Video of Woman Giving Birth Reportedly Shared on Snapchat: HIPAA Rules and Healthcare Professionals on Social Media
HeHe and Mandy are discussing the active criminal case against nurse Rachel Fastow, of Macon, Georgia. We don’t even need all the details of this case to know that it’s a warning to other healthcare professionals. We also consider who should regulate social media accounts of healthcare professionals? Is it a good idea to have a personal account not linked to your facility?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments or on our IG: @pulsecheck.podcast
HIPAA Security Rules:
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/security/laws-regulations/index.html
News article about Macon hospital nurse arrest:
https://www.macon.com/news/local/crime/article266181326.html
⭐️ As you enjoy this podcast, we’d be so grateful for a 5 star review! We love the love!
⭐️ If you have a question or comment but can’t commit to record a show, we now have a recording line! Leave us a message here: https://mandyirby.com/pulse-check-podcast/
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Friday Sep 30, 2022
Functional Medicine: Using Nursing Fundamentals to Become True Healers
Today we have guest with us who finally found a way to be healer and advocate while helping her patients empower themselves toward wellness. Brigitte Sager shares her journey from critical care nurse to becoming a “manager of disease;” the more she learned, the more frustrated in her job she became.
Now, as a nurse coach and in her functional medicine consulting practice, she is teaching new nurses in the field that you don’t have to suffer to care for others! Brigitte shares about the role that functional medicine can play in professional burnout and answers some of her students’ most-asked questions.
We’re grateful for her time and experience with us, thank you Brigitte!
Functional medicine feels parallel to Trauma-Informed Nursing Care: Brigitte writes in a blog: “[FM] content was material I had learned in nursing school, but they are topics that are rarely given any priority in modern healthcare.”
Resources Brigitte recommends:
https://blog.inursecoach.com/functional-medicine-nurse-coaching-perfect-partnership
https://blog.inursecoach.com/functional-medicine-the-art-of-healing-for-nurses
Find someone like Brigitte in your area at IFM.org
New Classes in Oct and Jan: www.FM4N.com
Her podcast: https://inursecoach.com/podcast/ep30-functional-medicine-for-nurses/
Trauma-Informed Birth Nurse Program: https://mandyirby.com/trauma-informed-birth-nurse-program/
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Today’s guest is Hilary Erickson from Pulling Curls and Pregnancy Nurse to talk about feeling her feelings as a bedside nurse as a case study for secondary traumatic stress in labor and delivery nurses. We’re so grateful to her for being candid with us as she shares about her intense anxiety before her shift - even starting the night before. Hilary shares that even in nursing school she believes that nurses are taught to blame themselves for everything that goes wrong, which can create some misplaced responsibility, for sure.
We also discuss:
- impacts of modern medical model of care on patient safety and nurse mental health
- how hospitals protect themselves at the expense and to the detriment of their nurses/physicians
- The role nurse culture plays in perpetuating nurse disempowerment and unhealthy habits
- Curiosity around what traumatic stress looks like in different scenarios, including birth in a car!
You can find Hilary on her blog: https://www.pullingcurls.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pregnancynurse/
Friday Sep 16, 2022
Friday Sep 16, 2022
Ever felt so ready for a career change that it feels like the next frustration or backwards new policy might just put you over the edge to changing jobs? That’s exactly what this week’s guest did after just 3 months at her nursing job! Bridget Burke was motivated by frustration - a lousy orientation, retaliation for safety-reporting, and the pettiness and bullying was obvious from day one. She knew she wouldn’t thrive as a nurse in that environment. A few timely coincidences later, she’s now part of a tech startup and passionately advocating for nursing innovation that benefits nurses!
You’ll love meeting Bridget just as much as we did. It might even inspire you to pursue other fields, like tech, that need your expertise!
NurseWallet: Money app for nurses. Personal finance tool. Shift planner. Plan your finances with an investment feature. Understand your paycheck and let your money work for you. Follow on Tiktok
Nursing innovation - Rebecca Love ted talk on youtubeFollow Bridget: https://www.tiktok.com/@bridgetbrn