Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe True Cost of Care: Storytelling, Profit Motives, and Front-Line Advocacy with Nurse & Best Selling Author Theresa Brown
Season 7 Episode 33
What does modern healthcare actually cost when we look past balance sheets and measure it in human lives, moral injury, and front-line burnout?
In th…
10 hours ago
Free Labour: The Real Cost of Becoming a Nurse
Season 7 Episode 32
Nursing students in Canada and the U.S. can rack up 800–1,400+ mandatory clinical hours before they graduate — and not one of them is paid.
In this e…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Good Grief & How Healthcare Teaches Us To Bury It
Season 7 Episode 31
This week, grief was impossible to avoid — Hayden Panettiere, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen all left us within days of each other, and th…
1 month ago
Silence Isn't Safety, It's Strategy: Inside St. Joe's Fight Against Workplace Violence
Season 7 Episode 30
Would your hospital admit that staff get assaulted on the job — in public, with real numbers?
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton just did. And it's exp…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
A Battle Cry for Change: Postpartum Psychosis, Systemic Failure, and the Case of Lindsay Clancy
Season 7 Episode 29
In this new episode on The Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley, we examine the case of Lindsay Clancy through the lens of postpartum psyc…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Why Thousands of Nurses Are Walking Out Across North America? (And Who's Replacing Them)Them)
Season 7 Episode 28
Frontline pressures have reached a boiling point. In this swapcast episode, nurses Erica and Amie tackle the wave of nursing strikes across Massachus…
2 months ago
The Handover: What a 40-Year Gap of Experience Can Teach the Nursing Profession
Season 7 Episode 27
How do we reclaim the narrative of modern nursing across generations?
In this episode of The Gritty Nurse Podcast, host Amie Archibald-Varley sits do…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
7 Years Ago, I Hid Under My Desk--And Seven Years Later, Almost to The Day... She Was Walked Out.
Season 7 Episode 26
Content note: this episode discusses workplace violence, suicidal ideation and psychological harm in a clinical/workplace setting.
This week, almost …
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Follow The Legislation, Fix The Insurance! Nurse Psychotherapy Supports Mental Health
Season 7 Episode 25
With a growing mental health crisis and a system bogged down by waitlists and rigid silos, a powerful paradigm shift is happening across Canada: the …
3 months ago
From KOBO to Digital Health: Disrupting the Status Quo In Healthcare with Mike Serbinis
Season 7 Episode 24
How do we move from a healthcare system that only reacts to illness, to one that actively empowers patients?
In this episode of The Gritty Nurse Podc…
3 months, 1 week ago