Episodes

July 30, 2022

Rising of the New Paradigm of Nursing w/ Sarah Choujounian RN

About Sarah Choujounian Sarah Choujounian has been a nurse since 2004 & has been working in a nursing home for the greater part of her career. In 2017, she was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia which was the catalyst for her life …
July 10, 2022

Birth, Death, and the Evolving Cycle with Jessica Sobey / ETS10

It's my pleasure to highlight one of my dearest client's of the Nurse Rx Community. Jess and I have been working together for over 18 months and are truly kindred souls. Jess is an RN in Maine USA and after dabbling in a few…
July 1, 2022

Integrating Holistic Nursing with Bryanna Reilly | ETS09

How can we as nurses show up and co-create a holistic health care system that addresses people in the deep ways people need? In today's episode, my guest Bryanna and I are exploring the heavy impact of nursing on our lives a…
June 10, 2022

Institutional Betrayal and Nursing with Jasper Pare | ETS08

Recently terminated RN Jasper Pare joins me for a closeup look at what led him to choose to lose his job as a nurse. He shares vulnerably with us the impact this has all had on his life, both professionally and personally. W…
May 27, 2022

Compassion Satisfaction in Nursing | ETS07

Today I am joined by Beth Cavenaugh, nurse of 25 years, with the last 15 of them spent working in a hospice home helping people walk through the last days of their loved ones life. As with any line of nursing, some days are…
May 6, 2022

Nursing Mentorship | ETS06

Jennifer Kirk and I take you through a conversation through nursing challenges, moral distress, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma and how that can affect our lives as nurses. We also highlight the health care systems s…
April 15, 2022

A Healthy Dose of Perspective in Nursing with Paula Leweke | ETS05

The value of taking the journey back through nursing history and exploring international health care allows us to take a step back and find hope in the present and reconnect with our passion for nursing. The current climate …
April 1, 2022

Taking Back Our Personal Power as we Journey Back to Ourselves | ETS04

This episode is going to take you on a deep dive ride as Victoriya and I journey from the contrasts and deficiencies of our health care system to how we as consumers of health care (and as people in many other ways) have giv…
March 18, 2022

Self Compassion in the Face of Stigma and Shame with Paige Mathison | ETS03

Paige Mathison joins me for a raw, candid interview that explores the shame and stigma of our struggles with the trauma and abuses we face in the nursing industry. My hope with this conversation is that you will be encourage…
March 4, 2022

Division, Repression, and Collective Trauma in the Nursing Profession | ETS02

Recently I openly expressed my views and beliefs regarding the unethical and immoral vaccine mandates being forced upon nurses and others in our country. I pride myself on truth and authentic expression, however holding this…
Feb. 11, 2022

Taking Back Control of Your Career with Jayne Van Brunt | ETS01

As nurses in today’s medical workforce we need to stand up and speak out, and no longer just sit down and be quiet, hiding in the shadows and the shame of our struggles. The reality is there are unlimited options available f…
Feb. 3, 2022

Season 2 Unleashed - Bring Your Boots, I’ll Bring the Shovels, Cuz it’s Gonna Get Mucky | ETS00-S2

I'm so excited to be back again with the relaunch of “End the Silence” season two to share with you some powerful, brave, vulnerable and inspiring stories of actual nurses in our society. They are our colleagues, our mothers…
July 20, 2021

End the Silence - Guest Fola Veritas RPN

What a gift to have Fola as a guest on the podcast. Just being in her presence made me feel all kinds of warm and fuzzies inside. She gives embodiment to merging spirit into everyday life. Fola is an RPN in Alberta and has b…
June 29, 2021

End the Silence - Guest Rachel Scheffelmair RN

What a gift to have Rachel on the show. I met Rachel back in January after an online workshop I held on Nurse Burnout. She displayed a keen awareness of the cycle of the abuse and toxic overworking pattern in her nursing ca…
June 10, 2021

End the Silence - Guest Piroska Bata RN

Piroska has been nursing for over 31 years in multiple areas and roles. She has focused in her career on connecting with her patients through authentic humanity and meeting people on a deep level through some of the their m…
May 25, 2021

End the Silence - Guest Kelly Cronin RN

Kelly Cronin is a Registered Nurse in Ontario Canada and has practiced in areas such as family medicine, urgent care clinics, the coronary care unit, outpatient cardiology, cancer care, and it curing working in palliative ca…
May 3, 2021

End the Silence - Guest Kinnon Ross RN

Kinnon is a registered nurse working as a clinical nurse leader in the urban health program at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver B.C. Kinnon was drawn to St. Paul's by the exceptional work they do supporting the most margina…
April 15, 2021

End the Silence - Guest Katrina Stephenson

Katrina Stephenson is an RN in Alberta Canada. She has dedicated her nursing career to working within a harm reduction model of care and primarily marginalized individuals with histories of trauma and challenged by concurre…
April 2, 2021

End the Silence - Guest Michelle Howard

My guest is Michelle Howard! A Registered Nurse from British Columbia Canada who has bravely worked the emergency rooms and trauma centers of BC's largest hospitals. Watching two of her three daughters entering the nursing …
March 10, 2021

End the Silence - Guest Alysa Lamb RN

Alysa Lamb is a Registered Nurse in Northern British Columbia Canada. She has spent the past 13 years of her career using family centered care for the tiniest of our patients in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. In her time…
Feb. 26, 2021

End the Silence - Guest Natasha Burger RN

Natasha Burger is a Registered Nurse in Alberta Canada and has dedicated nearly 30 years of service in the nursing profession. Her long list of experience and expertise will blow your mind, but it's a reality of many nurses…
Feb. 12, 2021

End the Silence - Guest Sarah Bohachyk

Sarah Bohachyk is a Registered Nurse in Alberta Canada and has worked in the Emergency Department for over 10 years. She is also completing her Masters of Nursing Degree through Athabasca University. In 2016 Sarah started e…
Feb. 10, 2021

End the Silence - Stories of Nurses Trailer

Welcome to the End the Silence Podcast Trailer. This podcast, hosted by Sandra Payne owner of Sandra Payne Wellness and founder of the Nurse RX Coaching Program, is a space for nurses to share their struggles, successes and …