Our final episode on this special, poignantly being released on the 12th of May (International Nurses Day) is about Sarah, who began her paediatric nursing career in the UK.

In Australia 33% of our nursing workforce are born overseas, and with them they bring a wealth of knowledge and skills that can be applied here to improve the quality of nursing care.

Sarah speaks about her experience training in the UK and working in a busy London PICU before relocating to Melbourne and transferring her skills across. Many things are consistent with our nursing practices across different countries, but many things differ as well. We discuss this in this episode, along with placement poverty, a real issue being faced by many nurses studying their undergraduate degrees in todays climate. But we also have many, many laughs!

We hope you enjoy this last and final episode of our mini series for 2024 International Nurses Day, thank you to all our guests and to all nurses out there in the world. You're doing a great job!

Episode 4 in our mini series for International Women's Day 2024 we are speaking with Katie, who entered into Nursing after having already established herself in a different career, and she has never looked back!

Katie is an accredited nurse immuniser and a clinical nurse specialist at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne.

She's an advocate for trauma informed patient and family centered care and loves to talk about evidence based practice. Katie's worked in healthcare and water and sanitation in Australia, Southeast Asia, and in Pacific Island countries. She's keen to share her passion for immunization and has special interests in needle phobia, vaccination catch ups and international child health

Link to MVEC the NFP she works for and mentions in the podcast here

Continuing on with our International Nurses Day mini series. Today you are going to hear from Lea. After many years in the acute paediatric space, Lea has made the move into school nursing and supporting children from prep to year 12 with the formative health foundations to make good choices. Its a slow burn, and she doesn't always see the impact she is having straight away, but its incredibly rewarding as you will hear.