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This is your wrap-up report. Your sacred shift sign-out. Your permission to exhale.

In this emotional, powerful, and heart-filled finale of Season One, host Riva reflects on the journey we’ve taken together through trauma-informed healing, skill-building, and ritual creation. This season wasn’t just a podcast. It was a guided process for learning how to regulate, recover, and reconnect with ourselves, designed specifically for nurses.

Riva walks us through the key DBT-inspired nursing skills we’ve explored throughout the season, including Code Blue to Code You, IV PUSH, T.R.A.U.M.A. - C.A.R.E., and The LIST. Each skill is recapped with clarity and purpose, reminding us how and why we use them.

She also shares her personal story of how this work began during the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a front-line nurse, student, and researcher, Riva witnessed firsthand the mental health crisis unfolding among nurses and knew that something had to change. Her commitment to creating evidence-based, real, and ritual-infused healing practices is what built this podcast, and what will carry it forward.

Plus, stay tuned for what’s coming in Season Two:

• New DBT-inspired skills and deeper trauma recovery work
• Guest episodes featuring nurses, therapists, and healers
• The official launch of the R.I.S.E. curriculum
• Exclusive access to The Ritual Nurse Collective for private community learning
• All-new sticker merch and free gift offers for listener stories

This isn’t just a podcast. This is practice. This is science. This is sacred.

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Mentioned in this episode:

• Code Blue to Code You
• IV PUSH
• C.A.R.E.
• T.R.A.U.M.A. - C.A.R.E.
• S.T.E.P.
• The LIST: A Nurse’s Survival Task Organizer
• R.I.S.E. Curriculum (launching Fall 2025)
• The Ritual Nurse Collective (by invitation only)

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The Four Agreements of Nursing —

This week, Riva dives into a deceptively simple book with a surprisingly deep message for nurses everywhere: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

But this isn’t a book club. It’s a reckoning.

Because when nurses are expected to carry entire systems on their backs, absorb everyone’s trauma, and do it all with a charting pen in hand… how the hell do we stay whole?

Turns out, The Four Agreements might be the answer.

In this episode, we explore how each of the Four Agreements translates directly into the real-life mess and magic of nursing:

• What it really means to be impeccable with your practice
• How learning not to take things personally can save your sanity (and maybe your job)
• Why assumptions kill - in life, and at the bedside
• And how giving your sustainable best is a radical act of self-preservation

Riva shares personal stories, hard-won wisdom, and a science-backed breakdown of why these principles aren’t just spiritual fluff they’re neuroprotective, trauma-informed, and resilience-building tools every nurse deserves.

Then, in our Crystals, Coffee & Divination segment, you’ll get a sunkissed reminder of what ritual means and why we do this (along with a heartfelt plea for recipes for Mexican Coffee)(help your girl out!), a spot on pull for the week that's just so good, and a card pull for nurses who are done carrying what was never theirs.

This episode is for every nurse who was trained to sacrifice and is now learning to survive.

Listen in and start healing, one agreement at a time.

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This week on The Ritual Nurse, we're celebrating Pride not just with rainbows, but with radical accountability, affirming care, and professional truth-telling. What does it really mean to practice nursing with equity—not just equality? How do we ensure that LGBTQIA+ and especially transgender patients receive safe, trauma-informed care, even when someone’s personal beliefs might conflict?

Spoiler alert: it’s not about opinion—it’s about ethical practice.
We cover:

• The difference between gender and sex (and why that matters)
• What cisgender and transgender actually mean
• Why using inclusive language is clinical best practice, not “going above and beyond”
• What to do when your personal beliefs and professional role collide
• Real resources for continuing your education as a safe, affirming nurse
• Plus: our “Clinical Pearls for Affirming Care” checklist and a rainbow-wrapped Coffee, Crystals, and Divination segment 💫

Whether you're here to learn, unlearn, or just feel seen—welcome home.

These are real, evidence-based, affirming organizations and tools for clinicians:

LGBTQIA+ Healthcare & Transgender Care

• WPATH – Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People
• The Fenway Institute – LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center
• GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality
• U.S. Trans Survey
• OutCare Health Provider Directory

Inclusive & Trauma-Informed Nursing Practice

• ANA Code of Ethics – Provision 8
• Healthy People 2030: LGBTQ+ Health Goals
• National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center – Glossary of Terms
• The Joint Commission: Advancing LGBTQIA+ Patient Safety & Equity

Further Professional Development

• LGBTQIA+ Curriculum Toolkit (AAMC)

Hey! Make sure you subscribe to stay connected. Love a nurse? Who doesn't! Share with all the nurses you know. The more we reach, the more we help. We feel like no one deserves center stage focus more than nurses and our mission is to reach the millions of superstars out there. We'd love to hear your stories, your adventures, your wins, and especially your needs and questions! Email us at hello@ritualnurse (dot) com. Also, you can send us fan mail! Use the link at the beginning of the show notes. Resources, classes, blogs, and podcast info can be found on our home site at TCTH.org. The Ritual Nurse Podcast is part of The Code Team educational platform.

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