The Positive Vet Nurse: Recent Episodes
Elle Payne
A safe space for the veterinary community which is all about creating awareness for mental health, self-care and positivity in the veterinary profession.
This is a very special episode for Katie, Heidi and I, where we get to talk about grief and honour our loved ones in a raw and real conversation. In the episode we are going to be talking about grief in its purest form; the common misconceptions, things that have helped us through our grieving and how people can get support and help. Let's normalise talking about grief.
If you are interested in animal behaviour and how to invest more time in this niche, this episode is for you.
This episode consists of all things behaviour related with Nikki Mcleod!
Nikki talks about pet positivity- what it means, how vet nurses can get involved in being more pet positive. We talk about feline friendly clinics and how we can make our canine friends feel comfortable in the consulting room. Nikki talks about using pheromones and its benefits in helping our patients be calmer.
Nikki also gives us an insight to her qualifications and her favourite subject- behaviour!
Useful link below:
BVNA learning pathway in behaviour: https://bvna.org.uk/blog/bvna-and-abtc-learning-pathway-in-behaviour/
ISFM free resources: https://icatcare.org/veterinary/isfm/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIksPGsYif_AIVjMLtCh2k0QAREAAYASAAEgLU8fD_BwE
This podcast is all about confidence, managing self-doubt and how to tackle imposter syndrome with guest speaker Laura Jones aka @vetinternalmedicinenursing.
We talk about what confidence is and what it is now, how we can become more confident in ourselves following a Q&A from our followers. We speak about how social media can be a double edge sword when it comes to confidence as we create content. Advise on how to raise a concern in practice and voice our opinions with confidence.
Enjoy!
In this episode, Carly and I talk about our own experiences with resilience and how to build a more resilient mindset.
Carly's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carlythevetnurse/
In this episode we talk about the differences between a feeling and an emotion and how we can learn to lean into our emotions with more fluidity.
Learning to understand why we feel the way we do and to deal with emotions in a healthy way through talking, journalling and self-disovery.
Helpful books below:
After the Rain by Alexandra Elle
Healing through words by Rupi Kaur
Why has nobody told me this before by Dr Julie Smith
What can make us feel overwhelmed and how do our bodies respond to us feeling this way? How can we notice the signs and what can we do when we are feeling overwhelmed?
Find out in this episode!
Kickstarting this podcast with guest speaker Aoife from Ireland who is a Registered Veterinary Nurse/Psychologist and also a trainee physchotherapist doing her masters degree!
Me and Aoife share our spirituality practices in this podcast to outline how we can use different energy methods to delve into our mental health and wellbeing as veterinary professionals. Beating around any stigmas, we talk about the lunar cycles and how we can use these to our advantage in becoming more self-aware and intuative, more specifically the Libra New Moon on 23rd September.
Aoife also does an oracle card reading in this episode! If you love this sort of thing and enjoyed the podcast, please leave a comment and some stars!
Relevent links below for you to delve into at your pleasure:
Aofie's instagram- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vetglow-podcast/id1538775530
Aofie's podcast channel- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-vetglow-podcast/id1538775530
Recommended for getting into the luna cycles - Book: Luna Living by Kirsty Gallagher. Podcast/IG page- Lunar Lover Podcast with Jordanna Levin
Another podcast with the lovely Emily @empoweringrvnmedia about overcoming challanges when we feel that we aren't doing great or that we aren't showing up how we would like.
Me and Emily have heartfelt and honest coversations about the pitfalls in being self-employed, the anxiety that comes with being a content creator and what happens when we feel lack in areas of our lives like creating content.
Find out how to live more purposefully and how to find yourself when you are going through a slump.
An exciting podcast with Minnie the Vet (also known as the turtle vet) talking about all things, well.. turtles!
Minnie worked in the Maldives where she found her love for turtles and caring for them. Minnie talks about how the oppourtunity came to her, what she got up to on the trip and how others can persue this experience.
Find Minnie here: https://www.instagram.com/minniethevet/
Oliver Ridley Turtle Project: https://oliveridleyproject.org/visiting-veterinarian-program-maldives
In today's episode I talk about what it is like to have a chronic illness as a veterinary nurse. This was highly requested based off a Q&A on my IG page!
Questions:
- How did you know something wasn’t right? and how did you get diagnosed?
- How do you broach the concept of a chronic illness with work without it impacting your work?
- How is best to support a colleague with fibro?
- Is there a particular area of nursing or role you seek at work that would work better for your symptoms?
- Do your employers offer support and kindness? Or do they just expect you to keep going?
- What steps do you take for bad flare up days?
- What medication do you take?
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In this podcast we have a new guest speaker; Emily @empoweringrvnmedia to talk about starting up on social media, showing up and putting in the hours when it comes to content creation, mindset challenges when it comes to becoming a new entrepreneur and top tips to starting a brand.
This was a really heartwarming episode for me to be a part of and record here on the channel, I absoloutely love Emily's drive to get to where she is now and I hope you also find her as inspiring as I do.
Find Emily on: www.empoweringmediaservices.co.uk @empoweringrvnmedia
Pages we spoke about:Joe- @thesurgicalleadrvbnLaura- @vetinternalmedicinenursingKatie- @katieford
On today's podcast we have a new guest speaker; Ruth, who is known on instagram as @roarsomervn.
Questions asked and what we talk about:
- Hobbies & interests
- Why did you create your IG account?
- When did you start locuming and did you always know you wanted to do it?
- Travelling to the Maldives
- Do you prefer day or night shifts?
- Is there an art to transitioning from day to night shifts?
- What are your favourite things about your current role?
- Working abroad as an RVN
- Voluteering at Thailand Nature Park
- How to deal with set backs
- Failing exams
- What is your dream job?
Ruth's Instagram (give her a follow): https://www.instagram.com/roarsomervn/?hl=en
Q&A with Angela Zambito BSc (Hons) BVetMed MRCVS about veterinary struggles often found in the profession and how to deal with them. Angela talks about dating struggling when working in out of hours emergency. We speak about topics like imposter syndrome, work life balance in ECC, practice standards, happy vs money, and feeling overwhlemed.
A highly requested topic for today's podcast. All about the good and the bad of locum life with some personal experiences in the mix
Useful Links:
For my creations: https://ko-fi.com/thepositivevetnurse
This episode is about how to get yourself out of a rut or a bad place. It is very easy for days to turn into weeks, weeks to turn into months, but I hope some of my tips can help you plan to get yourself back to your normal self again.
The book I mentioned but forgot the name and author is: Make It Happen by Jordanna Levin
James Clear is an author of a very well known book called Atomic Habits. His website has useful things about habit tracking, which I briefly mentioned in the podcast. https://jamesclear.com/habit-tracker
Q&A based episode, answering questions about the change from SVN to RVN, changing jobs and building confidence as a newly qualified nurse based from my personal experiences.
Useful Links:
VTX Advanced skills for RVN Course- https://vtx-cpd.com/courses/advanced-skills-for-rvns-taking-your-technical-skills-to-the-next-level/
Article for newly qualified nurses- https://bvna.org.uk/blog/a-strategy-for-newly-qualified-nurses/
Time management and prioritising- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRIsmG8CyTM
This episode is all about creating awareness for limiting beliefs and external factors when it comes to being hard on yourself. Follow some of the exercises and find out why you are being so hard on yourself and how to be more kind to yourself.
This episode is a Q&A about locuming as a veterinary nurse in the UK and why I decided to take the plunge to leave my permant job and become a locum RVN
Useful Links:
IR35 Article- https://bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inpr.8
Self-employment as a Locum- https://www.veterinary-practice.com/article/going-solo-registering-as-self-employed