028: Advocacy, Support, Intuition, and Respect

028: Advocacy, Support, Intuition, and Respect

Welcome back to Timeless Topics! In this episode we discuss everything from advocacy to role modeling slow, intentional change to intubation and leadership. We wrap the episode up with a discussion about supporting the nursing workforce and growing intuition. We're grateful you're here with us. We look forward to hearing your thoughts! Reflection prompts for this episode: * What are some ways that you advocate for yourself, your peers, and your patients?  * Reflect on times where your intuition played a large role in the outcome of a situation - clinical or not. Resources we mentioned during this episode: * The 30-second rule: the effects of prolonged intubation attempts on oxygen saturation and heart rate in preterm infants in the delivery room - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27082272/]  * Dr. Jean Watson [https://www.watsoncaringscience.org/about-wcsi/jean-bio/]   Do you have feedback or suggestions? You can find us on social media as @TimelessTopicsNICU [https://www.instagram.com/TimelessTopicsNICU/], and our email address is timelesstopicsnicu@gmail.com. Please share with your friends and colleagues! -Jessi 🖤, Tracey 💙, and Mary 💛

027: Presence vs Performance

Welcome back to Timeless Topics! In this episode we discuss everything from the rise in distrust in medical professionals and standards of care to building safe relationships and the importance of accountability. We are honored to be joined by Chantel Morin! Chantel is a nurse educator, adult born preterm, mother to three children born preterm, and co-founder of T.E.N.D.E.R. Services. We're grateful you're here with us. We look forward to hearing your thoughts! Reflection prompts for this episode: * Reflect on a recent time where a patient has expressed distrust or declined a recommended treatment. How did you handle the conversation? Looking back, would you have handled it differently?  * How do you practice being present and not merely performing your role? What is needed for you to do that consistently? Resources we mentioned during this episode: * Practice Standards for Neonatal Nursing in Ontario [https://criticalcareontario.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Neonatal-Nursing-Practice-Standards_Final.pdf]  * TENDER Services [https://tenderservices.ca/] * Paige Church Behavioural Phenotype Prematurity [https://nidcap.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Paige-Church-Behavioural-Phenotype-Prematurity-NIDCAP-Oct-2017.pdf]   Do you have feedback or suggestions? You can find us on social media as @TimelessTopicsNICU [https://www.instagram.com/TimelessTopicsNICU/], and our email address is timelesstopicsnicu@gmail.com. Please share with your friends and colleagues! -Jessi 🖤, Tracey 💙, and Mary 💛

026: Building Community to Repair Broken Systems

Welcome back to Timeless Topics! In this episode we discuss everything from how broken the healthcare system is to unit culture to the importance of belonging in all relationships -- including those between clinicians. In true Timeless Topics nature, we try to answer the question "How do we fix it?" Please let us know how you feel we did.  We're grateful you're here with us. We look forward to hearing your thoughts! Reflection prompts for this episode: * Reflect on your relationship with where healthcare is culture-wise. How do you navigate its ups and downs?  * What are some ways that you build community in and out of your workplace? Resources we mentioned during this episode: * May 2026 FCC Taskforce Webinar [https://youtu.be/AoKrQB7Y1fs?si=k-L98eIYjPp8KZlr] Family Centered Care Taskforce [https://www.fcctaskforce.org/]          * Identifying stigmatizing and positive/preferred language in obstetric clinical notes using natural language processing - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39569431/]    * Stigmatizing and Positive Language in Birth Clinical Notes Associated With Race and Ethnicity - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40358949/] * Toward equitable documentation: Evaluating ChatGPT's role in identifying and rephrasing stigmatizing language in electronic health records - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40596800/]  Do you have feedback or suggestions? You can find us on social media as @TimelessTopicsNICU [https://www.instagram.com/TimelessTopicsNICU/], and our email address is timelesstopicsnicu@gmail.com. Please share with your friends and colleagues! -Jessi 🖤, Tracey 💙, and Mary 💛

025: Words Have Power

Welcome back to Timeless Topics! In this episode we discuss everything from the compounding nature of trauma in the NICU to how an individual is shaped by their lived experiences - positive, negative, and neutral to how our words have power. We wrap up the episode with a bit of a soft launch, so be sure to listen until the end. We're grateful you're here with us. Tracey had some video issues, but we persevered! We are so grateful you are here with us. We look forward to hearing your thoughts! Reflection prompts for this episode: * What are some ways you practice humility in your work setting?  * Reflect on the way you show up in the face of someone else's trauma. What are your strengths and weaknesses? Resources we mentioned during this episode: * Trauma and Violence - What Is Trauma and Its Effects? | SAMHSA [https://www.samhsa.gov/mental-health/trauma-violence]         * Identity-First Language - Autistic Self Advocacy Network [https://autisticadvocacy.org/about-asan/identity-first-language/]   * Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change - Sherri Mitchell [https://www.sacredinstructions.life/]         Do you have feedback or suggestions? You can find us on social media as @TimelessTopicsNICU [https://www.instagram.com/TimelessTopicsNICU/], and our email address is timelesstopicsnicu@gmail.com. Please share with your friends and colleagues! -Jessi 🖤, Tracey 💙, and Mary 💛

024: Bookclub Recommendations and Gumbo

Welcome back to Timeless Topics! In this episode we discuss everything from microaggressions to the insidious and pervasive nature of racism and other systems of oppression to gumbo. Yes, gumbo. We wrap up the episode with an introductory bookclub list, so stay tuned for that! We'd love to hear what other titles you would recommend. We're grateful you're here with us. We start out the episode hot talking about an experience one of us had with defining microaggressions. We are so grateful you are here with us. We look forward to hearing your thoughts! Reflection prompts for this episode: * Have you ever experienced or committed an act of microaggression? Reflect on your experience(s).  * Have you read any of the books we shared during this episode? If so, what lessons do you carry with you from them? Resources we mentioned during this episode: * “Weathering” and Age Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores Among Blacks and Whites in the United States - PMC [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1470581/]        * Microaggressions are a big deal: How to talk them out and when to walk away [https://www.npr.org/2020/06/08/872371063/microaggressions-are-a-big-deal-how-to-talk-them-out-and-when-to-walk-away]   * Full article: Who Gets to Be a Child? Clinical and Cultural Reflections on Racism, White Infantilization, and Kyle Rittenhouse [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10481885.2025.2524320]   * Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum | Hachette Book Group [https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/beverly-daniel-tatum/why-are-all-the-black-kids-sitting-together-in-the-cafeteria/9780465060689/?lens=basic-books] * Hood Feminism – MIKKI KENDALL [https://mikkikendall.com/hood-feminism/] * Beacon Press: White Fragility [https://www.beacon.org/White-Fragility-P1631.aspx] * How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi: 9780525509301 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/564299/how-to-be-an-antiracist-by-ibram-x-kendi/] * Decolonizing Therapy [https://www.decolonizingtherapy.com/] * The Body Keeps The Score | Bessel van der Kolk, MD. [https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/resources/the-body-keeps-the-score] * My Grandmother’s Hands paperback – Central Recovery Press [https://centralrecoverypress.com/product/my-grandmothers-hands-racialized-trauma-and-the-pathway-to-mending-our-hearts-and-bodies-paperback]         Do you have feedback or suggestions? You can find us on social media as @TimelessTopicsNICU [https://www.instagram.com/TimelessTopicsNICU/], and our email address is timelesstopicsnicu@gmail.com. Please share with your friends and colleagues! -Jessi 🖤, Tracey 💙, and Mary 💛