Good Grief & How Healthcare Teaches Us To Bury It
This week, grief was impossible to avoid — Hayden Panettiere, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen all left us within days of each othe...
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The Gritty Nurse Podcast
Co-hosts Amie and Sara are experienced nurses, former co-workers, and friends. Together they tackle hot topics related to nursing and healthcare, with grit!
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20 of 114 episodesSilence Isn't Safety, It's Strategy: Inside St. Joe's Fight Against Workplace Violence
Would your hospital admit that staff get assaulted on the job — in public, with real numbers? St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton just did. And...
A Battle Cry for Change: Postpartum Psychosis, Systemic Failure, and the Case of Lindsay Clancy
In this new episode on The Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley, we examine the case of Lindsay Clancy through the lens of postpa...
Why Thousands of Nurses Are Walking Out Across North America? (And Who's Replacing Them)
Frontline pressures have reached a boiling point. In this swapcast episode, nurses Erica and Amie tackle the wave of nursing strikes across...
The Handover: What a 40-Year Gap of Experience Can Teach the Nursing Profession
How do we reclaim the narrative of modern nursing across generations? In this episode of The Gritty Nurse Podcast , host Amie Archibald-Varl...
7 Years Ago, I Hid Under My Desk--And Seven Years Later, Almost to The Day... She Was Walked Out.
Content note: this episode discusses workplace violence, suicidal ideation and psychological harm in a clinical/workplace setting. This week...
Follow The Legislation, Fix The Insurance! Nurse Psychotherapy Supports Mental Health
With a growing mental health crisis and a system bogged down by waitlists and rigid silos, a powerful paradigm shift is happening across Can...
From KOBO to Digital Health: Disrupting the Status Quo In Healthcare with Mike Serbinis
How do we move from a healthcare system that only reacts to illness, to one that actively empowers patients? In this episode of The Gritty N...
From the ICU to the Page: Nurse Author Tilda Shalof on Why Nurses Must Tell Their Stories
What happens when a nurse picks up a pen and refuses to stay quiet? She becomes Tilda Shalof — ICU nurse, bestselling author, patient advoca...
What Nurses Don't Know About the Law Could Cost Them Everything w/ Dr. Cambria Nwsou DNP, RN, LNC
Do you actually know your rights as a nurse? What does it take to go from the operating room to the courtroom — and why should every nurse c...
Let's Talk About Birth, Disparities, and Shifting the System: With Mama Nurse Tina!
Women's health needs a ton of work, and it is a hill we are willing to die on. In this powerful episode of The Gritty Nurse Podcast , host A...
Exposing The Barriers: Why Are Nurse Practitioners Not Practicing To Their Full Scope in Canada? Discussions with CEO of NPAO Dr. Michelle Acorn
In this urgent episode, host Amie Archibald-Varley sits down with Dr. Michelle Acorn , CEO of the Nurse Practitioners' Association of Ontari...
The Obedient Nurse: How the "Good Nurse" Myth Quietly Paves the Way for Authoritarianism— and learning Hope Is a Discipline
What does Florence Nightingale have to do with authoritarianism? More than nursing wants to admit. In this episode of The Gritty Nurse Podca...
Nursing Needs A Defibrillation: We Are The Shift, We Are The CHANGE with Dr. Danielle McCamey & Gloria Barrera
The healthcare system is flatlining, and it's time for a professional resuscitation. This Nursing Week, join Dr. Danielle McCamey and Gloria...
Taking Care: The Untold Story of The History of Nursing with Sarah DiGregorio
This Gritty Nurse episode is my special kick-off to the National Nursing Week 2026, celebrated May 6–12 in the United States and celebrated...
Crisis as a Catalyst: How Compassion, Meditation and Psychedelics Was the Path To Healing with ED Physician Dr. William Berk
In this episode on The Gritty Nurse, host Amie Archibald-Varley sits down with Dr. William Berk as he shares his transformative journey from...
Perimenopause, Pleasure Principles and Purpose: Menopause On MY Terms with Shirley Weir
"Normal is a setting on your dryer—not a standard for your health." In this episode of The Gritty Nurse , we're joined by Shirley Weir , the...
The Power of The Pivot: Rediscovering Your Love For Nursing In Non-Traditional Nursing Careers
Nursing is not a destination; it is a foundation. For too long, we have been told that leaving the bedside is 'leaving nursing,' but the tru...
From the Frontlines of Healthcare to the JUNOS: Muscian & Mental Health Strategist Catherine Harrison on The Cost of Caring In Nursing and Entertainment Industries
Nursing and the arts are both built on the raw, unspoken language of the human soul; one heals the body through rhythm and care, the other h...
Ink or Expertise: Discussing the Pardox of Professionalism With The Tattooed Nurse Jesse Barmby
In a profession often defined by rigid standards of appearance, Jesse Barmby is rewriting the rules. A Registered Nurse with 15 years of exp...