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Frankie is one of the two amazing winners of this year’s Nurse & Midwife Support Story Competition. We hope you enjoy listening to her story.

Tessa is one of the two amazing winners of this year’s Nurse & Midwife Support Story Competition. Her story really struck a cord with all of the judges we hope you enjoy listening to it!

If 2020 has you feeling overwhelmed, you may find it useful to spend time reflecting on your experience to find balance and identify the support you need.

Burnout is something that many nurses and midwives experience in their career. In this episode we talk to Athol Hann, a registered nurse, about his experience of burnout, what he did to move past it, and what others can do to avoid it.

Finding ways to prevent burnout can be really important for nurses and midwives at different stage of their career. Tessa Moriarty shares some helpful strategies and resources to help.

Registered nurse Kim Leslie shares her experience of building a relationship with exercise and how she has maintained it over the years.

Exercise tips and strategies wherever you are in your exercise journey.

“If exercise was a supplement or a pill it would be a worldwide bestseller,” says Liz Hewett, an exercise physiologist and this episodes podcast guest!

Amy Benn registered nurse, fitness guru and founder of Wholeheart Magazine has kindly shared some wonderful information about finding your motivation for fitness and lots of options that you can try.

You may be about to enter or have entered the most exciting, sometimes scary, overwhelming, life-changing and wondrous time of your life. So, of course, you want to give yourself and your baby the healthiest, best start.

Welcome to the spring 2020 exercise edition of the Nurse & Midwife Support newsletter. Many exercise routines have been disrupted or dramatically altered as a result of navigating the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This blog was originally written by Paul McNamara in 2016 and was published on his blog meta4rn.com. He has kindly given us permission to repost it. Paul is a Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Consultation Liaison Psychiatry Service, Cairns Hospital.

In this podcast we discuss the issue of suicide among nurses and midwives with social worker Jon Tyler and Mental Health Nurse Paul McNamara, including contributing factors and what to do if you suspect a friend or colleague is at risk.

Share your story to go into the running to a major prize!

Each year, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) leads the celebrations on International Nurses Day (IND), held on 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth.