In this episode of High Performance Nursing, I share with you the top tips that I have tried and tested to ensure that you have all the information and more required, prior to putting pen to paper and applying for the role!

In this episode, I talk about how doing your research about the role you are interested in (yes even if you are a graduate nurse) can make a huge difference and potentially save you from the dreaded toxic healthcare workplace.

In this episode of High Performance Nursing, Liam gives us insight into the tips, tricks and tools he shares with his nurses to tackle the dreaded selection criteria and cover letter.

Liam dives into how to utilise the STAR approach to tackling complex Selection Criteria questions to ensure you brand yourself optimally, to increase your chances of securing a nursing interview!

This episode is an excellent FREE resource for grads, established nurses and nurses seeking a promotion to help them put their best application forward.

In this week's episode of HPN Liam takes you through the simple, practical steps to make your CV a stand out at your next job application, he shares his views on your CV being your entry way into a new role + just how critical it is as part of the application.

Although it may sound boring, thoroughly evaluating the format, layout, font and length of your CV is paramount when aligning yourself with the right role for you.

In this episode of HPN Liam chats with Dunja, social worker and case manager about her accidental journey into working with her heart in social work. Together they unpack what it means to listen to the inner voice and passion of yourself and how doing good in an area that does good for your heart also, is rewarding on so many levels.

As a nurse health care professional, both Liam and Dunja dissect the cost of doing the job of caring and talk about how to confidently and politely call out bad behaviours in the workplace so it can be a safe and feel good working environment for everyone.

This week on HPN Liam chats with The Happy Nurse Elaina Mullery, listen as they both share their personal experiences with stress and burnout having both experienced it twice in their careers. Elaina explains how getting external help from a therapist who helped her understand Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ignited a passion in her for personal development that ultimately led to the birth of The Happy Nurse.

Elaina also tells us about an amazing coaching tool that is so quick and easy to implement into our life when the inner critic starts to really ramp up and that they key to recognising overwhelm stage can actually help you avoid burnout.

Liam shares with us his learnings after attending a Brené Brown workshop on leadership. He shares his personal insights around adapting the takeaways to the healthcare industry and highlights the need for more vulnerability and courageous leadership. Pointing out that work cultures that don't shame or blame are often more inclusive, effective and have better outcomes.

Liam shares that the definition of vulnerability focuses on 3 key components; risk, uncertainty and emotional exposure and that embracing the suck actually makes for a more flexible and authentic leader. He explores that part of being a great leader is the ability to have the hard conversations in real time and that embracing failure in all it's forms is actually a healthy path of progress and change in the workplace.

Crossing international waters we chat with Darisha Datt, Program Manager at the Fiji Cancer Society in this episode of HPN to highlight the underpinning public health has on the work nurses do and of course the different paths you can take with your nursing career. With 12 years experience in the Public Health sector as Program Manager Darisha's core focuses are on cancer prevention and cancer care support.

Liam's internship at Medical Services Pacific in Fiji where he met Darisha opened his eyes to the astounding difference between first and third world Public Health systems.... not only are they shatteringly under resourced but the impact that not being able to care properly for patients has on the medical professionals working on the frontline demonstrates just how much we take for granted in a well funded health system.

In this episode of the HPN podcast Liam chats with Dr Bhushan Joshi, not only one of the most senior doctors in a busy Sydney ED department but also Founder of the Australian Association for LBGTQI Doctors + Dentists. This fascinating chat illuminates the way Dr Bhushan intertwines his knowledge of NLP to improve not only his patient outcomes but also his interpersonal relationships + depth of life outside of medicine. He attributes his life outside of work as the grounding to excel in his high intensity career + shares with us what being vulnerable as a senior clinician can accomplish within the work place.

Listen to the most powerful episode of HPN yet as Liam shares his real time experience searching for a new nursing job after moving interstate. He talks to the pressure felt as he embarks on this process + how identifying what he wants from a new job role really helps him stay focused.

He shares with us how he busts through his limiting beliefs as they play havoc on his psyche, really unpacking Imposter Syndrome + describing his process for moving through this so that he can get comfortable being uncomfortable. Liam breaks down his real life experience for us about how to translate clinical experience into a non clinical role or vice versa, giving you the questions you really need to ask yourself when writing your CV + cover letter.

This is perhaps one of the most important episodes for HPN to date... Liam chats with Tammy Copley an extraordinary skilful leader with a heart as big as her selfless vision. Listen as we dive deep into the bullying culture alarmingly common in the nursing and midwifery culture, as Tammy starts off by giving us the context of her vast and esteemed career.

Tammy tells us how the Nurses and Midwives against bullying Facebook page was born and her thoughts on why bullying has become so commonplace, sharing a frightening statistic that says nurses and midwives are four times more likely than the general population to die by suicide.

Liam chats with Nichola Browning who has an impressive & extensive nursing career spanning many specialities & disciplines, we hear her baptism of fire in the UK as Nichola speaks to the impact the mentorship of key senior nurses had on her burgeoning career to progress, grow & lead. We also hear her unpack the vitally important part debriefing & reflection have on processing emotionally challenging times to avoid burnout as Liam asks Nichola about her time in MDT practice within an ICU.

Nichola shares a personal story of her time as a project manager in organ transplant that perfectly demonstrates the fact that, as nurses, when we are not at the bedside we often don't feel like we have the skills to offer new roles, however transferable skills really are evident when you look.

In this episode of HPN Liam chats with Dan Mabon about the differences between the Australian + British health care systems + just how lucky Australia is in the face of a global pandemic. We hear about our nursing colleagues in the UK on the frontline who are not only extremely underpaid but undervalued in the world's most trusted profession of nursing + as a result, both men chat about their contribution to alleviate the pressure Covid has brought to our shores.

In this episode of HPN Liam shares with us the essential planning + strategy that experienced nurses need when thinking it's time to step up + take that exciting next step in their career.

He delivers the key focus areas you may need to grow in to make your next nursing promotion a reality, speaking to the criteria management look for in candidates.

In this episode of HPN Liam chats with Christine Pfeiffer about her leap of faith moment which saw her change career. The two start off by dissecting the jump between studying nursing & beginning your nursing career, speaking to the gaps currently present in the university system & how best you may be able to prepare for the emotional component or 'soft skills' of nursing.

This is everything I wish I had known my first year - from how to consolidate skills + knowledge, to offering you a very practical step that will help alleviate any anxiety you may be feeling before starting. I cover off the questions you should be asking yourself + your manager as you start your first role, plus I also unpack the SWOT model + how it is an essential resource as an emerging + developing nurse.

In this episode of HPN Liam chats to clinical nurse educator for Intensive + Coronary units at Calvary public hospital in Canberra, Rachel Longhurst. We hear how Rachel became a clinical nurse educator, as she walks us through her career trajectory that was shaped early on by positive experiences + skills investment from an important mentor. She unpacks for us the strategy used for going from L1 RN to L3 + the unlikely side effects that come from studying + gaining extra qualifications that reaped huge benefits in her performance as a clinician.

In this inaugural episode of the high performance nursing podcast I take you through the baptism of fire that began my nursing career + why creating a platform for nurses to share their stories is so very important to me. I speak to my experience of nurse burnout + how that implanted a passion in me that led to becoming a nurse career coach, mentor + trainer.