Oct 2, 2026
What does modern healthcare actually cost when we look past balance sheets and measure it in human lives, moral injury, and front-line burnout?
In this episode, New York Times bestselling author and Registered Nurse Theresa Brown joins the show to discuss her journey from English literature academic to bedside clinician...
Sep 10, 2026
Nursing students in Canada and the U.S. can rack up 800–1,400+ mandatory clinical hours before they graduate — and not one of them is paid.
In this episode, The Gritty Nurse Amie Archibald-Varley, traces that unpaid-labour model back to its actual origin: Florence Nightingale's 1860s training school and the 2,000+...
Aug 28, 2026
This week, grief was impossible to avoid — Hayden Panettiere, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen all left us within days of each other, and the collective mourning was loud, public, and completely normal. But what happens when the person who dies isn't a celebrity — it's your patient, your coworker,...
Aug 13, 2026
Would your hospital admit that staff get assaulted on the job — in public, with real numbers?
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton just did. And it's exposing a crisis most hospitals would rather not talk about.
In this episode, I sit down with St. Joe's CEO Mike Heenan to unpack the numbers behind their decision to go...
Aug 7, 2026
In this new episode on The Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley, we examine the case of Lindsay Clancy through the lens of postpartum psychosis and the catastrophic gaps in mental health care that allowed it to go unrecognized and untreated. I start with the question that should be asked before...