Registered Nurse, Healthcare leader, content creator and podcaster.
Sara Fung is a transformative and inspirational healthcare thought leader, advocate, consultant, speaker, career coach, resume writer, and bestselling author of the Wisdom of Nurses, published by HarperCollins.
Through her work as a co-creator of the Gritty Nurse Podcast and founder of The RN Resume, she has gained national recognition in Canada and the US for her advocacy of better awareness of employee working conditions, mental health support, positive working environments and motivational messaging.
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Sara is a dynamic, inspirational and passionate speaker. She is the cohost of The Gritty Nurse Podcast, an internationally successful chart-topping podcast about hot topics in healthcare.
Now available from Harper Collins
Written by Sara and her co-host of the hit podcast The Gritty Nurse, The Wisdom of Nurses details the challenges, heartbreak and humour of life on the front line.
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Catch up on the Gritty Nurse Podcast!
Sara Fung and Amie Archibald-Varley started the wildly popular The Gritty Nurse podcast to give voice to nurses all over the world, including more than 400,000 nurses in Canada. Sara and Amie have quickly become sought-after speakers and advocates for nurses and are called on regularly by the media to talk about a wide range of issues around the profession.
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You can’t have integrity without grit, right?
Our podcast examines hot topics related to health and healthcare. We shy away from nothing, discussing topics such as mental health, social justice, women’s health and women’s rights.
We are story-tellers and love hearing how healthcare has impacted individuals’ lives. We want to discuss the good, bad and ugly .
We also provide a platform for empowerment and shared experiences, where we represent voices that have been silenced, underrepresented and marginalized –so they can share their stories of hope, change and inspiration.
Episodes are informative, gritty, humorous and educational.
In this episode, the Gritty Nurses discuss something that would be a patient’s worst nightmare: having a medical instrument left in your body. In this particular instance, an epidural needle was left in Giovanna Ippolito’s back from years ago! Furthermore, no one will take responsibility for it. Amie & Sara unpack some of the issues in hospitals related to medical malpractice, patient advocacy and glaring gaps in the healthcare system.
Giovanna Ippolito is living with a broken needle in her spine after it broke off during childbirth. An anesthesiologist then left the 4cm/2 inch-long fragment embedded in her back — and didn’t tell her what happened.
Instead, it was discovered during an X-ray more than a decade later. The woman says her doctor can’t directly link the pain she’s experiencing to the needle, but one thing has been made clear to her: it’s not safe to remove it.
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