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.
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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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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.
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 talk about the concerning increase in cyberattacks on hospitals in recent years. Ascension, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the nation, was hit by a ransomware attack in May 2024 (right around nurses week). Affected were no less than 12 states, over a period of 36 days. Cyber attacks have increased by 128% from 2022-2023. They discuss safety issues when EMR charting is down, how we can better prepare, how much we should rely on paper charting. Technology can be a double edged sword.
Resources:
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/19/nx-s1-5010219/ascension-hospital-ransomware-attack-care-lapsesÂ
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/tracking-ascension-healthcare-cyberattack-impact/716327/
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