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13/04/2026

Darrin Segedin - Staff Protection & Rising Violence

Violence against nurses is no longer an isolated issue — it is a growing, global risk.

Across healthcare systems:

Up to 1 in 3 nurses report experiencing physical violence in the workplace each year
Over 60% report verbal abuse or aggression
Healthcare workers are 4–5 times more likely to experience workplace violence than other industries

And yet — the response remains inconsistent, reactive, and often inadequate.

This session goes beyond awareness.

Darrin Segedin joins The Nurse Collective to unpack:

What is actually driving the rise in staff violence
Why current systems are failing to protect frontline staff
What effective staff protection models look like in practice
What needs to change — at both system and operational level

This is a critical conversation for anyone serious about:

workforce safety
retention
and sustainable healthcare environments

This is not about acknowledging the problem.
It’s about understanding it, and addressing it.

10/04/2026

Challenging the Norms: What Needs to Change Now

We close the week with Victoria Hinds, continuing the push to raise the standard across the profession.

This session focuses on the expectations, pressures, and norms that have gone unchallenged for too long.

We’ll explore:
• The cost of compliance culture in nursing
• Why certain expectations persist despite their impact
• What it means to lead without a title
• How the profession can evolve beyond its current constraints

This isn’t about maintaining the system.

It’s about questioning whether it still deserves to exist in its current form.

09/04/2026

Multicultural Workforce: From Diversity to Belonging

We’re joined by Patricia Temple and Victoria Hinds for a deeper conversation on the multicultural nursing workforce.

Healthcare is built on diversity — but diversity alone doesn’t create cohesion.

This session explores:
• How migration and multiculturalism have shaped nursing
• Where division quietly emerges in teams
• What belonging actually looks like on shift
• How to build cohesive, high-functioning teams across cultures

This is about moving beyond diversity as a concept — and into connection as a practice.

01/04/2026

We close the week with a live reflection bringing together Patricia Temple, Kimberley Maurer, and Victoria Hinds.

This session creates space to step back and examine the themes, challenges, and insights emerging across the conversations.

We’ll explore:
• What has been uncovered in recent discussions
• Where the profession is being challenged
• What is shifting — and what still needs to change
• How different perspectives come together to shape the future

Three voices.
One conversation.
A moment to reflect before moving forward.

31/03/2026

We’re joined by Brittany Parks, a nurse working across inpatient, outpatient, and post-acute care, focused on improving transitions and outcomes for high-risk adult populations.

With over a decade of experience, Brittany brings a critical perspective:

Nurses see patterns every day that don’t always make it into the system.

This session explores:
• Why transitions between care settings break down
• The risks faced by high-acuity and vulnerable patients
• The gap between system design and frontline reality
• What changes when nurses are directly involved in shaping systems

This is about connecting what is seen on the floor with how systems are built

30/03/2026

The Wise Nurse Elder: Multiculturalism and Migration in Nursing

We’re joined by Patricia Temple, our Wise Nurse Elder, to explore the global movement of nursing and what it has shaped.

Nursing has always been a profession that crosses borders — but with that movement comes complexity. Identity, training, culture, and expectation all travel with the nurse.

This session explores:
• The migration of nurses across systems and countries
• How multiculturalism has shaped the profession
• The challenges of adapting practice across cultures
• What is gained — and what can be lost — in transition

This is not policy discussion.
It is lived experience of a global workforce

27/03/2026

The Cost of Silence in Nursing

We close the week with Victoria Hinds, tackling one of the most confronting realities in the profession.

What is the cost of silence in nursing?

This is not a theoretical discussion.

This session will explore:
• The pressure to remain silent in unsafe or unsustainable environments
• The emotional and psychological toll of suppressing professional voice
• What happens when nurses leave — and when they don’t come back
• The consequences of a culture that prioritises compliance over wellbeing

There are nurses who leave the profession quietly.
There are nurses who don’t come back at all.

And too often, the system never asks why.

This conversation is about naming that reality, and what must change.

26/03/2026

Sleep, Fatigue and Clinical Risk: Rethinking Performance in Healthcare

We’re joined by Gavin Rubinstein, exploring sleep not as rest, but as a critical component of clinical performance and safety.

In healthcare, fatigue is often normalised — but it carries significant consequences for decision-making, performance, and long-term health.

This session explores:
• The real impact of sleep deprivation on clinical judgement
• Why fatigue is a system issue, not an individual failure
• How sleep affects performance, recovery, and retention
• What healthcare can learn from other high-performance industries

Sleep is not optional.
It is foundational to safe care.

25/03/2026

The Question Nursing Avoids: How Do You Say “No”?

We are joined again by Kimberley Maurer for a conversation that cuts directly into the profession’s identity.

How do you say “no” in a profession that expects you to always say “yes”?

This is not a conversation about time management or personal boundaries.

This is about:
• The structural expectation of overextension
• The cultural pressure to comply
• The consequences of speaking up
• The identity conflict between being a “good nurse” and a sustainable one

When saying “yes” is rewarded and saying “no” is punished — what choice do nurses really have?

This session will challenge deeply held assumptions about professionalism, care, and responsibility.

24/03/2026

The Language of Nursing: Saying What the Profession Cannot

We welcome Ashley Scott, a global voice using poetry to articulate the lived reality of nursing.

Ashley’s work is not performance, it is translation.

She captures the emotional, psychological, and moral weight of nursing in ways that clinical language cannot. Her words give voice to experiences often left unspoken across the profession.

This session explores:
• How storytelling and poetry reveal the hidden layers of nursing
• Why emotional expression matters in a profession built on containment
• The role of narrative in healing, identity, and connection
• How language shapes how we understand the work we do

This is not about creativity for its own sake.
It’s about making the invisible visible.

20/03/2026

We finish the week with Victoria Hinds, a voice questioning long-standing expectations placed on nurses within healthcare systems.

Victoria challenges the quiet compliance culture that often defines professional environments and explores what it means for nurses to reclaim professional voice and identity.

This session explores:
• Professional identity in modern nursing
• Cultural expectations placed on nurses
• Leadership beyond hierarchy
• How the profession can evolve for the future

This is a conversation about clarity, courage, and the future of nursing.

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