A Nurses Lift to work?
Two Nurses and NLP Coaches kate and Tina chat about NLP, Healthcare work coaching and changing your thinking. It’s a light, informative lift to work. You’ll pick up tips on how to keep on an even keel at work, whatever your job. Tina and Kate have years of NHS and nursing experience and want to share everyday wisdoms with you. It’s a little bit of yoga for the mind. Hop on in the back and get a lift to work. Ideal for Nurses and other health care workers, but top tips here for all.
85 3 Tips for framing a conversation at work. Bitesized episode.
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Here are 3 Tips for getting a conversation inexactly the place you need it to be .
1. tell them what you want to talk about
2. tell them the outcome you are looking for
3. Get them to agree to this before you start the conversation, also called by in
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84 Sick or not Sick that is the question
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This episode hears Kate and Tina exploring this topic of sickness at work.
Looking at the ideas about presenteeism and absence from work.
Its a hot potatoe topic but we try and unpick how the beliefs we have about work, our wellbeing and time off for ill health play out at work.
Resources
Paper Presenteeism a public health hazard
RCN Sickness guidance
Guardian article stress and sickness
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83. Psychological Safety at work
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What is Psychological safety at work? what does this mean?
Tina and Kate chat about this and what a leader can do to support this to happen?
What is is NOT and what helps create it for us all.
Resources
previous episode on best ways to give and receive feedback
article on How leaders can build psychological safety at work
Amy Edmondson The Fearless Organisation
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82. Shifting your mindset when newly qualified, what helps?
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There is some preparation for nurses as they move to the early part of their careers, but what mindset is helpful. What helps when adapting to that shifting responsibility?
Listen in for a thought provoking conversation.
Resources
Joy O'Gormans Nursing Times Article
Duty of Care RCN
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81. Let them theory, how can it apply to nursing?
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The "Let them" Theory is very much under discussion at the moment. Listen in to see what Tina and Kate think is helpful about it for nurses and where the cautions may be.
Resources
Let Them poem Cassie Philips
Let them Mel Robbins
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80 In conversation with Chloe Weekes-Dyer Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Plymouth University
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In this episode we are joined by Chloe who is a lecturer in adult nursing at Plymouth University
She also is leading a project on curriculum review for undergraduate nursing programmes. Chloe is an RCN Learning Rep, and mentor with the Citizenship for Life charity, supporting young people with increasing their life skills, build resilience, self-confidence and developing skills including team building, respect, and courage.
Chloe shares with Kate and Tina her personal reasons for becoming a nurse, her coping strategies and tips and techniques for students and newly q...
79 RCN Congress 2025, Kate's reflections
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Kate attended the RCN 2025 Congress in the UK.
She shares her reflections, impressions and thoughts from her time there.
Resources
RCN Congress 2025
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78. Supporting students when you are newly qualified
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How can you best support student nurses when you yourself are newly qualified or in the early part of your career?
Listen in to Tina and Kate as they explore this topic with you, picking up hints and tips along the way.
Resources
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NMC providing student support
Queens Nursing student and newly qualified resources
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77. Building Rapport in a Nursing role
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Building Rapport is some thing that is a cornerstone of nursing. listen in for tips on how to make this work for your patients or clients, for you as a practitioner and for a smoother running of shifts and team work.
Resources
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Approaches to building rapport article from clinical medicine
Hello my name is Campaign
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76 Finding Nursing work in a time of scarcity, things to think about.
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Finding work in a time of scarcity can leave us feeling dissatisfied, angry and nervous. Listen in with Kate and Tina to explore ways to be resourceful if you find yourself in this situation
Resources
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look here for targeted nursing work
Transforming a scarcity mindset
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75 The use of AI in Healthcare
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Artificial Intelligence AI in health care, how is being used at the moment. What do nurses need to begin to consider as the use of AI ?
listen in for an informal chat about this with Kate and Tina
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74 Handover Tips and techniques for sharing information
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Check out this episode to see how to give and receive an effect handover of information.
Tips and Techniques are shared. See how SBAR can work for teams and a chicken timer? Intrigued listen in
Resources
https://www.england.nhs.uk/improvement-hub/wp-content/uploads/sites/44/2017/11/SBAR-Implementation-and-Training-Guide.pdf
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73 Talking about End of Life Nursing, Commissioning and Coaching with Gina King
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In this episode we are joined by Gina King who talks about being a nurse working in end of life care, commissioning and as a coach.
So many interesting wisdoms shared, including a nice little section about owning goats.
you will find Gina here
https://www.ginaking.co.uk/
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72 Nursing Inner Circle, a place to learn and grow
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Join us for this episode where Kate explains what the Nursing Inner circle is all about.
How can nurses continually learn and grow?
What does the circle offer and might it work for you ? Or your staff if you lead a service ?
listen in to discover more about this exciting opportunity
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71 Ali Uzzell Mental Health and Wellbeing in the workplace
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Ali Joins Kate and Tina for a chat about Mental Health First Aiders and mental health in the workplace. She is a trainer in this subject area and had a lot of tips to share.
We talk about what ~Mental Health first Aid is and what MHFA colleagues do.
The importance of listening and signposting over advice
We talk about noticing and whats helps with our own mental health
and self talk is explored and the art of silence .
Kate mentioned Mel Robbins and t...
70 Helen Hancox talks about her career and working for the Royal College of Nursing RCN
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Helen joins the episode to talk about her career which includes time with the Royal College of Nursing RCN, she talks about her preference for a surgical ward.
She talks about being a voice for nurses. What it felt like to be a young ward manager in teams with more experience and accepting your deficits.
We speak of the skills set in nursing.
Helen talks about how she found her way into nursing, how she relaxes .
She gives tips on how to build relationships with co...
69 Heidi Slater talks about Autism from an autistic point of view
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This episode features Heidi, who shares her own lived experience with us to help us understand how best to support someone with Autism in our work.
Heidi is an award winning expert by experience, she does this as a paid representative with a wider team and is happy to share her own experiences so we may all learn from them and her own perspective.
find Heidi on linked in https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-slatter-301969185/
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68 Are you Above the line? How to be resourceful in the way you think
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Kate and Tina talk about being above and below the line in the way you think.
Are you being as resourceful as you can be or are you stuck in place of blaming, other things and people for what happens? How useful is this and can you change it?
Listen in for some useful tools and things to ponder on from the Nurses Lift to Work Team
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66 Jo Tiler, being a mental health nurse & alcohol transformation coach.
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This guest episode features, Jo who is working to help people with their understanding and application of the mental health act, she chats about her clinical work, how she came into the career.
She also tells us about her role as a coach for woman who want to change their relationship with alcohol.
This is a great conversation, about all sorts of things like meditation, and the advice Jo would give a newly qualified nurse.
Resources
find Jo here https://www.instagram.com/sober.step/
65. Difficult Patients. Why do we call them that?
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Tina and Kate discuss this topic at the suggestion of a listener, thanks Helen.
We explore why this label gets attached to people, what might be going on for them, for us and in general.
Tips and techniques for approaching this differently are offered.
Resources
Careers
Managing challenging interactions with patients
://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f4673
Top 10 tips for managing difficult patients and situations
https://nursesgroup.co.uk/managing-difficult-patients
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64 Vicky Bartlett, Director of Patient Care at Rowcroft Hospice and Queens Nurse joins the podcast. .
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We are delighted to be joined by Vicky for this episode who share her experiences of being in a senior nursing leadership role. Talking about working in the charity and the Hospice sector.
She shares what a Queens Nurse is, and how she became one.
Also what motivates her to be a nurse, how she deals with stress. What helps her feel fulfilled and she shares her wisdom for those starting out in their nursing career.
Team work is discussed and being organised as well as life work balance.
Its...
63. How to be more confident
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Want to be more confident in your nursing work? find yourself saying "i'm just not confident enough to do that" . then this is the episode for you.
Nurse Coaches and master NLP practitioners Kate and Tina talk through what confidence is, how to acquire it, how a perceived lack of it might be holding you back. listen in and leave us any questions or thoughts.
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62 Lets talk about being assaulted at work
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Being assaulted at work can happen to nurses and healthcare workers and its something which can make us feel very wobbly.
Tina and Kate, talk about this, they share their own experiences and offer some tips for what to do afterwards.
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61. Your Mindset, what is it? and why does it matter?
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This episode is all about your mindset. Tina and Kate chat about what this is and how it influences your beliefs and your behaviors and the things you tell yourself.
They discuss the ways in which you can work to make your mindset support you and your well-being.
Check out episode 15 for supporting information on being above and below the line.
drop us a message if you would like to ask questions or work with us directly. Here at the podcast or find Tina at The Devon Coach or Kate at...
60 New Years Announcement: Welcome to a Nurses Lift to work
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After 18 months from our first episode, we are so pleased to announce that A lift to Work , will have a Nursing and Healthcare focus from now.
Becoming a Nurses Lift to work.
All the family of Nurses, where ever you are, wherever you work are so welcome Therapy and Allied Health profession colleagues are so welcome to join our collection of listeners.
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59 Help with keeping New Years Resolutions 2025
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Are you about to make a New years resolution ? would you like to keep it?
Listen in with Kate and Tina to discover ways to do that ....
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58. Making your own Christmas traditions
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Ever thought that you would like to make your own Christmas traditions and not necessarily follow what others want you to do?
Then this is the episode for you.
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57. Loss and Missing people at Christmas
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This is the time of year when missing people at Christmas, in all sorts of ways, can feel hard to cope with. join Kate and Tina as they chat this through with tips for coping and remembrance
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56. Dealing with Christmas Overwhelm
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Its the time of year for lots of joy, but it can be stressful and overwhelming as well. Join Tina and Kate for tips on how to reduce those feelings.
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Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain, sharing everyday wisdom's and handy tips for better thinking and day to day living. Think of it as a little bit of yoga f...
55. Managing Christmas Expectations
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Yes its the Ho, Ho , Ho month time for Christmas expectations to arrive, Listen in and see how you might manage them, with Tips and Techniques along the way #christmas #expectations #christmasstress #festiveseason #coaches, #nurses
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1. Introducing... a Nurses lift to work
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A Nurses lift to Work , is a chance for you to hop in the back of the car with Kate and Tina.
Tina and Kate are two Nurses and NLP Coach practitioners. They chat about NLP (Neuro Linguistic Progamming), Work and changing your thinking. Its a light, informative lift to work. Landing weekly, the lift to work podcast will offer you tips on how to keep on an even keel at work, whatever your job. (This includes being a parent and homemaker or student).
Tina and Kate have years o...
54. Using silence to good effect
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Ever feel uncomfortable in a silence ?
how long is a comfortable silence? Can you use a silence therapeutically?
Tina and Kate talk about intentional pauses and time to think
What is the benefit of a prolonged silence.
do you truly hear and how often do we jump into silences
enjoy thinking about how you can put this into practice
Out pacing, do we do this sometimes? Tom Kitwoods work is mentioned
https://dcare.training/topic/1-2-approach-to-care-according-to-tom-kitwood-2/
Time to Think Nancy Klin...
53. Continuing Professional Development, how best to do it.
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This is all about CPD or continuing professional development.
What are the expectations around this?
how does it fit with re-validation
Tina and kate talk about why to do it?
What are the best ways of doing this, examples are given
Stories are told and encouragement is given.
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52. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and feeling down when the clocks go back
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in this episode Tina and Kate talk about how it can feel when the clocks go back and that winter feeling.
What can we do if we get a little low at this time of year or even think we have Season Affective Disorder
We sin post to some links for you and books to read as well as some suggestions and tips for getting through this season.
Useful Links
https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder-sad/overview/
Wintering the power of rest and retreat at difficult time...
51. What to do when you don't know what to do. Decision making
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Decision making. What to do when you don’t know what to do ?
We talk about the energy it takes not to make a decision
How often less is more.
Ask yourself the right kind of questions.
Have a think about radical acceptance
Other episodes
Thinking Hats
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2266017/13828121
Additional resources
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/decision-making
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-radical-acceptance-5120614
SWOT anal...
50. Impostor Syndrome, what is it? And what can you do about it?
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Impostor Syndrome
A slightly longer episode debunking Impostor Syndrome
As this comes up a lot in coaching
A sense of self doubt
We cover the signs of this, lacking in confidence, sensitive to small mistakes, fear of success or failure and burnout.
There are types of impostor syndrome, the perfectionist, the expert, the solo practitioner and the natural genius and superperson.
Novice to expert is covered, and a good chat about micromanagement.
Other recommended podcasts
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49. What is Confirmation Bias? Do I do this?
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Confirmation Bias
What is this, Tina and Kate give examples of this and how it shapes our world, even when we think we are open minded.
Dale Grieg the Scottish female runner gets a mention.
http://www.scottishdistancerunninghistory.scot/scottish-womens-distance-running-rulebreakers-and-pioneers/
We cover assumptions and how this works with.
How the mind sees things and categorises them and can feed our
Beliefs in an unhelpful way.
Recognising these bias in ourselves and others is discussed.
We talk about how you...
48. How to deal with disappointment
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Dealing with Disappointment
This episode explores why we feel this and what we can do about it.
There is a story of stolen Icecreams.
What could be going on in your head when you feel disappointed is explored.
Top tips are covered
It’s about the perception
Validation helps, as does riding the wave and moving on.
Seeing the other options ahead, and thinking about the words your using.
The way we think to try and protect ourselve...
47. Do Colours affect our mood?
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Thinking about colour as we move into the Autumn or Fall in a lot of the world
Tina and Kate chat about colours and have a think about of this affects our moods and our clients.
Kate mentions Chakras
https://www.voltlin.com/pages/chakras?srsltid=AfmBOorupFblgmJHM6IjgfOfM_wMKZgGwTr8pN85P2rI1xR8RLGzjGyL
here for a helpful link.
Tina chatted through this interesting, emerging research
https://www.verywellmind.com/color-psychology-2795824
Have a think and let us know how does colour effect you?
46. Do you have anxious feelings sometimes? listen in for tips and help with this
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In this episode we talk about anxious feelings ad how common these are for people.
We chat through how it can make you feel physically.
How we can do good re-frames, as a temporary feeling
How it often doesn't make any sense ... and that's ok.
We talk through language and how to think about it differently.
Breathing is mentioned and imagining you helping yourself calm down.
We mention the 333 rule
https://www.verywellmind.com/3-3-3-rule-for-anxiety-8660964#:~:text=The%203%2D3%2D3%20rule%20is%20a%20super%20simple...
