From the ICU to the Page: Nurse Author Tilda Shalof on Why Nurses Must Tell Their Stories
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Tilda Shalof discusses the importance of nursing stories and advocacy in healthcare.
What happens when a nurse picks up a pen and refuses to stay quiet? She becomes Tilda Shalof — ICU nurse, bestselling author, patient advocate, and one of Canada's most powerful voices for the nursing profession. In this episode of The Gritty Nurse Podcast, host Amie Archibald-Varley sits down with Tilda Shalof, RN, BScN, CNCC(C), a veteran nurse from Toronto General Hospital's Medical-Surgical ICU and the author of six books — including the acclaimed A Nurse's Story , The Making of a Nurse , Camp Nurse , Opening My Heart , Lives in the Balance , and Bringing It Home . Her work has been translated into French, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese, reaching nurses and patients across the globe. Tilda has spent decades doing what nurses do best — caring for the critically ill, advocating for patients, and working in the most demanding environments in healthcare. But she's also done something radical: she wrote it all down and made the world pay attention. In this conversation, Amie and Tilda dig into: Why nursing stories matter more now than ever — and how storytelling is a form of advocacy What Tilda learned about the healthcare system when she became a patient herself after…
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