Vitally Unstable
The nursing podcast that keeps your scrubs dirty, your humour dark, and your nursing heart full - because this job takes everything and then some.
Episodes
16 episodes
2025 Debrief - Things Didn't go as Planned plus Celebrating Our Listeners Achievements
With 2025 and our travel nursing era coming to an end, we delve into a full recap of the year in this longer than usual (but fun, funny and a little bit night-shift-silly) episode Spoiler alert: not a lot of what we had on our 2025 ...
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Is This Your Sign to Take a Nursing Career Break?
If you've ever day dreamed about doing something completely unrelated to nursing, even just for a month, this episode is full of ideas and inspiration for just that!We talk about some things that other nurses have done to have little (or...
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Burnout in Nursing and How There is Nothing Wrong With You For Experiencing It
After a burnout related melt down that ended up bringing some beautiful connection and conversation through social media, we decided to unpack some parts of burnout as nurses. We've both experienced burnout and how tough it can be t...
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44:40
Code WTF 2.0 - Sara Stedy's, Six Month Waits for Aged Care Placements and the Apparent 'Good Old Days' of Nursing
Twas the night before night shift number three and we thought it would be a good idea to string some sentences together in response to some posts on the Australian Nursing sub-Reddit Some of these sentences make minimal sense, but i...
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Social Media as a Nurse - Our Love-Hate Relationship
We know we are not alone on this one... Sometimes social media can such a positive part of our lives and other times, it's kind of soul destroying In this episode we have an honest and raw conversation around social medi...
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Outback Queensland Agency Contract Debrief
Another contract down calls for a debrief that covers the highs, the lows, the lessons and the outback country quirks. Join us for a semi-sleep deprived debrief that ends up being pretty insightful for one of our careers more than t...
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ECG Interpretation for Nurses - Basics and Beyond
If this episode has one goal, it's to prove to you that ECGs don't have to be the most confusing thing that you dread ever being asked about as a nurse and to empower you to learn how to interpret them in the simplest possible way. ...
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Rural Resus Without Resus Experience - Listener Question
This weeks episode is a listener question around transitioning from a non-resus competent nurse in a metro setting to rural setting where anything goes - resus included! We unpack what the non-ED nurse one of us has done to prepare ...
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Bonus Debrief - Gas Lighting Nursing Managers, Not Working Clinical and Having Babies
We felt like a heartfelt but slightly rogue debrief on all things nursing and that's exactly what this episode turned out to be. So you know what you're in for, get ready to hear our thoughts on:Not wanting to work clinical&n...
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Not Getting a Nursing Grad Year and What to do Next
Not getting a grad year can feel like your nursing career is over before it’s even started - but it doesn’t have to feel like that. In this episode we share some personal anecdotes around not getting grad years, as well as some advi...
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Things We Love About Nursing
Let's be real - some shifts leave us all feeling like we should've stuck with our childhood dreams to be an astronaut instead of a nurse. But there are so many things about our jobs that bring us joy, a sense of fulfilment and scratch our inner...
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Travel Nursing in Australia: The Pros and Cons of Agency
If you've ever wondered about what travel nursing in Australia is really like, this is the episode for you. We share our honest experiences and opinions on all the things you want to know. From getting contracts that work for you, t...
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Code WTF
Welcome to our new segment: Code WTFBecause sometimes in nursing, if you don't laugh, you'll cry This lighthearted, fun-poke at anonymous nursing stories is intended to be exactly that - something that brings you a laugh and ...
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Our journeys to Clinical Nurse Specialists
With Georgia gaining her CNS in Cardiology title and Tom with his CNS in Blood, this episode covers the different roads we took to become Clinical Nurse Specialists. We cover some common questions about CNS' that land in Nurse Sibs'...
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