In this episode, Michelle sits down with Wendy Trevathan, a nurse with more than three decades of experience across clinical nursing, education, and management. Wendy shares how nursing culture and training have evolved — from hospital-based certificate programs to university degrees — and reflects on what's been gained and lost along the way. The conversation moves into the pressures driving burnout in the profession today, Wendy's own experience of workplace dysfunction and speaking up, and why she ultimately stepped away from nursing to support the profession in a different way.

Wendy also introduces the upcoming Standing Strong: Addressing Bullying, Safety and Culture in Nursing Summit, an event she created to give nurses practical tools for navigating bullying, isolation, and organisational dysfunction — without burning out or losing their sense of self.

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