Nursing on a Wheeled Throne with Andrea Dalzell, RN, BSN
The WoMed
Podcast Nation
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week’s guest is acute care nurse and real-life mermaid Andrea Dalzell, RN, BSN who also happens to be former Miss Wheelchair New York! In this episode, you’ll get to hear about how Andrea found her advocate voice in the nursing profession as well as her deep passion for applying her personal experiences of being a patient to bedside care. Her career path has not come without obstacles; Andrea shares with D how her place in the nursing program was questioned on the very first day and having to do 76 interviews before getting her current position. These experiences have not curbed Andrea’s motivations. She talks about what it really means to be a self-advocate and how able-bodied allies can amplify the voices of people with disabilities.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. Y'all, I got to talk with a real-life mermaid today. |
| 0:14.7 | Her name is Andrea Delzell. |
| 0:16.9 | I know I keep saying I'm excited for every episode, |
| 0:19.7 | but I truly am. |
| 0:21.3 | This has been such a cool journey, and I hope you guys get as excited for each |
| 0:25.4 | episode as I get to share them with you. I love getting to connect with people. |
| 0:29.5 | Andrea is an incredible voice in the nursing community and for people living with disabilities. |
| 0:35.0 | It's hard to know what to say or how to ask the questions, but it's important to start the conversations. |
| 0:40.0 | I really hope you enjoy this episode as much as I do. |
| 0:44.0 | This week's Nurse D Energy Moment was sent to me from E. Valentin El Jobby. |
| 0:50.0 | She writes, hi, D, I have a great NDE moment for you that I did last week. |
| 0:55.2 | I was in a COVID unit taking care of my patient. |
| 0:57.8 | Since the hospital has a no visitors allowed rule, and my patient has been scared and |
| 1:01.9 | unsure of what's going on also related to her |
| 1:04.2 | dementia. Her daughter is an ICU nurse at the same hospital and they told her she is |
| 1:08.7 | not allowed to go see her mom. So while I was caring for her I |
| 1:11.8 | texted the daughter and asked if I could |
| 1:13.9 | face time her so that she could see her mom. And the look on both their faces |
| 1:18.2 | was absolutely priceless. I love stories like this and we need to keep sharing these stories so thank you |
| 1:25.2 | Valentine for sending that into me. It's so important to not lose our sense of |
| 1:29.8 | humanity and to try to connect now more than ever, be it working through this pandemic or |
| 1:35.1 | connecting through learning to unlearn centuries of racial prejudice, I have a |
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