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The WoMed

Self-Advocacy Through Storytelling with Katie Vigos, RN

The WoMed

Podcast Nation

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Life Sciences

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Katie Vigos is a nurse who knew she wanted to be in the healthcare profession even before entering university. In this episode, host D and Katie discuss her current career as a per diem nurse specializing in critical care and her past work creating the Empowered Birth Project which started as a way of personal storytelling and blossomed into an online source of information and empowerment for mothers. Katie and D also chat about how COVID has changed per diem nursing and nursing at large, how Katie avoids nurse burnout, and send their thoughts out to expecting mothers at a time where COVID has added more uncertainties to one’s birthing journey.

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to the Womed. I really hope this Monday is good to you.

0:21.3

This week I'm speaking with Katie Begos, an ICU nurse, mother, and founder of the Empowered

0:26.9

Birth Project. Katie and I discuss how COVID is affecting Mother's birth experiences, the birth community, as well as your own journey in nursing.

0:36.0

Being an advocate isn't always easy. It can be rewarding and heavy at the same time,

0:41.0

especially navigating advocacy work on social media.

0:44.8

But I'm very excited for all to dig into this episode and learn more about Katie.

0:49.4

Let's go guys.

0:50.3

This week's Nasty Energy moment happens to be my own. Most of

0:55.1

we all know I transitioned into aesthetic nursing, but that journey has been pretty

1:01.0

stulted, is that the right word?

1:03.2

Not sure if it is, but I'm going to go with it.

1:04.9

During the pandemic and with COVID trainings have been put on hold.

1:09.2

But I'm so excited, I got to work on my first set of lips this week and they turned up beautiful.

1:16.8

I have been watching and learning for months and it just felt so good to get my hands on some filler and pump up my patient's lips and just really kind of

1:27.6

reconstruct a little, I mean she didn't need much like she has lip, but you know, wanted just a little enhancement.

1:35.2

You know, you can only watch different techniques and procedures and stuff so much.

1:40.0

You can only watch someone put in an IV so many times before you're like,

1:43.0

let me edit.

1:44.4

And I was at that let me edit phase.

1:46.5

So I just wanted to share that.

1:49.0

My patient was super happy with their results.

1:51.6

And you know, I always want to know what's something that made

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