The Ritual Nurse
by Riva - The Ritual Nurse
Latest episode
Lukewarm Love EP3: Nursing Love Language #2 - Protection
Lukewarm Love EP3: Nursing Love Language #2 - Protection
About this podcast
Join our journey where nurses learn to heal themselves first, combining holistic rituals with practical strategies to thrive in their demanding careers. We mix that with stories and humor in first of its kind short form, perfect for nurses busy schedules. Each episode has our favorite coffee and crystals segment that everyone raves about. Curl up with your cat, or pop an earbud in during a ten minute break, and during the commute, this podcast is exactly what you need.
TLDR: This podcast offers short, impactful episodes filled with transformative tools, real-life stories, and a touch of magic to help nurses reclaim their well-being.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 38 episodes
- Lukewarm Love EP3: Nursing Love Language #2 - Protection · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 6TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! If someone has told you they appreciate you and still gave you an unsafe assignment you already understand the difference between being…
- Lukewarm Love Ep2: Nursing Love Language #1 - Initiative · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 5TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! Lukewarm Love: how NOT to love a nurse (Part 2 of 6) This week we’re talking about the first Nurse Love Language: Initiative. Or, in less…
- Lukewarm Love: How NOT to Love a Nurse EP1 · 39 min · Season 3 Episode 4TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! Happy Nurses Week. If you got pizza, a pen, and a “you’re a hero” sign, congratulations. The system remains unchanged. If you got nothing…
- Hydrate And Touch Grass Will Not Fix Staffing (also... don't touch me) · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 3TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! There’s a moment after a shift that almost every nurse knows. You get into your car. You close the door. And instead of driving home, you…
- I Loved Podcasting In Pajamas, But My Camera Didn’t · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 2TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! Well. I did it. I put on real pants and turned on the camera. The Ritual Nurse is officially on video and honestly? It feels vulnerable and…
- Happy Season 3, BIG changes. (no I didn't quit) · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 1TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! We set a new tone for season three: no resolutions, no optimize-or-else. We protect the person you already are with care that fits real…
- Bah Humbug! When the nurse becomes the patient · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 10TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! This episode was recorded in the middle of stress, exhaustion, and December chaos while I was preparing for my doctoral defense. It turned…
- Dear Nurses... My Letter to You · 24 min · Season 2 Episode 9TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! This Thanksgiving episode is simple. It's my love letter to my nurses. MY 'patient population'. MY why. Not the kind people write on holiday…
- Walking Between Worlds - The Nurse, The Psychopomp · 29 min · Season 2 Episode 8TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! In this hauntingly beautiful finale to the Ritual Nurse spooky season specials, Riva explores the sacred and often unseen role nurses play…
- Ghosts in Nursing... and the studio?! Podcasting got real real. · 1 h 24 min · Season 2 Episode 7TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! Things got weird. And not just "spooky story time" weird. It was full-on haunted podcast chaos this week as Riva and her daughter hit…
- Spooky Special: The History of Tarot · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 6TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! This week, we’re taking a journey through time and trust me, it’s wilder than any Halloween story you’ve heard. Tarot didn’t begin in the…
- Panic at the Pyxis: How to Regulate When You Have 30 Seconds and Zero Privacy · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 5TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! Happy October, fam!!! Spooky season is here (read my favoritest season besides summer), and so are some big firsts for The Ritual Nurse…
- Culture Cure: HR does WHAT? · 1 h 37 min · Season 2 Episode 4TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! Walking into HR can feel like stepping into the unknown. For many nurses, it is a place of fear, frustration, and unanswered questions. What…
- Culture Cure: Mean Girls are Vile. I said what I said. · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 3TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! Nursing culture has a dark side: bullying, incivility, and lateral violence. In this episode of The Ritual Nurse, Riva dives straight into…
- The Anchor Crew: Friends Who Gag Together, Stay Together · 1 h 31 min · Season 2 Episode 2TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! Two of my closest friends and healthcare veterans join me to explore how our decade-long friendship has kept us sane through chaos, unending…
- RISE First: The Nurse Who Came Back to Life · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 1TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! What's This Episode About? Riva is BACK and she's not playing around. In this raw, powerful Season 2 premiere, she gets real about the…
- The Debrief: Season One Finale · 37 minTXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! This is your wrap-up report. Your sacred shift sign-out. Your permission to exhale. In this emotional, powerful, and heart-filled finale of…
- The Four Agreements of Nursing · 43 min · Season 1 Episode 20TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! The Four Agreements of Nursing — This week, Riva dives into a deceptively simple book with a surprisingly deep message for nurses…
- Practicing in Pride! Who me? YES YOU. · 50 min · Season 1 Episode 19TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! This week on The Ritual Nurse, we're celebrating Pride not just with rainbows, but with radical accountability, affirming care, and…
- How to Regulate When You Have 30 Seconds and Zero Privacy! · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 18TXT us your feedback!! <3 your fayce! You’re mid-shift, mid-crisis, and maxed out. You’ve got zero privacy, 30 seconds (if that), and an urgent need to NOT spiral. In this…
