Gutsy Nurses Healing Authenticity Change in Healthcare with Kathy Allan on The Healers Caf with Manon Bolliger

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT (facilitator and retired naturopath with 30+ years of practice) speaks to Kathy Allan, a registered nurse and holistic practitioner, discussed her journey from nursing since 1964 to developing the "Gutsy Nurses" program. She highlighted the shift from compassionate care to a profit-driven healthcare system, exacerbated by private equity firms. Allan emphasized the need for nurses to recognize and manage trauma, regain authenticity, and advocate for their patients. She criticized the current system's focus on financial gain over patient care, citing examples of unethical practices and the impact of for-profit motives. Allan also discussed the importance of prevention and healthy living to reduce hospital visits

For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/kathy-allan        

 

Highlights from today's episode include:

Kathy Allan shares her love for nursing, starting in 1964, and her diverse experience in various nursing departments, including the operating room, emergency room, intensive care, labor and delivery, pediatrics, and psychiatric nursing.

Kathy discusses the importance of nurses being able to support their patients effectively, having gone through their own healing journey.

Manon Bolliger and Kathy discuss the need for an alternative healthcare model focused on health and prevention, rather than the current profit-driven system.

 

ABOUT KATHY ALLAN:

I am a Registered Nurse, a Board Certified Holistic Nurse, a retired Healing Touch & energy medicine Instructor and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. I continue to serve as an assistant in the Somatic Experiencing trauma education program for psychotherapists. I have completed the three year Energy Medicine Training from Rosalyn Bruyere. I taught Integrative Imagery to nurses and I have studied shamanism. I am a member of the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Actors and I also do Stand-Up Comedy.

Core purpose/passion:  Nurses work in chaos, don’t have much time with their patients and both nurses and patients can be traumatized in the present healthcare system. So, I founded Gutsy Nurses, an education program designed to help nurses and other healthcare providers who are being exploited and burned out by the for-profit healthcare system. My new book Gutsy Nurses Save Lives; will be coming out at the end of this year.

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ABOUT MANON BOLLIGER, FCAH, RBHT 

As a de-registered (2021) board-certified naturopathic physician & in practice since 1992, I’ve seen an average of 150 patients per week and have helped people ranging from rural farmers in Nova Scotia to stressed out CEOs in Toronto to tri-athletes here in Vancouver. 

My resolve to educate, empower and engage people to take charge of their own health is evident in my best-selling books:  'What Patients Don