The Person-centred Podcast - stories from nurses and midwives
Jul 29, 2026 · 29 min · 10 segments
In this months podcast, our guest Katie shares her story about her journey into nursing and how person-centred moments have shown up throughout her career. Katie shares not just her own experience…
Caroline DixonHost
Sheila McGovernHostI'll never forget it.
I'll never forget that moment.
Her eyes just lit up at the thought of someone actually taking the time to-
... to, to help her in that way.
Uh, so I'd already applied, but it, it'd also been, uh, perhaps in, always in the back of my mind, a, a grandmother that was a nurse, and she'd already talked to me about her experiences of, of working and living in London, and I knew then after the experience of being a volunteer carer that it was the right decision, and I then went off to, to start my nurse training a few months later.
But I also, because I was late applying, I had to go where the places were, and I, and I just took myself off to, yeah, a place that had, um, vacancies, and, and off I went.
I think it's something that actually I think you have an element of that within you anyway.
I think that the kind of person I was when I started my training and I am now, I, I was emotionally intelligent.
I had empathy.
I cared.
I'll never forget it.
I'll never forget that moment.
Her eyes just lit up at the thought of someone actually taking the time to-
... to, to help her in that way.
Uh, so I'd already applied, but it, it'd also been, uh, perhaps in, always in the back of my mind, a, a grandmother that was a nurse, and she'd already talked to me about her experiences of, of working and living in London, and I knew then after the experience of being a volunteer carer that it was the right decision, and I then went off to, to start my nurse training a few months later.
But I also, because I was late applying, I had to go where the places were, and I, and I just took myself off to, yeah, a place that had, um, vacancies, and, and off I went.
I think it's something that actually I think you have an element of that within you anyway.
I think that the kind of person I was when I started my training and I am now, I, I was emotionally intelligent.
I had empathy.
I cared.
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