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🌻With Katrina Brown
🩺 Registered Nurse for 17 years
🤲🏻 Now healing the healers with Ayurveda, sound baths + aromatherapy 🌿🎶
⬇️ Links below for sound baths + events 🩷

05/06/2026

Day 6 - Spending your whole shift in PPE 😷

I’ve got two words for you:

COVID. Frontline. 🦠

I remember feeling honestly appalled by the sheer amount of PPE waste that was being generated every shift, by every nurse.

Don’t get me wrong, it probably prevented me from getting COVID even after working in the COVID Vaccination Clinic for 18 months so I am thankful for that 🙏🏻

However, once it’s on, you can’t itch your nose, drink water, or see through your glasses or face shield if they fog up from your sweaty brow 👓

I’ve heard of other nurses who developed pressure sores from wearing face masks during the pandemic as well.

Also, nurses are often required to don and doff PPE when entering and leaving the room of a patient in isolation due to a contagious infection, or the patient has a weakened immune system.

On. Off. On. Off.

All. Day. Long.

A lot of it is more about time consumption than anything.

Wearing PPE sometimes felt like playing the world’s most unimaginative game of dress-ups. Same outfit. Same routine. Over and over again. Except instead of fun, it came with foggy glasses, sweaty brows, dry throats and precious minutes disappearing from your shift.

Necessary? Absolutely.
Convenient? Absolutely not.

04/06/2026

Day 5 - Lying awake for hours after a stressful shift 🫩

Counting sheep. Counting backwards from 100. Trying to think about something else…

Some nights, nothing seems to help you drift off to sleep 🥱

Especially after a particularly busy shift where unexpected things have happened — like a late admission (or two), having to fill out an incident report, catching up on a mountain of paperwork, or often one of the worst… being involved in a CPR or trauma emergency.

Experiences like these can leave you wide-eyed, replaying the shift over and over while staring at the ceiling for hours.

And more often than not, you’ll be on an early shift the next day and somehow expected to function again for your patients after barely any sleep 😵‍💫

03/06/2026

Day 4 - Slamming down food in between patients 🍪

How many of you have accidentally licked alcohol rub off your fingers after hastily shoving a tasty morsel of food into your mouth between patients?

I’ll admit, I am guilty of this 🙋🏼‍♀️

And for anyone wondering: no, alcohol hand rub does not taste good 🤮

The food, on the other hand, does 😂

But sometimes, a dry biscuit laced with alcohol rub is the only thing we’ll get to eat between 6am and 1pm… or 2pm, depending on how the day is going.

And nobody likes a hangry nurse 😠

You can have the best intentions — taking a bowl of soup to reheat or a sandwich to put in the toastie maker — but sometimes we just don’t have 2 minutes for the microwave to work its magic, let alone 10 minutes to actually eat it.

So we take what we can get, when we can get it.

02/06/2026

Day 3 - Your body clock being all over the place 😵‍💫

When you work night shift and get home, should you eat breakfast or dinner? 🤔

When you finally get your main break at 2-3am, should you eat lunch, dinner… or nothing at all? 🤷🏼‍♀️

When you work 3 night shifts in a row, have 1 night off, then go back for another 2 nights… should you try to stay on night shift mode, or attempt to rejoin normal society for 24 hours? 🫠

So many questions… and nothing ever feels quite right when your body clock is completely out of whack 😵‍💫

One minute you’re eating cereal at sunset, the next you’re lying in bed at 10am wondering why the neighbour has suddenly decided it’s the perfect time to mow the lawn 🙃

Up, down, in, out, Arthur or Martha… nobody really knows what’s going on when shift work messes with your circadian rhythm 😂

From an Ayurvedic perspective, irregular routines, disrupted sleep, and eating at odd hours can aggravate Vata dosha — which may leave you feeling scattered, exhausted, anxious, foggy, or just generally “off” 🌪️

Honestly, hats off to every shift worker trying to function like a normal human while their body clock is doing the hokey pokey 🫶🏻

01/06/2026

Day 2 - Not having time to go to the toilet 🚽

Some days you have your whole shift organised in your mind, and everything is ticking along according to plan.

Until things quickly go pear shaped, and that 15-minute break you were offered 20 minutes ago (that you politely declined because you thought you’d take it later) now suddenly feels like a long-lost holiday 😅

Not only are you regretting that second cup of tea you drank on the way to work, but you’re also regretting adding the extra spice to your dinner last night 🌶️

Your patients are buzzing, your medication round isn’t finished yet, your bladder is bursting (not to mention the back end 💩), and you honestly don’t even have time to go to the toilet to relieve yourself.

Thankfully I never wet myself while on shift, but I do know nurses who used to avoid drinking water altogether so they wouldn’t have to go to the toilet at work.

Ironically, both of those things go completely against the recommendations of Ayurveda, where we’re encouraged to honour our body’s natural urges rather than suppress them

In the book The Wisdom of Nurses by and .fung.rn, one ICU nurse avoided going to the toilet for her entire 12-hour shift 😳

I cannot imagine the pain she must have been in sitting with a full bladder for that long.

31/05/2026

Day 1 - When someone mentions the Q word 🤫

Would you look at that… all of my patients are happily sitting in their chairs, chatting away. The ward feels calm. No buzzers are going off and the phones have finally stopped ringing.

Ahhh… looks like I’m in for a smooth shift 😌

Until someone says:
“Gee it’s QUIET here tonight.”

Boom 💥

Jinx activated.

Suddenly:
• 85-year-old Joe has a fall trying to get out of the toilet
• A new admission arrives with 15 minutes left in your shift
• And Mary in room 203, who has dementia, is now calling out for her best friend from primary school and can’t be consoled

Every nurse knows exactly what happens when someone unconsciously says the Q word in a hospital 🤫

*These are fictitious patients and no patients were harmed in the making of this post 😂

30/05/2026

21 days. 21 challenges.

Nurses are faced with a myriad of challenges every day. Some of them are funny, others are heart-wrenching, and sometimes they’re just things that only another nurse would understand (IYKYK) 😏

Gemini season has inspired my Gemini brain, and I recently had a light bulb moment 💡

For the next 21 days, I’ll be highlighting 21 common challenges nurses face and getting the conversation rolling about nurse health and wellbeing.

Not everybody will get it, and that’s ok 👌🏻

But if you’re a nurse (or know someone who is), I’d love for you to play along.

Share your stories, experiences, funny moments and reflections in the comments as we go. You might even inspire a future post 😉🩺💉😷

Tag your nursing bestie below ⬇️

Challenge starts Monday, 1 June.

See you then 😉

28/05/2026

You’re Invited to The Tea Party! 🫖🎉

Gemini season has inspired my Gemini brain and gifted me a heap of brilliant new ideas 💡

And this next one is a cracker! 🤩

Allow me to introduce:

The Tea Party 🫖

Once a month, we’ll gather online with a cuppa in hand for an hour of honest conversation, seasonal living, Ayurveda, yoga, health and wellbeing, creativity, personal growth, books, laughter and connection 🌿📚🩷✨

Each month will have a different topic or theme to inspire our discussion. Our first gathering in June is Winter Wonderland ❄️

Designed to gently ease us into the beginning of winter, we’ll explore ways to slow down, create nourishing winter rituals, incorporate Ayurveda into the colder months, and enjoy warming teas ☕️🔥

This is not a fancy club where you have to be well-dressed or say the right things to please people. It’s about showing up as you are (and yes, pyjamas are absolutely acceptable 😉), grabbing yourself a cup of tea, and connecting with like-minded people for a chat 🥰

I’d love to have you join us 🫶🏻

🔗 Link in bio for all the details.

Katrina 🌻

25/05/2026

📣 Nursing friends! 📣

The CPD deadline is almost here ⏰

If you’re still chasing a few final hours, don’t worry — I’ve got your back 😏

My 1-hour self-paced online course may help tick the box and get you over the line ✅

“Short, Sweet & Stress-Free: An Ayurvedic Approach to Stress Management for Nurses” is designed specifically for nurses who are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, exhausted or emotionally drained 😩

✨ 1 hour online learning
✨ Self-paced
✨ Watch, listen or read
✨ Simple, practical Ayurvedic tools you can start using immediately

Perfect for last-minute CPD👌🏻

🔗 Link in bio to check it out 👀

24/05/2026

It’s a big decision to surrender your nursing registration 🩺

I paid my own way through uni, worked hard to earn my degree, and built a career that lasted 17 years.

I didn’t leave because of the people I met or the places I worked.

Quite the opposite, in fact.

I met some of the most incredible humans through nursing, and the connections I made are genuine, lifelong and heartfelt 🫶🏻

But over time, nursing began to feel more about meeting targets on paper than truly caring for the people behind them.

And that wasn’t what I signed up for.

So I started following a seed that had quietly been planted in my mind back in 2009.

The seed of Ayurveda 🌿

The more I learnt, the more I began to understand myself — my body, my mind, my habits, my rhythms 🧘🏼‍♀️🧠🌞🌙

And from that understanding came a desire to share this knowledge with others.

With nurses, in fact.

Because I know what it’s like.

The shift work, the lack of routine, the never ending work load, the paperwork, the poor sleep…I get it!

And that’s why I now share Ayurveda with nurses.

Not because I think nurses need fixing — but because I know how easy it is to forget to care for yourself while caring for everyone else 🤲🏻

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