Christine King- Difficult Conversations are hard - but not having them can be worse!

In this episode we are happy to speak with Christine King. Christine has 20 years’ experience as a practitioner, researcher, manager, and trainer in research, development, education and engagement across a broad range of projects from health to agriculture. She is currently a researcher at Monash University with the Department of Paramedicine and she is also an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Sustainability Research Centre, at the University of the Sunshine Coast, in Queensland Christine is going to discuss an article she has recently co-authored titled ”Avoiding Difficult Conversations in the Australian Health Sector”. Link to the study can be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2377960820941978 

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The Department of Paramedicine podcast aims to share and disseminate the latest research and scholarship from academics and researchers at Monash University and paramedicine experts around the world. We aim to cover as many diverse topics as possible and hear from our faculty, students and domestic and international colleagues at different stages of their academic, research and clinical careers. We know you are busy, so we aim to keep each episode easily digestible. We want each episode to be easy to listen to and have aimed to make each episode conversational, relaxed and not full of research jargon. We want you to relate the discussions of different paramedicine systems and results of each study to your experiences so that we can positively impact providing better clinical care and ensure that our paramedic practice is based on sound clinical evidence. We hope you enjoy every episode. All music used is unrestricted or under a creative commons license. Artist credit: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/Raising_Frequecy/Mission_Ready