After an extended summer hiatus, This Emergency Life returns for its third season. This year the podcast will be released monthly with the occasional bonus episodes when the need arises. We hope you will join us for what we hope will be a less demanding year than the last two have proved to be.

What better way to kick off season three of the podcast than to sit down and chat with The College of Emergency Nursing Australasia’s National President, Associate Professor Julia Morphet. Julia is an Associate Professor at Monash Nursing and Midwifery, the National President of The College of Emergency Nursing Australasia (CENA), Monash Health Senior Research Fellow (Emergency) and is the 2021 recipient of the Julie Finucane OAM Medal for Leadership in Emergency Nursing - the highest honour awarded by CENA.

Many of you will know Julia as a passionate voice for emergency care, author of more than 80 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, accomplished public speaker and a considerate and articulate emergency care thought leader. However, with all of this comes a very busy schedule which has taken us two years to penetrate and find the time to speak with her. Though we do suspect that her genuine humility and reluctance for self-promotion has also kept Julia from coming on the show to date.

During the podcast, we hear about Julia’s ‘back story’, her research and her thoughts on emergency care workforce and practice preparation. Oh, and we also hear Julia’s response to the perennial TEL question… in an ideal world what would the state of emergency care look like?

It was delightful to finally catch up with Julia and we hope you find her insights as engaging, insightful and enjoyable as we did. We look forward to bringing you more stories from the emergency care community in 2022 and thank you all for your support of the podcast.