Cath Styles in
Shift
Cath Styles has been a psychiatric nurse for 36 years, and a comedian for 20.
Between the nights, evenings, weekends and holidays she's worked in both jobs, she's never had a weekend off. Ever!
Shift is the show where both her worlds collide, and explores her on again, off again, (mostly dysfunctional!) relationship with nursing.
The highs, the lows. The shifts! The dark, beautiful, sad and, sometimes, just plain hilarious side of trying to help people hold on to their sanity, while desperately trying to keep a grip on your own!
Flavoured with the black humour of those who work on the front line at stupid o'clock, it's an insight into a world where strange is normal and normal is strange, and dispels many of the popular myths about working in mental health, such as 'mental illness only happens to other people', and 'all the hot doctors are in the ED'.
A must see for nurses, patients and everyone in-between, Shift is a refreshingly positive look at mental health from someone with the heart of a nurse and the mouth of a comic, with tips on how to love your job – even when it doesn't love you back!
See it. So she can write it off on tax!
Suitable for audiences 15+
Language – occasional coarse language
References to self-harm and suicide
Cath Styles has been a psychiatric nurse for 36 years, and a comedian for 20.
Between the nights, evenings, weekends and holidays she's worked in both jobs, she's never had a weekend off. Ever!
Shift is the show where both her worlds collide, and explores her on again, off again, (mostly dysfunctional!) relationship with nursing.
The highs, the lows. The shifts! The dark, beautiful, sad and, sometimes, just plain hilarious side of trying to help people hold on to their sanity, while desperately trying to keep a grip on your own!
Flavoured with the black humour of those who work on the front line at stupid o'clock, it's an insight into a world where strange is normal and normal is strange, and dispels many of the popular myths about working in mental health, such as 'mental illness only happens to other people', and 'all the hot doctors are in the ED'.
A must see for nurses, patients and everyone in-between, Shift is a refreshingly positive look at mental health from someone with the heart of a nurse and the mouth of a comic, with tips on how to love your job – even when it doesn't love you back!
See it. So she can write it off on tax!
Suitable for audiences 15+
Language – occasional coarse language
References to self-harm and suicide
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