Past Caring Deaf Nursing and Mental Health Ep4

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:38:41 +0000

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Our fourth episode is finally here! We are so excited to share this one. It's all about D/deaf nursing and mental health care.

This is the vodcast version with BSL. If you'd like to listen to it as a podcast, find Past Caring on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify etc, or visit the RCN website here: https://www.rcn.org.uk/news-an....d-events/podcasts/pa

Frances talks to Herbert Klein, Deaf Advisor, and Jennifer Meek, Deaf Recovery Community Nurse, based in Birmingham. Hear from them about why having Deaf professionals in health care is vital for strong communication and proper diagnoses for Deaf people. Herbert also recalls his work around building a mental health vocabulary in British Sign Language, and how to understand Deaf peoples' experience of voices and delusions.

Next up Frances chats with Deaf poet and mental health activist Richard D France. He performs some of his poetry for us, and tells us more about his experiences of navigating the mental health system and what it felt like to finally be around nurses that signed!

Our final guest is Deaf historian Peter Brown. Peter has uncovered some incredible stories of the history of Deaf culture, going right back to the eighteenth century. He tells us about Sarah Pounceby, early sign language pioneer, and how British Sign Language developed.

And a big thank you to our brilliant interpreters for supporting this episode: Caroline Richardson, Paul Hollingdrake, Marcel Hirshman, David Wolfenden and Amy Woods.

Producer: Natalie Steed. Film editor: Jeremy Richardson.

Some links for you:

You can find out more about Richard's life in this programme on BSL Zone: www.bslzone.co.uk/watch/gettin....g-pe…-richard-france
He also performed for us at the RCN back in 2017, You can watch that here: youtu.be/lC4Y5eCk118

In 2018, Herbert was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award by South West London & St George's Mental Health Trust. Here's a video of him reflecting on his career: www.swlstg.nhs.uk/about-our-co....urse…chievement-awar

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
02:09 Deaf nursing services with Herbert Klein and Jennifer Meek
29:08 Poetry with Richard D France
47:03 History of British Sign Language with Peter Brown