What does it take to nurse someone whose privacy is gone, whose environment magnifies every symptom, and whose relationship with the health system has, until now, been broken or absent? Enda Kelly has spent more than three decades finding out.

Enda is National Nurse Manager for Operations with the Irish Prison Service, a Fellow of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, and is currently a year into a PhD on the intersection of law, ethics, and prison regulation. In this conversation, he speaks to Marie Kilduff about what prison nursing actually involves — clinically, ethically, and personally — and about the leadership practice he's built over a career.

What does it take to provide therapy to the people who provide care? Marie Kilduff speaks with Morgan Lucey, Head of National Employee Assistance Services in the HSE's Workplace Health and Wellbeing Unit, about the service that supports more than 100,000 healthcare staff across Ireland.

IF YOU NEED SUPPORT.

For HSE staff: Phone (national line): 0818 327 327

Email (referrals): eap.referral@hse.ie

Online resource hub:

www.inspiresupporthub.org/HSE-EAPandME

Website: www.hse.ie/EAPandME

Credits: Leading with Hearts and Minds is hosted by Marie Kilduff.

In this episode, Marie Kilduff speaks with Adam Harris, CEO of As I Am, Ireland's national autism charity. Adam is autistic himself, and that lived experience shapes everything he does — from founding As I Am over twelve years ago to leading the organisation's work across healthcare, employment, education and community inclusion.

Adam speaks candidly about growing up autistic in Ireland in the 1990s, navigating a system that had little awareness of autism, and the isolation he felt as a teenager before finding his voice as a writer and advocate. From that starting point, he built one of Ireland's most respected disability organisations — one that places autistic people at the centre of everything it does.

In this episode, Adam and Marie discuss:

• What it means to move beyond awareness towards genuine acceptance of autistic people
• Why autism should be understood as an accessibility issue, not a deficit
• The barriers autistic people face when accessing healthcare — and how relatively simple changes can make a significant difference
• The policy landscape shaping autism support in Ireland includes the Autism Innovation Strategy and the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People.
• The Same Chance Report — As I Am's annual state of the community report on autistic life in Ireland

Contact As I Am

https://asiam.ie

17-21 Temple Road, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, A94 DN40

If you would prefer to contact As I Am by phone to discuss your query, please call (01) 445 3203

Leading with Hearts and Minds is a podcast from the National Clinical Leadership Centre for Nursing and Midwifery.