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  • Program 4

    Meaghan gets a chance to interview a NASA Launch Director at the Kennedy Space Centre named Dave King, who is the guy who says ‘yes we will launch’ or ‘no we won’t.’ Maya and Joey interview a young rodeo clown who puts his life at risk when he goes to work. Bulls weigh about 2,000 pounds! That’s some serious danger. Zubi sits down to chat with Vasile Petrutio, the Artistic Director for the Southern Ballet Theater, who began dancing at the age of nine. And Jeremy had time to talk with two projectionists at a United Artists Theater to see how all those films are shown on the big screen.

  • Program 5

    Guest host Stephanie joins Christina on the slopes of Beaver Creek in Colorado. Christina tells her what it’s like to teach skiing and snow boarding. Zubi takes a turn with a helicopter pilot who works for WFTV in Orlando. He tells him he’s on call for his job twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Then, another guest host talks with a fireman about his dangerous line of work. She gets a tour of a real firehouse to learn what happens when a call comes in!

  • Program 6

    Joey goes one-on-one with Jack Givens, the color analyst for the Orlando Magic, who’s job it is to tell viewers what’s happening on the court and why. Zubi talks with a martial arts instructor who loves teaching people of all ages. Meaghan and Jeremy sit down to speak with an alligator wrestler who tells the audience why he does what he does.

  • Program 7

  • Program 8

  • Sexual Abuse

    Kathryn Wetheral lost her childhood to sexual abuse when her grandfather abused her for seven long years. She became anorexic and suicidal due to the pain of keeping her violent and conflicted feelings inside, but found relief when she began to speak about what had happened to her. She finally took her abuser to court and won, but also ended up fighting for her life as the anorexia swept over her during the legal process. Art therapy was a critical part of her healing, but being heard in the courts was the vindication that gave her back her life.

  • Client With Dementia and Agitation / Anxiety

    It can be very challenging for mental health nurses to care for persons with dementias like Alzheimer’s disease. In this pair of vignettes, a novice tries to comfort and re-orient an older man with dementia in a nursing home. Then we witness how a more experienced nurse is able to help the older man feel much less anxious about his current situation. A second set of vignettes demonstrates some of the skills and techniques needed when caring for a person with severe anxiety.

  • Accident

    Dominique show is a globally renowned world-beat musician, whose career was abruptly cut short by a car accident that resulted in a devastating spinal cord injury. It meant he could no longer walk, dance, or do so many of the things he had once taken for granted. Today however, he believes it was God calling him to another life. The harmonious result was an album of gospel music that blends African musical tradition with his new-found faith. He continues to believe that he will walk again, and the support of his wife has helped him find a revitalized vision for the future.

  • Client Experiencing Mania

    Our next example demonstrates a nurses who is finding it quite challenging to care for a client who is suffering from a condition called manic depression. The novice nurse is really struggling as she tries to maintain control over a home visit she is making to her client. In the second scenario the expert nurse also finds it difficult to maintain control over the visit, but manages to do so in a much more skillful and confident manner. The expert nurse also makes an important follow-up telephone call after her visit.

  • Torture

    Ezat Mossallanejad spoke out against human rights violations in his native Iran and was tortured many times for his outspokenness. He was in exile for many years under threat of death, but never lost faith in the rightness of his cause or the basic goodness of other people. He says the torturers wanted to take away his humanity, but today his work as a policy analyst and advocate at the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture is proof that they did not succeed.