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Critical Care Nursing

Critical care is one of the most exciting and fast-paced nursing specialties. Here you’ll find resources to evolve your skills in critical care nursing whether you are a new grad or seasoned nurse.

Thinking about becoming a critical care nurse??

An introductory course to critical care nursing is a great way to prepare for this new and intimidating transition. Breakthrough ICU is the premier critical care course for nurses new to ICU.

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What is the Prone Position Used For?

June 8, 2021 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

What is the Prone Position Use For?

Have you wondered what is the prone position used for? This article will focus on prone positioning and the reasons why we use it.

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: prone, proning, tips for an ICU nurse

Types of Nursing Assessments Every Nurse Needs To Know

April 27, 2021 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

Types of Nursing Assessments Every Nurse Needs To Know

Learn about the different types of nursing assessments that nurses need to perform. Here’s what you need to know about each type of assessment.

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: cardiac nurse assessment, Conscious assessment, focused assessments, head to toe assessments, Neuro Assessment, nursing assessments

Advice For New ICU Nurses

December 1, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Advice For New ICU Nurses

The ICU is an overwhelming place to start a new job. This advice for new ICU nurses will help you succeed through your first month.

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: ICU, ICU nurse, new nurse, new nurse work in ICU

Top Tips for New Neuro Nurses

March 10, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Working in intensive care is so different from the rest of the hospital. These tips for new neuro nurses will answer all questions.

Working in intensive care is so different from the rest of the hospital. These tips for new neuro nurses will answer all questions.

Filed Under: Critical Care, Neuro Nursing Tagged With: neuro nurse, neuro nurse tips, new grad nurse, tips for new grad nurses

New Grad ICU Nurses: Tips & Advice from an Experienced Nurse

February 11, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 3 Comments

New Grad ICU Nurses: Tips & Advice from an Experienced Nurse

Take it from someone who has been there and done that. You won’t find these tips and advice anywhere else, only from this experienced nurse. Working as a new grad is hard. Working as a New Grad in the ICU is even harder. Let’s look at some tips and advice from an experienced nurse.

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: experienced nurse, helpful tips, ICU nurse, new grad, tips

Top Tips for New Grad Nurses in ICU

December 17, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Top Tips for New Grad Nurses in ICU

If you’re looking for top tips for new grad nurses in ICU, this post is for you. Many graduating nursing students are heading straight into critical care upon graduation, and this blog post will give you an overview of what to expect as you start that first job. This blog post outlines the top tips […]

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: FreshRN, ICU, nurse, nurses, tips, top tips for new grad nurses in the icu

Critical Care Nursing Certification: How to Pass the CCRN Exam

November 1, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Critical Care Nursing Certification How to Pass the CCRN® An interview with a critical care clinical nurse specialist

Interested in getting your CCRN? In this post, we interview a nurse who teaches CCRN review and go over specific study tips and recommendations.

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: CCRN, How to Pass the CCRN

ICU vs ER/ED Nurse – What’s the Difference?

August 13, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

ICU vs ER/ED Nurse - What’s the Difference?

Both ICU (Intensive Care Unit) nurses and ER/ED (Emergency Room/Emergency Department) nurses work very fast-paced jobs that require them to think quickly and experience patients that have very serious diagnosis’. 

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: ED nurse, ER Nurse, ICU nurse, new nurse

Can a New Nurse Work in the ICU?

July 30, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

Can a New Nurse Work in the ICU?

Is it possible for a new nurse to get their first job in the ICU? Yes, but it is the exception and not the rule. I want to encourage all new nurses and nurse grads – if your goal is to work in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), that it might be possible right away, but it’s not easy and not for everyone

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: ICU devices, ICU nurse, new grad nurse, new nurse, new nurse work in ICU, new nurses

How to Become an ICU Nurse – Essential Interview Tips for New Nurses

July 18, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

How to Become an ICU Nurse - Essential Interview Tips for New Nurses

Discover everything you need to know to become an Intensive Care (ICU), nurse. From the interview to the job, this is your complete guide. What is an ICU Nurse? Before you apply to work as an ICU nurse, it’s important to understand what they do. In my post, “What do ICU Nurses Do?” I explained […]

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: ACLS, become an icu nurse, ICU, ICU nurse, new grad nurse, tips for a new grad in the ICU

What Do Nurse Anesthetists Do? (CRNA)

August 21, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

What Do CRNAs Do?

Interested in becoming a CRNA? Not sure exactly what that means? This guest post takes a closer look at what do nurse anesthetists do! Most operating rooms release the schedule the night before. Unlike bedside nurses, nurse anesthetists don’t start their day with Nurse Drama Hour. You know, the hand-off that details all the hard, […]

Filed Under: Critical Care, Nursing Jobs & Interviews Tagged With: CRNA, guest post, Nurse Anesthetists, nurse careers, nurse specialty, what do nurse anesthetists do

Top Tips for New Nurses Working With Ventilators – From a CRNA!

July 17, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

Top Tips for New Nurses Working With Ventilators

Periwinkle is a lovely color. A soft, subtle blue, it looks best as Helen Hunt’s eyeshadow in 1995 or on an Easter egg. It looks worst on your patient’s skin. While waiting for the respiratory therapist to come bail you out, understanding some common sense and troubleshooting will keep your patient pink, or in my case, healthy brown instead of sickly green

Filed Under: Critical Care, Patient Care Tagged With: CRNA, guest post, guest posts, respiratory, Working With Ventilators

What Do Emergency Nurses Do?

February 20, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Day in the Life of an ER Nurse

As many of you know, I am not an emergency department nurse. However, I receive many questions about emergency nursing. In going along with our “what do nurses do” series, Susan DuPont, fellow nurse blogger and emergency nurse, will go over a day in the life of an ER Nurse!

Filed Under: Critical Care, Nursing Jobs & Interviews Tagged With: career, ER Nurse, FreshRN, guest post, nurse specialty, nurses, nursing specialties, specialty

What Do ICU Nurses Do?

February 13, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 6 Comments

ICU nurse

Being an ICU nurse sounds like a pretty cool job, doesn’t it? Really, any job with the word “intense” in the title sounds… well, intensely awesome. I’m here to dispel any doubt and inform you that yes, ICU nursing is pretty legit. While it sounds cool, many are not aware of what ICU nurses actually do during a typical 12-hour shift.

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: career, FreshRN, ICU nurse, nurses, speciality

Inpatient to Outpatient: Transitioning from the ICU to Primary Care

January 16, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

I am currently two semesters away from graduating with my masters as a family nurse practitioner. I plan to work in family practice in an office setting. It’s a stark contrast and it’s reasonable to ask why I made such a big move from ICU to Primary Care.

I am currently two semesters away from graduating with my masters as a family nurse practitioner. I plan to work in family practice in an office setting. It’s a start contrast and it’s reasonable to ask why I made such a big move from ICU to Primary Care.

Filed Under: Critical Care, Patient Care Tagged With: guest post, ICU, ICU to Primary Care, nurse, Transfer

What Do Perioperative Nurses Do? An Interview with an OR Nurse

November 12, 2017 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

So you’re a nurse or in nursing school, and you think you want to work in the operating room… or endoscopy… or the postanesthesia care unit… or interventional radiology. But, what are the important things to know before getting into this specialized field within nursing? What do perioperative nurses do, exactly?

Filed Under: Critical Care, Nursing Jobs & Interviews, Nursing School and NCLEX® Tagged With: AORN, AORN conference, continuing education, education, nurse speciality, nurse specialty, nursing specialties, OR nurse, PACU, perioperative nursing, pre-op

Top Tips for a New Grad Emergency Department Nurse

March 21, 2017 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 29 Comments

Top Tips for a New Grad Emergency Department Nurse

This post contains affiliate links. **This is a guest post, written by Lynn Sayre Visser, MSN, RN, CEN, CPEN, CLNC, PHN who is a registered nurse with over twenty-five years of diverse experience including pre-hospital care, emergency department, intensive care unit, post-anesthesia care unit, and organ procurement. Ms. Visser is the author of Rapid Access Guide for […]

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: Emergency Department Nurse, new grads, new nurse, nurse

Tips for New Grads in the ICU

January 3, 2017 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Tips for New Grads in the ICU

If you want to know how to be a good icu nurse, these tips for new grads in the ICU are for you! In the beginning… Hopefully, you did your homework by learning what to expect in a critical care unit. Bonus points for you if you had the opportunity to observe nurses in a […]

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: helpful hints, new grads, new nurse, new nurse work in ICU

Perfecting Your Craft – Week 2, ICU Time Management Tips

April 5, 2016 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Perfecting Your Craft - Week 2, ICU Time Management Tips

These ICU Time Management Tips can help if you are adequately staffed, have an appropriate assignment, and nothing happens that changes your plan

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: critical care, helpful hints, how-to, time management

You’re a Life Saver. Literally

August 24, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

I don’t know if any of you nurses out there struggle with what I’ve been fighting over the last year or so.  Whenever I’m in a large crowd and see elderly people or someone not looking so hot, I play the worst-case scenario out in my mind. They collapse.  I run over.  Start CPR.  Yell […]

Filed Under: Critical Care, Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, New Grad Nurse, New Nurse Tagged With: death and dying, emotional support, Encouragement, nursing peer support, patient death, self care

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