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Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses

Self-care for nurses is a critical nursing skill that is difficult to master. Focusing on mental wellness is the only way to survive and thrive as a nurse in a sustainable way. Sometimes we all need a reminder of ways we can focus on caring for ourselves instead of always putting others first. These articles dig into topics around emotional wellness, boundaries, and building resilience as a nurse.

4 L&D TikTok Nurses Fired: My Thoughts

December 21, 2022 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

I recorded a podcast episode version of this post, to listen to it, simply click play below. What Went Down On TikTok recently, there has been a trend called the “ick” trend. Essentially, people do share their “icks” (annoyances) in short 1–3-minute videos. Many were lighthearted and poking fun at one another. The few that […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses

Anticipating Compassion Fatigue in Pandemic-Weary Nurses

June 15, 2021 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Anticipating Compassion Fatigue in Pandemic-Weary Nurses

Compassion fatigue has been recognized as a phenomenon in clinicians for decades. Here an RN talks about how to manage compassion fatigue.

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses Tagged With: compassion fatigue, nurse burnout, self compassion

I Hate Being a Nurse – What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

June 1, 2021 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

I Hate Being a Nurse - What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do

Have you said, I hate being a nurse? Use these tips to help prevent or move past nursing burnout so that you can get back to enjoying your job.

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses Tagged With: hate being a nurse, hate my job, nurse burnout, nursing burnout

Symptom Media: Redefining Mental Health Education and CE Courses

May 11, 2021 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

SYMPTOM MEDIA: REDEFINING MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION AND CE COURSES

Symptom Media began as a collaboration between mental health experts and filmmakers, focusing on visual education for mental health education.

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses Tagged With: CEUs, Mental Health, Mental Health Education, Symptom Media

Healthy Eating For Nurses

November 28, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 5 Comments

Healthy Eating For Nurses

Working 12 hour shifts can really it difficult to stay on track with health and wellness, but healthy eating for nurses is a critical component of overall wellness. A reader asked what I do to focus on healthy eating while working long shifts: I’m about to start my grad year and was just wondering- what do you usually take for meals? I […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, New Nurse, Nurse Life Tagged With: healthy, healthy nurse, helpful hints, meal planning, meal prep, self care

When my patient’s son pulled up my Instagram account

January 14, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Nurses on social media can be a wonderful thing. It can help build your brand, connect you with others, and even further your career.

Nurses on social media can be a wonderful thing. It can help build your brand, connect you with others, and even further your career. But depending on how you use social media, it could harm you. I was working in critical care. It was the day shift and I had just finished my morning med […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses Tagged With: difficult situations, helpful hints, new nurse, nurse, nurses, personal experience

Overcoming Anxiety – Top Tips for New Graduate Nurses

January 7, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Overcoming Anxiety - Top Tips for New Graduate Nurses

Beat the first year nurse anxiety. These top tips for new graduate nurses will help you learn how to become more confident.

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, New Nurse Tagged With: helpful tips, new grad nurse, new grads, new nurse, tips, tips for new grad nurses

10 Unwritten Rules for Nurses

October 8, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 3 Comments

10 Unwritten Rules for Nurses

You won’t learn this in nursing school, but your life will be so much better once you read (and follow) this list. These 10 unwritten rules for nurses might seem like common sense, but someone had to say them.

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, New Nurse Tagged With: FreshRN, nurse, nurses, rules, rules for nurses

Nurses and Secondary Trauma

July 25, 2017 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 7 Comments

Nurses and Secondary Trauma

  When I started nursing school, I had a fascination with being in the thick of the really intense medical situations that frequently accompany working in an acute care facility. The more intricate and gory the story or predicament, the better.  I wanted to be in the middle of the action, part of the team. […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses Tagged With: Encouragement, nurses, secondary trauma

When Your Patient Starts Crying

December 31, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

When Your Patient Starts Crying

One of the first questions you may ask yourself in your nursing career is “What to do when a patient starts crying.” Everyone has their own forte’, and for some, providing emotional support to people in crisis can be an OMG WHAT DO I DO moment. It can be uncomfortable. It can be weird. It […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, New Grad Nurse, New Nurse, Patient Care Tagged With: death and dying, difficult situations, emotional support, Encouragement, family and patient support, helpful hints, how-to, patient deaths

Meal Planning Tips and Tricks for Nurses, Part II

September 4, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Being a nurse, working shift work, it can be tough making sure you eat appropriately. A few years ago, my husband and I got into a pretty regular routine to offset the nutritional challenges that shift work presents. This is my second post regarding this topic. Please click here to read the first post explaining […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, Nurse Life Tagged With: healthy nurse, helpful hints, how-to, married to a nurse, meal planning, self care

Meal Planning Tips and Tricks for Nurses – Part I

August 24, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Learning how to get my meals together was a challenge when I was adjusting to working three 12-hour shifts per week. I always waited until I was hungry, never had the food in the house to make something yummy and quick, and then would either go to the grocery store last minute and spend way […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, Nurse Life Tagged With: healthy nurse, helpful hints, how-to, married to a nurse, meal planning, meal prep, self care

Nursing Time Management for When You’re Totally Overwhelmed

July 25, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

time management

This post contains affiliate links It never fails. You start your day with the best nursing time management intentions.  You started your assessments and meds on time (woo hoo!), and then all of a sudden three doctors round at once and expect you to implement their orders immediately. One patient needs to pee, one needs […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, New Grad Nurse, Time Management Tagged With: delegation, emotional support, Encouragement, helpful hints, how-to, self care, time management

Why I Can’t Cry With You

November 21, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Since my post I Wish I Could Cry With You, But I Can’t went up, there has been quite a large response. I felt the need to write a follow-up post to further explain myself.  I think that a lot of nurses really understood what I meant with my post, but those that either aren’t nurses or […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses Tagged With: death and dying, difficult situations, education, emotional support

I Wish I Could Cry With You, But I Can’t

October 26, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

This post contains affiliate links Author’s note: I believe many people misunderstood what I meant by I can’t cry with you. I think many assumed that I was trying to communicate that I am not allowed to cry, rather than I emotionally cannot handle your pain right now and therefore must distance myself.  Please check out my follow-up […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses Tagged With: death and dying, difficult situations, Encouragement, patient stories, personal experience, stories

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

How to Deal With Gossipy Nurses

July 19, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

I recently got a job as a new grad in a peds hospital, I love my job but hate the people I work with, they all gossip and talk behind everyone’s back and I’m not sure how to deal with that. I don’t want to seem rude but don’t want to be part of that […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, Nurse Life Tagged With: bullying, difficult situations, Encouragement, helpful hints, nursing peer support, recommendations, self care, teamwork

For The Anxious Nurse: Tips For Nurses Who Struggle With Anxiety

June 18, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 5 Comments

After being in the field for a while, I’ve noticed a common theme… anxious nurses. We see people die during a normal day at work.  Our normal day is someone’s last.  At any moment, someone’s heart can stop and we’re responsible for restarting it.  Someone can stop breathing and we’ve got to know what to do […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, New Nurse Tagged With: emotional support, Encouragement, nursing peer support, personal experience, self care

Dealing with Nurse Jerks and Bullies

March 25, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Nursing can be a very humbling career path. In nursing school, you’re constantly told how to do things and being corrected, and not always in the most gracious ways. And then when you get your big fancy nursing job, you feel like you just went from 8th grade, where you’re on the top of the […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, New Grad Nurse Tagged With: emotional support, Encouragment, how-to, nursing peer support, self care

When You Want to Quit

December 20, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

When you’re working on your pre-req’s and going through nursing school, in your first few years of nursing school, or just switched specialties, it gets really tough sometimes.  So much information is being thrown at you that you have no idea what’s important and what’s not, and you begin to wonder if you’re just totally […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, Nurse Life Tagged With: emotional support, Encouragement, nursing peer support, personal experience, self care

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