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Time Management for Nurses

Time management is one of the most difficult skills for new nurses to master. You'll find tips and strategies to improve your nursing time management in each of these articles. If you're ready to master your time management as a new nurse, check out the New Nurse Masterclass.

For the Overwhelmed New Graduate Nurse

November 7, 2022 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 14 Comments

So you’ve just started your new job as a new graduate nurse. You have a great preceptor, you like your unit, and your manager seems pretty cool. But you dread going to work. You get report and you’re already an hour behind. You’re already an overwhelmed nurse. There are so many things to do right this second that you shut down. You can’t do this. It’s too much. You struggle through each day, just trying to get to the end of the shift. You are elated for days off. You dread going back. Is this really what you signed up for? Will this EVER end?

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, New Nurse, Time Management Tagged With: emotional support, helpful hints, nursing peer support, overwhelmed nurse, self care, time management

How To Master Nursing Delegation

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

How To Master Nursing Delegation

This is so important! Nursing delegation frees up your mind so you can focus on the most important tasks first. Here’s how to master it.

Filed Under: New Nurse, Time Management Tagged With: delegation, nursing assistants, teamwork

Organization Tips for New Nurses

February 25, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Organization Tips for New Nurses

Feeling frazzled? These organization tips for nurses will help you maintain your sanity and stay in control. 

I know how it feels when it seems like everything is spinning out of control. Life is moving on and you are just holding on, trying to keep up. And it happens to all of us, not just the new nurses! 

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, New Nurse, Time Management Tagged With: amz, new nurse, nurse, Nurse tips, nurses, Organization

Nursing Time Management for When You’re Totally Overwhelmed

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

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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

Delegation Tips for Nurses

June 12, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Delegation Tips for Nurses

Delegation is a tough thing to master as a new nurse.  While the NCLEXNCLEX tells you which tasks are appropriate to delegate, it doesn’t exactly outline how to go about doing it. I realize that not all units have certified nursing assistants (CNAs) or patient care technicians (techs), but many do.  This post is for […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, New Nurse, Time Management Tagged With: amz, delegation, helpful hints, how-to, Interdisciplinary Teamwork, nursing assistants, time management

How to Manage Your Time in Critical Care for Nurses: Part II

June 28, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

This post contains affiliate links One of the most important things to master in critical care is prioritization.. what do you do first?  It’s kind of like prioritization on the floor, except the stakes are higher.  Instead of doctors rounding, patients being hypertensive, patients in pain, families wanting you to discharge them 10 minutes ago, […]

Filed Under: Critical Care, New Grad Nurse, Patient Care, Time Management Tagged With: critical care, education, helpful hints, how-to, time management

How to Manage Your Time in Critical Care For Nurses: Part I

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

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  I’ve worked on both the floor and intensive care. In both units time management is absolutely essential. However, time management on the floor is very different from time management in critical care.   I’m going to go through some tips to help you appropriately managing your time in a critical care setting.  I know it […]

Filed Under: Critical Care, New Grad Nurse, Patient Care, Time Management Tagged With: critical care, education, helpful hints, how-to, patient care, procedures, time management

Nursing Time Management Scenarios

April 24, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 3 Comments

Something that is essential in your development as an efficient and safe care provider is appropriate time management.  Below are some sticky situations and the safest and most efficient way to address them. Q:  You’re assessing your new admission.  She’s crying in pain.  Her blood pressure is 162/38.  She needs an IV.  There are pended […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Patient Care, Time Management Tagged With: helpful hints, how-to, professional development, teamwork, time management

Nursing Time Management Tips

March 8, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Learning your own time management style is one of the toughest parts about being a new grad.  Here are tips I developed after working on an acute care nursing floor with cardiac and stroke patients.  I typically had 4-5 patients on day shift and 5-6 on night shift.  Report was 30 minutes and ended at […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Time Management Tagged With: delegation, helpful hints, how-to, teamwork, time management

How to Stay Calm in the Midst of Chaos

December 9, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Most of us have a lot going on in our lives all the time. Between work, children and school, most people are constantly running from one to another, spending more than we would like even when we know it will do no good. Life is stressful even if you’re one of those who can maintain […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Patient Care, Time Management Tagged With: delegation, helpful hints, nursing peer support, teamwork, time management

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Kati Kleber, MSN RN

The founder and educator behind FreshRN® is a nurse educator, author, national speaker, host of the FreshRN Podcast, and owner of FreshRN® – an online platform created to educate, encourage, and motivate newly licensed nurses in innovative ways. 

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