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Your first year as a registered nurse is challenging and with this podcast, your host, Kati Kleber, hopes to dispel myths, offer encouraging words, and fill in some of the blanks left from nursing school to enable you to excel in your first job as a registered nurse. Kati features many guests throughout the episodes, and they dive into topics like what new grad hospital orientation is really like, code blues, time management, delegation, patient deaths, and more.

Please note, while patient experiences are discussed, their identifying details have been changed to protect their privacy and uphold HIPAA.

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Episodes

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1. The Ideal NCLEX Study Timeline
2. 4 Nurses on TikTok Fired: My Thoughts
3. NCLEX Next Generation and NCLEX FAQ’s
4. Major Differences Between ER Nurses and Floor Nurses
5. 4 Reasons Why Nurses are Mean to Nursing Students
6. Maureen Osuna, MSN RN – An Interview with Nurse Mo, MSN RN
7. How to Study for Nursing School
8. The Power of a Quick Win
9. How to Pass Nursing School Exams
10. Military Nursing – An Interview with a 20-Year Veteran, Julie Florentin, DNP Student
11. Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and Researcher – An Interview with Tamar Rodney, PhD, MSN, RN PMHNP-BC, CNE
12. What’s a Death Doula? An Interview with Melanie Sheckles
13. Traits to Develop as a New Grad Nurse – An Interview with Nurse Mo, MSN RN
14. Why I Hate “Fake it Til You Make it”
15. How to Take Charge of Your Nursing Career
16. Are Digital Stethoscopes Worth The Money?
17. Should I Work in the ICU as a New Grad?
18. My Thoughts on Nurses Week and Reaction to Amber Heard’s Private Nurse’s Testimony
19. What’s an Awake and Walking ICU? An Interview with Kali Dayton, DNP AGACNP
20. Common Questions about Malpractice Insurance for Nurses
21. RaDonda Vaught Trial – Part 2, Interview with Lorie Brown, RN MN JD
22. Deep Dive: RaDonda Vaught Trial, Charges, and Timeline
23. Surviving Your First Code Blue – Interview with Will Kelly, MSN FNP-C
24. How to Study for the CCRN [Critical Care Certification Exam]
25. Deconstructing the NYT Article and My Thoughts on the “Nursing Shortage” Bonus Episode
26. Exploring Publication Bias
27. Communication Tips – Your Loved Ones
28. Communication Tips – Difficult Conversations
29. Communication Tips – Patients and Their Support Systems
30. Communication Tips – Other Members of the Healthcare Team
31. Communication Tips – Your Nursing Team
32. Patient Pathways – Whipple
33. Patient Pathways – OMFS
34. Patient Pathways – Trauma Patient
35. How I Got Started in Nursing
36. Is Nursing Sustainable?
37. I Finally Know What I Am Doing – Now What?
38. How to Prepare for Your First Shift
39. When You Don’t Land Your Dream Job
40. What Does a High Performing New Grad Look Like?
41. The Unspoken Nursing Hierarchy and Why It’s Garbage
42. Nursing Interview Questions: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
43. Proactively Preventing Nurse Burnout
44. Unwritten Rules of Nursing
45. Tips for New Charge Nurses
46. Tips for New Nurse Preceptors
47. Back to Nursing Basics
48. When Nurses Should Call the Rapid Response Team
49. Nurses and the Coronavirus: Current PPE Recommendations Dissected
50. Nurses and the Coronavirus: Coping With Fear
51. Nurses and the Coronavirus: Background, Boundaries, and Fear
52. How to Deal With Family Members (who are not mad at you)
53. What Nursing Teamwork Practically Looks Like at the Bedside
54. Nursing Considerations with Brain Death and Organ Procurement
55. Nursing Considerations for Organ Procurement
56. Tips for Floating to Another Unit
57. All Things Urinary Catheters
58. Talking to Unconscious Patients
59. How to Trust Your Nursing Judgment
60. Intensive Care Devices: Part 2
61. Intensive Care Devices: Part 1
62. How to Navigate Nursing Conferences
63. What Nurses Need to Know About Palliative Care
64. Understanding Nursing Leadership
65. All Things Respiratory
66. What Nurses Need to Know About Sepsis
67. Nursing Certifications- The What, Why, How, and When
68. Tips for Cardiac Nurses
69. Patients We Will Never Forget
70. Tips for Working Night Shift
71. Code STEMI, Code Stroke, Code Sepsis
72. Dealing with a Negative Unit Culture, Nurse Bullies, and Confrontation
73. Tips for New Grad Nurses on Resumes, Applications, and Interviews
74. Nurses Make Mistakes
75. Pain Management Tips
76. Tips for New Grads in the ICU
77. Neuro Nurse Tips for Newbies Part 3: Meds, Diagnostics, Monitoring, and Surgeries
78. Neuro ICU Nurse Tips for Newbies, Part 2: Disease Processes
79. Neuro Nurse Tips for Newbies, Part 1: When to Worry, Disease Processes
80. Nursing Report for Newbies
81. Time Management Tips for New Nurses
82. Dealing With Patient Deaths
83. Diagnostics for New Nurses
84. Dealing with Difficult Patients and Families
85. If it Wasn’t Documented, It Wasn’t Done
86. Delegation for New Nurses
87. Working With Physicians
88. Nursing Work-Life Balance
89. What to do During a Code
90. Central Venous Catheters 101
91. What to Expect During Your New Graduate Nursing Orientation

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