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

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