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

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