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emotional support

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

What Is Holistic Nursing Care

September 28, 2021 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

What Is Holistic Nursing Care

The recent demand for healthcare services have lead to the adoption of holistic health care programs. But what is holistic nursing care?

Filed Under: Patient Care Tagged With: emotional support, family and patient support, how-to, nurse, nurses, personal experience

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

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

An Ode to My Steering Wheel

December 11, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Many things are synonymous with nursing… stethoscopes, nursing caps and pins, a solid pair of Danskos…but one of nursing’s unsung hero’s is our steering wheel. A day at work that has me on the verge of tears all day has me yearning for that moment when I can stumble to my car, close the door, […]

Filed Under: Nurse Life Tagged With: emotional support, Encouragement, patient stories, personal experience, stories

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

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

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

Sitting Down for Your Patient

May 23, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

I went to NTI in Denver, Colorado this last week.  For those of you that don’t know, it’s an annual national conference for critical care nurses.  And it’s awesome. I went to a lot of sessions.  Some on brain death, some on vasoactive drips, on sepsis, and hyponatremia.. but the ones that hit me the hardest […]

Filed Under: Patient Care, Professional Development for Nurses Tagged With: death and dying, difficult situations, education, emotional support, family and patient support, patient 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

A Nurse’s Confession: Sometimes I Hate My Job

February 11, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

But not in the way you’d think.  It’s not the hours or the pay or the poops.  It’s how keenly and constantly aware I am of our precious and fragile lives. Today while I was driving, I came up behind a car with an “organ donors save lives” bumper sticker and I immediately thought, that […]

Filed Under: Nurse Life Tagged With: death and dying, difficult situations, emotional support, patient stories, personal experience, stories

Our Nursing Reality – Part II

January 18, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Back in November, I posed a question to my nursey Twitter buds: If you were on a reality show.. what moment in your nursing career would you want the world to see? #nursingreality The response was jaw dropping.  Every single tweet I read moved me to tears… either from laughing so hard or being so […]

Filed Under: Nurse Life, Patient Care Tagged With: death and dying, difficult situations, emotional support, Encouragement, patient stories, personal experience, stories

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

Nursing Mistakes That Will Make You Feel Better

September 21, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Nursing Mistakes That Will Make You Feel Better

Sometimes just hearing someone else’s stories makes you feel better about your own anxiety. Read these nursing mistakes and know that you are not alone. Real Nursing Mistakes That Actually Happened Did you just start out as a brand new nurse and feel totally overwhelmed? I was too! There is hope; it does get easier. […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses Tagged With: emotional support, mistakes, nursing peer support

Comfort Care Conversations

September 10, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Comfort Care Conversations

It’s a tough world out there. We’ve all been dealing with the chaos from COVID-19. Wherever you live, you have to deal with overcrowding, poverty, pollution problems caused by people, and machines that weren’t made for living in a city environment. Life can be difficult, but it will always get better. Some pressures and responsibilities […]

Filed Under: Patient Care Tagged With: difficult situations, emotional support, family and patient support

Dealing With Difficult Families

September 8, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

You know it's bad when the first thing the nurse says in report is that the patient is fine but the family.... Let's talk about difficult families.

You know it’s bad when the first thing the nurse says in report is that the patient is fine but the family…. Let’s talk about difficult families.

Filed Under: Patient Care Tagged With: difficult situations, emotional support, family and patient support, patient education

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