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How to Stand out as a New Grad Nurse

June 7, 2021 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

How to Stand out as a New Grad Nurse

Learn key tips and skills to ensure you know how to stand out as a new grad nurse. Resumes, Networking, Experience, Volunteering and more!

Filed Under: First Nurse Job, New Grad Nurse Tagged With: for students, helpful hints, how-to, nursing interviews, nursing jobs

Why is My Stroke Patient NPO? What To Do & Why

October 6, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Why Is My Stroke Patient NPO? What To Do & Why

If you ever receive a stroke patient and they are NPO, this is why that call was made and how you should handle it.

Filed Under: Neuro Nursing Tagged With: for students, interdisciplinary team, Neuro, neuro patients, NPO, stroke

How Do I Become a Nurse?

September 29, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

How do I become a nurse

How do I become a nurse? Do you want to become a nurse? This is everything you need to know about school and the job – from an experienced nurse who’s been there.

Filed Under: Nursing School and NCLEX® Tagged With: for students, nursing school, professional development

Student Loan Forgiveness and Management for Nurses

August 8, 2017 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

You can rely on two things once you earn your degree, a new profession and lots of student loan payments. Student Loan Forgiveness and Management for Nurses

You can rely on two things once you earn your degree, a new profession and lots of student loan payments. Student Loan Forgiveness and Management for Nurses….

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Nurse Life Tagged With: amz, debt, for students, guest post, helpful hints, new grad, student loan forgiveness, student loans

7 Financial Ideas for Nurses Planning for Graduate School

March 17, 2016 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Today we have a guest blog post from Nick Angelis, CRNA MSN, about a topic that is near and dear to my heart – financial planning.  I know it’s a weird thing to be passionate about, but I believe any and everyone should be able to get a higher education without going into financial ruin […]

Filed Under: Nurse Life, Nursing School and NCLEX®, Professional Development for Nurses Tagged With: amz, financial planning, for students, guest posts, helpful hints, nursing school, professional development

Nursing School Pharmacology Doesn’t Have to Suck!

July 31, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Hands down, the hardest class in nursing school for me was pharmacology. I’m bad at straight forward memorization, especially when it’s medications I’ve never actually used or seen in real life. Naturally, I squeaked by with a B in Pharmacology. I scoured the internet for various resources, but didn’t find much. Luckily there are pharmacology for nurses resources that can help!

Filed Under: Nurse Products & Reviews, Nursing School and NCLEX® Tagged With: amz, for students, medications, nursing school, pharmacology, product reviews, sponsored

Product Review: Online NCLEX Review Program – UWorld

June 1, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Thank you to the UWorld team for partnering with me on this review post.  All opinions are my own and below is my honest experience with the program.  Enjoy!  With the 2015 nursing seniors graduating and getting ready to take their boards, I thought it’d be beneficial to review an online NCLEX resource called UWorld! […]

Filed Under: Nurse Products & Reviews, Nursing School and NCLEX® Tagged With: for students, NCLEX, nursing school, product reviews, recommended

Medication Administration Basics for Nursing Students

March 28, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

One of the major things you learn in nursing school is how to give medications. I’d like to explain some nursing basic things because when I was in school, no one told me this stuff.. it was just assumed we knew all of this.  So here are some basic, yet essential, things to know about […]

Filed Under: Nursing School and NCLEX®, Patient Care Tagged With: for students, helpful hints, medications, nursing school, pharmacology

What is the Difference Between ADN and BSN Nursing

July 14, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

This guest blog post was written by Mitch Lee.  Mitch Lee is a community health education specialist and writer on behalf of University Alliance. With several years of experience in public health, Mitch has worked on several community wellness campaigns and participated in education advocacy projects for non-traditional students. Transitioning from ADN to BSN ─ […]

Filed Under: Professional Development for Nurses Tagged With: ADN, BSN, education, for students, guest post, guest posts, nursing school, sponsored

Nursing Pre-Requisites Study Tips

January 16, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

There are a lot of classes you have to take before you take your nursing courses. Anatomy & Physiology and Microbiology are some of the tougher ones. Honestly, I don’t remember much of micro but anatomy is something that was super helpful during nursing school. Studying for these classes is no easy task. There is […]

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How to Clean a Poopy Patient

November 25, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 12 Comments

Learn from an experienced nurse who has been there – this is how to clean a poopy patient the fastest (and best) way possible! So you’ve gone through CNA training and while you’re awesome at cleaning theoretical poop on a mannequin, you are terrified of your first poopy patient experience.  You don’t even know what […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, New Nurse, Patient Care Tagged With: amz, for students, helpful hints, how-to, nursing assistants, teamwork

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