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Neuro ICU Nurse – What You Need To Know

December 6, 2022 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

repeated head CT scans

A neuro ICU nurse works with patients in critical care who are suffering from very serious neurological compromise. Let’s outline some specifics.

Filed Under: Neuro Nursing Tagged With: ICU, ICU nurse, new grad, new grad nurse, nuero icu nurse, tips for an ICU nurse

What Does a High-Performing New Grad Look Like?

June 30, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

What Does a High-Performing New Grad Look Like?

Your idea of a “high performing” new grad might not be the same as what your leadership team actually expects of a brand new nurse. In this episode we hear from Amber and Chelsea, who lead a nurse residency program, about what qualities make a really great new grad nurse.

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Podcasts Tagged With: high performing, new grad, nurse, nurses

Med-Surg Nursing: Top Tips for New Grads

April 7, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

This is what you need to know about med-surg nursing as a new nurse graduate. You have your certification, here are some job tips!

You made it through nursing school and landed your first job in med-surg nursing. Now what? It’s about to get real! Don’t worry, this guide will help you out. I’m here to share all the most important tips to prepare you for your life on the hospital floor. Med-Surg Nursing Tips For New Grads I […]

Filed Under: Featured, Med-Surg Tagged With: med surg, new grad, new grad nurse, nursing specialties

New Grad ICU Nurses: Tips & Advice from an Experienced Nurse

February 11, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 3 Comments

New Grad ICU Nurses: Tips & Advice from an Experienced Nurse

Take it from someone who has been there and done that. You won’t find these tips and advice anywhere else, only from this experienced nurse. Working as a new grad is hard. Working as a New Grad in the ICU is even harder. Let’s look at some tips and advice from an experienced nurse.

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: experienced nurse, helpful tips, ICU nurse, new grad, tips

Best Nursing Jobs for New Nurse Grads

January 21, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Best Nursing Jobs for New Nurse Grads

What jobs should new nurses look for? What are the best nursing jobs for a new grad nurse? Knowing where you want to work is helpful, but all’s not lost if you don’t know. Please don’t think that if you don’t get your dream job right away that you’ve failed, that you will never work […]

Filed Under: New Nurse, Nursing Jobs & Interviews Tagged With: interviews, new grad, new grad nurse, nurse interview, nurse jobs, nursing jobs

The Ultimate Resource for New Nurses – The FreshRN New Nurse Master Class

July 31, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

  The Ultimate Resource for New Nurses – The FreshRN New Nurse Master Class When I graduated from nursing school and passed boards, I was so excited to finally be a nurse. Only, I didn’t feel like a nurse. I felt alone. I felt like somehow everyone else knew exactly what they were doing and […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse Tagged With: CEU, masterclass, new grad, new nurse, nurse

Dealing with a Negative Unit Culture, Nurse Bullies, and Confrontation

June 5, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Working on nursing units can be amazingly rewarding with great teamwork, but can also be really challenging if you don’t fit right in or if you encounter a Negative Unit Culture, Nurse Bullies or more. In this podcast episode, we discuss some tips on how to deal with this.

Working on nursing units can be amazingly rewarding with great teamwork, but can also be really challenging if you don’t fit right in or if you encounter a Negative Unit Culture, Nurse Bullies or more. This episode discusses how to deal with a negative unit culture, the importance of emotional intelligence, self-inventory, how to respond to nurse bullies, and confrontation. We talk empathy, sympathy, and more.

Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: amz, confrontation, negative culture, negative unit, new grad, nurse bullies, nurse bully

Tips for New Grad Nurses on Resumes, Applications, and Interviews

May 29, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Tips for New Grad Nurses on Resumes, Applications, and Interviews Show Notes

Melissa Stafford, BSN RN CCRN SCRN – highly experienced and currently practicing nationally certified neurocritical care nurse. Elizabeth Mills, BSN RN CCRN – highly experienced neurocritical care nurse, current Stroke Navigator for a Primary Stroke Center. What You’ll Learn Resumes Applications Interviews More resources

Filed Under: Nursing Jobs & Interviews, Podcasts Tagged With: amz, Applications, helpful tips, interviews, new grad, nurse interview, Resumes

Pain Management Tips

May 15, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Pain Management Tips Show Notes

Striking the balance between too much pain medicine and not enough can be tough for any nurse, let alone a brand new nurse. What throws a big wrench in everything is the fact that we, as a nation, are experiencing a very real and very devastating epidemic of opioid use and abuse. Bedside nurses feel the brunt of this due to many patients requesting sometimes very concerning amounts of intravenous pain medications at alarming intervals. Here are some tips from bedside nurses about pain management.

Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: FreshRN Podcast, new grad, nurse, pain management, tips

Tips for New Grads in the ICU

May 8, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

Tips for New Grads in the ICU

Melissa Stafford, BSN RN CCRN SCRN – highly experienced and currently practicing nationally certified neurocritical care nurse. Elizabeth Mills, BSN RN CCRN – highly experienced neurocritical care nurse, current Stroke Navigator for a Primary Stroke Center. What You’ll Learn In this episode, we discuss the characteristics of the intensive care nurse, normal expectations, critical thinking, […]

Filed Under: Critical Care, New Grad Nurse, New Nurse, Podcasts Tagged With: amz, helpful tips, ICU, new grad, tips for a new grad in the ICU, tips for an ICU nurse

A Day in the Life of a Travel Nurse

April 17, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

A day in the life of a travel nurse

Being a travel nurse is not easy. It is not for everyone. You move around a lot, have a harder time forming real relationships, and you may not always know what you are walking into. Wanderly helps take all the guesswork out of being a travel nurse. Let’s look at a day in the life of a travel nurse.

Filed Under: Nurse Life Tagged With: a day in the life of, amz, FreshRN, new grad, new nurse, speciality, travel nurse

What Do NICU Nurses Do?

April 10, 2018 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

What Do NICU Nurses Do

Being an NICU nurse sounds like a pretty amazing job! I mean you get the word “intense” in your title and there are little babies. While it sounds amazing, many don’t know what NICU Nurses do in a typical shift. What Do NICU Nurses Do?

Filed Under: Nursing Jobs & Interviews, Patient Care Tagged With: a day in the life, baby nurse, guest post, new grad, NICU, NICU nurse, nurse specialty, nursing specialties, what do NICU nurses do

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

What to Expect During Your New Graduate Nursing Orientation

December 31, 2016 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

what to expect during your new graduate nursing orientation

This episode discusses the structure of typical nursing orientation, what to expect, tips for working with a preceptor, what to do when you and your preceptor don’t get along, and how to acclimate yourself to the culture of a nursing unit.

Filed Under: First Nurse Job, New Grad Nurse, New Nurse, Podcasts Tagged With: amz, helpful hints, new grad, nurse, podcasts, season 1

Advice for a New Nurse From Those Who Have Been There

November 29, 2016 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

At some point and time even the most seasoned nurse was a new nurse. Seasoned nurses also give excellent advice to the new nurse.

At some point and time even the most seasoned nurse was a new nurse. They too were bright eyed, anxious, excited, and scared to death they were going to mess it all up. I recently asked on Facebook for one piece of advice for new nurses. The response was so great that it just had […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Nurse Life Tagged With: advice, new grad, new nurse, nurse

Orienting a Struggling New Grad

April 15, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Struggling New Grad

Love your blog! I’ve been a pedi cardiac nurse for two years and I’m orienting my second new grad (yikes!). I have this really awful feeling that she is not cut out for acute care. Week 4 into her orientation and it feels like day 1. We were giving an IV med yesterday and after […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse Tagged With: difficult situations, helpful hints, how-to, new grad, nursing peer support, precepting, Struggling New Grad

Top 10.5 New Grad Nurse Mistakes

September 26, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Top 10 New Grad Nurse Mistakes

Which of these common nurse mistakes have you made? Check out these common mistakes and how you can avoid them, even if you aren’t a new nurse.

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse Tagged With: mistakes, new grad, nurse, nurses, nursing peer support

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