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What’s it Like to be a New Nurse

February 23, 2021 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

What's it Like to be a New Nurse

Wondering what it’s like to be a new nurse? Here are four helpful tips from an RN to help you navigate the new job

Filed Under: New Nurse Tagged With: new grad nurse, new nurses

Side Businesses for Nurses: Ideas to Supplement Your Income

September 4, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 4 Comments

Side Businesses for Nurses: Ideas to Supplement Your Income. #freshrn #sidehustle #nurse #nurses #entrepreneurs

Have you ever thought of starting a nurse side business? As jobs at the bedside become more and more draining, many nurses are looking for a way to supplement their income so they can work less hours at the hospital. For many, the perfect nurse-balance is split between time with patients in the hospital and time doing something they own and run themselves.

Filed Under: Nurse Life Tagged With: income, new nurses, Nurse Entrepreneurship, nurses, side hustle, side job

Can a New Nurse Work in the ICU?

July 30, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

Can a New Nurse Work in the ICU?

Is it possible for a new nurse to get their first job in the ICU? Yes, but it is the exception and not the rule. I want to encourage all new nurses and nurse grads – if your goal is to work in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), that it might be possible right away, but it’s not easy and not for everyone

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: ICU devices, ICU nurse, new grad nurse, new nurse, new nurse work in ICU, new nurses

How to Use Becoming Nursey

July 2, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

How to Use Becoming Nursey

Many hospitals, healthcare organizations, and nursing schools have begun using Becoming Nursey to support their students and new graduates as they transition to practice.

Filed Under: New Nurse, Nurse Life Tagged With: amz, Anatomy of a Super Nurse, Becoming Nursey, FreshRN, How to use Becoming Nursey, new grad nurse, new nurse, new nurses

Nursing Considerations with Brain Death

April 2, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Season 4, Episode 2: Nursing Considerations with Brain Death and Organ Procurement Show Notes

We discuss the difference between coma and brain death, how brain death is determined, working with an organ procurement team, and general insights related to this sensitive topic.

Filed Under: Neuro Nursing, Podcasts Tagged With: brain death, neuro nurse, new nurses

What Nurses Need to Know About Palliative Care

February 26, 2019 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Season 3 Episode 6 - What Nurses Need to Know About Palliative Care Show Notes

Melissa Stafford, BSN RN CCRN SCRN – highly experienced and currently practicing nationally certified neurocritical care nurse. Kathleen Puntillo, PhD RN FAAN is professor emeritus of nursing at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). At UCSF, she was director of the Critical Care/Trauma Graduate Program for many years and founded UCSF’s Acute Care Nurse […]

Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: FreshRN Podcast, helpful hints, new nurses, Palliative Care

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Kati Kleber, MSN RN

The founder and educator behind FreshRN® is a nurse educator, author, national speaker, host of the FreshRN Podcast, and owner of FreshRN® – an online platform created to educate, encourage, and motivate newly licensed nurses in innovative ways. 

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