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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

Navigate Your First Nursing Conference Like a Pro

June 8, 2021 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Navigate Your First Nursing Conference Like a Pro

Do’s and don’ts of your first nursing conferences, in hopes that it will help you navigate your first nursing conference like a pro!

Filed Under: Professional Development for Nurses Tagged With: education, helpful hints, nursing conferences, nursing peer support, professional development

The Good Nurses: Qualities of A Good Nurse

October 20, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 6 Comments

The Good Nurses: Qualities of A Good Nurse

What are the qualities of a good nurse? You need to be empathetic, hard-working, and so much more. Read the complete list.

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse Tagged With: Encouragement, nursing peer support, professional development

Medication Errors: How to Avoid Them as a New Nurse

October 13, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 3 Comments

How To Avoid Medication Errors As A Nurse

One of the most terrifying things for new nurse grads is accidentally messing up a patient’s meds. This is how to avoid medication errors.

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse Tagged With: helpful hints, Med Error, medications, mistakes, nursing peer support

Working With Physicians

September 15, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

Working With Physicians

Don’t be intimidated! Follow these tips for working with physicians and banish your nursing anxiety for good.

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse Tagged With: helpful hints, interdisciplinary team, nursing peer support, physicians, teamwork

How to Start a Nursing Blog

July 26, 2016 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 5 Comments

I get quite a few emails from people looking start their own blog and looking for some tips and advice. Here is my advice on how to start a nursing blog!

This post contains affiliate links I get quite a few emails from people looking to start their own blog and looking for some tips and advice. Below is my advice on how to start a nursing blog! Before I start, I want to say one very important thing. If you’re doing this for the money […]

Filed Under: Professional Development for Nurses Tagged With: amz, blogging, helpful hints, how-to, nursing blog, nursing peer support, recommended, resources

How to Deal with Verbally Abusive Patients

May 9, 2016 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

How to Deal with Verbally Abusive Patients

We’ve been there.  The patient is incredibly rude, demeaning, or even saying sexually explicit things to you.  Patient satisfaction has been preached to you constantly.. but what do you do when the patient crosses the line? I’ve had quite a few experiences of all of the above.  I felt helpless until I figured out the […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Patient Care Tagged With: helpful hints, how-to, nursing peer support, professional development, resources, sponsored, Verbally Abusive Patients

Another Open Letter to Nurse Nina

March 1, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Today I read this article in the Dallas Morning News entitled Free of Ebola but not fear, Nurse Nina Pham to file lawsuit agains Presby paren, worries about continued health woes by Jennifer Emily (thank you Katie Duke, for sharing).  Nurses and nursing students, please read it.   Hey Nurse Nina, My name is Kati and […]

Filed Under: Nurse Life Tagged With: Encouragement, news, nurses in the news, nursing issues, nursing peer support

Nurses on the Front Lines: How Do You Handle Patients Addicted to Prescription Pain Killers?

January 26, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 4 Comments

Have you seen this video posted on KevinMD this month about drug seekers in the emergency department (ED)?  Take a look at this 4:31 video made by an ED physician.  Spoiler alert! If you love Taylor Swift, you will totes love this.  Disclaimer:  If you are someone who does not manipulate physicians and nurses to obtain […]

Filed Under: Patient Care Tagged With: difficult situations, news, nurses in the news, nursing issues, nursing peer support, opioids, pain management, patient education, physicians

From One Nurse to Another: An Open Letter to Nurse Nina

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

Hey Nurse Nina, My name is Kati and I’m a critical care nurse in Charlotte, NC. I hope you’re able to read this in your isolation room. I hope some thoughtful soul gave you a computer so that you can do something to pass the time. Let me know if you need some Netflix recommendations, […]

Filed Under: Nurse Life, Patient Care Tagged With: Ebola, Encouragement, news, nurses in the news, nursing issues, nursing peer support, public health

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

How to Deal With Gossipy Nurses

July 19, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

I recently got a job as a new grad in a peds hospital, I love my job but hate the people I work with, they all gossip and talk behind everyone’s back and I’m not sure how to deal with that. I don’t want to seem rude but don’t want to be part of that […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, Nurse Life Tagged With: bullying, difficult situations, Encouragement, helpful hints, nursing peer support, recommendations, self care, teamwork

Guide to Calling Doctors at Night

July 4, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

I decided to reblog this post about Guide to Calling Doctors at Night for all of you that just graduated nursing school, getting ready to start your first real nursing job (probably on nights) that have never had to call a physician in the middle of the night. The first time you do it, you’ll […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Nurse Life, Patient Care Tagged With: doctor, education, helpful hints, how-to, interdisciplinary team, Interdisciplinary Teamwork, nursing peer support, physicians

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

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

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

Working With “Difficult” Patients

March 4, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

working with difficult patients

Have you ever had to deal with difficult patients? Examples would be non compliance or worse. How do you handle difficult patients?

Filed Under: New Nurse, Patient Care Tagged With: communication, difficult patients, difficult situations, helpful hints, how-to, nursing peer support, patient care, patients, teamwork

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

How to Stay Calm in the Midst of Chaos

December 9, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Most of us have a lot going on in our lives all the time. Between work, children and school, most people are constantly running from one to another, spending more than we would like even when we know it will do no good. Life is stressful even if you’re one of those who can maintain […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Patient Care, Time Management Tagged With: delegation, helpful hints, nursing peer support, teamwork, time management

Nurses: Protect Your Back!

November 30, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

After you land your first nursey job, you’ll sit through a long orientation.  You’ll have just come back from lunch in a food coma, and will barely be paying attention to what they’re saying.  And that’s when they talk to you about how important ergonomics are.  They don’t want you to hurt your back or […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, Patient Care Tagged With: back, back pain, ergonomics, helpful hints, mistakes, nursing peer support, self care

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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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