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Healthy Eating For Nurses

November 28, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 5 Comments

Healthy Eating For Nurses

Working 12 hour shifts can really it difficult to stay on track with health and wellness, but healthy eating for nurses is a critical component of overall wellness. A reader asked what I do to focus on healthy eating while working long shifts: I’m about to start my grad year and was just wondering- what do you usually take for meals? I […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, New Nurse, Nurse Life Tagged With: healthy, healthy nurse, helpful hints, meal planning, meal prep, self care

For the Overwhelmed New Graduate Nurse

July 1, 2020 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

S5E46 – Proactively Preventing Nurse Burnout

June 9, 2020 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Proactively Preventing Nurse Burnout

What is nurse burnout? Why does it happen? How do we prevent it? In this episode we talk all about nurse burnout, self-compassion, and things you can do to live your healthiest nurse life.

Filed Under: Nurse Life, Podcasts Tagged With: nurse, nurse burnout, nurses, self care, self compassion

Meal Planning Tips and Tricks for Nurses, Part II

September 4, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Being a nurse, working shift work, it can be tough making sure you eat appropriately. A few years ago, my husband and I got into a pretty regular routine to offset the nutritional challenges that shift work presents. This is my second post regarding this topic. Please click here to read the first post explaining […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, Nurse Life Tagged With: healthy nurse, helpful hints, how-to, married to a nurse, meal planning, self care

Meal Planning Tips and Tricks for Nurses – Part I

August 24, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Learning how to get my meals together was a challenge when I was adjusting to working three 12-hour shifts per week. I always waited until I was hungry, never had the food in the house to make something yummy and quick, and then would either go to the grocery store last minute and spend way […]

Filed Under: Mental Wellness and Self Care for Nurses, Nurse Life Tagged With: healthy nurse, helpful hints, how-to, married to a nurse, meal planning, meal prep, self care

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

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

For The Anxious Nurse

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

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

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

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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