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time management

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

Becoming An Awesome Nursing Preceptor

May 15, 2021 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 3 Comments

Becoming An Awesome Nursing Preceptor

Nursing preceptors are a vital component of the nursing education process. Preceptors play a role for nursing students and new graduate nurses as they orient to the floor and get acclimated to the hospital. A nursing preceptor may be involved with a preceptor for a day or several weeks. The preceptor role can vary slightly, […]

Filed Under: Patient Care, Preceptor, Professional Development for Nurses Tagged With: education, helpful hints, new nurse preceptor, nurse preceptor, precepting, preceptor, time management

Time Management Tips for New Nurses

December 7, 2017 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

time management tips for new nurses show notes

This episode discusses why time management is essential for every nurse to consider as well as practical tips for the floor and critical care environment.

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Perfecting Your Craft – Week 2, ICU Time Management Tips

April 5, 2016 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Perfecting Your Craft - Week 2, ICU Time Management Tips

These ICU Time Management Tips can help if you are adequately staffed, have an appropriate assignment, and nothing happens that changes your plan

Filed Under: Critical Care Tagged With: critical care, helpful hints, how-to, time management

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

Delegation Tips for Nurses

June 12, 2015 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Delegation Tips for Nurses

Delegation is a tough thing to master as a new nurse.  While the NCLEXNCLEX tells you which tasks are appropriate to delegate, it doesn’t exactly outline how to go about doing it. I realize that not all units have certified nursing assistants (CNAs) or patient care technicians (techs), but many do.  This post is for […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, New Nurse, Time Management Tagged With: amz, delegation, helpful hints, how-to, Interdisciplinary Teamwork, nursing assistants, time management

Why Are Nurses Always On the Computer?!

November 24, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Why Are Nurses Always On The Computer?

A nursing student recently emailed me and asked me, “why are nurses always on the computer?” It seemed like a silly question at first, but then I realized that unless you’re responsible for charting on multiple patients (or if you have students or preceptors, making sure it’s accurate), you don’t really understand all that is […]

Filed Under: Patient Care Tagged With: amz, education, time management

Tips for Switching From Night Shift to Day Shift – From a Nurse!

August 6, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Many nurses start out on night shift but then transition to day shift.  While the work is technically the same, the flow of the day is quite different.  Here are some tips/tricks for the nurse transitioning from night shift to day shift. #1 – Pay attention to meds with meals Insulin is the major medication […]

Filed Under: Nurse Life, Patient Care Tagged With: amz, day shift, helpful hints, how-to, Interdisciplinary Teamwork, night shift, night shift nurse, noc, procedures, time management

How to Manage Your Time in Critical Care for Nurses: Part II

June 28, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

This post contains affiliate links One of the most important things to master in critical care is prioritization.. what do you do first?  It’s kind of like prioritization on the floor, except the stakes are higher.  Instead of doctors rounding, patients being hypertensive, patients in pain, families wanting you to discharge them 10 minutes ago, […]

Filed Under: Critical Care, New Grad Nurse, Patient Care, Time Management Tagged With: critical care, education, helpful hints, how-to, time management

How to Manage Your Time in Critical Care For Nurses: Part I

June 25, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

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  I’ve worked on both the floor and intensive care. In both units time management is absolutely essential. However, time management on the floor is very different from time management in critical care.   I’m going to go through some tips to help you appropriately managing your time in a critical care setting.  I know it […]

Filed Under: Critical Care, New Grad Nurse, Patient Care, Time Management Tagged With: critical care, education, helpful hints, how-to, patient care, procedures, time management

The Nurse’s Famous Last Words: “But the Doctor Said it Was Okay..”

June 8, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

One of my BFFs is a rapid response nurse (I know, coolest job ever). Whenever a patient is going downhill or looks not-so-hot, she gets a call. Many times, the call could and should have occurred hours before. However, what she is told most frequently is “but the doctor said it was okay”. Notify MD, […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Patient Care, Professional Development for Nurses Tagged With: doctor, helpful hints, how-to, interdisciplinary team, Interdisciplinary Teamwork, physician, physicians, professional development, time management

Nursing Time Management Scenarios

April 24, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 3 Comments

Something that is essential in your development as an efficient and safe care provider is appropriate time management.  Below are some sticky situations and the safest and most efficient way to address them. Q:  You’re assessing your new admission.  She’s crying in pain.  Her blood pressure is 162/38.  She needs an IV.  There are pended […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Patient Care, Time Management Tagged With: helpful hints, how-to, professional development, teamwork, time management

How to Survive in the ICU

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

This guest blog post comes from Natalie Bridges, RN.  She’s a critical care nurse who jumped into ICU nursing straight out of school.  Below is her guest post about ICU survival for newbies.   After my first shift in the Intensive Care Unit, I thought to myself, “maybe this was a mistake.” Not knowing any […]

Filed Under: Critical Care, New Grad Nurse Tagged With: critical care, guest posts, teamwork, time management

Nursing Time Management Tips

March 8, 2014 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 1 Comment

Learning your own time management style is one of the toughest parts about being a new grad.  Here are tips I developed after working on an acute care nursing floor with cardiac and stroke patients.  I typically had 4-5 patients on day shift and 5-6 on night shift.  Report was 30 minutes and ended at […]

Filed Under: New Grad Nurse, Time Management Tagged With: delegation, helpful hints, how-to, teamwork, time management

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

Nursing Priorities for Post-Op Patients

September 4, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN Leave a Comment

Nursing Priorities for Post-Op Patients

These nursing priorities for post-op patients will help you keep your head and give the best care to your patients. You are rocking through your shift, feeling awesome because you kind of know what you’re doing now, and your charge nurse comes up to you to say you are getting a patient from the PACU.  […]

Filed Under: Patient Care Tagged With: medications, patient education, time management

Nursing Priorities for Ischemic Stroke Patients – From a Neuro Nurse

September 2, 2013 By Kati Kleber, MSN RN 2 Comments

Nursing Priorities for Ischemic Stroke Patients

What are the most important nursing priorities for stroke patients? Oh, these are so important! I love my stroke patients.  They have a special place in my heart. As a neuro nurse, I wanted to share what you should do if you encounter a patient having an ischemic stroke. These are the most important nursing […]

Filed Under: Neuro Nursing Tagged With: neuro patients, patient education, time management

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