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“If you look for the bad, you’ll always find it. If you look for the good, you’ll always find it.” - Sarah’s grandmother

In the second part of our two part series on nursing burnout, our host Sarah Lorenzini continues her conversation with Nurse Burnout Coach Janna Holterman, where they discuss how to reframe your mindset as a nurse to deal with burnout.

We go to nursing school because we want to help people who are suffering and provide care on a heart centered level, not just by fulfilling tasks and making sure patients are getting their medication on time. It’s easy to lose sight of that if you’ve been at it for a while, so reminding yourself to look for those special moments to create beauty in your job as a nurse, is crucial to avoiding burnout and staying fulfilled.

This is what Sarah and Janna discuss in today’s episode to hopefully provide some insight for those who are experiencing burnout or are almost there. Being aware of burnout and how to deal with it is important, not only for you as a nurse to provide the best care possible, but for your own health, longevity, and overall quality of life.

So tune in for a discussion on how to find the beauty in nursing again so you can be the much needed light in a dark room.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How to balance being passive vs. taking a stance
• Practicing feeling neutral
• The need for nurses to see their patient get better
• Importance of looking for the beauty in nursing
• The difference between a life coach, therapist, counselor, and fitness trainer
• What Janna has to say to nurses who are burnt out

Learn more about Nurse Janna and her burnout coaching services on her website! www.jannaholterman.com

Connect with Nurse Janna on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jannaholtermancoaching/

“If you look for the bad, you’ll always find it. If you look for the good, you’ll always find it.” - Sarah’s grandmother

In the second part of our two part series on nursing burnout, our host Sarah Lorenzini continues her conversation with Nurse Burnout Coach Janna Holterman, where they discuss how to reframe your mindset as a nurse to deal with burnout.

We go to nursing school because we want to help people who are suffering and provide care on a heart centered level, not just by fulfilling tasks and making sure patients are getting their medication on time. It’s easy to lose sight of that if you’ve been at it for a while, so reminding yourself to look for those special moments to create beauty in your job as a nurse, is crucial to avoiding burnout and staying fulfilled.

This is what Sarah and Janna discuss in today’s episode to hopefully provide some insight for those who are experiencing burnout or are almost there. Being aware of burnout and how to deal with it is important, not only for you as a nurse to provide the best care possible, but for your own health, longevity, and overall quality of life.

So tune in for a discussion on how to find the beauty in nursing again so you can be the much needed light in a dark room.

Topics discussed in this episode:

• How to balance being passive vs. taking a stance
• Practicing feeling neutral
• The need for nurses to see their patient get better
• Importance of looking for the beauty in nursing
• The difference between a life coach, therapist, counselor, and fitness trainer
• What Janna has to say to nurses who are burnt out

Learn more about Nurse Janna and her burnout coaching services on her website! www.jannaholterman.com

Connect with Nurse Janna on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jannaholtermancoaching/

Nurses are trained to put their patients first, and that oftentimes results in forgoing their own needs. Skipping out on fundamental needs like sleeping and eating healthy meals lead nurses to feel emotionally and physically exhausted, eventually leading to burnout and loss of love for the job.

Nurses spend so much time advocating for patients but forget that it’s equally as important to advocate for themselves. As today’s guest will remind you, “what you resist persists.” Even if you have the ability to push your own needs to the side, they will always catch up with you, whether it’s in the form of an emotional breakdown or apathy towards other parts of your life.

Host Sarah Lorenzini is speaking with Nurse Burnout Coach Janna Holterman in a special two-part series! In this first episode, Janna shares her personal experience with burnout, the symptoms of burnout, and how she helps clients address them.

Janna and Sarah go over tools for overcoming burnout, and how to recognize you’re experiencing burnout and not just normal stress.

If you’re in search of the “perfect” nursing job, stop looking now because there isn’t one. However, YOU have the power to love nursing again and leave work with enough energy to live a happy, healthy life.

Tune in now to learn how to get started!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Janna’s nursing career and experiences with burnout
• How she dealt with her own burnout and became a coach
• Stress versus burnout
• Signs of burnout
• How to decide when it’s time to leave a job
• The first step to fighting burnout
• 4 tools for burnout recovery and healing

Learn more about Nurse Janna and her burnout coaching services on her website! www.jannaholterman.com

Connect with Nurse Janna on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jannaholtermancoaching/

Welcome to part two of our series on benzodiazepines where we will be discussing the other side of benzodiazepines: the challenges of withdrawal.

As healthcare providers, you are taught that benzodiazepines are in fact safe, but our host Sarah Lorenzini wants to offer a different perspective. Do we really need to be administering benzodiazepines as freely as we are taught in school? Of course for life or death situations it is a no brainer, but what about those moments when your patient is just anxious and can’t calm down?  Are there other ways to calm your patient down without giving them medication?

These are the questions Sarah wants to explore in the second part of this series, as well as how severe benzodiazepine withdrawal can be. Sarah presents an example of a patient who was going through benzodiazepine withdrawal and how the symptoms were so severe it almost looked like the patient was experiencing a heart attack.

Learn more about benzodiazepines and how you can play an important role in preventing benzodiazepine dependance.

Tune in for this and more!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The signs and symptoms Sarah’s patient was experiencing
• How Sarah concluded the patient was in benzo withdrawal
• Mild, moderate, and severe benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms
• Sarah’s change of perspective on benzodiazepines
• How someone is weaned off of benzodiazepines
• What to do if your patient is prescribed benzodiazepines
• Alternative interventions to treat an anxious patient

Welcome to part two of our series on benzodiazepines where we will be discussing the other side of benzodiazepines: the challenges of withdrawal.

As healthcare providers, you are taught that benzodiazepines are in fact safe, but our host Sarah Lorenzini wants to offer a different perspective. Do we really need to be administering benzodiazepines as freely as we are taught in school? Of course for life or death situations it is a no brainer, but what about those moments when your patient is just anxious and can’t calm down?  Are there other ways to calm your patient down without giving them medication?

These are the questions Sarah wants to explore in the second part of this series, as well as how severe benzodiazepine withdrawal can be. Sarah presents an example of a patient who was going through benzodiazepine withdrawal and how the symptoms were so severe it almost looked like the patient was experiencing a heart attack.

Learn more about benzodiazepines and how you can play an important role in preventing benzodiazepine dependance.

Tune in for this and more!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The signs and symptoms Sarah’s patient was experiencing
• How Sarah concluded the patient was in benzo withdrawal
• Mild, moderate, and severe benzodiazepine withdrawal symptoms
• Sarah’s change of perspective on benzodiazepines
• How someone is weaned off of benzodiazepines
• What to do if your patient is prescribed benzodiazepines
• Alternative interventions to treat an anxious patient

In part one of the two part series on benzodiazepines, our host Sarah Lorenzini presents us with a case study about how she treated a benzodiazepine overdose during her time working as an ER Nurse. She walks us through the state her patient was in when she arrived at the hospital and the steps she took when assessing the patient and how to treat her, as well as her thought process along the way.

Benzodiazepine overdoses are a little tricky. All the pieces of the puzzle matter, so having good detective skills and asking the right questions to get a full picture is crucial to treating the patient effectively, which is what Sarah wants to share in today’s episode.

In this episode, you will hear which questions Sarah asked in order to understand the patient’s situation and medical history, as well as the critical thinking required at each step to give you a better idea of how the pieces of the puzzle are found and how they’re put together. You will also hear what type of treatment works for benzodiazepine overdose and what doesn’t, and much more!

You don’t want to miss this one!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The state the patient arrived to the ER and Sarah’s initial assessment
• Questions Sarah asked the patient’s roommate
• How working in medicine requires being an investigator and counselor
• How Flumazenil works and why it was not administered
• A list of the signs and symptoms of a benzodiazepine overdose
• Tips on how to treat a benzodiazepine overdose

In part one of the two part series on benzodiazepines, our host Sarah Lorenzini presents us with a case study about how she treated a benzodiazepine overdose during her time working as an ER Nurse. She walks us through the state her patient was in when she arrived at the hospital and the steps she took when assessing the patient and how to treat her, as well as her thought process along the way.

Benzodiazepine overdoses are a little tricky. All the pieces of the puzzle matter, so having good detective skills and asking the right questions to get a full picture is crucial to treating the patient effectively, which is what Sarah wants to share in today’s episode.

In this episode, you will hear which questions Sarah asked in order to understand the patient’s situation and medical history, as well as the critical thinking required at each step to give you a better idea of how the pieces of the puzzle are found and how they’re put together. You will also hear what type of treatment works for benzodiazepine overdose and what doesn’t, and much more!

You don’t want to miss this one!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The state the patient arrived to the ER and Sarah’s initial assessment
• Questions Sarah asked the patient’s roommate
• How working in medicine requires being an investigator and counselor
• How Flumazenil works and why it was not administered
• A list of the signs and symptoms of a benzodiazepine overdose
• Tips on how to treat a benzodiazepine overdose

One facet of nursing that we don’t learn much about in nursing school is organ donation. It’s such a rewarding experience to help give a person back their life, as you’ll hear from our host and today’s guest.

In this episode, Sarah is speaking with Nurse Sean, organ procurement nurse and host of the “Nurse Dose Podcast.” He goes over the process of organ donation from start to finish, including procuring organs from a patient who is brain dead and also from donors after cardiac death (DCD).  Together they discuss the procedures that optimize organs for procurement and transplant, and how they’re allocated.

Nurse Sean has a ton of knowledge about this not so well known aspect of Nursing.  By the end of this interview you’ll know how long organs can be preserved after procurement, the best way to approach a family about organ donation, and MORE. Plus, he’s debunking myths about what makes a good candidate for organ donation, and what misconceptions families may need to be educated on.

Tune in to find out what the role of an organ procurement nurse really is, and hear Nurse Sean’s top tips for patient advocacy and approaching families!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What led Nurse Sean into nursing and the transplant ICU
• The process of getting a person ready for organ donation
• How organs are allocated and teams coordinated
• What causes the “dry run”
• Procurement of organs in brain dead patients vs DCD patients
• The important role of nurses in organ donation
• Memorable experiences with organ donation from Sean and Sara
• What nurses should know about organ donation
• Educating families on the organ donation experience
• How to (not) bring up organ donation to your patient/their family
• What honor walks mean to patients, families and staff
• How to be a patient advocate for organ donation

Connect with Nurse Sean at www.nursedose.org!

Listen to Sean’s podcast, "Nurse Dose Podcast", on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4M47ev6YzUfXrpuPvSzZQn?si=77327f23e05d4ff9

Check out his Etsy for device cheat sheets and ICU resources: www.etsy.com/shop/nursedosepodcast

One facet of nursing that we don’t learn much about in nursing school is organ donation. It’s such a rewarding experience to help give a person back their life, as you’ll hear from our host and today’s guest.

In this episode, Sarah is speaking with Nurse Sean, organ procurement nurse and host of the “Nurse Dose Podcast.” He goes over the process of organ donation from start to finish, including procuring organs from a patient who is brain dead and also from donors after cardiac death (DCD).  Together they discuss the procedures that optimize organs for procurement and transplant, and how they’re allocated.

Nurse Sean has a ton of knowledge about this not so well known aspect of Nursing.  By the end of this interview you’ll know how long organs can be preserved after procurement, the best way to approach a family about organ donation, and MORE. Plus, he’s debunking myths about what makes a good candidate for organ donation, and what misconceptions families may need to be educated on.

Tune in to find out what the role of an organ procurement nurse really is, and hear Nurse Sean’s top tips for patient advocacy and approaching families!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• What led Nurse Sean into nursing and the transplant ICU
• The process of getting a person ready for organ donation
• How organs are allocated and teams coordinated
• What causes the “dry run”
• Procurement of organs in brain dead patients vs DCD patients
• The important role of nurses in organ donation
• Memorable experiences with organ donation from Sean and Sara
• What nurses should know about organ donation
• Educating families on the organ donation experience
• How to (not) bring up organ donation to your patient/their family
• What honor walks mean to patients, families and staff
• How to be a patient advocate for organ donation

Connect with Nurse Sean at www.nursedose.org!

Listen to Sean’s podcast, "Nurse Dose Podcast", on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4M47ev6YzUfXrpuPvSzZQn?si=77327f23e05d4ff9

Check out his Etsy for device cheat sheets and ICU resources: www.etsy.com/shop/nursedosepodcast

“Leadership is not a title. Leadership is influence.”

Our host Sarah Lorenzini wants to highlight a question that nurses are regularly asking her to answer on the Rapid Response Podcast: how can we be better leaders during resuscitation where a fast coordinated effort is necessary?

Knowing your place as a leader, knowing how to delegate and communicate, as well as having the ability to channel your inevitable fight or flight response into peak performance, may feel daunting to a lot of nurses, especially those just starting out. However, you don’t necessarily need years of experience under your belt to be a great leader in a code situation, which is what Sarah wants to share with you all today!

In this episode, you will hear a detailed example of what a good leader in a resuscitation situation embodies, what their role is, what tasks are needed, the level of importance of each task, and how to delegate tasks, as well as how to debrief your team.

This information is invaluable to anyone who is in healthcare, even if you are still in nursing school or just starting your nursing career and you don’t necessarily think of yourself as a leader, this episode is still for you!

Tune in for this and more!

Topics discussed in this episode:

• The last thing you should be doing as a leader
• Rescuer one, two, three method
• Less crucial, yet important tasks that need to be assigned
• Closed loop communication and why it is important
• Why you should think out loud as a leader
• The importance of giving kudos even in an emergency situation
• Debriefing as a priority and how to do it
• How to lead a moment of silence (or honor) after an unsuccessful code
• Using your sympathetic nervous system to your advantage