We sit down with Will Kelly, MSN FNP-BC, who has experience as a telemetry nurse, ER nurse, ER nurse practitioner, and inpatient hospitalist. We discuss:

• Our first codes and lessons we learned

• Advice for students in clinical

• Tips for rapid response situations and calls

• How to be calm and collected in the face of controlled chaos

For ALL of our ICU nursing content: ​​https://www.freshrn.com/critical-care-icu-nursing/ 

For our free mini-course ICU Drips For Beginners, click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/icu-drips-for-beginners 

For a 14-page ECG cheatsheet: https://bit.ly/3Ws75NT

Will’s FreshRN course, ECG Rhythm Master: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/ecgmastery 

To learn more about our comprehensive ICU prep course, Breakthrough ICU: A Crash Course For New ICU Nurses, click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/breakthrough-icu 

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Music credit: Keep My Cool by Benj Heard

 

In this interview, Kati chats with Jeannie Cisney, MSN RN. She is a 20+ year veteran of the CVICU (cardiovascular intensive care unit). We discuss:

• The types of patients you’ll see in a CVICU

• Her favorite and least favorite types of patients

• A walkthrough of the patient pathway of a typical CABG patient

• New grad vs. experienced nurse orientation experience into CVICU

• Unexpected challenges of CVICU RNs

• The advice she’d give her younger self

Jeannie is my co-author of Cardiac Confidence, a Crash Course for New Cardiac Nurses. To learn more and enroll, click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/cardiac-confidence 

For a 14-page ECG cheatsheet: https://bit.ly/3Ws75NT

For a free mini-course on how to handle afib with RVR: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/afib-with-rvr 

For my cardiac assessment checklist: https://bit.ly/4aV6RTO

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Music credit: Keep My Cool by Benj Heard

 

In this episode, we are re-sharing an episode where we sit down with Sean Dent, DNP ACNP APRN, a highly experienced ICU nurse practitioner. We dig deep into the types of equipment you’ll run into in the ICU. These include:

• Arterial lines

• Different options for monitoring fluid status

• Cooling devices

• CRRT

• Hemodialysis catheters

• Impellas and aortic balloon pumps

• Internal pacing

• Proning devices 

These episodes were originally recorded in 2019, but the information is still incredibly relevant today for ICU nurses. This content is for informational purposes only; best practices may have changed. 

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To learn more about our comprehensive ICU prep course, Breakthrough ICU: A Crash Course For New ICU Nurses, click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/breakthrough-icu 

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Music credit: Keep My Cool by Benj Heard

 

In this episode, Kati interviews Elizabeth Fields, MSN FNP APRN, a nurse practitioner specializing in orthopedics. She sees patients in the hospital after they undergo ortho surgery, so she works closely with acute care ortho nurses! In this episode, we discuss:

• What new ortho nurses struggle with most

• Common surgeries acute care patients undergo

• Why ortho nursing is so great

• How to impress providers

• Examples of cringe-worthy moments

• General tips and encouragement for new ortho nurses

If you want to catch the video of this interview AND get a PDF summary download of notes, click here: https://bit.ly/3wgp66S

If you enjoyed Elizabeth’s perspective, check out our comprehensive online course created just for new ortho nurses - Ortho STRONG: A Crash Course For New Ortho Nurses - https://courses.freshrn.com/p/ortho-nurse-crash-course 

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Music credit: Keep My Cool by Benj Heard

 

In this episode, Kati and two nursing professionals who interview new grad nurses for a well-known accredited nurse residency program walk through four common interview questions. We explore a bad and sub-par response as well as examples of dazzling responses.

The questions we outline are:

• Tell me about a mistake you have made.

• What are you most excited about, and what are you looking forward to most?

• Tell me about a time you went above and beyond.

• Tell me about a time you received feedback that was hard to hear.

For full notes on this episode, click here: https://www.freshrn.com/nursing-interview-questions-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/ 

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Music credit: Keep My Cool by Benj Heard

 

Giving and receiving hand-off from an experienced nurse is pretty overwhelming to a nursing student or newly licensed nurse. In this previously released episode, Kati and Elizabeth discuss:

• What nursing report is for an acute care nurse

• Unspoken nursing report etiquette

• Basics of what should be communicated during a normal full hand-off report

Notes of this episode: https://www.freshrn.com/nursing-report-for-newbies/ 

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For a free mini-course on report tips for new nurses (including my fave report sheet), click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/med-surg-report-basics 

To learn more about our comprehensive med-surg crash course, Med-Surg Mindset, click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/med-surg-mindset 

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This interview comes from the archives! Kati interviewed Beth Hawks, MSN RN-BC, a highly experienced and amazing nursing professional development specialist and preceptor, on tips for new nurse preceptors. Expect to learn:

• How to give feedback in a constructive manner

• Tips for nurses going into the precepting role who are not yet confident in their own skills

• How to support nurses through reality shock

• Coping with preceptees who take correction personally

• How to handle preceptees who question absolutely everything

• And so much more!

As a bonus, this interview is a sneak peek into the valuable content you can expect from Kati’s comprehensive course, Preceptor Pro. If you're looking to enhance your precepting skills and advance your professional development, this course is for you. 

To enroll in Preceptor Pro: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/preceptor-pro 

A comprehensive blog post on precepting: https://www.freshrn.com/becoming-an-awesome-nursing-preceptor/ 

For ALL of our professional development content: https://www.freshrn.com/professional-development/ 

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To see our latest course catalog (med-surg, ICU, precepting, charge nurse, ortho, cardiac, neuro courses, and more), click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/

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Here is an affiliate link to Beth’s latest book, First-Year Nurse: Advice on Working with Doctors, Prioritizing Care, and Time Management: https://amzn.to/3JfDeAt 

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Music credit: Keep My Cool by Benj Heard

 

Previously, Kati had a series of episodes on nursing communication. This mega dose combines all episodes into one for easy listening! The topics include:

• How to talk to your nursing colleagues, CNAs, and medical unit receptionists and deal with things like how to navigate when your urgency level changes or challenges in working together

• Learning what everyone on the healthcare team actually wants to know when they want an update (PT, OT, ST, Case Management, Social Work, medical team, and more)

• Cool vs. not cool ways to handle things 

• Simple things you can do and say to look and feel more comfortable as the patient’s nurse

• Tips on delivering tough news and how to be in those big moments while holding it together and being a strong but caring presence for your patient

• How to engage with your own family and loved ones who might not understand all that you go through at a normal day of work

These episodes were originally recorded in 2021 and are still very relevant for today’s new nurse. 

For ALL of our new nurse content:https://www.freshrn.com/new-grad-nursing/ 

For a free mini-course on report tips for new nurses (including my fave report sheet), click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/med-surg-report-basics

To learn more about our comprehensive med-surg crash course, Med-Surg Mindset, click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/med-surg-mindset

For my free cardiac assessment checklist, click here: https://bit.ly/4aV6RTO

For my most-used medical abbreviations, click here: https://bit.ly/44mnTri

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Music credit: Keep My Cool by Benj Heard

 

In this episode, we are re-sharing our most popular neuro episodes from the archive in one massive episode. Kati Kleber, Elizabeth Mills, and Melissa Stafford (all experienced neuro ICU nurses) discuss:

• When to worry about your neuro patient
• The most common disease processes for acutely ill neuro patients
• Common neuro meds
• Frequent diagnostics
• How neuro patients are monitored
• Common neuro surgeries 

These episodes were originally recorded in 2018, but the information is still incredibly relevant today for neuro nurses. This content is for informational purposes only; best practices may have changed.    For ALL of our neuro nursing content: ​​https://www.freshrn.com/neuro-nursing/    For our free mini-course on conscious neuro assessments, click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/neuro-assessments-mini-course    To learn more about our comprehensive neuro prep course, Neuro Wise: A Crash Course For New Neuro Nurses, click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/p/neuro-wise    Learn more about the FreshRN All-Access Pass here - https://courses.freshrn.com/p/membership   To see our latest course catalog (med-surg, ICU, precepting, charge nurse, ortho, cardiac, neuro courses, and more), click here: https://courses.freshrn.com/   Get weekly tips, encouragement, stories from the bedside, and more - just for nursing students and new nurses at: https://www.freshrn.com/email-sign-up/    Connect With Me Online!

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Music credit: Keep My Cool by Benj Heard

 

Almost two-thirds of nurses (62%) experience burnout in the U.S. And it’s especially common among younger nurses. In this episode, Kati interviews Dr. Kate King, an associate professor in the clinical psychology doctoral program at William James College, and they discuss:

• signs of burnout, and whether this is destined to happen to every nurse
• the importance of being proactive
• balancing the desire to be perfect with the very real seriousness of mistakes
• redefining ‘self-care’
• tips and encouragement from Dr. King

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