On Episode 7 of The Nurse Gwenny Podcast, Nurse Gwenny and Lindsey, an LPN with ER and EMT experience, discuss preparing for flight interviews scenarios and how EMS and ER skillsets complement each other. Nurse Gwenny outlines the typical flight interview process:

-HR screening

-Written test

-Personality interview

-And scencarios

Nurse Gwenny explains how to practice verbalizing clinical thinking and the importance of doing so in the scenario / sims setting.

The two take turns putting one another through the paces of a few patient scenarios:

-An inferior STEMI with hypotension

-Carbon Monoxide poisoning

-A peds case on epiglottitis

-Anaphylaxis management

There are several fun moments during this episode and in general a great example of how to approach scenarios when it comes to interviewing for your flight job!

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Nurse Gwenny welcomes Katelyn, a dual licensed flight paramedic and nurse who has grown in popularity online for her easy to understand teaching style found on tik tok and instagram.

They discuss lessons they wish they had learned earlier. Things like:

• Proactively seeking mentors
• Finding safe places to ask “seemingly” dumb questions
• Developing skills to self education and find resouces

Katelyn compares the helicopter and it’s limitations to some of the critical access hospitals she helps supply and service. Simply put, supplies and resources are limited and sometimes non existant! This breeds the development of those sometimes forgotten or the skillsets that can be taken for granted when working in larger, more fully resourced hospitals.

Nurse Gwenny and Katelyn celebrate the joys of being educators and the moments they cherish hearing about the wins and successes of others.

Katelyn Dykas shares how she is proud of stepping into a CCRN review education project and Nurse Gwenny mentions her latest book, a CEN test prep book similar to “BUT WHY.”

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AND ON

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Passing exams, whether it's the FP-C, the NREMT, the CEN, or CFRN, can be a tough battle! If you're someone who has struggled to earn that green check, this podcast will encourage you as you adjust your mindset into manifesting your passing score!

If you're looking for 1:1 coaching to help you get ready for your paramedic exams or to stand out as a candidate for flight interviews, you can find Mustache Medic on Instagram under the handle TN.Mustache.Medic

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New ER Nurse Reality: Fear, First Mistakes, and a Mindset Shift. This episode discusses starting in the ER straight out of nursing school, describing it as both exciting and terrifying and emphasizing that feeling intimidated is completely normal due to the constant noise, unfamiliar situations, and emotionally difficult cases. The conversation highlights common new grad “flubs,” especially struggling to learn and locate equipment because of different brands and terminology, like being asked to fetch a “pigtail” without knowing what it is. It also shares a practical mindset shift for people pleasers: stop defaulting to “I’m sorry” when asking for help and instead say “thank you,” recognizing that needing guidance is part of learning.

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This podcast presents a first-hand account of global nursing practice across diverse healthcare systems, including Canada, Ghana, and Haiti. The speakers contrast western healthcare settings to developing nations where patients must independently procure medications, diagnostics, and even basic supplies.

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Nurses and paramedics are often faced with cardiac arrests, and no two codes are alike. It is essential to perform a post-code debrief and identify learning points from the case. This podcast is intended to offer many pearls from the combined 35+ years of experience between the two hosts, Nurse Gwenny and Mustache Medic, in order to improve patient care and build provider resilience offering real world stories and solid advice.

In the premiere episode of the Nurse Gwenny podcast, Nurse Gwenny and her husband Josh introduce themselves and explain that the Nurse Gwenny platform exists to help others realize their potential and pursue their dreams. Josh, who is not in healthcare, shares his background building a lawn and landscaping business and describes how he supports the platform by building the website and LMS, handling customer relations, editing, and converting their barn office into a studio. Gwenny outlines the podcast’s mix of clinically focused episodes and occasional soft-skill topics like leadership and de-escalation, previewing upcoming guests and themes drawn from ER and flight nursing. She shares what she loves about nursing, the patients she finds most challenging, how she decided to become a nurse after her brother’s injury, and the meaning of her mantra “just do the next right thing,” which guides both life and high-acuity transports. They close by encouraging listeners to reflect on something they’re proud of.