Join us for an enlightening and candid conversation with the remarkable Kevin Gibson, better known as The Boot Nurse, in his triumphant return appearance on the show!

In this episode, Kevin opens up about his challenging experiences working in the ICU, navigating through toxic workplace dynamics, grappling with unresponsive management, and confronting a system that often fails to support new nurses adequately.

But Kevin's story doesn't end there – he shares his inspiring journey into a new chapter as an NCLEX coach, where he's empowering students through online sessions to master the art of tackling NCLEX-style questions with confidence. Get ready to hear all about his upcoming book, 'Conquer it: The Journey to Passing the NCLEX,' and gain invaluable insights into his personal philosophies and perspectives on nursing and life in general.

This conversation is a treasure trove of wisdom and inspiration, filled with Kevin's trademark honesty and authenticity. Join us for 50 minutes of pure inspiration as we delve into the world of one of Nursing Uncensored's favorite nursepreneurs.

🌟Stop what you’re doing, because today we're diving into the life of the one and only Stephanee Beggs, CEO of RNExplained, Forbes 30 under 30 sensation, social media influencer, and ER nurse. Yeah, she does it all and she’s really cool, too. 

🚀 In this episode, Steph tells Adrianne about how she unexpectedly transformed her personal study methods into a thriving business during the pandemic, her move into online product sales, and uncovering the entrepreneurial spirit and sacrifices that drive success.

💡From educating nurses on social media to classroom teaching, Steph dishes on the transition and things she wishes were different in nursing education. It’s a discussion filled with the behind-the-scenes stories and pivotal moments that shaped her path.

So, put down your stethoscope, grab a fresh bevvie, and listen about the life and wisdom of the unstoppable Stephanee Beggs. It's Nursing Uncensored, baby – where chaos meets charisma, and scrubs meet sarcasm. Tune in now, because this episode is hotter than that coffee you’ve been sipping on! 🩹💉


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Happy Nurses Week! Let’s talk about things that matter to nurses with a wonderful guest, nurse and lawyer, Irnise F. Williams, Esq. (AKA Your Nurse Lawyer). Irnise and Adrianne are focusing on two important themes for nurses in 2022: Growth and Protection.

Irnise brings her expertise and insights on ways nurses can protect their licenses, practice, and integrity. They also explore ways nurses can harness their skills and talents for reaching their goals at and away from the bedside.

This is a valuable episode full of insights and perspectives that will make you think, evaluate your own strategies and goals, and set you on a path to achieve them.

Please look to Irnise for more valuable wisdom and information by visiting her website at https://iwilliamslaw.com/

Trigger warning: In this episode, we talk in detail about topics some people may find traumatic. We will be taking about dead bodies, autopsy, crimes, suicide and other graphic topics. No personal patient information is revealed.

If you've made it this far, welcome to Season 3 of Nursing Uncensored. It's October so Adrianne will be celebrating Halloween and creepy things all month long. In that spirit, Adrianne invited back Dorothy, Medical Examiner Investigator to talk about her job in greater detail. She walks us through her role in both a hospital death and a community death investigation. We talk about the circumstances and processes involved with autopsy and decomposition of the human body. We also give some book recommendations for those of you who want to read more about the Medical Examiner role.
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Now that Adrianne has helped you fill up all that extra memory on your iPhone with the previous 18 apps, she's got 9 more for you! In part three, she shares the last nursing-related apps in her folder. But never fear, this app-queen will probably find and share more with you as the semester rolls on.

In this episode she talks about
1. Stethoscope
2. Eko
3. Castle Branch
4. Palliative Care
5. Moon Plus
6. AHRQ ePSS
7. NurseGrid
8. Calm
9. Khan Academy

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She's baaaack! Adrianne is here with 9 more iOS apps that she loves and thinks you will, too! In the second installment of this three-part series, she breaks down some textbook companion apps, a few others that have served her well and a fun one at the end.

Be sure to stick around for the third and final part of this series.

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In this episode, Adrianne covers
1. Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills & Procedures
2. Clinical Companion to Medical-Surgical Nursing
3. Manual of Nursing Diagnosis
4. Medscape
5. Eponyms
6. Lab Values ++
7. MDCalc
8. FastFacts
9. Figure1

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This episode is the first in a three-part series of Adrianne's favorite nursing-related iOS apps. Here she breaks down the first 9, in no particular order (actually just the order they happen to be in on her phone). She'll outline the perks, general cost and try to convince you that you need them, too. 

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In this episode, Adrianne talks about:

1.Passy-Muir TrachTools
2. O2 Calculator
3. ScrubCheats
4. NRSNG Clinical Library
5. IBM Micromedex Drug Info
6. IBM Micromedex IV Drug Compatibility
7. IVCalc
8. Omnimedex
9. Quizlet

Stick around for parts 2 and 3, with 9 more iOS apps each just for you!

In this episode, Adrianne revisits a blog post in audio form. She's going to share 10 tips on how to best spend your time preparingin those final days and weeks before nursing school. She'd love to just tell you to kick back by the pool until the final minutes of summer have ticked down, but there is just too. much. to. do.

If you want to see the original blog post from June 2018, go to https://www.nursinguncensored.com/blog/prenursingprep

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In this short episode, Adrianne digs into her iPhone to share her 20 favorite, must-have apps for anyone taking college classes. These are not nursing specific apps, but that episode is in the works just for you. If you'd like to see these general school apps in Adrianne's super nerdy spreadsheet with pros/cons and other details, go over and check out the blog here: https://www.nursinguncensored.com/blog/2018/8/5/adriannes-favorite-ios-apps-for-all-college-students

Happy Nursing folks!

This week Adrianne wakes her friend, night nurse and DNP, Nurse Lo from her slumber to bring you the dish on the DNP life. They cover a lot of ground including the trajectory of Lo's career from LPN straight through to DNP with no breaks. She also talks about what it's like to do it all as a mom.

They also discuss:
-types of NP programs and testing organizations
-NP clinical experiences
-favorite apps and resource books for practice
-the spirit of learning from each other

...and Adrianne talks about her favorite apps - but these are just the tip of the iceberg. Wanna hear a full episode on her crazy nursing app collection? Leave a comment. ;)

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Robbins and Cotran - Pathologic Basis of Disease
Danes, Scheibel and Baumann - Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis in Primary
Care
Chapman and Habif - Skin Disease: Diagnosis and Treatment
Fitzherald - Nurse Practitioner Certification Examination and Practice Preparation

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Well, folks, today we're digging through Adrianne's giant bag that she drags to her job as an intermediate pulmonary nurse. Unlike the very anti-climactic 'What's in My Pockets?" episode from a while back, this time she's got way more to dig through. You see, she's what you call an overpacker. Reserve your judgement as you listen and then go clean out your own bag, locker, car, or whatever.

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This week we dive back into my marathon call with my good friend and travel nurse Lindsay Dingbaum. Since we can get our gab on like pros, we covered a LOT of information like...

-The multifaceted nature of a nurse's emotions
-Advice for new travellers
-Narcotics and end-of-life-care: a nurse's discomfort
-Dealing with undesirable assignments
-Getting used to a new place as a traveller
-Designer scrubs (yes, we go there again)

...and a million other little things on our minds.
(Warning: we may cry again and also we get fast and loose with the cursewords, so beware)

Happy Nursing, folks!
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This week you're dropping in on the conversation Adrianne had with her old pal Lindsay, a traveling nurse and cool human that she can literally talk to for hours and hours on end. They talk about a million things in this episode including how Lindsay caught the travel bug, weighing the pros and cons of different contracts and locations, her adventure dog, licensing for travelers, and getting tricked into wiping butts of patients who really can do it themselves.

There's never a dull moment here on Nursing Uncensored
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In this episode, Adrianne welcomes back Rebecca Love, a well-known thought leader on nurse innovation and entrepreneurship, to discuss technology solutions around nurse staffing and scheduling.

In this talk they discuss
-the well-known and not-so-well-known reasons nurses are leaving the bedside
-how per diem nursing gives nurses freedom and hospitals security
-the history of how nurses became a mere line item on a budget
-why recruiting new nurses won't fix the lack of experienced ones
-and how Intelycare wants to harness AI to help solve staffing issues

There is much to learn, even if you haven't ever considered per diem nursing and Rebecca is a wealth of information.

It's always lovely to talk with Rebecca. If you'd like to hear more from her, check out our last chat about the Nurse Hack4Health. https://www.nursinguncensored.com/episodes/nursehack4health

Check out Intelycare.com for per diem nursing jobs in over 20 states.

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Adrianne takes a serious moment to reflect on her decision to attend the funeral of a patient. It is a first for her, despite her early-career decision not to ever attend such an event.

Listen to this unedited personal commentary.


Thanks for listening.
Despite a heavy heart, I still wish you Happy Nursing.

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I think part two of my talk with Dorothy is as profound as it is irreverent. Dorothy explains how people die as they lived and we ponder elements of 'a good death'. We absolutely must address the need for a morbid sense of humor in high-stress, high-trauma fields, as evidenced by almost every joke we crack. Then we dig deeper into her work as a medical examiner investigator and explore the classification system used to document death by the Medical Examiner.

Other topics we discuss include:
Working as an OR nurse
Considerations for choosing a healthcare provider
and the story of once when Adrianne was gut-punched by a patient.

Never a dull moment with Nurse Dorothy. Listen and see for yourself!

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In this episode, Adrianne is joined by nurse and medical examiner investigator, Dorothy. She's lived a very interesting nursing life so far and has such great perspective on being an advocate for all patients. Dorothy is going to tell us all about her days in the Operating Room, home hospice and how she goes about investigating the deaths of people all over her county. NSFW but, boy, is this interesting. Pt 1 of 2.

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Welcome to the first episode under our (sort of) new name: Nursing Uncensored. Adrianne is giving the website a makeover, so head over to nursinguncensored.com and do some oooh-ing and ahhh-ing at the new design. Then come back and check out this new episode.

In this conversation between Adrianne and old pal Andrew Craig they topic-hop, as usual. They discuss the horrors of calling a patient by the wrong name, more comparisons between day and night shift (since Andrew has officially been working days), relationships with management, and personal preferences in getting and giving report. If you've been paying attention, you will also know that they talk about a hundred other little things along the way.

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Happy Nursing!

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After editing their 3+ hour cross-country conversation, we've got 45 more delightful minutes with MRC friend and travel nurse, Dan DiMonte. In the second part of this conversation, Adrianne and Dan discuss:

*the scheduling perks of working as a per diem nurse
*the oversaturation of travel nurses in some places
*Adrianne's thoughts on her first experience as a New Hire Preceptor
*how nursing is helping Dan chase his musical dreams
*special connections with patients

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Travel nurse Dan DiMonte returns for the longest recording in MRC history (don't worry, we've distilled it down to the best parts). Adrianne and Dan sit down for a morning chat and chai which turned into afternoon tea. In part 1, they discuss a wide range of topics including:
*the automation of nursing
*indwelling catheter alternatives
*Dan takes a terrible patient assignment
*the effects of Med TV shows on patient perceptions
*shitty trash cans
and Dan may have accidentally created the new talent portion of the show.

Join us for all this and more!

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It's hard enough for young nurses to establish authority in their practice without their appearances making it worse. This is especially true when caring for patients who are their parents or grandparents age.

In this episode, Adrianne lays down 5 ProTips for being seen as more than just a baby-face to your adult patients. She speaks from experience, starting her bedside work when she was only 24 (and looked 18), being regularly questioned by patients - "are you old enough to do that?"

These 5 simple tips will help you find subtle ways to appear like an in-control professional adult nurse.

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Andrew is back from his internet hiatus to join Adrianne for a discussion that is as all over the place as a confused patient in a low bed. They topic hop from designer scrubs and the social and professional implications, their favorite tools on the unit, plans for a poop-tastic future episode and the ever-serious topic of drug diversion by nurses. They also talk about a bunch of other miscellaneous things on their minds despite the internet cutting out a few times.

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A technology revolution occured in the MRC HQ with the purchase of a new mic. The Blue Yeti isn't a sponsor, but boy was Adrianne excited to brag this week.

This episode is all about the most precious commodity in the hospital...sleep. How do we destroy it and how do we protect it. Listen in for some tips on how to assess and improve the noise and sleep disruptions on your unit.

After you listen, hit the comments with your best Sleep Guardian tips, or tell us what disruptions you wish you could fix, but don't know how.

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While the process of getting accepted into a nursing program is enough to make your head spin, the vertigo in this episode is unrelated to the school acceptance letter. Join Adrianne as she meets up again with her friend Allison about getting accepted into her desired program. The whole time, Allison's room is spinning, so many thanks to her for putting up with this MRC nonsense again.

Go back to hear her MRC debut in the episodes Adventures of a Proto-Nurse 1 & 2.

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In this episode, Adrianne welcomes back Travis Hornsby, Chartered Financial Analyst and the Founder of StudentLoanPlanner.com. You may remember him from the episode we did on Student Loan repayment back in 2020. He’s back to update us all on the most recent changes the Biden administration has made to the existing Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, including making forgiveness possible for thousands more people. Could you be one of them?

Drop in on this conversation, find out where your student loan debt fits in this puzzle, and make moves to get qualifying loans forgiven.

Adrianne and Travis cover:
-the spectrum of debt nurses have related to education
-qualifying for PSLF in 2022 & those previously left out
-how to find out if you qualify
-loopholes and following the rules to your advantage

This episode is a must-listen for any nurses with Federal Loans, those curious about PSLF, and nurses previously denied PSLF because of their payment plan.

To learn more about Student Loan Planner or to check out their website and page of Student Loan Calculators
https://www.studentloanplanner.com/student-loan-calculators/

See if you qualify for Public Service Loan Forgiveness at
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Adrianne has some thoughts on how a staff nurse should treat a float or a traveling nurse - very specific thoughts. She shares some opinions of how we as staff nurses should be treating our travelers and floating nurses from the moment they arrive on the unit. A basic level of friendliness, professionalism and a crash course of the unit is minimum, folks. We end with the question posed: Is being friendly a responsibility of all nurses? Is refusing to do so adding to the bully culture of our industry? Share your thoughts and opinions.

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Adrianne is back with her second solo-episode to bring you her top 5 tips for walking into a shift that can only be described as a shitshow. You know the ones we mean, where you're behind before you clock in, the call lights are non-stop and you may never get to pee again. Adrianne wants to hear your tips for keeping zen when you know the 12-hours ahead of you are going to test your patience, endurance and sanity. Like, comment, share.

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This week, MRC is keeping it short and simple since Adrianne is flying solo on the mic. She's going to do her best to give you a peek into the Quality Improvement Project she's just started working on, and attempt to give you some helpful hints she's only recently figured out. Join in the conversation medroomchronicles.com - are you new to the world of QI or is this old hat for you?

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This week, Adrianne and Andrew give their two cents on nurses carrying malpractice insurance, crossing picket lines to work, Andrew admits he'd jet at the first sign of a storm with a human name, and Adrianne describes the creative, yet disgusting off-label uses for a Yankauer.

All this and more, as these two nurses attempt to string their stream of conscious thought into a cohesive work of podcast art.

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Adrianne is back with part 2 of her chat with Anna, an ICU and SWOT (Service WithOut Territory) nurse. In this episode they talk about being a nurse and a new mom, handling death in the ICU, pregnant nurses and isolated patients, how to spot a seasoned nurse and more. If you missed part 1, go back and catch up, we'll be right here...

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Adrianne has a late night chat with Anna, an ICU and SWOT (Service WithOut Territory) nurse. In this Part 1, they talk about finding the courage to speak up on your patient's behalf, SBAR and anxiety talking to docs, being a pregnant nurse, and nurse-led rounds in the surgical ICU.

Listen to the first half of the conversation and then come back next week to hear the riveting conclusion. In the meantime go leave MRC a review on your podcast platform. Thanks guys!

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Adrianne and Andrew are talking tattoos, marijuana, IV fluid shortages and body waxing in the first episode of 2018! Season 2 is guaranteed to be interesting and hilarious as MRC digs deeper into the minds of nurses. Join your favorite long-winded nurses for more stories, anecdotes and food for thought.

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Welcome back, nurses, students and innocent bystanders! It's been too long.

In episode 18, Adrianne is joined by nurse and writer, Ashley Hay. In this conversation, they explore the adventurous nature of nursing, the delicate sci-fi ballet of proton therapy, beginning and maintaining a writing career, and keeping the focus on self-care while caring for everyone else. Most shocking, Adrianne manages to go an entire hour without cursing. It's an early holiday miracle!

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You can also find Ashley's work on All Nurses:
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Thanks again to Ashley for joining us on Med Room Chronicles.

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Adrianne just got off work and she's emptying all 7 of her scrub pockets.

What do you carry in your pockets on the regular and what things do you accumulate as you go?

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Adrianne and Allison reconvene for part 2 of this marathon conversation that spans a wider-than-usual range of loosely related topics like
*balancing school, work and personal life.
*a couple of poor academic choices r/t exhaustion
*hierarchies and power dynamics in healthcare
*how not to flunk out of nursing school
*the best app you'll ever download
*how Allison knew she was old

Listen in as we get really opinionated and passionate about basically everything.

Thanks again to Allison, who chose to remain anonymous, for letting loose on the podcast. Adrianne hopes to chat again soon...Nursing school is gonna give her a lot to talk about.

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In this episode, Adrianne welcomes (and fangirls over) nurse, author, and educator, Kati Kleber. Kati is also a national speaker, host of the amazing fresh RN podcast, and owner of freshrn.com, which is an online platform created to educate, encourage and motivate newly licensed nurses in innovative ways.

Kati joins Adrianne to discuss the oft-misunderstood art of precepting and how it has grown more challenging in the years since the pandemic began. This episode is for willing and hesitant would-be preceptors alike!

Kati and Adrianne cover topics like
-How precepting can set the course for a new grad’s career
-How the last 2 years have affected precepting (COVID, staffing shortages, supply shortages)
- TFW you’re “voluntold” to be a preceptor and how to make the best of not feeling prepared
-Balancing responsibilities to your patients and giving your preceptee attention/education
-The kind of relationships we have with students and new nurses and how to best advocate

They pack a lot into this episode so you’re very likely to come across some helpful nuggets in this episode.

Thanks to Kati for giving so much wonderful advice and knowledge, and for being such a lovely person to hang with for an hour.


Head to freshrn.com/courses to find the PreceptorPro course as well as all of the other content Kati has created.


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Adrianne welcomes an old friend and future nursing student, Allison. They talked for 2 1/2 hours about so. many. things. This is the first half of that conversation. The topics range from the struggle of getting into nursing school, nurses running for office in 2018, power dynamics in the workplace and admirable qualities often found in nurses.

Allison is a witty, smart woman and we love every minute of this episode.
Listen in as we get fired up!

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Adrianne wakes Andrew up from a deep sleep to make a list of things we love about our profession...you know, normal stuff.

Bet you won't guess some of the things on our list. No, this time we don't include spontaneous vacation time or patients that can clean their own behinds, but we think our selections rank at the top. This is just the first part of many as we attempt to balance out all the complaining we did in our 'Pet Peeves' episodes.

What are your favorite things about nursing? We'd love to hear your comments and stories.

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In this vaguely-titled episode, Adrianne and Andrew glide through an amalgamation of topics including but not limited to:

*The inevitable waxing of Andrew's body at the hands of his new Facebook group, Traveler Talk.
*The enormous commitment of content creation.
*Sexy nurse Halloween costumes.
*Snot-spray and sneeze etiquette
*Holidays in the hospital
*MRC Gratitude Check

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Weeee'reeee back with part 2, answering a list of listener questions, but for the second half, we'll be doing things more rapid-fire style. Well, rapid-fire for us, which still makes for a long episode.

We talk about how to get "unstuck", how to deal with bosses of all kinds, and much more.

We also want to thank allnurses.com for being such a great resource for nurses. We talk about our real life involvement with the site, and hope to soon have some postings of our own there.

Go check it out - fall down the nursing rabbit hole with us.....from CNAs, to students to RNs to advanced degree nurses, they're all there talking things over.

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First, we got fan mail! Tabitha reached out to us with a few topics she wanted to hear us tallk about, and we sure as hell did. Two hours worth! You get one hour this week and one hour next week, so don't go anywhere.

Also, we recorded this episode on the fly while Andrew was travelling - he was awesome enough to go to the big box store and buy a headset at 5am so we could do this.

That said - be kind, the audio quality at times reflects the fact that we pulled this ish together before the sun was up. Sorry for the pops and crackles, but like I've said before, this is real life, y'all.

Listen in as we talk about a million things from confidence (or lack of), beds, languages, pulmonary toileting, and lots of stuff in between.

Come back next week for part 2!

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If you've ever worked in healthcare, you may know that lots of us take pot-lucking very seriously. Brad and Adrianne explain the components of a good pot-luck on their commute from Adrianne's house to the hospital.

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In the second part of this long, middle-of-the-night convo between Adrianne and Andrew, they pick up where they left off, addressing the cliff-hanger from episode 10. They also talk about nurses who are ill, finding natural talents and knowing boundaries. Adrianne may or may not have almost been struck by a train at some point during this recording.

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We're going to go ahead and use the cliche "better late than never" on this one.
We took a week off, and good thing, because all sorts of stuff happened. We talk about a lot of it, but mostly we stick to Andrew's adventures at TravCon a couple weeks ago and the horrific illness that he got as payback for having such a good time there.

And it wouldn't be an episode of Med Room Chronicles if we didn't do the jitterbug in and out of a ton of random, unrelated topics. Stick around for all of this epic convo - and don't worry - we edited out all Andrew's coughs and maybe a couple cough-farts - you'll never know for sure.

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"But you only work three days a week...."

A phrase that infuriates any nurse, but especially night shifters.

Andrew and Adrianne are both caught in The Fog as they record this episode about The Fog itself, series of intoxication-like symptoms that occur after working several nights in a row. They also go on a tangent about hourly rounding and bed alarms, and Andrew confesses his lack of trust in a certain group of people.
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What are you like after several shifts in a row? Do you get caught in The Fog? What do you do to make it better? Comment and let us know.

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In this episode, Adrianne chats with Dan DiMonte, who is both a nurse and a musician living in the temperate paradise of San Diego, CA. They delve into the ways music and nursing complement each other, how Dan almost lost his mind alone in the woods, the perils of dangerous hospitals, and the exciting details of Dan's upcoming tour.

The intro and outtro song is "Under the Sun (With River Glen)" from Dan's new album The Best of the Midwest Variety Hour. You can find his stuff all over the place:

http://www.dandimonte.com

https://soundcloud.com/dandimonte

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In this episode, Adrianne welcomes back good friends Amie Varley and Sara Fung of the Gritty Nurse podcast for another lively conversation. This time they are focusing on ways individuals can take action against disparities in the American and Canadian healthcare systems.

They start with the basics of defining and identifying disparities in health care and go on to describe how nurses can work towards providing more equitable care. They also bring the T on what Amie really does when she’s on Twitter - with a bonus story of what NOT to do in the space. It’s a serious episode, but somehow always fun when these guests are involved.

Find The Gritty Nurse podcast at grittynurse.com

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Adrianne, nurse, and night-shifter for more than a decade, has just crawled into bed after a long shift...so this is real and unedited information in her most honest, exhausted state. She lists* 10 ProTips for getting better daytime sleep and elaborates on the interesting ones. 

She starts with the common staples of day-sleep, like eye masks and dark curtains, but it quickly gets, um, unconventional. Listen to Adrianne get sleepier and sleepier as she tries to help you do the same**. 

*this is an unpublished recording from Adrianne's personal blog, Night Nursing Nuances.
**not kinky so don't even go there.

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Most night shift nurses will tell you that post-shift breakfast with their team is a cathartic, often-necessary experience - an opportunity to decompress, vent a little, fill your empty belly before heading home. With the right crew, it can be the best part of the work week.

The MRC crew talks about what Nightshift Breakfast means to them and why it's such a right of passage for 3rd shifters. Adrianne explains to Andrew that "gravy was never sexy", there's talk of pop songs, snorting antilipemics, and then it all crashes to an end with a tale of Adrianne's first SICU float.

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Happy Nursing, folks.

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It's that time of year again!

Classes have already begun for most of us. Only now it's less about back to school shopping for fun supplies, it's about hunkering down and preparing yourself for success.

Brad and Adrianne are here to give you their favorite ProTips for starting the semester on the right foot in both real and virtual classrooms. They also throw in some NCLEX tips for all our aspiring RNs.

Tangents are always a high probability as are some sentence embellishments that are NSFW AF. Join us, like, subscribe and share! We love to bring you content!

Happy Nursing, folks!
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