The State of Nursing - The Nurse Blake Podcast (Ep 2)
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
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In this episode, my husband Brett and I discuss my new kitchen appliance purchase. We review comments about different podcast titles and I look up our zodiac sign compatibility. We dive into Brett’s “celebrity” bio, and our fitness routines. Then, we switch gears to discuss the current state of nursing and compare the healthcare industry to the airline industry. To close out we read shoutouts submitted through my website nurseblake.com. Each week we will take on a new nursing topic and bring up questions and stories submitted by our listeners.
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00:18 - Sorry about the wings baby
03:45 - Potential podcast names
15:00 - The state of nursing
26:07 - Learn about NurseCon
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Nurse Blake, would you please do an interview with a nurse from another country, preferably a country with socialized health care. I am very interested to know if they experience similar systemic inefficiencies within their hospitals. I'd also like to know if they have unique problems in socialized medicine. Thank you, love your show.
Great idea! Its important to remember two things with socialized med. A) all systems have unique struggles and B) not all country run health systems are the same. Good to learn all the different options.
Blake, thank you so much for sharing the story about the NICU nurse floating and feeling unsafe. I'm a maternity nurse, and I've caring for women's and children for 8 years. Recently we also have been required to float and do 1:1's. And even some of the basic cares, we don't do and don't feel comfortable with. I feel many of us have been put into unsafe conditions because we don't have that experience! All of your statements about staffing, patient safety, and staff satisfaction truly hits home! ❤️
“I bought an aaaaaaaaairrrrrrrr fryyyyyyyerrrrrrrrrr...”
😂😂😂
You turned 3 syllables into a fabulous 83 syllables.
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻❤️❤️❤️
I’m not even a nurse, and I listened to every single second of this!! I LOVE THIS PODCAST!!!!!
Nurse Blake has paved the way for nurses to become celebrities! I’ve never seen a nurse this big in my 20 year career! 👏👏👏👏
I've been a nurse almost 49 years and so much of what you discussed have been a problem for a long time. I have moved from an old hospital into a new build and no nurse was ever consulted in the way the new ER was layed out . You can imagine what we got. Keep up the good work. Hopefully administration understands after the pandemic what nursing means for their hospital. I'm a clinical instructor and I worry for my baby nurses
Holy smokes....you've been a nurse for as long as I've been alive! I hope your students know how lucky they are & take advantage of picking your brain! I've been an LPN for 18 years & will be taking the NCLEX RN when I'm 50 .... given the current state of things, I hope I'm lucky enough to experience clinical with great instructors (and actual patients lol)
One of my frustrations is that in the past year, we don't even have enough staff to float. We either have to work overtime (that we'd rather not do) or work short staffed. It's tough because you want your time off that you're due, but you also don't want to leave your teammates and patients hanging.
COMPASSION FATIGUE...It’s real
Absolutely we actually had a coworker who had to get professional treatment for this. Take care of your own health too it’s important
"A lot of times night shift gets forgotten".......So true!!!!!!
1000%
UGH the "hey baby" at the very beginning is literally life goals!!
I love how you can enlighten us on the realities of nurse life but also talk about other big and little fun things in your personal life. I'm learning so much and I have so much fun listening to you guys. Having Brett on the podcast makes it relatable from an outsider point of view. Also you guys have the contagious smiles and energies. keep it up!! ♥️
Thank you taking the lead on this topic. This is a real problem.
Loving your pod cast and having Brett share his thoughts is great! I agree there should be a podcast on relationships. Again thank you! Watching the podcast is a wellness activity for me!
Thanks so much for listening!!! The next episode #3, will be about relationships and dating advice ❤️
Thank you for using your platform for this cause. I look forward to being a part of nursecon. Thank you.
I will say that having a nurse on the design team is a life saver. I volunteered at a very small hospital in my area, and they didn’t even have ER or ICU until about 5 years ago. When they decided to build those 2 units on a nurse stepped in and said “If we are going to have an ER and an ICU people are going to die so we need a morgue!” They were like what do you mean and they didn’t have a morgue so the nurses were putting the dead bodies on the loading dock behind the hospital until the funeral home picked them up. I was so shocked and if it hadn’t been for that nurse stepping up they probably still wouldn’t have a morgue. I’m sure the doctors hated her saying something because the morgue took the spot of their physicians lounge.
Omgosh I 🧡 you two! Brett actually understands our passion. Keep on keeping on. Much love 🌈
Brett-THANK YOU for really summing up what it means to be floated! Your perspective on nursing topics is refreshing.
It’s like your comments make it OKAY to feel the way one does when being floated to an unfamiliar area. I teach full-time now (and remember how it feels to float), but I can only imagine what my recent grads have experienced in their transition to practice. Shout out to the new nurses in 2020 and 2021!
I’m feeling this NICU nurse! I am a labor and delivery nurse and for the last year we’re constantly being floated out to the house. It’s upsetting on so many levels! Though I have been a MedSurg nurse in the past and am very capable of taking care of them, there is a reason I left. It gives me such anxiety when I get to work just to be floated. Also, because L&D is so specialized, literally no other nurse from any other unit can float to labor and delivery and help us out when we’re short staffed and crazy busy. We’ve had probably a third of our staff leave over the last year. It’s very sad.
I love to float!! I do NICU, newborn nursery, Postpartum, OR, L&D, Tele, Acute Rehab, Surgical, and have worked the Covid unit. I like the surprise when I find out I’m floating to somewhere new, and I enjoy knowing I’m comfortable caring for adults, infants, and the elderly. The only thing I don’t do is Pediatrics, because we don’t have a Peds unit, lol.
That's awesome!!!
What a kind and loving couple you are. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Best to you both.
Thanks for watching!!
I love you two, you’re so cute. Bring the dogs to episode 3!
Brett hit the nail on the head! A construction crew came through and remodeled our outpatient department. They didn't ask the nurses or MAs for input on the best way to lay out the department! They ended up configuring the area so less check in staff could be utilized (to save money). Then Covid came and we had sick and well patients in the same waiting room!! And yes... we are now required to "help each other out" so the float differential can be saved.
If only there was hope the profession will change.
You guys are adorable together ! Love this kind of podcast !!
I just had a really rough night shift, and your podcast literally lightened up my mood so thank you for that. Also HEY NURSE is the best name so far for the podcast :)
HEYYY NURSEEEE! lol Sorrry about your rough shift but so happy you found the podcast! Thanks so much for listening!
You get me very excited to enter this profession! I can start applying next year. Even with your honesty on the hard parts of nursing, I am looking forward to this new challenge and hope I can do well.
Hey Blake! I am guilty ✋ I tend to binge your videos and basically never comment. As an LPN for 18 years I am finally starting the RN program next semester & will be graduating when I'm 50 😬 I just want to say THANK YOU for your humor & inspiration!! I love all the things you're doing & wish you all the success! ❤
Please take us through your skin care routine!
Yes! Doing a relationship segment would be great. My nursing journey has just begun and every time I share new info with my boyfriend, he definitely feels more nervous for me than I do. (i.e Taking the NCLEX, Job interviews, new job) it’s so hilarious, but I love it.
Hey Nurse Blake, love your videos! Probably off topic, but plz plz do a video about your skin routine:)) You are glowing!
🙋♀️ 1st year Nursing student here Central Coast Australia.....the struggle is real through covid but we are getting it done.
Thank you so much for your content loving the podcasts!
Thank you for adopting a Pit mix. They are the best.
I love the way you talk about your dogs. You'd be great parents! ❤️ ☺️ Also, nurses hate downtime especially on day shift! I love your husband's reaction to it! 😆 Our discharge lounge is not a thing anymore due to Covid. 😔 Also, you guys always make me smile. ❤️ I love your positivity! 😘
I Love your stories. I am not the cook in the house but sometimes I get these ideas to just make these elaborate dinners. When I tell my husband I am making something I usually have this receipe I got online. I always start off great but usually call my husband to help me measure something or for help. Before I know it I am sitting on the living room couch and he is in the kitchen cooking the dinner I got a receipe for. After all is said and done I say " wow babe. I did a good job.!" He usually just looks at me and say " yea, you did." I love him. ❤️
I’m a hurricane, too. Lol. Have a hard time staying in one place, and need to switch it up!
Hi Nurse Blake, I'm a unit secretary and I love your videos! Even I can easily relate.
OMG!!! It was just today when I thought ' I wonder when there'll be another Nurse Blake podcast episode'. I am soo excited, thank youuu!!!! You two are so sweet
Thanks Michelle for watching!! Planning to upload new episodes every Thursday 🙌
@@NurseBlake Awh, yaay! Can't wait!!! I hope the podcast has a million seasons >.
I remember first job, dietary was supposed to leave us meals for nights, they forgot lots. one nurse knew where the key was, so we helped ourselves. Took them months to find out. The Maytag Man was also the star of Eureka, on the sci fi network. I can see the resemblance. I still remember my 40th birthday, had a great party. Well, I don’t really remember it, but they told me I had lots of fun!
As a nsg. Manager, we try our best not to float anybody. I would NEVER take a nurse out of OB/GYN, ER, ICU, Nursery and Recovery Room. If I have to go pass meds. thats what I'll do. PERIODt. MSN,RN.
Yes I am earlyyyy!!! I was JUST about to pick up my Cardio. notes but I deserve a longer break anyway, and what better way to spend it but with Nurse Blake and Brett! Yay!!
Yesss! You deserve a break 💕
I got into nursing school in May for the RPN program! I am loving this podcast. You and your husband are so cute. You are an inspiration. From a fellow Canadian future nurse :)
Doing my bachelors paper on SBAR. Yay!!!!!
I just found this podcast and I love it
That smile nurse blake.
I am a nursing (LPN) student and as I like to say, if we can get through nursing school during a pandemic, we can get through anything, Cos this is rough. Also, trying to get through clinicals is a pain in the arse. Since school started in August, we've had to quarantine & distance learn at least 8 times. Ugh thank God we only have 2 months left.
YES! Your dedication to get through nursing school during a pandemic definitely shows your passion for nursing. You should be so proud of yourself!
Yes you can!!! Just keep pushing through till the end. Keep us posted🙏🏾
@@HomeWiseShulag thank you!!
After you finish school, and start at a hospital or facility, you will have more education and have to be Oriented to the employer. You will have more class and education time, as well as some "virtual" classes. Hang in there!
I enjoy these! Keep it up. You guys remind me of my boyfriend and I. He isn’t in Healthcare either and he is 12 years older than me.
Love your new podcast and have always loved your page on Facebook with your hilarious videos! I’m 9 months away from graduating with my BSN. I’m working through school and have been a CNA for 4 years. An issue I have discussed often with my coworkers is the compensation nurses receive in some states, specifically Utah where I currently work, being way lower than it should be. Additionally, I often discuss how hard it is for nursing staff to get breaks. Often times we are working for 8 hrs or more straight before a 30-min break and have to stuff food in our mouths on the go. I feel a 1-hr break should be normalized for 12-hr shifts especially with the physical demands of nursing. Most companies get away with giving two 15-minute breaks and one 30 minute break but staff is always so busy the 15s are never taken. One 30 minute break in a 12 hr shift really is nuts when you consider any other job doing this to their hard working staff. I love you mentioned we have to care for ourselves in order to care for our patients. So true!
Love watching .... all the way from Trinidad
Aw yay! ❤️
Oh and would love to see them. ❤️
Love how much you love Target. You’re so cute. 🥰
Also you should come out with more merch options!
I’m a Sagittarius, too. Archers rule! 🥳🥳🥳🥳
SHOUT OUT to the Clinical Learning Team at Orlando Health. Everyone has had to scramble to maintain Core Courses, Advanced courses, and somehow keep orientation going for the New nurses. Maintaining Social Distancing is rough. But we have all become amazing VIRTUAL Facilitators! YAY Team!
I have never connected to a podcast like this... ❤️ and I am not even a medical professional. I want to be an anesthesiologist, but I am sooooo scared. I don’t wanna make the wrong decision though. I am currently a Sophomore in high school. I have straight A’s and am getting offers from colleges already.
I met an ER nurse that calls it a DSO instead of DSP. DSO = Day Shift Opportunity, keepin' it positive 😂 Also, when I come onto NOC shift we find pizza or potluck leftovers from day shift waiting for us to clean up 🤬
OMG YES! I LOVE DSO!!!!
You two are so so precious! Love y’all ❤️❤️❤️
Oh yeah. I'm here for this podcast yall. 👏👏👏 I was about to ask if yall were on Apple podcast! 🍎 Glad yall are!
Thanks for this topic Blake, it's something that is going on forever at the hospital and in LTC, and it's something that "you're not supposed to talk about," because patients cannot know that you're working on your own in your shift. So suck it up if your patient falls cause nobody's there to watch them while they're having their confusion, if patient yells at you because you're not there on time that they push call light for help, and get yelled at by the MD because you're calling them in the middle of the night to report of your patient falling with injury. And to top it all, your manager calls you the next day because you didn't finish your charting and to investigate about the patient fall. Fun times!
Awww I'm a Saggie Thanksgiving baby too!!! Nov 25th '90! I will be having a Thanksgiving birthday this year! ❤😉
Please drop a vid about different types of nurse specialities and which one is the easiest. Thanks love you💕
I love this podcast! Can it be longer??? Also, you should collab with other nurses or have guests! That’ll be so fun. Thanks for making our days a little better with laughter😁
I work at Hoags Hospital at New port beach, CA, and our cafeteria is open 24hrs and we have valet + we have the view of the ocean 😎
Call it “Answering Call Lights with Nurse Blake”
My best friend and I are also a Taurus and Sagittarius pairing! Very in line with your dynamics too!
Oh FUN!!!! 😀
Lol @ the day shift getting left over night shift pizza. I work evenings and we get the left over, left over, night shift pizza.
Hahaha 🤣 #nightshiftproblems
@@NurseBlake preach! Lol
It seems evenings and nights would always get leftover lunch pizza!
@@susanmocsnythomas1428 that's true but night shift always knows how to throw a party. They're the ones always having potlucks--yum!
Leftover pizza? How is that a thing? Our nightshift doesn't leave anything unless it's scary! 😂🤣
When I was in NICU as a student I had to sit in the rocker with the babies. Fell asleep one time rocking the baby. Everyone laughed and took a pic of me. It was funny, Kid was fine and also asleep
I’m addicted to these
I bought one of those Morkan (as in the egg from Mork and Mindy) Egg Air Fryers about three years ago. Used it once because I could only fit one item of food at-a-time into it. By the time each item cooked, the meal was cold - although (not burned) chicken wings can be enjoyed cold. I gave mine away to another nurse. Now the black egg from ORK is taking up room on someone else's counter.
Amazing show
That's my dog haha
Hi Guys enjoying your podcast from a fellow Taurine 😊
Hi Nurse Blake! Love the podcast! I’m 45 and started nursing school in January. I passed fundamentals and just started Med Surg. Any advice? You and your hubby are adorable 🥰
❤ podcast! Beautiful Energy!
Thanks for tuning in!! :-)
Day shift works short and manager comes in with soft pretzels and balloons on my weekend working like alright bro
Hey girl ❤️❤️❤️love the stories about the air fryer😀😀have u ever had the inkling to palpate the physician??😄😄😄😄
I was working at a local hospital few years ago, they were going to remodel the unit and said we'd be able to go give our input as nurses...............OMG we were so happy.............until they unveiled the new unit and none of us had ever been asked what we needed, such as room by the door for large trash cans and the sink to wash our hands as we come and go, and the bed alarm hook up to be all on ONE stinking side of the bed.........the side of the bed closest to the door to turn that darn thing off as fast as possible for our startled dementia patients!!!! And to not have the patient bathroom door and the patient bed to line up perfectly so that there isn't enough room to walk by the foot of the bed without getting hung on a door handle or SCD machine or wound VAC!!!
Omg you guys are so cute❤️❤️❤️ goals
And the times you forget something in shift report and you call your relief on the way home?
What about "Breakroom Chronicles". Your podcast reminds me of lunch break conversations with nurses at work. Love your videos and podcast
PS. I think you should just keep it Nurse Blake Podcast. Seems Brett would be ok with that. He's very supportive and you are to him as well. That's an Almost Perfect Relationship 🤗
wow the lighting issue - I sometimes have to use my cell phone flashlight and shine it on the wristband in order to get the scanner to register the tiny QR code on the wristband. the lighting is atrocious in the pt rooms, like 4 old fluorescent tubes above the bed.
And the light switches aren't always in intuitive places
Blake luv you and your husband!!!!
Nurse Blake...more merchandise...like yesterday!!
You guys are my favorite couple. ❤️
Im obsessed with them
Yeah, nursing school during covid is rough. My clinicals this semester extend until after this semester ends and into the summer semester. 😅
The PSP 😂😂😂 I was dead! My first few shifts as a PCT I was always sooo nervous that i had to find my perfect bathroom for a little pre-shift me time 😆 now I’m an RN at the same hospital and I’m like telling all the new people where to go 😂
I have mandatory meetings every Wednesday from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm, after working night shift. Thankfully it is on TEAMS. Ugh! Lol
Oh my lord, I love you two!
Put parchment paper in there it cuts down the mess majorly ☺️
I’ve considered nursing before but I think I’m too old to go to school for it now. I’m 32, I’ll be 33 in October. How long is schooling??
It’s your Thanksgiving to work and it’s your weekend is bad too
We all have iPhones and use Voalte at my hospital. Pretty cool, but it’s still always so hard to get to talk to the doctor lol
Spot on with the nightshift Lol
SUGGESTION for a podcast: Your Orientation to your Hospital How was it? What did you have to do? How much online computer education (regulatory) did you have to do?
What about a Podcast on your Annual Education requirements?
Equipment updates?
How to use a (Hoyer-type) lift - that would be hysterical if you suddenly found a patient on the floor and no one could find the lift!
BRETT DOES look like the Son of Maytag Man!
It has been rough. Especially for nurses.
Podcast name suggestion: Post-conference with nurse Blake ❣️
I used to float from Surgery to MedSurg.
I am a c.n.a and when I have to work the 3-11shift I just microwave those days
The treatment room
How bout "Beyond The Bedside" or "Table Talk" as podcast names?