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The countdown to Nurses Week has begun, and hosts Jenn and Phara are celebrating with a deep dive into nursing's rich history and promising future. They explore the legacy of Florence Nightingale—the iconic "lady with the lamp" whose nighttime rounds and infection control practices revolutionized healthcare in the 1800s. You'll discover how nursing pioneers like Clara Barton, Mary Eliza Mahoney, and Mary Elizabeth Seacole broke barriers and established nursing as a respected profession when options for women were severely limited.
Did you know nursing ranks as the world's fifth-largest employer? With approximately 30 million nurses worldwide, the profession has grown tremendously, yet experts project a concerning shortage of 10 million nurses by 2030. Jenn and Phara discuss this paradox and identify a critical shortage of nursing educators as one contributing factor, sharing personal experiences with the rigid requirements and salary disparities that prevent qualified nurses from teaching the next generation.
Looking ahead, they envision how nursing will evolve over the next five years, from expanded roles and responsibilities to the integration of artificial intelligence and new technologies. There's also plenty of fun as they share creative ideas for celebrating Nurses Week, play "Would You Rather" (would you take the NCLEX every year or work five-day shifts forever?), and imagine how they would transform the profession if they "ruled the world."
Whether you're a nursing student, seasoned professional, or simply curious about healthcare's largest profession, this episode offers insights, laughs, and a deeper appreciation for the superheroes in scrubs who make our healthcare system work. Follow us, leave a review, and help us reach our goal of 1,000 downloads!
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Introduction and Website Revamp
Speaker 1Hi , my name is Jen and this is Farrah . Welcome to our show . Listen , very Costly , we're sounding cuter and cuter . Say this , farrah how are you today ?
Speaker 2I'm doing okay , doing good . How was your week ? I'm doing okay , doing good .
Speaker 1How was your week ?
Speaker 2It was all right .
Speaker 1Yeah .
Speaker 2Yeah , it was all right . I got some things accomplished there's . You know , I'm trying to revamp my website and me not being very technically inclined , I had to recruit some help , some professional help . So I was able to find an excellent , excellent web designer who revamped the site for me . So I think once he's done with it , it's going to be good . So that was my project for this week .
Speaker 1Do you mind telling our listeners what the website ?
Speaker 2is for ? Oh , it's the website linked to my practice , vitals Healthcare Services . So , with the age that we're living now , a lot of people prefer virtual care rather than in-person care . So I provide both of these services . So this is a way for them to not just learn about me and about the practice , but also they're able to book appointments online through , like , if they want to go through ZocDoc or Google if they want to book an appointment with me . And I'm also trying to promote my CPR classes so they can learn more about the CPR classes that I offer and other services that I offer . So this is just a way to connect , to connect myself to the community .
Speaker 1Nice . So , guys , before I forget , when we publish this episode , in the description you're going to have Farrah's information , the address to the website or social media information . That way you can not only follow but , should you be in the New York area , you can connect with . I love the fact that you provide telehealth option . I think it's so important because there are a lot of people who not only feel better in the comfort of their home to get that . It's more convenient for them , but also there are some people who can't make it .
Speaker 2Access to care is really important , exactly . I mean , I went to a conference last year in Buffalo and I ran into a couple of people and I was telling them about my practice and they were like , oh , I wish I lived in Brooklyn because they needed certain services . One of them was tobacco cessation , because I'm very knowledgeable about addiction and chemical dependency and she was hooked on cigarettes and she needed some tools and to medication , assisted treatment , and because she's in so far away . So one option I gave her was to connect with me online . So yeah , access to care for homebound individuals and people who can't get around is very important
Celebrating Nurses Week History
Speaker 2.
Speaker 1That's awesome , so next week is a big week .
Speaker 2Yes , it is Nurses Week . Yes , I love Nurses Week . Yeah , nurses Week , I love it too . I like it why ? Why do you love it ? Because it reminds me about why I became a nurse , why I entered the profession . It gives me an opportunity to go back and refresh and learn about the history of nursing and the significance of the nursing profession . It's a way for us to kick back and relax , play games with our colleagues , win prizes , eat together , laugh together , work together . So I love Nurses Week .
Speaker 1Yeah , me too . I love celebrating it because I don't know . It's just great . It feels like it is really a perfection and we're just taking that week to acknowledge how important it is . You get to be a superhero , slash superstar for a week and kind of go crazy and let your hair down , while also learning more about the profession .
Speaker 2Yeah , so Nurses Week is May 6th to May 12th . Yes , every year May 6th to May 12th , and the reason for that is because May 12th marks what is it ? Is it the birthday of Florence Nightingale ?
Speaker 1Yes , the birthday of Florence Nightingale , and it's also Nurses International .
Speaker 2Day . Yes , exactly , it's the day to recognize nurses worldwide . Yeah , so what do we know about Florence Nightingale ? Why is she so significant in the nursing profession ?
Speaker 1She's important . What I know about Florence Nightingale because I was co-chair of Skin Council Committee about Florence Nightingale , because I was co-chair of skin council committee is that there is this practice of turning and positioning every two hours a patient to prevent bed sore . And I found out that it's because it would take two hours to turn every patient in the hospital .
Speaker 2So yeah , I mean Florence Nightingale . She was a pioneer of nursing , I mean the actual profession itself . I'm sure it's older than , but it marks the recognition of the nursing profession . Florence Nightingale lived to be 90 years old and during her time she was a teacher , she was a writer , she was humanitarian , not just a nurse . And then also she is part of the reason why we use research in nursing . Yeah , she was a how do you say that ? Statistician ? Statistician .
Speaker 2They called her the lady with the lamb because during the Crimean War this happened a long , long , long time ago in the 1800s . During the Crimean War she would go around at night and with the lamp because of course there was no electricity make rounds on the wounded soldiers . So the reason why we make rounds is for that reason , because you admit a patient or you're assigned a patient and it's important to make rounds on a patient at least every two hours , if not more frequently . And why is that ? Because a patient can take a turn for the worse in a very short time . So that's why they called her the lady with the lamp , because she'd go around and shine the lamp on the soldiers' faces to make sure that they were breathing . There was no complications going on , etc . And then she's also significant in , I would say she was the first infection control nurse , correct Right Wound care Even , yeah , hand hygiene .
Speaker 2She recognized . She , along with another doctor , recognized soldiers weren't dying because of gunshot wounds , they were dying because of infection , right and cross-contamination . So the reason why we use PPE today and we're so strict on hand-washing , hand-washing and infection control is to prevent death . Yeah , and also another pioneer , which is closer to home because we're in New York , is who Clara Barton . Clara Barton , did you know that Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale lived around the same time ? Yeah , and she also died at the age of 90 .
Speaker 1Yeah , I saw that . I think that she was the founder of the American Red Cross .
Speaker 2Yeah , she started the American
Nursing Pioneers and Their Impact
Speaker 2Red Cross and big organization today that saves lives with blood transfusions and disaster relief . And my favorite , of course , cpr . Shameless plug , shameless , shameless plug . Yes , what about some other pioneers ?
Speaker 1Mary Eliza Mahoney . Okay , she was the first licensed nurse yeah , mary Elizabeth Seacole .
Speaker 2She was Jamaican nurse that lived in England , but she was born in Jamaica , I believe , and she was a nurse . She was born in 1805 . So she was a nurse like long , long , long , long time , even before we even started talking about Clara Barton and Florence Nightingale . You don't hear very much about people like that , but being a woman of color and a businesswoman , she had multiple businesses and , coming from Jamaica , I mean back in a profession where women were seen and not heard . These women were out there socializing , making a name for themselves and showing other women that , okay , yeah , there's nothing wrong with homemaking , but there are other things out there that you can do , right . And then there's some great men who are nurses . I've worked with a lot of great , great , great male nurses . So it's not just a woman's profession anymore and I'm glad to see a lot of men embracing nursing . We come from this stigmatized world and it's not just nursing at an administrative level .
Speaker 2Yes , even at the bedside , that's correct , yeah , yeah , like where I work , the hospital where I work I see at least two or three men on duty per day and that's a good thing , it is .
Speaker 1So yeah . So , speaking of that , how nursing has evolved from where it started to where it is now , it's like a job interview . Where do you see nursing in five years ? In a perfect world ? Where would you like to see nursing in five years ?
Speaker 2Okay , let's go back a little bit .
Speaker 2The nursing profession is almost 200 years old . I'm sure it's older than that , but officially recognized it's almost 200 years old . Nursing has been around for a very long time and , besides being such an old profession , we rank number five . The nursing profession ranks number five as the world's largest employer . I mean , you have people in sales and retail and customer service . Those people top the list , of course , but we come in number five before physicians , before lawyers . So this is a very important , important profession .
Speaker 2So , if you go back to the 1800s and you compare to advances that have been made in nursing today , it's a profession that's forever involving Right , it involves
The Future of Nursing
Speaker 2, it evolves every year , every decade , every century , every all the time . So , to answer your question , I think within the next five years , we're going to see strides in nursing that we've never seen before , especially with artificial intelligence I was thinking about that , yeah , ai technology , tools and equipment , and I think we're going to see our roles expanded and we're going to have to catch up , as a matter of fact , with other countries . I'll give you an example In terms of advancement , you have the nurse practitioner role , which 200 years ago didn't exist right To become an advanced practice nurse . You were an associate degree nurse or licensed practical nurse and then it advanced to the baccalaureate level and then the master prepared nurse , then the critical care nurse , the doctorate , the DNP , phd , yeah , and then , even as far as little as 10 years ago , there are 50 states in this country that not all 50 states give nurse practitioners full practice authority . So within the past five years , I've seen states gain we call it FPA full practice authority . So I've seen states , I've seen nursing organizations and nurses work tirelessly to make it so , to make it happen . So I think within the next five years , nursing is just going to continue to blow up .
Speaker 2But the thing about it is one thing that might hinder . That is the fact that there are almost 30 million nurses worldwide . 30 million , that's a lot of nurses , 30 million . But they say that in spite of that , the experts are saying by 2030 , we're going to be almost 10 million short of nurses . I see it . Yeah , we're going to be 10 million nurses short of the nursing needs , so there's still a shortage . You remember back , how long was it ago where they said , oh , there's too many nurses . There was a time when there was a nursing shortage . And then after that there was oh , we have a nursing surplus . And the whole time thinking nursing surplus , a nursing surplus ? No , we don't have enough nurses . People are . The aging population is growing , people are living longer , a lot of people don't want to be in institutions yeah , they're getting sicker .
Speaker 2they don't want to be in institutions , they want to be at home . The medical home model is booming , so we're gonna need a whole lot more people to to take care of our babies , our pregnant women or sick people or oh , don't even get me started on the mentally ill yeah , so I think within the next five years , we need to find ways to get people to come into the profession . You know what the problem ?
Speaker 1is . There is a shortage of nursing educators . There is a big of nursing educators . There is a big shortage of that and COVID also has not helped because it hindered the clinical exposure of students at that time who are now nurses , who are learning , and we've done a great job at adapting to whatever card they were dealt with Evercard , they were dealt with but I think I'm hoping that there are more educators out there that are providing the quality training and education to our nursing students .
Speaker 2Well , two things may prevent that from happening , and I'll tell you why . Number one is the salary yeah , just like every educator out there . Yeah , number one is the salary yeah , you do it for the love of education .
Speaker 2A lot of my professors that I've met said that to me yeah , this I mean they need , but , but I mean I can . If I didn't have to work , I'd spend my whole time volunteering . Yeah , if I didn't have to work . But if you offer me one job that pays a certain salary , versus me having to do two jobs to make the same salary as that one job , which one am I going to pick , even if I don't want to be in that position ?
Speaker 1So that's why there is definitely a shortage . I know it's a financial thing as well , and number two .
Speaker 2This is the roadblocks that I've encountered , and I'll tell you something . Do you know why I became a nurse practitioner ? Because I couldn't be a nurse educator . I graduated with a master's degree in nursing education in 2009 and have been looking for a teaching job ever since . Every job that I've encountered , every job that I've encountered , every faculty position that I've encountered that I've applied for . What do they put in the job requirements ? You must have teaching experience Right . Who's going to give you teaching experience if no one will even give you a chance to teach Every single job , every single university , whether it be an online faculty position ? Was it around the time that ?
Speaker 1there was a surplus .
Speaker 2No , I mean we're talking about 2009 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 and beyond .
Speaker 1But now , I think there's a critical shortage in that I applied for a faculty position six weeks ago .
Speaker 2I interviewed for it and guess why I didn't get the job ? Not because , farrah , you've been a nurse for 22 years . You've been a nurse practitioner for almost a decade . You have tons of experience . You have tons of experience mentoring and precepting other students and being a nurse leader in your job . And you've worked in home care . You've worked in behavioral health , you've worked at the bedside , you've worked in psychiatry . You've done multiple specialties , multiple certifications . Oh , what school have you taught before ? What school have you taught at before ?
Speaker 1So would you say that five years from now you would love . I mean it's taking a long time , but
Nursing Education Challenges
Speaker 1that five years from now you would love . I mean it's taking a long time , but culture takes time to evolve . But would you say , like one of your wishes would be that five years from now you do not need experience to become a nurse educator I would go for that if I could do that now .
Speaker 2I would , and I'm so open .
Speaker 1And this is why I'm asking these questions because certain things that we want to improve within our own profession . One of the things that I loved is the fact that we are now moving towards more academic and like research , and I would and I know there's a lot of research out there . Amazing results have yielded from it . Hospitals are learning from other hospitals through journals and articles and things like that . I just wish sometimes those results would get there quicker to be incorporated in practice .
Speaker 1I think about why does it take 17 years to put something into practice ? Why wait so long ? Because I'm sure the same organization is working on a project like , let's say , another hospital thousands of miles away . We're repeating the same process over and over again . Why can't we apply it from what we've learned from ? Why aren't we communicating enough ? So that's one of the things that I would love to see in five years feedback and to talk to us about or give us comments or answers about questions that we ask during our episodes . We would love to see those comments come more and more in our page on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . So and we want to hear from you guys what do you have planned for the upcoming week ? What does your organization have planned ? What do you enjoy the week ? Like things like that .
Speaker 2Yeah , I actually looked it up . I was interested to see how Nurses Week is being celebrated and recognized in different organizations . As a matter of fact , for Nurses Week back in the early 2000s at a hospital that I worked in , I created a puzzle , an actual puzzle I plugged in . I used this program where you can plug in actual words questions pertaining to nurses and then you create a puzzle like a crossword puzzle . And , yeah , one of them was like who was the pioneer of nursing ? And it was like Florence Nightingale or something that related to that , a reason why a patient might be longer , stay longer in the hospital , and and the winner , whoever was the first to solve the puzzle , won a prize and it went off really big on the unit . So I looked it up . Some people are doing like Nurse Olympics , like different challenges , bandage wrapping contests like who can unroll an ace , wrap and wrap a patient's extremity . You know the fastest and the best who can turn , you know turning and positioning contests . They have like little bingo nurse bingo , yes , nurse bingo . They have scavenger hunts .
Speaker 1Oh , I did a scavenger hunt once , yeah , based on different themes like quality and safety , patient experience , and everybody went around the unit looking for clues Correct and there were like small prizes , little prizes , and it was just a lot of fun .
Speaker 2So they do that . And then again there are different things you can do , and everybody loves food , of course , right , oh yeah , you can have like little breakfasts , yeah . You can have like a little brunch , like a little , or a nice little potluck . Yeah , potluck , yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , we used to do that where I worked .
Speaker 2People would bring different dishes and stuff we even had like a cultural day at the places that I worked and one of the nurses that I worked with he he bought jollof rice and it was really really good , so good , jollo , jollof rice .
Speaker 1Rice is so good . We have some competition with the Jollof rice , yeah or black rice . There's a little competition If you eat good Jollof rice .
Speaker 2You know what I love about living in New York ? It's just a cultural just okay , the United States .
Speaker 1but New York , brooklyn , no , not just New York . Let's get that brooklyn flatbush .
Speaker 2Yeah , I my god , there's such a everything . It's just such a mecca of culturalism and it's right there . I mean you have everything from pizza . I love italian food . You have pizza . You have different prices too like yeah you're not living .
Speaker 2It depends on your budget you have chinese food , you have curry chicken , you have roti , oh , and you have trinidadian indian . Yeah , you know jamaican and don't forget about the haitian . You have the like , the curry dishes . You have the Greek food , the Russian restaurant . Like Egyptian , you could eat at a restaurant , at one restaurant in the city , in the tri-state area . You could eat at a different restaurant every day , for every day , for the rest of your life , and not repeat the same restaurant .
Speaker 1And different ethnic dish .
Speaker 2Yes , it's so amazing . It's a big dish . Yes , it's , it's so , it's so amazing .
Speaker 1It's really really amazing , yeah , and then let me tell you , the Chinese food and the pizza and the bagel from New York is not the same as the ones , let's say , in Florida .
Speaker 2It's the water . You know , they say it's the water , the water . They say it's the water , the water is different . So anyway , yeah , so different things you can do , like you can have a photo booth . You can go around giving out coffee and tea . Yeah . You can have like a spa day , like I was talking in the previous podcast . You can have a special spa day for nurses . Yeah .
Speaker 1Or even like moments of gratitude thank you gifts . Thank you gifts .
Speaker 2Huddle , huddle yoga , huddle yoga how about a health fair for nurses ? Yeah , like we spend so much time being carers that we neglect our own care in some some organizations , they , yeah , they value that a lot Just get your blood pressure checked . Like a day where we come and we say okay , let me do an assessment on you , on your skin .
Speaker 1Well , you , know you got to make sure of legality and stuff like that .
Speaker 2Yeah , I mean with consent , of course , with permission of the organization . But as long as you're not invasive , I don't think checking somebody's book is for you .
Speaker 1I mean I would . I was probably just limited to like moments of gratitude , having huddle messages of yeah .
Speaker 2And then my favorite is share your story day , because we have such an impact Little things that we do that go a long way for our patients and their caregivers and other staff . They don't even get recognized , so like a share your story bulletin board or share your story day can make a nurse feel really , really special . Yeah , so there are ways , there are different things that we can do too .
Speaker 1I don't know why I just thought about this title Walk In my Shoes . It's like get to be behind the lens and see what my day is like . Yeah , definitely .
Speaker 2My favorite quote is whenever someone tells me something and I'm like , well , your blues ain't like mine , it's from a book I read by . Is it BB Moore Campbell ? She's one of my favorite authors and she wrote this book Call your Blues Ain't Like Mine . So I always say walk a mile in somebody else's shoes , try to experience and empathize with them and put yourself in their place , and that's part of what we have to do as nurses .
Speaker 1That's one of our traits , our superpowers to endure the challenges and support people in a non-biased way . Caring In a caring way .
Speaker 2Inclusive way yeah definitely A very inclusive way .
Speaker 2Yeah , like , we have this new staff member who's been here a couple of weeks with us , and I heard one of our other colleagues say can we ask the new person ? Well , I mean , they've been here almost a month , can we stop calling them the new person ? And the new person has a name , exactly , and I said this can we call this person by their name ? Yeah , so that's really important . So you want to play a game ? Okay , let's go . So you want to play a game ? Okay , let's go . What do you want to play ? Since it is nursing , let's do a little
Fun Ways to Celebrate Nurses Week
Speaker 2nursing trivia , or nursing , would you rather ?
Speaker 1Okay .
Speaker 2All right , you go first .
Speaker 1Okay . Would you rather take the N-Flex every year , or or Take the NCLEX every year , or or or change shift nursing shift to five days a week .
Speaker 2Okay , all nursing shifts , that's an easy one . I already work five days a week . But even if I didn't , reluctantly I would . Let me tell you something . I'm such a terrible test taker . And you want to talk about the NCLEX , believe it or not ? Believe it or not , I'll have that .
Speaker 2When I was in college at LIU downtown Brooklyn , I used to help other nurses with the NCLEX , other nursing students with the NCLEX , because I was the first one in my graduating class to take the NCLEX . And then even in the last semester , like I was , I do like little tutoring sessions for the junior and freshman students . And after that I was feeling myself so , so much that when I moved to Canada there wasn't the NCLEX . When I moved there , they were still doing what's called the CRNE , the Canadian Registered Nurse Exam , so they didn't have the NCLEX yet . So I was so confident I said I'm going to take this exam and see if I'll pass . And I took it the first time and I passed .
Speaker 2So then I started recruiting some other Canadian nurses who took the exam a couple of times and didn't pass . I think there were like five or six of them . And then I went on Facebook and started doing my own review , right so ? But now to tell me to take the NCLEX again every year ? Oh , no , no , no , ain't happening , ain't happening . I'll work seven days a week . No , I'm not doing that .
Speaker 1Good luck to everyone who you know how you take the bls every two years . Oh my goodness yeah , it's .
Speaker 2No , let's speed it up . One bls the bls is a cakewalk compared to , uh , the enclex it's . And it's so stressful , like because you're walking in and you , you don't know what questions you're gonna get . And they , they say know what questions you're going to get ? And they say , well , what should I study for Everything ?
Speaker 1Study everything , yeah , because you might get a set of you know my strategy and I think my professor for that was to just do questions . It's like math Math is the same idea , it's just different numbers . So it's the same situation , it's just different word , different age . Once you start learning those patterns over and over again , you're going to pass .
Speaker 2I mean , people endorse different reviews , but I can tell you , hands down the book , that the review book that helped me the most and I didn't even take any Kaplan review courses the one by Linda Silvestri . I used to carry that thing around like a Bible . I'd have it under my arm 24-7 . I don't even remember what book . Yeah , that book is really it's a really good book .
Speaker 1I know we had NTI . I don't know if they have NTI anymore Nowadays . I don't know what they have .
Speaker 2Yeah . So to answer your question , no , I'd rather work than take the NCLEX again .
Speaker 1I wonder what other people would say because , like some people , love nursing for its flexibility . The three day a week thing OK , I'm out , I can take a mini vacation here and there , but I'm sure everybody would pick the five days , like the NCLEX over and over again .
Speaker 2Come on , this was so stressful . And then even the NP boards my professor told me for the NCLEX .
Speaker 1She said you guys should eat something salty , because the brain loves salt .
Speaker 2So I had bacon , so you get yourself a sodium overdose . Oh my God bacon .
Speaker 1My cousin made bacon for me in the morning . I ate that . And then she said to wear like a very bright color shirt . So I had a neon green shirt on and then I went and I took my test and I left it shut down at 75 . I said oh , thank you , jesus Christ .
Speaker 2I thought I failed . My computer shut down at 69 questions . I'll never forget it Wow , 69 . Yeah , it shut down at 69 questions . I'll never forget it . Wow , 69 . Yeah , it shut down . I was like , okay , yeah , okay , I failed . I was so frustrated . It's such a stressful process . Yeah , and back then we didn't get the results right away In 2003 , when I took the boards . It would take two days . Yeah , yeah , it would take . Took , yeah , it took two or three days for me to get .
Speaker 1Yeah because they they always said to take it on a wednesday because by friday you'll get your result , as opposed to friday like waiting that extra weekend . Yeah so , but it definitely was stressful and there's a lot of people who have had to take it a couple of times before they pass . If you don't pass , keep taking it , don't stop .
Speaker 2That doesn't make you a bad nurse or a bad student or someone who is less intelligent than someone else .
Speaker 1Some people are bad test takers and it's okay and just keep taking it . Take it over and over again until you pass the learning , the real learning is done on the field . Definitely , definitely , okay , your question for me .
Speaker 2Would you rather run out of gloves or would you rather run out of coffee ?
Speaker 1I can run
Nursing Trivia and Would You Rather
Speaker 1out of coffee . Come on , because I can have . You didn't say caffeine , you said coffee . I can get myself some matcha . I can get myself some green tea , black tea .
Speaker 2So yeah , that one was . Gloves are very , very important . No , gloves are important .
Speaker 1Gloves are important and you got to wash your hands . Put on the gloves , do what you need to do .
Speaker 2Take off your gloves and wash your hands again . Okay , all right , and sometimes you even have to double glove . Sometimes there's some tasks that you're going to be assigned where you have to be double glove . Yeah , yeah , definitely . So yeah , ppe is very important . It's a little hack .
Speaker 1Okay , my turn again . Okay , another game . This is a if I rule the world game . Okay , if I rule the world . One thing that in nursing that would be either like mandatory to do or that you would take off . For example , I could say , if I rule the world , I would want that every nurse who worked to dedicated at least some some hours of their day off on themselves , like it would be mandatory , like something like that .
Speaker 2Okay , well , me being the socialist that I am , if I ruled the world , everybody would have free health care . If I ruled the world , everybody would have free health care . But from a nursing perspective , if I ruled the world , I would make it mandatory for anyone who even enters the nursing profession and dedicates their time and energy and experience and knowledge to be a nurse , to never have to worry about money for the rest of their lives .
Speaker 1Oh , that's a nice one . That's a nice one . That's a really really nice one . Okay , If I ruled the world , the money one was so good , it was so so good . If I will the world , I would want all nurses in the profession to be happy and love it .
Speaker 2Yeah .
Speaker 1Take the job and love it . They're doing nursing because they have to do it , but they're not happy . But they're doing an amazing job , but they're also like giving themselves out . So I would want , because it's already a hard profession .
Speaker 2I would want everyone to be happy and enjoy it . Yeah , here's one . If I ruled the world , I would make it mandatory for every nurse . I would make it mandatory for every nurse , every seasoned nurse , in order to get their licenses renewed . Mandatory to have precepted another nurse .
Speaker 1I don't agree . I'll say why . Why ? Because not everyone is good at precepting . Okay , with these in your world , right , in my world , they would be . They would be , they would be . Everybody would be good at precepting . That means like there's no options , but also it's not . It's just what we do . Ok , seasoned nurses , we know we precept everyone .
Speaker 2But you know what , jenny , even the person that we can say , oh , she's such a terrible nurse , she's such a bad nurse , even that person has a skill Like . I used to work with the nurse that everybody would be like oh my God , you're working with her , you're assigned with her , oh my God , good luck , Good luck . Let me tell you something . She taught me how to start an IV like that . She was such a good vascular access nurse . No one could teach me how to do it like her . I mean , I tried and I tried . One evening she said , okay , I'm going to show you how to start an IV , how to get blood from an almost impossible vein that you cannot see . Before we even had vein finders .
Speaker 2Yeah , okay , her personality and her attitude and her approach were not to everybody's liking , but when it came to skill , she was awesome , she was excellent . So I think , even if a person says , well , I don't think they'd make a good preceptor in my perfect world , whatever skill that they have , whatever they have to contribute , they don't have to precept forever , but I'd make it so that , okay , how to do x , y and z ? Each one . Teach one , show another nurse how to do that . What if they don't want to .
Speaker 1We're talking about if I will , no I'm trying to no , I'm trying to digest . I'm trying to digest your world . That's why you know we're talking about no , no , okay . So this is this is what I'm saying . This is what I'm saying in this world , like they , they're not aware of not saying no . Like , for example , right , we know that in nursing , we have to wash our hands before we touch the patient , right ? So in nursing , in your perfect world , all season nurses know , like we have to precept , and they also have the quality to precept and they also want to precept , right ? Yes , that's your world .
Speaker 2Even if they didn't want to , because I'm the king , I'm ruling this world . Okay , okay , okay , all right , fine , fine , all right , fine , fine . As nurses who else better than nurses ? Know that we're constantly having to do things that we don't want to , either that we don't want to or we don't think we know how to do , until we do it and we're like oh okay , so this is how it's done . We run into a lot of challenges . Challenging patients it's a lot of adaptability , yes . Challenging environments , new assignments , new units , new specialty areas , wounds that won't heal .
Speaker 1I know the emotional , oh my .
Speaker 2God . At the end of the day , it's such a rewarding .
Speaker 1We are superheroes , nurses are superheroes and I think the theme this year is superpower yeah , nursing superpower .
Speaker 2I have a . Someone gave me a mug for Christmas . Oh , my son , jonathan , he gave me a mug for Christmas that I have on my desk at work . It's like an oversized mug that you can put flowers or whatever in , and an oversized mug that you can put flowers or whatever in , and it says I'm a nurse . What's your superpower ? Yeah , and every morning , every morning , when I walk into my office and I see that mug , it inspires me to whatever I'm gonna be faced that day .
Speaker 1I'm gonna use my super solve the problem exactly you're gonna just pick up your yeah and go fuck you . Exactly yeah , but yeah , it's a great profession , definitely yeah . So what's the week going to look like for you starting May 6th ?
Speaker 2It's going to be a busy week . I mean , I'll try to participate in nursing activities as much as I can , but I'm in this role where I'm a nurse but I'm also a medical provider , and it's a very slippery slope . It's a very challenging thing sometimes to jump out of the nursing role into the nurse practitioner role and vice versa . And , of course , being a nurse practitioner at work takes priority , but I'm going to make time this week .
Speaker 2Yes , please do To seek out nurses , thank them for their wonderful work , spend time with them . Oh , that reminds me I got to go to the store and get some cupcakes for my nursing and nursing staff oh , that's so sweet . And nurses' aides yeah , I'm going to go and get a little gift for nursing and nursing staff oh , that's so sweet . And nurses' aides yeah , I'm going to go and get a little gift for the front office staff , just to let them know that . That's very sweet of you . I appreciate you giving this patient this injection because , god knows , I didn't want to . Aw , that's very sweet of you , yeah , so I'm going to make the most out of Nurses Week .
Speaker 1I plan on just participating in a lot of activities at work and I definitely want to do something for myself this week , something maybe like a spa day or like a facial or something to kind of celebrate .
Speaker 2Do you guys wear the little caps during Nurses Week ?
Speaker 1No , you .
Speaker 2Yeah , I know some place . Oh my God , that's so cute , just to honor Florence Nightingale and other nurse pioneers . Where do they get those caps ? I think , yeah , you can order them . They're like paper caps , they're not even like real . Okay , yeah , so all the RNs and LPNs and all the nurses they wear , and even the nursing assistants , pcs . Everybody gets in it . They wear like the little nursing caps , the little white nursing caps , just to recognize , and they wear it all day . They wear it all week , every all day , and all week . You see them in the cafeteria so that people would say , oh yeah , that's a nurse , you know . So , yeah , yeah , I think that's a cute idea .
Speaker 1That is a cute idea . Oh , that's so cute , yeah , well , guys , just a little update . So far , we have 134 downloads
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Speaker 2All right . My last words in parting are happy Nurses Week . Happy Nurses Week everyone . Thank you , thank you for everything that you do . Thank you , thank you .
Speaker 1We thank you , we appreciate you , we love you and continue to do the great work that you do every single day of your life , on the job and out on the field . All right , have a blessed week . Bye , bye-bye .