Innovations in Patient Care

Innovations in Patient Care


Latest Episodes

Nursing Leadership Online and Off At NTI 2017
November 30, 2017

What are the top nurses in social media up to? In this episode, we talk to two of the top critical care nurses on social media channels. I’m joined by critical care nurse and author Katie Kleber from FreshRN.

Pediatric Thromboembolism Best Nursing Practices
November 15, 2017

A look at the incidence of pediatric thromboembolism in the ICU in this episode recorded at NTI 2017 in Houston, Texas. We talk with Tess Aberg, RN, BSN, CCRN, a staff nurse at Rady Children’s Hospital, part of UC San Diego.

Nursing Attitudes Toward End of Life and Palliative Care
October 31, 2017

A look at nursing and end of life care in this episode recorded at NTI 2017 in Houston, Texas. We talk with Deborah Price, DNP, MS, RN. Deb talks about her work with the Michigan Palliative and End-Of-Life survey of health professionals.

Generation X, Y, and Z in the Nursing Workplace
October 15, 2017

In this episode recorded at NTI 2017 in Houston, Texas, we talk with Julia K Eberwine, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, PCCN-CMC. Julia presented at the conference on Generation X, Y and Z: The ABCs of Generational Diversity for Managers and Educators.

ICU Diaries Help Critical Care Patients and Families
September 30, 2017

In this episode, we talk to two nurses who recently completed the Clinical Scene Investigator Academy program from the AACN. These nurses developed an ICU diary program to help patients and families document their time in the ICU’s stressful environmen...

Personal Resilience in Nurse Burnout with Vicki Good
September 15, 2017

In this episode, we talk to Vicki S. Good, past president of AACN. We chat with Vicki about the findings from the 2015 analysis of the Barriers to Nursing Practice as identified by AACN members. She focused on how to build personal resilience in the fa...

Importance of Advanced RN Certifications with Patricia Hickey
August 31, 2017

In this episode, we talk to Patricia A Hickey about the importance of CCRN certification in improving patient outcomes. This was a surprise finding of recent research Patricia was conducting on congenital heart surgery outcomes in pediatric patients.

Acute and Critical Care Nurse Research with Dr. Beth Henneman
August 15, 2017

In this episode we talk to the 2017 Distinguished Research Lecturer, Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Henneman whose interdisciplinary program of research has focused on clinical problems faced by acute and critical care nurses.

Healthy Nurse Work Environments Improve Patient Care
July 31, 2017

How does a healthy nurse work environment impact you? In this episode we talk to nurse researcher Jean Anne Conner about her presentation at the AACN conference in Houston, Texas. She talked about how the health of the work environment is strongly link...

Prepping Your ICU Patient For Transport
July 15, 2017

I talked with nurse Amanda Lawrence while I was there. She was teaching about both prepping a patient for Transport and transitioning to being a flight nurse from the ICU. Check out this interview I grabbed while she was taking [...]