The Growing Intersection of Nursing, Healthcare, and Artificial Intelligence
Onepisode 459 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith welcomes back Dr. Bonnie Clipper, DNP, MBA, RN, CENP, FACHE, FAAN, a well-known nurse futurist, healthcare influencer, virtual nursing expert, innovator, and best-selling author.In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Clipper discuss the growing intersection of artificial intelligence, nursing, and healthcare. Important aspects of this crucial topic include how nurses can position themselves for a seat at the table of this burgeoning technology that ' s no longer the future of healthcare, but a present-day reality.  Dr. ...
Source: Digital Doorway - February 5, 2024 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs

Building a Culture of Safety in Perinatal Nursing: Insights from The Nurse Keith Show with Guest Jeanette Zocco
This special episode of The Nurse Keith Show titled " Perinatal Safety Nursing, Evidence-Based Practice, and Fostering a Culture of Safety, " features guest Jeanette Zocco, a perinatal quality and safety specialist. Zocco ' s experience and passion for perinatal nursing shine through as she discusses the critical importance of safety in nursing.Jeanette Zocco delves into the significance of safety protocols in perinatal nursing. She addresses the necessity of ingraining safety measures into everyday operations and embracing programs such as team steps and crew resource management. The dedication to fostering a safet...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 20, 2023 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs

Nursing the Nation and the World
Nurses are everywhere. They are legion. The ubiquitous nurse is present in the care of children, the elderly, the disabled, and the dying. Nurses don ' t shy away from responsibility — they embrace it. Nurses run towards the metaphorical fire. Just as firefighters rush into burning buildings and police officers run towards the active shooter, nurses don their gloves and deal with the sputum, the blood, the pus, the emesis, the feces, and the urine — body fluids be damned, th ere ' s work to do and nurses do it. The Ubiquitous NurseWhere would the country be without nurses? Without nurses, the healthcare system wou...
Source: Digital Doorway - May 8, 2023 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs

Acing Your Next Nursing Job Interview — 4 Common Questions to Prepare For
 Job interviews can be a source of stress for both novice and seasoned nurses, and being prepared for some of the most common questions can give you the confidence to ace your next nursing interview. You obviously can ' t rehearse for every possible question, but practice boosts your readiness and creates a positive mindset that will increase your comfort level preparing for what ' s ahead.One frame of reference for any interview question is to ask yourself why you ’re being asked this particular question. What is it that they want to know? What’s the question beneath the question? Are they showing you throug...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 9, 2023 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs

The Conscious Creation of Your Nursing Career
As the year comes to an end, it ' s always a good time to pause, reflect, and take stock of the current state of your nursing career. As I ' ve often said in my writing, podcasts, and keynote addresses, you can always choose to allow your career to happen to you, or you can instead take inspired action and make it happen. Which sounds better to you? Conscious Career CreationConsciously making your nursing career happen involves several key factors: Thewill/desire to create a career that ' s unique to youThediscipline to consistently focus on your career ' s evolutionTheinspiration to think creatively Theinde...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 19, 2022 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs

Lions, Gazelles, and Nurses: The Herd Mentality at Work
Nursing has a hierarchy of power and experience just like any other profession; in fact, it also has a hierarchy that sometimes feels akin to the laws of survival on the savanna or in the jungle. Have you ever observed that the less experienced and more vulnerable nurses frequently get left on the outside, often falling prey to bullies and " predators " ? This is the herd mentality at its worst, and many novice nurses are taken down by bullies and power-hungry colleagues who eat them alive when they ' re demonstrating the slightest weakness.Protection and Predation Out on the African savanna, herds of gazelles keep watch f...
Source: Digital Doorway - November 21, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: career healthcare nurse nurses nursing Source Type: blogs

The Nurse as Tireless Patient Advocate
As highly respected healthcare professionals who often go above and beyond the call of duty, nurses are natural patient advocates. The nursing process may begin with assessment, but where the rubber hits the road is when nurses go to bat for their patients to make sure they receive the best possible care when they need it most.                                                  &...
Source: Digital Doorway - August 22, 2022 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs

In Job Interviews, Look for the Question Behind the Question
 Job interview questions. They can cause a whole host of feelings, including anxiety, stress, consternation, and a big old boatload of worry. What questions can I expect? What scenarios might they ask me to describe? How can I address what they ' re truly looking for? How will I know what to say?Whenever an interviewer asks a question, you can be certain they ' re asking that question for a reason. Questions aren ' t asked willy nilly — each one has a purpose, and the main purpose is to learn more about you and ascertain if you ' re going to be a solid return on their investment. Let ' s face it: the cost of RN empl...
Source: Digital Doorway - July 18, 2022 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs

Hey Nurse, Got Resistance?
Have you ever found yourself resisting change? Has your nursing career stalled because you ' re afraid of taking a risk or doing something different? Change is indeed the only constant in the universe (aside from death and taxes), so it ' s something that we simply need to get comfortable with, over and over again.Magical ThinkingMany nurses and non-nurses alike can engage in magical thinking at various times throughout their careers. "Oh, I don ' t need a BSN; they ' ll never close the doors on associate degree nurses. " Or maybe something like this: "I think I ' ll become a nurse entrepreneur. I ' ll just tell people I h...
Source: Digital Doorway - April 11, 2022 Category: Nursing Tags: career career development career management careers healthcare careers nurse nurse career nurse careers nurses nursing Source Type: blogs

A Strategic and Thoughtful Approach to Transitions in Life and Career
Life is filled with moments of transition: marriage and divorce, birth and death, graduation, dropping out, health crises, comings and goings, and everything in between. How we approach transitions can be influenced by myriad factors, including, but not limited to, our social supports; our emotional, spiritual, and psychological health; and the nature of the transition itself.Whether it ' s a professional/career transition like getting fired or graduating from college, or a personal transition such as the birth of a child or the death of a loved one, transitions and how we tackle them matter greatly in the context of our l...
Source: Digital Doorway - March 8, 2022 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs

The Nurse Warrior: Fighting the Good Fight
Nurses, the hard-working lifeblood and connective tissue of the healthcare system, can often feel as if they are doing battle with elemental forces far beyond their control in their efforts to provide optimal patient care and fulfill their personal and professional mission.While nursing can often feel absolutelyquixotic or Sisyphean in nature, nurses battle on. Whether it ' s the Covid-19 pandemic, a natural disaster, the opioid epidemic, a mass shooting, or the challenges faced by the homeless, nurses the world over continue to fight the good fight no matter the odds. It is here that the archetype of the Nurse Warrio...
Source: Digital Doorway - July 6, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: nurse nursing nurses healthcare Source Type: blogs

A Pandemic " Marshall Plan " ​?
This article was originally published on LinkedIn on January 3, 2020.)---------Keith Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BC, is the Board Certified Nurse Coach behind NurseKeith.com.Keith is the host of The Nurse Keith Show, his solo podcast focused on career advice and inspiration for nurses. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast.A widely published nurse writer, Keith is the author of Savvy Networking For Nurses: Getting Connected and Staying Connected in the 21st Century and Aspire to be Inspired: Creating a Nursing Career That Matters. He has contribute...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 4, 2021 Category: Nursing Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 healthcare healthcare access healthcare disparities medicine Source Type: blogs

The Gallup Poll: Nurses Remain at the Top and Still Need Support
This article was originally publishedon LinkedIn on December 29, 2020 under a different title.)---------Keith Carlson, RN, BSN, NC-BC, is the Board Certified Nurse Coach behind NurseKeith.com.Keith is the host of The Nurse Keith Show, his solo podcast focused on career advice and inspiration for nurses. From 2012 until its sunset in 2017, Keith co-hosted RNFMRadio, a groundbreaking nursing podcast.A widely published nurse writer, Keith is the author of Savvy Networking For Nurses: Getting Connected and Staying Connected in the 21st Century and Aspire to be Inspired: Creating a Nursing Career That Matter...
Source: Digital Doorway - January 3, 2021 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs

Hope, Fear, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
As I write these words, shipments of Pfizer ' s COVID-19 vaccine based on breakthrough mRNA technology have been arriving to hospitals for several days, withthe first shotsalready having been administered. Simultaneously, we ' ve now surpassed an awful milestone of300,000 Americanslost to the virus, which is akin to the entire population of Pittsburgh being wiped out. With frequently more than 3,000 dead on any given day (the comparison being that we lost approximately 3,000 people on September 11th, 2001), the expected post-Thanksgiving surge is upon us, just as experts forewarned (and the public ignored).With Christmas a...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 16, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 healthcare pandemic public health Source Type: blogs

COVID-19: Misaligned Priorities and Missed Opportunities
(Note: this blog post wasoriginally published on LinkedIn.) In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, information and misinformation travel like wildfire. Meanwhile, as we individually and collectively struggle with aligning our priorities and making good choices, things get overlooked and left in the dust, including people.Missteps have been the hallmark of the pandemic here in the United States, especially when it comes to the Trump administration ' s lackluster and criminally misguided response, denial of reality, rejection of science, and the consistent undermining of expertise.No matter the administration in powe...
Source: Digital Doorway - November 16, 2020 Category: Nursing Tags: coronavirus COVID-19 doctors healthcare nurse nurses physicians Source Type: blogs