CE Podcasts for Nurses

Refuse to Say “I’m Just a Nurse”: Advocacy and Career Agency SUMMARY:  This intermediate-level course examines how nurses can counter inaccurate public narratives, communicate professionally during workplace conflict, and use nursing expertise across evolving career paths. Drawing on Kelley Johnson’s advocacy experience and reflections on early-practice nursing, the course connects professional id...

Changing the way you think can have a significant impact on your effectiveness. This podcast explores common areas of struggle for individuals striving to achieve and get results but falling short. Learners will explore three mindset struggles that individual’s encounter, as well as reframing strategies that will boost their emotional health and interpersonal effectiveness. --- This is episode 1 ...

Changing the way you think can have a significant impact on your effectiveness. This podcast explores common areas of struggle for individuals striving to achieve and get results but falling short. Learners will explore three mindset struggles that individual’s encounter, as well as reframing strategies that will boost their emotional health and interpersonal effectiveness. --- This is episode 2 ...

Changing the way you think can have a significant impact on your effectiveness. This podcast explores common areas of struggle for individuals striving to achieve and get results but falling short. Learners will explore three mindset struggles that individual’s encounter, as well as reframing strategies that will boost their emotional health and interpersonal effectiveness. --- This is episode 3 ...

Trust is a critical factor in building effective teams. This trust-factor begins with you and your self-awareness, mindset, behaviors, and accountabilities. This discussion focuses on how to develop that healthy mindset to promote respect and commitment allowing you to establish yourself as a trusted member of the team. --- This is episode 1  of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skill...

Trust is a critical factor in building effective teams. This trust-factor begins with you and your self-awareness, mindset, behaviors, and accountabilities. This discussion focuses on how to develop that healthy mindset to promote respect and commitment allowing you to establish yourself as a trusted member of the team. --- This is episode 2  of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skill...

Trust is a critical factor in building effective teams. This trust-factor begins with you and your self-awareness, mindset, behaviors, and accountabilities. This discussion focuses on how to develop that healthy mindset to promote respect and commitment allowing you to establish yourself as a trusted member of the team. --- This is episode 3  of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skill...

 Strong collaboration comes from the interdependent efforts of the team. Recent research across multiple industries emphasizes the importance of not just learning what behaviors are important to collaboration, but also in practicing how to demonstrate these behaviors. It is experiential learning that enables both leaders and employees to work well together, learn from one another, and overcome the...

Strong collaboration comes from the interdependent efforts of the team. Recent research across multiple industries emphasizes the importance of not just learning what behaviors are important to collaboration, but also in practicing how to demonstrate these behaviors. It is experiential learning that enables both leaders and employees to work well together, learn from one another, and overcome the...

Strong collaboration comes from the interdependent efforts of the team. Recent research across multiple industries emphasizes the importance of not just learning what behaviors are important to collaboration, but also in practicing how to demonstrate these behaviors. It is experiential learning that enables both leaders and employees to work well together, learn from one another, and overcome the...

In this episode, we discuss how  to respond when your personal or professional identity is threatened, wounding your ego or self-esteem. --- This is episode 1  of the series:  Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Overcoming Common Obstacles that Teams Encounter  Any worthwhile project will encounter obstacles along the way and these obstacles often create conflicts. Managing and/or resolving...

In this episode, we discuss  how to respond to, and manage, a situation where you feel a team colleague is minimizing your contributions to the team.  --- This is episode 2  of the series:  Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Overcoming Common Obstacles that Teams Encounter  Any worthwhile project will encounter obstacles along the way and these obstacles often create conflicts. Managing an...

In this episode, we discuss how to navigate and respond to conflicting and/or competing goals within the organization and team. --- This is episode 3  of the series:  Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Overcoming Common Obstacles that Teams Encounter  Any worthwhile project will encounter obstacles along the way and these obstacles often create conflicts. Managing and/or resolving conflict...

Long COVID in Clinical Practice: Assessment, Treatment, and Referral SUMMARY:  Long COVID, also known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), can present with a broad range of persistent symptoms that affect physical function, cognition, mental health, and quality of life. In this podcast, common manifestations of long COVID, including post-exertional malaise, dyspnea, tachycardia, dizziness, b...

The Nontraditional Path - Nursing Career Flexibility, Precepting, and Mentorship SUMMARY:  Nursing offers more career flexibility than many nurses realize. This course explores that flexibility through an interview with an ICU nurse and educator who entered the profession through LPN school and a bridge program before earning a BSN, then developed experience in bedside critical care, precepting, a...

The Art of Tough Conversations: Communicating With Patients and Families During Serious Illness SUMMARY:  Nurses routinely encounter difficult conversations with patients and families involving serious illness, prognosis, goals of care, and emotionally charged decisions. This podcast explores communication as a clinical competency and examines practical strategies for responding with honesty, empa...

From Bedside to Broadband: Exploring Virtual Nursing SUMMARY:  Virtual nursing is emerging as an important model for extending nursing expertise, supporting bedside clinicians, and improving care delivery across a variety of healthcare settings. In this podcast, Dr. Katie Boston-Leary discusses how virtual nursing differs from traditional telehealth, common applications of virtual nursing, and the...

She Was Told She Couldn't Be a Nurse Because She Uses a Wheelchair: Andrea Dalzell's Story SUMMARY:  Meet Andrea Dalzell - a registered nurse and disability advocate who was once told she'd “never be a nurse” because of her disability. In this episode of the Elite Learning Podcast, Andrea shares her journey from patient to bedside ICU nurse during COVID-19, why nursing education sti...

From Practice to Publication: Writing for Publication for Nurses SUMMARY:  Nurses have valuable clinical knowledge, practice improvements, and professional experiences that can benefit others, yet many are unsure how to turn those ideas into publishable work. This episode explores how nurses can identify a strong topic, select an appropriate journal, develop and organize a manuscript, avoid common...

Beyond the Credential: How Nursing Certification Strengthens Practice and Professional Growth SUMMARY:  Nursing certification is more than a professional credential. It reflects a nurse’s commitment to specialty knowledge, evidence-based practice, lifelong learning, and improved patient and organizational outcomes. In this episode, Dr. Margo Halm discusses the value of nursing certification throug...

Stepping Into Nurse Leadership: What Every Bedside Nurse Needs to Know SUMMARY:  This episode explores the critical transition from clinical nurse to nurse leader, examining the challenges of moving from peer to supervisor and the essential competencies needed to build high-performing teams. Participants will learn practical strategies for managing conflict, delivering difficult feedback, navigati...

Beyond the Fear: Understanding AI in Healthcare and Nursing SUMMARY:  Artificial intelligence is changing how nurses access information, document care, educate patients, and support clinical decisions. This episode explores practical uses of AI in healthcare, along with concerns related to accuracy, bias, privacy, overreliance, and loss of human connection. Listeners will learn how to use AI as a...

Supporting Neurodivergency in Healthcare Professionals SUMMARY:  Neurodiversity is an important consideration in nursing education, clinical learning environments, and healthcare workforce development. This activity explores how neurodivergent learners and professionals experience traditional educational systems, including barriers related to disclosure, accommodations, assessment design, communic...

Before You Post: Professional Standards and Social Media in Healthcare SUMMARY:  Social media has become a powerful influence on how the public perceives healthcare and nursing practice. Viral videos often present brief, emotionally engaging snapshots of clinical situations, yet they frequently omit critical context related to patient safety, ethical decision making, and standards of care. This po...

Nursing Scandals Unmasked: What Social Media Isn’t Telling You SUMMARY:  This episode examines the rise of healthcare content on social media platforms, analyzing viral nursing videos through the lens of professional standards, patient privacy regulations, legal consequences, and public perception. Participants will explore documented cases, regulatory responses, platform policies, and the gap bet...