Nurse Essentials: A podcast focused on caring for you

Send us Fan Mail Working the night shift can be challenging, particularly when it comes to getting enough quality sleep. But it offers unique advantages for clinical nurses, including the opportunity to truly work to the top of license and build bonds with other multidisciplinary providers on the team. In the latest episode of Nurse Essentials, an experienced night shift nurse shares advice for ma...

Send us Fan Mail Licensed practical nurses (LPNs) often work in long-term care facilities, but they can be valuable team members in hospitals, too. Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital partners RNs with LPNs on a medical-surgical unit to provide quality care to patients.

Send us Fan Mail With ongoing demand for nurses, attracting people to the profession is important. In the latest episode of Nurse Essentials, Linda Gardner, DNP, MEd, RN, CNOR, shares how Cleveland Clinic Center for Nursing Career Exploration provides programming for school-aged students to adults learners who are interested in the profession.

Send us Fan Mail More than 6.7 million Americans over the age of 20 have heart failure, and that number is expected to rise to 8.7 million by 2030, according to the Heart Failure Society of America. Maureen Schaupp, MSN, APRN-CNP, Executive Director, Associate Chief Nursing Officer for Advanced Practice Nursing and Nursing Quality and Practice at Cleveland Clinic, shares how nurses can help patien...

Send us Fan Mail Shannon Pengel, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer for Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, meets representatives from every hospital unit at a monthly meeting to hear their concerns and ideas. It’s led to improvements in areas ranging from patient care to workplace safety, as well as provided clinical nurses with a venue to learn and hone their leadership skills.

Send us Fan Mail Nursing is all about relationships. But how do you manage the transition and maintain appropriate relationships with peers when you accept a leadership role? In this episode of Nurse Essentials, Kristen Vargo, DNP, RN, NE-BC, Director of Nursing for the Neurological Institute and Orthopaedics & Rheumatology at Cleveland Clinic’s main campus, shares insight on the topic.

Send us Fan Mail Healthcare and nursing look quite different around the globe. In this episode of Health Essentials, Margee Pagnucco, MSN, RN, CPHQ, discusses how the Cleveland Clinic Connected global affiliation program shares expertise to enhance patient care, safety and outcomes at international and domestic health organizations.

Send us Fan Mail The journey back to health is often long for patients in the neurological ICU being treated for a variety of conditions, ranging from stroke and seizures to rare disorders, such as myasthenia gravis and Guillain-Barré syndrome. A nurse in the neurological ICU at Cleveland Clinic main campus shares what it’s like to work on the unit and why he loves the specialty – one he never ima...

Send us Fan Mail Endoscopy procedures include much more than colorectal cancer screenings, and nurses are key members of teams that provide advanced endoscopies. In the latest episode of Nurse Essentials, Teresita Foliacci, MSN-Ed, RN, CGRN, Endoscopy Nurse Manager at Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital, talks about the responsibilities, skills and training of endoscopy nurses.

Send us Fan Mail Handwashing is a simple task, yet the hands remain the most common source of transmission in healthcare. Two infection preventionists at Cleveland Clinic discuss why hand hygiene is important and how to improve compliance.

Send us Fan Mail Nurses may not be experts in financial spreadsheets or accounting principles, but they can contribute to the fiscal stability of their organizations. In the latest episode of Nurse Essentials, Matt Slife, Executive Director of Nursing Operations at Cleveland Clinic, discusses healthcare finances and their impact on nursing practice.

Send us Fan Mail Back injuries are among the most common reported by healthcare workers. But they also suffer from shoulder injury and pain, nerve entrapment, carpal tunnel syndrome and other conditions caused by lifting patients and equipment, as well as other routine work tasks. In the latest episode of Nurse Essentials, two experts share advice on creating an ergonomically safe work environment...

Send us Fan Mail A 44-year nursing veteran at Cleveland Clinic has developed processes and products to improve practice. She shares her innovation journey and advice for other nurses on how to turn ideas into solutions.

Send us Fan Mail As a new nurse on a recently established trauma ward in London, Georgina Morley, PhD, RN, NEC-C, experienced her share of ethical dilemmas. Today, she shares her passion and knowledge to help caregivers navigate ethical challenges as director of Cleveland Clinic’s Nursing Ethics Program.

Send us Fan Mail With 23 years of experience as a paramedic fireman, Scott Hantz, MSN, MBA, RN, EMT-P, has seen his share of emergencies. In this issue of Nurse Essentials, Hantz, who serves as director of Surgical Services Nursing at Cleveland Clinic, shares his insight on emergency management preparedness.

Send us Fan Mail Two clinical nurse specialists at Cleveland Clinic who specialize in geriatric nursing shed light on misconceptions about older patients and share insight on providing supportive, age-sensitive care.

Send us Fan Mail At least 20% of the U.S. population is neurodivergent. In this episode of Nurse Essentials, two Cleveland Clinic experts discuss how to provide world-class, individualized care to patients who are neurodivergent.

Send us Fan Mail Medical-surgical nursing is the backbone of nursing. In the latest episode of the Nurse Essentials podcast, a clinical nurse and CNS in medical-surgical nursing at Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital share their passion for the specialty and advice for leaders to support the field.

Send us Fan Mail The Recovery’s in Reach program at Cleveland Clinic Akron General helped place nearly 700 people with substance use disorder in inpatient and outpatient recovery centers last summer. In the latest Nurse Essentials podcast, Jonathan Sanchez, MBA, BSN, RN, nurse manager of the hospital’s emergency department and lead program coordinator, shares insight on the program’s success.

Send us Fan Mail Clinical nurse specialists practice withing three spheres of influence – patients, nursing and healthcare systems. In the latest episode of Nurse Essentials, two clinical nurse specialists at Cleveland Clinic provide an inside look at what it means to be a CNS and how they impact patient care, nursing education, nursing-sensitive quality indicators and more.

Send us Fan Mail Karen Schaedlich, MSN, RN, innovation coordinator in the Office of Nursing Research & Innovation, believes nurses are natural problem-solvers. In the latest episode of Nurse Essentials, she discusses how they can embrace innovation to create novel products and processes for healthcare.

Send us Fan Mail Dianna Copley, DNP, APRN-CNS, ACCNS-AG, CCRN, Clinical Nurse Specialist at Cleveland Clinic and Associate Director of the Nursing Ethics Program, discusses second victim phenomenon and the Emerge Stronger peer support program the healthcare system implemented in 2020 to address it.

Send us Fan Mail Ashley Clifford, RN, a nurse case manager for Cleveland Clinic Hospice Care, shares what drew her to the specialty and provides insight into a day in the life of a hospice nurse.

Send us Fan Mail Nurses help shape the patient experience. Kelli Saucerman-Howard, DNP, RN, chief nursing officer of Cleveland Clinic Akron General, shares insight on how new nurses, experienced nurses and nursing leaders can positively impact the patient experience.

Send us Fan Mail In 2022, the Joint Commission initiated Workplace Violence Prevention Standards to help curb the rise in workplace violence in healthcare. In the latest Nurse Essentials podcast, Erica Shields, MBA, BSN, RN, NE-BC, associate chief nursing officer of Emergency Services and Behavioral Health at Cleveland Clinic, and Tony Roetzel, deputy chief of Cleveland Clinic Police, share strate...