Nursing Isn't Easy

The COVID-19 pandemic was a huge stressor on healthcare workers, and especially nurses, who are still reeling from its effects. There are nursing shortages all across the U.S. and nurses by and large agree that systemic changes need to be made to limit burnout. But what's being done at the academic level? And how are students being motivated to continue their nursing education?

In this episode, we'll be discussing intimate partner violence and how this situation intersects with nursing practice. Joining us are two professors from Texas Tech University, Annette Gary and Rebecca Geist, who recently wrote a continuing education feature on IPV for the journal.

In this episode, we're learning about correctional nursing. What does it take to become a nurse at a facility like a jail or prison? Today we're joined by an expert on the matter, Cheryl Esposito with Centurion Healthcare, a longtime nurse with decades of experience in nursing and correctional healthcare.

In this episode of the Nursing Isn't Easy Podcast, we'll be learning about nursing school, bridging gaps in healthcare, and what it's like to have your entire career ahead of you. Joining us for this conversation, is Felipe Ori, who studies nursing at Purdue University Northwest.

In this episode, we'll be hearing first-hand experience from Professor Sherron Franks-Meeks from Texas Tech University on how to become a leader within your healthcare system. She joins the podcast to tell us about her journey with standardizing stroke care at her hospital. Transcript

In this episode of the Nursing Isn't Easy Podcast, we'll be discussing nursing school, and social media.  What tips nurses do need to know to successfully finish their education? We'll also be looking at how social media factors in with a new generation of nurses.

Nurses and nursing students are likely to administer ACE inhibitors and ARBs daily in a variety of settings. In this episode, Dr. Tyler and Sturdivant and Katrina Allen-Thomas from Coastal Alabama University discuss these types of drugs, their uses, limitations, and some personal stories from their experiences in nursing.

Today's topic: Buprenorphine and opioids. We're joined by Dorothy James Moore, a Nurse Practitioner and assistant professor at the Valley Foundations School of Nursing at San Jose State University in California, and her colleague and fellow nursing professor at SJSU, Dr. Allie Butzlaff

In this episode of the Nursing Isn't Easy Podcast, we'll be discussing Atrial Fibrillation (A-fib). We're joined by Professor Shenaz Georgilis, who teaches undergraduate nursing at Queensborough Community College in Bayside New York.

In this episode of the Nursing Isn't Easy Podcast, we'll be discussing autoimmune illnesses. Why do they happen? And what's the science behind them? That's what we're finding out today, as we're joined by Dr. Richard Pullen, a member of the Nursing made Incredibly Easy editorial board for 14 years.

Join us for the first episode of Nursing Isn't Easy, where the journal's clinical editor, Lisa Lockhart discusses the 25th anniversary of Nursing made Incredibly Easy, her experience writing an editorial column for the journal, and stories from her decades of nursing experience!