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, and mentorship.

The activity addresses four practical areas for nurses at any stage: nontraditional nursing career pathways, structured shift-to-shift handoff communication, foundational precepting techniques for onboarding new graduates, and self-care and boundary-setting practices that may help reduce burnout risk. Learners will consider strategies they can apply in clinical and educational settings.

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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, empathy, active listening, and patient-centered communication. Participants will learn approaches for navigating uncertainty, managing challenging reactions, engaging the interprofessional team, and strengthening confidence in difficult conversations.

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Series: The Art of Tough Conversations: Communicating With Patients and Families During Serious Illness

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 relationship between virtual and bedside nurses. The discussion also addresses implementation challenges, patient relationships, privacy and safety considerations, workforce implications, and opportunities for virtual nursing in areas such as medical-surgical care, maternal health, and rural healthcare.

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Series: From Bedside to Broadband: Exploring Virtual Nursing

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 still isn’t accessible for students with disabilities, and how her nonprofit The Seated Standard is building frameworks to help hospitals better care for disabled patients. She and host Dr. Mackenzie Butler dig into humanizing bedside care, listening to understand (not to respond), and practical steps any nurse can take to become a stronger disability advocate.

Topics covered in this course include disability inclusion in nursing, accessibility barriers in nursing school, patient-centered care, advocacy for nurses with disabilities, COVID-19 ICU nursing experience, and building a more humane healthcare system.

This podcast course is intended for nurses and other healthcare professionals seeking to strengthen disability inclusion, patient-centered communication, and whole-person care. Through Andrea Dalzell’s experience as a registered nurse and disability advocate, the course explores structural and attitudinal barriers that affect access to nursing education and practice for individuals with disabilities. Learners will examine how bias, assumptions, and diagnosis-focused approaches can limit patient care and professional opportunity. The episode also highlights practical strategies for active listening, humanizing bedside care, connecting patients with community resources, and supporting disabled patients and colleagues. This course is appropriate for professionals interested in improving therapeutic communication, disability advocacy, and inclusive healthcare practice.

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Series: She Was Told She Couldn't Be a Nurse Because She Uses a Wheelchair Andrea Dalzell's Story

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 publication mistakes, and respond to peer review. The discussion also addresses authorship, publication ethics, patient privacy, predatory journals, and practical strategies for moving from an idea to a submitted manuscript.

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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 through the lens of nursing science, professional development, and practice improvement. Listeners will explore how certification supports clinical confidence, strengthens professional practice environments, and helps nurses connect specialty expertise with evidence-based care.

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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, navigating staff scheduling dilemmas, and understanding the budget fundamentals that drive unit operations.

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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 support tool while preserving professional judgment, critical thinking, and compassionate care. The discussion also highlights how thoughtful AI use may improve efficiency, strengthen learning, and support evidence-based practice.

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