FreshRN | Growing New Nurses Welcome to Vitals + Vibes, where I share a quick, high-impact tip pulled from the archives (and my real-life nursing experience). In today’s edition, I’m sharing the only actual complaint I’ve ever heard from a patient about a nursing student (and it had nothing to do with skills or knowledge). Instead, it was all about missing the emotional temperature of the room. This one’s a must-read for students and new nurses who want to grow that soft-skill awareness we...

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ICU nurse Emelia Klocke, MSN RN, left one of my drip charts at her nurses’ station. A few days later... It was taped to the clipboards of experienced RNs and even ended up in the unit educator’s “helpful resources” file. After that, nurses started asking where it came from. Her manager even told them to go ask her. Answer: Breakthrough ICU. Boom, baby! Hearing that made this nurse educator feel amazing. The same feeling when you plan a trip and everyone is having a fabulous time... or you...