Don't Eat Your Young: A Nursing Podcast
71 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsWelcome to Don’t Eat Your Young — the podcast that brings you stories from the trenches of the incredible, wonderful, exhausting, terrifying, joyous world of nursing.
Host Beth Quaas been in the world of nursing for nearly decades and has worked in hospitals large and small. She's worn the hats of the floor nurse, ICU, ER, and anesthesia. She's been a manager, an educator, and a co-worker.
On Don't Eat Your Young, Beth highlights stories from nurses around the country that are doing amazing things for their nursing colleagues to support them and let them know that they are not alone. This is a show celebrating a positive culture of nursing and care, and we can be a part of this culture by sharing wins — and struggles — across the field.
We will also explore opportunities that are unique in nursing that may inspire you to go in new directions. These voices from the field are an inspiration to care for yourself, and those around you.
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Episodes
Living With a Purpose With Eboni Gee
March 16, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 16.1 MBEboni Gee is a whirlwind force who seems to never lose her spark as she is growing a business to help others learn from the hard work that she has already put in. She is passionate about helping others and is a wealth of knowledge in so many areas. She has her own podcast called “The Kidney Connection” where she shares her nursing expertise in all things renal health and beyond. Eboni covers many different topics in her show and there is something for everyone to learn. Eboni is al...
Turning Anger Into Motivation with Tammy Jacobs
March 09, 2021 14:00 - 30 minutes - 14.5 MBTammy has worked in many nursing roles in her 25 years as a nurse. After a change in leadership which, as she found, was unsupportive of more seasoned nurses, she knew she had to find a more fulfilling role. She also felt pushed to obtain her BSN, but wasn’t interested. She says, “The degree behind our licensure doesn’t matter; our caring spirit and professionalism do.” Then came a day in the OR when she had a run-in with members of her OR team and, when called into the office, was...
Nurses Continuing to Learn With Shane Slone
March 02, 2021 14:00 - 27 minutes - 13 MBShane Slone started as an excited new nurse, wanting to learn everything that he could. He was an RN working in the ICU doing 12 hour shifts. It seemed that he would work, go home exhausted, eat and sleep, just to wake up and do it all over again. After several years working in a stressful ICU work environment, he was ready to leave nursing altogether, but he took a step back and realized that he still had a lot to give to this amazing profession. Shane has a lot of insight into th...
Fighting for Nurses’ Rights with Denise Crawley
February 23, 2021 14:00 - 28 minutes - 13.3 MBDenise Crawley worked as a nurse for few years in Canada before leaving the profession. While still new to the profession, she had been bullied and when she asked for support from her manager, found that she had a “target on her back.” Her experiences with this toxic culture indirectly led her to leave nursing. Since that time, she has devoted her time to serve nurses in a new capacity by founding the Nurses Rights Association. The goal of her work in the Association is to help nur...
Learning to Be Your Own Biggest Fan with Haley Bretl
February 16, 2021 14:00 - 22 minutes - 10.8 MBHaley Bretl knew that she wasn’t herself and was tired of pretending to be happy both at work and at home. She decided it was time to take care of herself. After trying therapy and prescription medications, Haley found a coach that was the right fit for her and it changed her life. With the help of her coach, she found out that she was her own biggest fan. From that grew her business to help other nurses through their dark days and show them that there was light on the other side. ...
Play By Your Own Rules with Keeonna Williams
February 09, 2021 14:02 - 25 minutes - 12.2 MBKeeonna Williams has been a nurse for many years in the OR and understands the toll that the environment in which you work can have on your well-being. After having been bullied and having witnessed bullying, she became an advocate for those that hadn’t yet found the confidence to speak up. She now mentors students and new nurses on the job in addition to standing as a supporter on social media. Keeonna didn’t realize that she was burned out until she suffered a TIA and spent time in the IC...
Play by Your Own Rules with Keeonna Williams
February 09, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes - 12.2 MBKeeonna Williams has been a nurse for many years in the OR and understands the toll that the environment in which you work can have on your well-being. After having been bullied and having witnessed bullying, she became an advocate for those that hadn’t yet found the confidence to speak up. She now mentors students and new nurses on the job in addition to standing as a supporter on social media. Keeonna didn’t realize that she was burned out until she suffered a TIA and spent time ...
Tackling Burnout One Nurse at a Time with Rachel Smiddy
February 02, 2021 14:00 - 30 minutes - 14.2 MBRachel Smiddy understands how important it is to take care of yourself, especially nurses that seem to always be caring for others. Rachel decided to seek out a coaching certificate program and completed one so that she can work one on one with people to help them through issues that might be bringing them down. It is becoming more apparent that nurses are suffering from burnout, so Rachel also started a FB group called Nurses Against Burnout (NABO). She discusses the need to have goals beyo...
Tackling Burnout One Nurse at a Time
February 02, 2021 14:00 - 30 minutes - 14.2 MBRachel Smiddy understands how important it is to take care of yourself, especially nurses that seem to always be caring for others. Rachel decided to seek out a coaching certificate program and completed one so that she can work one on one with people to help them through issues that might be bringing them down. It is becoming more apparent that nurses are suffering from burnout, so Rachel also started a FB group called Nurses Against Burnout (NABO). She discusses the need to have g...
Frontline Work in a Covid ICU - A Real-Life Story with Kelley Anaas
January 26, 2021 14:00 - 30 minutes - 14.6 MBKelley Anaas worked as an intern when she was a nursing student which helped her land a job on a med/surg floor. After 6 years she decided she was ready for a change and moved into the ICU. She spent a lot of time training for that job, but it still didn’t prepare for the Covid crisis that hit in March, 2020. Kelley takes us through her experiences as an ICU RN in a Covid unit and the transformation that took place during that time. On top of her regular nursing duties caring for e...
Emily Mazurak: Surviving Burnout and Saying No
January 19, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes - 12.1 MBEmily Mazurak was an RN in a busy PICU at a Level I Trauma Center. She was ready for a change and took her talents on the road and because a traveling PICU nurse. Through that experience, and feeling like she didn’t fit in to some of the cliques within the units that she worked in, not having a sense of community, she felt that is where her burn out began. She loved taking care of her pediatric patients and their families, but was spending too much time at work, and not spending eno...
Mary Buffington: Stop Burnout Before It Engulfs You
January 12, 2021 13:30 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBMary Buffington had been a nurse for several years before feeling the effects of burnout. She was working in a chaotic oncology clinic, which was stressful enough, but then didn’t feel supported by her own leaders which added to the toxic environment. She finally chose to leave that job and almost gave up on nursing all together. She decided to take some time and find her self-purpose and self-love. In those years, she returned to school and received her Master’s in Leadership/Manag...
Deanna Tikhonov: A Passion for Women’s Health Education
January 05, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 14.1 MBDeanna Tikhonov is a Women’s Health NP, but it took her a couple years to decide that’s where her passion was and take the steps to get there. As a nursing student, she hated her med/surg rotation, but later attributed that to working with preceptors that were burnt out, overworked and didn’t like having students. After graduating as an RN, it took her several months, and over 30 applications, to find a job on a med/surg unit. She said that she ended up loving med/surg because of the support...
Nursing & Women's Health with The Lady's Guide's Deanna Tikhonov
January 05, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 14.1 MBDeanna Tikhonov is a Women’s Health NP, but it took her a couple years to decide that’s where her passion was and take the steps to get there. As a nursing student, she hated her med/surg rotation, but later attributed that to working with preceptors that were burnt out, overworked and didn’t like having students. After graduating as an RN, it took her several months, and over 30 applications, to find a job on a med/surg unit. She said that she ended up loving med/surg because of th...
Lois Hollis: A True Pioneer and Trailblazer
December 29, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutes - 38.9 MBLois Hollis has been in nursing for over five decades and has moved our profession in the right direction. She has been a forward-thinking leader and took on new challenges in order to promote and push the scope of practice of nurses to a higher level. We all stand on the shoulders of nurses like Lois. Lois’ abuse in her younger years led her to help herself and others. The pain that she endured as an adult was attributed to her past struggles and she made a decision to heal hersel...
Christina Dunbar: Forging Nursing Leaders
December 22, 2020 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36.9 MBChristina Dunbar started her nursing career in the pediatric ICU and worked in several other areas before going back to school for her FNP and finding her place in adult oncology. After some time in the clinical world, she saw an opportunity and took a management position leading a team in oncology. This was a challenging position and she found herself burning out. We discuss the need for more support for nurses in those management roles where they are between the team that they lea...
Casie Lamp: An ICU Nurse in the Midst of a Pandemic
December 15, 2020 08:00 - 22 minutes - 20.8 MBCasie Lamp has been a nurse for 20 years, serving in the Army, before working in the civilian world. Casie is seeing firsthand, the toll that our current healthcare crisis is taking on our nurses. After going through her own burnout 5 years ago, which was revealed while she was completing a CE article on burnout, she learned to heal herself. Casie realized that she wanted to help other nurses prevent the same fate, so she started to coach nurses. The stress of the job makes some n...
Kim Klein: Nursing Student to OR - What have I done?
December 11, 2020 14:00 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBWhen Kim Klein was a nurse’s aide and decided to go back to school to be an RN, she didn’t realize how much different it would be. She quickly learned that being a new grad, moving straight into the OR, would prove very difficult. She left the OR after a year, only to find out that her LTC job did not give her the support that a new nurse needed. There was a question that she asked herself - am I doing the right thing by being a nurse? Kim ended up back in the OR as a circulator. Ki...
Lisa Dunlap: Miracle Healing Through Self-Care
December 08, 2020 15:40 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBLisa Dunlap is a Geriatric NP that practices holistic and integrative medicine. A little over a year ago, while dealing with burnout from her job, she was having health issues that were finally diagnosed just as the COVID pandemic was ramping up. Finding out that she had an ovarian mass, and without the option for surgery at the time, she turned to her mindfulness practices, awareness, and self-care. When she was finally allowed to go to surgery, there was no sign of the mass and he...
Jeri Cates: Authentic Self-Love, Self-Compassion, and Self-Care
December 01, 2020 16:00 - 23 minutes - 11.2 MBJeri Cates went from being a homeless, single mom on welfare to being a nurse practitioner and entrepreneur. She defines herself as a crusader for self-love. Jeri became interested in nursing when she was told that nurses are teachers, among others. The BON sanctioned Jeri for marijuana use and a complaint from a patient. That patient bullied Jeri when she refused to order him medications that he requested. Nurses have a high incidence of codependency. We must learn to take care ...
Welcome to Don't Eat Your Young: A Nursing Podcast
November 18, 2020 22:08 - 2 minutes - 2.53 MBWelcome to Don’t Eat Your Young — the podcast that brings you stories from the trenches of the incredible, wonderful, exhausting, terrifying, joyous world of nursing. Host Beth Quaas been in the world of nursing for nearly decades and has worked in hospitals large and small. She's worn the hats of the floor nurse, ICU, ER, and anesthesia. She's been a manager, an educator, and a co-worker. On Don't Eat Your Young, Beth highlights stories from nurses around the country that are d...