Latest Rapid response nurse Podcast Episodes
81: Mechanical Circulatory Support for Cardiogenic Shock With Guest Christian Guzman, APRN
Rapid Response RN - December 01, 2023 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsHost Sarah Lorenzini and Christian Guzman APRN are back to conclude this three-part heart failure series by examining the use of mechanical circulatory support for cardiogenic shock. This episode expands on the topics covered in previous parts, focusing on the application of mechanical circulato...
80: Medical Management of Cardiogenic Shock With Guest Christian Guzman APRN
Rapid Response RN - November 24, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsBuilding on last week’s introduction to heart failure, this episode explores the nuances in the medical management of cardiogenic shock. Host Sarah Lorenzini and Christian Guzman APRN continue this three-part heart failure series by completing the case study of a patient in cardiogenic shock, an...
79: Heart Failure 101 with Guest Christian Guzman APRN
Rapid Response RN - November 17, 2023 11:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsDuring a normal day gardening, an active woman in her 60s was suddenly struck with chest tightness. Thinking it was just an asthma attack, she tried to let the pain pass. What she didn’t realize was that she was having a full blown myocardial infarction, and this was only the beginning of her jo...
78: Healthy vs Hostile: Recognizing the Nursing Red Flags and Green Flags of a Work Environment
Rapid Response RN - November 10, 2023 10:30 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsHave you ever started a new and promising job, only to discover that it wasn’t the nurturing and supportive space you thought it was? In this episode, host Sarah Lorenzini, armed with nearly two decades of nursing experience in various departments and leadership roles, provides a guideline to sp...
77: THE TRAUMA DIAMOND OF DEATH: 4 Treatment Priorities in Trauma Care With Guest Sarah Vance
Rapid Response RN - November 03, 2023 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsYou may already be familiar with the trauma triad… but in this episode, host Sarah Lorenzini is once again joined by her friend and critical care nurse and educator, Sarah Vance to break down a 4th component to trauma resuscitation. Last week, they discussed the treatment of a trauma patient wit...
76: Trauma Breakdown: Beyond the Blood and Guts... A Complicated Case Study with Guest Sarah Vance RN
Rapid Response RN - October 27, 2023 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsIf you hear “trauma” and immediately think of blood and guts, this episode with host Sarah Lorenzini’s friend, critical care nurse and educator Sarah Vance, will show you that there’s so much more to trauma cases. Because even localized injuries can affect the whole body, and issues can pile up ...
75: Rigors and Other Super Scary Chemotherapy Reactions With Guest Montana, Rapid Response RN
Rapid Response RN - October 20, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsEvery nurse knows the havoc chemotherapy wreaks on the body, but most nurses aren’t as knowledgeable on how to treat chemo reactions as, say, chemo or oncology nurses. Even host Sarah Lorenzini is slightly intimidated by unpredictable reactions from chemotherapy! That’s why this episode is cente...
74: Pediatric Basilar Skull Fracture With Guest Casey BSN, RN, CCRN-CMC, CFRN, CTRN, CEN, TCRN, CPEN, CNRN, NRP
Rapid Response RN - October 13, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsIn this episode of Rapid Response RN, host Sarah Lorenzini is joined by Casey BSN, RN, CCRN-CMC, CFRN, CTRN, CEN, TCRN, CPEN, CNRN, NRP. And yes, you read her title right — Casey has a whopping eight certifications and is one of the few nurses with ALL five BCEN certifications. And she’s using h...
73: Resuscitate Before You Intubate: How to NOT KILL YOUR PATIENT When You Intubate
Rapid Response RN - October 06, 2023 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsIntubation is a life-saving intervention, but it can also kill your patient! That’s why this follow-up episode to last week’s patient story is covering the process of intubation, what can go wrong and how nurses can mitigate risk factors to avoid bad outcomes like cardiac arrest. In part two of...
72: How Do You Know When it's Time to Intubate?
Rapid Response RN - September 29, 2023 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsPatients get intubated in every department of the hospital… not just the ICU. So it’s important that every nurse know the signs and symptoms of when it’s time to intubate. Our host Sarah Lorenzini, has been asked the same type of questions about intubation multiple times this week, so we felt ...
71: Recognition and Treatment of Septic Shock With Guest Yesha APRN
Rapid Response RN - September 22, 2023 09:54 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsSeptember is Sepsis Awareness Month, so host Sarah Lorenzini is throwing it back to one of the earliest Rapid Response RN podcast episodes with guest Yesha APRN. This episode tells the story of a patient with sepsis, and it’s one of Sarah’s favorite episodes because it exemplifies all of the cla...
70: Stop Guessing When Fluid Resuscitating With Guest Corinne RN From FloPatch
Rapid Response RN - September 15, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsOften when a patient’s blood pressure has dropped, we administer fluids without truly knowing the exact reason for the change. Does the patient have low volume, were they vasodilating, or is their heart not squeezing effectively? Fluid resuscitation is not always the answer, but there’s no clear...
69: Diuretic Induced Metabolic Alkalosis with Guest Annie RN
Rapid Response RN - September 08, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsWe often are looking for an acidosis when patients present with lethargy but what about when it’s an alkalosis!? In last week’s episode with Annie Fulton RN of the “Up My Nursing Game” podcast, she and host Sarah Lorenzini presented a patient story but left the diagnosis a mystery. You heard wh...
68: MYSTERY EPISODE With Guest Annie Fulton RN
Rapid Response RN - September 01, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsCan you guess what was causing this patient’s unexpected symptoms? This episode is a little different from the rest, thanks to you, our listeners, for submitting your suggestions and ideas for how these episodes should go, because we are all ears! One of our listeners suggested we do a mystery...
67: Battling Nursing Burnout: Interview with Nurse Burnout Coach Janna Holterman Part 2
Rapid Response RN - August 25, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratings“If you look for the bad, you’ll always find it. If you look for the good, you’ll always find it.” - Sarah’s grandmother In the second part of our two part series on nursing burnout, our host Sarah Lorenzini continues her conversation with Nurse Burnout Coach Janna Holterman, where they discuss...
66: Who is Advocating For You? Interview with Nurse Burnout Coach Janna Holterman Part 1
Rapid Response RN - August 18, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsNurses are trained to put their patients first, and that oftentimes results in forgoing their own needs. Skipping out on fundamental needs like sleeping and eating healthy meals lead nurses to feel emotionally and physically exhausted, eventually leading to burnout and loss of love for the job. ...
65: Benzodiazepine Withdrawal: Severe Symptoms That Make Coming Off Benzos So Difficult
Rapid Response RN - August 15, 2023 01:24 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsWelcome to part two of our series on benzodiazepines where we will be discussing the other side of benzodiazepines: the challenges of withdrawal. As healthcare providers, you are taught that benzodiazepines are in fact safe, but our host Sarah Lorenzini wants to offer a different perspective. D...
64: Benzodiazepine Overdose: Recognition and Treatment When It's an Emergency
Rapid Response RN - August 04, 2023 11:18 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsIn part one of the two part series on benzodiazepines, our host Sarah Lorenzini presents us with a case study about how she treated a benzodiazepine overdose during her time working as an ER Nurse. She walks us through the state her patient was in when she arrived at the hospital and the steps s...
63: The Science and Heart of Organ Donation: An Exclusive Interview With Sean, an Organ Procurement Nurse
Rapid Response RN - July 28, 2023 23:43 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsOne facet of nursing that we don’t learn much about in nursing school is organ donation. It’s such a rewarding experience to help give a person back their life, as you’ll hear from our host and today’s guest. In this episode, Sarah is speaking with Nurse Sean, organ procurement nurse and host o...
62: Resuscitation Leadership: Beyond the ABCs of CODE BLUE
Rapid Response RN - July 21, 2023 10:52 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratings“Leadership is not a title. Leadership is influence.” Our host Sarah Lorenzini wants to highlight a question that nurses are regularly asking her to answer on the Rapid Response Podcast: how can we be better leaders during resuscitation where a fast coordinated effort is necessary? Knowing you...
61: Infective Endocarditis Part 2: Understanding Valvular Damage, Embolic Sequelae, and Clinical Manifestations
Rapid Response RN - July 14, 2023 10:15 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsLast week, Sarah shared the story of a patient who was finally diagnosed with infective endocarditis after presenting with several symptoms, including fever, tachypnea, chest pain, hypotension and more. In this episode, she’ll further explain how the patient was diagnosed and the pathophysiology...
60: Infective Endocarditis: From Invasion to Destruction
Rapid Response RN - July 07, 2023 14:20 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsIn part one of this two part series, our host Sarah Lorenzini shares a story about a patient she was called to see who was under the care of nurse Clayton, a trusted colleague and previous Rapid Response Podcast guest, after he saw a drop in the patient’s blood pressure and had a gut feeling som...
59: Re-Release"Air Don't Go There!" Air Embolism to the Brain With Guest Marissa, Rapid Response RN
Rapid Response RN - June 23, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsOur nursing professors cautioned us about the risk of not using proper technique when removing central lines, their warnings sometimes seeming dramatic and unlikely. That’s why this previously released interview with Nurse Marissa is such an important story, because sometimes those rare cases DO...
58: Narcotic Overdose: The Nurse's Vital Role In Initial Stabilization and Management
Rapid Response RN - June 16, 2023 10:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsWhen we speak about narcotic overdoses, the first thing we think about is the administration of Narcan or Naloxone. However, our host Sarah Lorenzini shares how that shouldn’t always be the first thing we reach for. Sarah wants to share why Narcan is her absolute last resort, and why she tries ...
57: What to Expect When Your Patient is Dying with Hospice Nurse Hadley
Rapid Response RN - June 09, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsNurses are trained to treat and save lives, but hospice nurses focus on a different set of skills. As host Sarah says in this episode as she speaks with Hadley Vlahos, RN, “fixing isn’t the only great thing we can do as nurses.” In this episode and her new book, The In-Between, Hadley shares wh...
56: Recap, Top Pearls, and Reflections from the NTI 2023 Conference
Rapid Response RN - June 02, 2023 10:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsThe American Association of Critical Care Nurses hosts an annual conference called NTI. Sarah and her team were able to attend NTI 2023 and they’re all recapping their experiences at the 4-day event in the episode! Sarah is joined by her team, Walker, Elisabeth, and Ashley, as well as special ...
55: Q&A "Can You Please Make ABGs Make Sense?"
Rapid Response RN - May 26, 2023 17:50 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsArterial Blood Gas interpretation is tricky if you aren’t regularly looking at them, and a lot of the information out there makes it really confusing. In today’s episode, you will hear a palatable explanation on what you need to know when looking at ABGs, how the kidneys and lungs work together ...
54: ARDS Part 2... Meds, Proning, and ECMO With Guest Christian Guzman APRN
Rapid Response RN - May 19, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsConcluding this two-part series on acute respiratory distress syndrome, Sarah and Christian Guzman APRN focus on the treatment options of ARDS and how you can make a difference in the outcome of ARDS patients. They cover the pros and cons of deep sedation, early paralysis, inhaled vasodilators,...
53: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Part 1 With Guest Christian Guzman APRN
Rapid Response RN - May 12, 2023 20:04 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsSarah is welcoming back Christian Guzman APRN on the show for a two-part series on acute respiratory distress syndrome, otherwise known as ARDS. Don’t know how to properly diagnose ARDS, or treat it without further damaging the lungs? This episode will answer your questions! Christian shares th...
52: Transitioning From Nursing Student to Being 'The Nurse' With Guest Stephanee Beggs RN
Rapid Response RN - May 05, 2023 12:48 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 318 ratingsIt’s a huge shift in mindset and level of responsibility to go from introducing yourself as “Hi! I’m the nursing student” to “Hi! I will be your Nurse today”. This episode is not just for Nurses who are making that transition from student to “The Nurse” but also for anyone who will be preceptin...
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