Today Kara and Geary Discuss .....Why we created this Podcast, what our Mission is, and what we hope to Accomplish. One of our Primary Goals is to help address and solve the problems Nurses are facing everyday.

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Good morning.

Welcome back to go crazy at the nurses round table.

My name is Gary and I'm Kara

What are we gonna go crazy with today?

Our mission is it impossible??

Yes.

So we wanna create a platform for nurses to bring their problems,

bring their issues to the table, but also bring some solutions.

What is your opinion?

What would, what do you think would work best?

How can we make it better?

For the future of nursing and for nursing now.

Right.

Because I think that the big organizations, the national organizations

are dealing with these big problems and they're trying to solve these

issues in nursing, but I don't know that anybody is truly able to, or

listening to the nurse who does face to face care, the bedside nurse.

And what are the issues that that nurse, he or she is dealing with.

And do we have the solutions right?

And can we help each other?

Can we help each other?

Starting the conversation here at Go crazy and then listening

to the nurses out there mm-hmm.

with their suggestions.

Cuz maybe someone in.

California has a solution for a day to day problem that someone in Ohio is having.

Right?

And it's all about giving the voice to the nurse and helping other

people understand this business.

Right?

What is the career of nursing?

The business of nursing, I see a lot of, memes and jokes and talks and

Instagram accounts and, influencers and there's a lot of sarcasm and a lot.

Jesting and Oh yes.

A lot of passive aggressive jokes that happen around nursing and

the plight of nurses, right?

Yes.

And it's fun, and it's our way of getting out that kind of like angsty

aggression against the man, right?

Or the corporation.

But we would really like to get down to the heart of how do we solve

these problems to where we don't have that angst or that animosity.

And it's still funny and we still have fun at work, but all the issues that surround.

, obviously retention, keeping nurses in the business, making it

right, making it a continued career that people wanna be a part of.

Yes.

Making it a long term career.

When we first came in, how we met nurses who had been in nursing for 30, 40 years,

and those were our teachers, right?

Mm-hmm.

, they were still working on the floor.

When we started and they, those are the people who trained us.

And now, we are some of the issues that we're seeing out there, and this

is part of what we're going crazy with, right, is that we see nurses

leaving the profession so quickly.

Someone just started and they've been in nursing for a year or two

and they're burned out already and they wanna change careers or

they wanna just do some type of.

Triage phone nursing or that's if they wanna stay in nursing

at all, they're wanting to go to something a little bit lighter.

And although that's not really a light position, that's a heavy, actually,

phone triage is a very heavy position.

, but they're just wanting to transition to something else.

And so we really want to, Our goal is to try and help save our profession,

try and reach out to them, right?

We wanna get to the heart of the issues that really,

burn in a nurse's soul, right?

What, what is your passion about this field?

What do you love about it?

What can we do to make it better?

What can we do to continue?

To inspire passion and inspiration period in young nurses and, and

older nurses as well, because everybody's a little bit burnt out.

Yes.

I, I mean, I think, how can we reach the nurses out there that are

struggling with any issue, any topic?

No, no topic is off limits.

We wanna hear from everyone out there.

Honestly, what is it that's frustrating you?

What are you going crazy with?

And whether it is your leadership or it is something that you're, how you

take care of a patient, some rule or regulation that's in place that

maybe you have an improvement on.

And, uh, how about the workarounds?

. Okay.

Nurses, let's talk about the workarounds.

So there's so many things that we see happening in nursing and

we wanna be able to talk about it and not just talk about it.

We wanna be able to solve some of those issues.

Mm-hmm.

. And that's with your help with the help of the audience, we want

you to be able to help us solve some of these issues for you.

Just go through what is it like to be a nurse?

So it's not only just for the nurses to have a voice, you know, to have

some input in why, you know, because, So everybody has ideas, everybody has

suggestions, but nobody get, Nobody really feels like they're heard, Right?

Right.

So we're giving them a platform to make their suggestions, not just on TikTok or

Instagram, right, through memes and jokes, but through legitimate conversation.

And then also it helps.

Inform the community, like what nurses are really going through or what the

nursing job career is actually all about.

Yes, I, I agree that one of the primary reasons for us to present

this podcast to, nurses out there and others is so that they can hear.

What nurses are really dealing with on a day to day basis and those issues

that they're faced with, that they talk about and they talk to each

other about, and we all talk to each other about these issues that are

concerning us or that we're dealing with and we get frustrated with that.

No one seems to be solving, and I know.

I feel like we have some solutions and we wanna hear what the nurses

out there have to say about the situations that we talk about.

From education to blowing off steam after work.

What do you do to decompress after a long day or after a long

week?

Definitely.

I think some of the things we wanna talk about here at Go crazy is,

or rather are not just the topics.

that are affecting nurses, the serious issues, but we wanna talk about things

that nurses can do to relax and recharge.

Recharge, yes.

And whether that's acts throwing or going to a rage room or a smash room.

I have not been to either of those yet, but that is, a fun

dream that we can have, that we definitely, I think would be so fun.

I think probably a lot of nurses could really get into that.

You know, I've seen that episode on, uh, Netflix of, um, a working moms

where one of the characters gets to go, Her husband takes her to a

smash room for a decompress moment, and they just break all the dishes.

And when she's all done, she's happy and thank you

and mm-hmm.

, that's, that just looked like quite a lot of fun.

So, but I think any kind of exercise is gonna be fun.

, you know, hot yoga and stuff.

Well, I don't know that hot yoga is fun, but it's, it's definitely a good way to,

De-stress.

right?

And you see a lot of going out on for like wine trips or, you know,

short little getaways into the country to go to a wine tasting or whatever.

And it's team building too, because you usually go with people that you

work with, a couple of different girls.

Or ladies or men or whoever.

Mm-hmm.

and you guys all go out together and do some stuff and it's team building.

It's, it's bonding over a little bit of alcohol and a little bit of fun.

Oh, I definitely, I think that's great.

So I, I mean, I think anybody out there send us your

suggestions on what you do to.

De-stress as well because those are some of the things we wanna talk about

here at Go crazy on this podcast.

We wanna be talking about what you guys do to what you guys and gals do to de-stress.

It's gonna be fun.

We wanna have fun here, so send us your suggestions

All right.

That's all the time we have for today.

We'll continue to have our discussions here at the round table with Karen, Gary.

Catch us next time.

. And remember whatever life hates you today, don't go

crazy.

So email us, drop us a line at gokrazy@thenursesroundtable.com.

That's go krazy and remember crazy with a k@.