1 00:00:05,679 --> 00:00:10,000 Okay, let's do this. Welcome to Nursing Uncensored. I am your host, 2 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:13,759 Adrianne Benning. We are here with season ten. We are kicking off 3 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:19,600 today with a very special guest. Stephanie Beggs, CEO of URN explained she 4 00:00:19,879 --> 00:00:25,760 is a Forbes thirty Under Thirty honoree. A social media influencer, Stephanie is 5 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:31,879 a passionate advocate for nursing education. She's created a thriving business and online community 6 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,759 that provides nursing students and nurses with resources they need to succeed. You may 7 00:00:36,799 --> 00:00:40,640 already know her a five star Etsy shop of study materials, which has over 8 00:00:40,719 --> 00:00:45,200 seventy three thousand sales. She's got six hundred and fifty thousand followers on TikTok, 9 00:00:45,479 --> 00:00:49,079 and her YouTube channel has tons of videos that cover a variety of nursing 10 00:00:49,119 --> 00:00:53,920 topics that even I like to review as like a tenured nurse, because who 11 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,840 couldn't use some review on topics of like patho and pharmacology and things like that. 12 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,359 And if that wasn't enough, Stephanie is also a badass er nurse and 13 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:08,760 a pharmacology professor. She's a total inspiration and makes me want to get off 14 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,359 my ass and start doing more. So we're lucky to talk with her today. 15 00:01:12,439 --> 00:01:17,079 Stephanie, welcome to the show. Hello, Hello, Yes, thank 16 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:21,120 you for having me. I'm totally psyched. You live in La, right, 17 00:01:21,439 --> 00:01:23,519 I do nice? Nice. So what's your favorite part about living in 18 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:29,640 La? You know the weather? Ye know, I was just gonna say 19 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:34,959 the weather is unmatched. Although it gets pretty hot in the summer. I 20 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:38,319 am such a sun baby that like, I love it. I love the 21 00:01:38,359 --> 00:01:42,200 weather. I love the heat. I'd rather do the heat than the cold. 22 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:47,319 I'm a Midwest baby, and so I've been like all over the Midwest. 23 00:01:47,359 --> 00:01:49,879 I'm in Chicago. Now. This is the time of year where it's 24 00:01:49,879 --> 00:01:52,640 like starting to get nice, so I feel good. It's like starting to 25 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:55,879 get out and get crazy. So I need to buy a new bike so 26 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:59,200 that I can get out there. Oh yes, you can spend time outside. 27 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,439 I'm super excited. But anyway, I saw that you're in LA and 28 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,640 I'm like, oh, I want to go to La. I want to 29 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,879 be Oh I'm so jealous. Yeah, absolutely, I need to get out 30 00:02:07,919 --> 00:02:13,759 there. So tell me about you. We summarized all of the like nursing 31 00:02:13,759 --> 00:02:16,120 stuff, but what about you? Who are you Oh, that's a good 32 00:02:16,199 --> 00:02:23,560 question. Let's see, I have two siblings. I'm the youngest of my 33 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:27,479 family, so I have a brother and my sister, and they're both older. 34 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:30,919 You know, I don't even know that's okay. If you had a 35 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,919 day to just screw around and do nothing of importance, like no errands, 36 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:39,719 no chores, nothing, what are like your top things to do? Like, 37 00:02:39,759 --> 00:02:44,080 You've got a day to just goof off? For me, So I'm 38 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,240 I kind of I'm a little bit of a mix of both. I liked, 39 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:52,240 I'm such a homebody, so I like to stay at home and cook 40 00:02:52,439 --> 00:02:55,719 and bake and just like be at home on the couch. I love that. 41 00:02:57,319 --> 00:03:00,919 However, I also love like I'm a huge, huge beach girl, 42 00:03:00,599 --> 00:03:05,000 so I like to go to the beach a lot, especially since the weather 43 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,199 is getting better, I like to go to the beach. I'm also really 44 00:03:08,199 --> 00:03:15,199 big foodie, so love trying new restaurants around LA or even kind of farther. 45 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:17,680 My family lives in Newport, so I like to kind of venture out 46 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,560 there sometimes and like, see what's up over there? Yeah, I mean 47 00:03:22,599 --> 00:03:25,199 I have those are really good answers, I know. I think that's like 48 00:03:25,280 --> 00:03:30,639 the high it captures like Los Angeles. Everybody wants to be at the beach. 49 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,960 Shopping is great. I love shopping, but I also like to just 50 00:03:34,039 --> 00:03:37,159 be at home too, So I am like a mix of both. Excellent. 51 00:03:37,199 --> 00:03:39,000 That gives us a really good snapshot of who you are. And I'm 52 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:44,120 I too, am a foodie and being in Chicago huge fitting. It has 53 00:03:44,159 --> 00:03:46,840 to happen, yeah, So yeah, beach is like a requirement, food 54 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:53,159 requirement. And also it sounds like you work really really hard, so you 55 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:58,879 need to have those like intense relaxation days. And I say intense relaxation because 56 00:03:58,919 --> 00:04:00,639 it has to be that, right, Yeah, yeah, Okay, so 57 00:04:00,759 --> 00:04:05,479 let's talk about the beginning of this like big journey as you've been on. 58 00:04:05,759 --> 00:04:11,639 So I know from just knowing about you and like reading interviews and hearing other 59 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:15,520 podcasts you've been on. This all was kind of catalyzed by COVID. Right, 60 00:04:15,599 --> 00:04:16,959 COVID did a number on all of us, but some good things did 61 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:19,800 come from COVID. So, yeah, will you tell people a little bit 62 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:25,279 about how some people already know because some people have been watching your videos, 63 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:31,480 so let's hear about it. Because you turned some lemons into lemonade literally, 64 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:40,040 so literally. So I graduated nursing school right as the pandemic started to hit, 65 00:04:40,759 --> 00:04:45,360 and at that time everything was shut down. I had to start studying 66 00:04:45,439 --> 00:04:49,680 for the board's exam the end clicks, and I had no one to study 67 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:57,839 with. So I started to teach these topics out loud to the wall or 68 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:03,319 to the and table, whatever it was, and I would record myself and 69 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:08,279 listen to it back. So I understood and kind of listened to these topics 70 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:12,720 that I was having a hard time understanding. And at that time, TikTok 71 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,480 was becoming big, so I started to post those videos for literally no reason 72 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:19,879 at all. I just started posting those on social media for fun, and 73 00:05:20,199 --> 00:05:25,079 everyone started to love the videos. They loved the sheets that I was using 74 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:30,079 to teach in those videos, They loved my teaching style and just really ran 75 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:32,439 with it. So I was like, hmm, this all right. Like 76 00:05:32,519 --> 00:05:36,439 a lot of people learn the way that I learn, So I continue to 77 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:40,279 make them. I mean I really made them for myself. I chose topics 78 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:42,959 that, like I was studying for the boards, that I was having trouble 79 00:05:42,959 --> 00:05:46,480 with and posted those on social media, and then it just got big. 80 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,240 Everyone wanted to buy the sheets. That I was teaching in the videos. 81 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,959 So I started an aatsy shop called it Aren't Explained, and that's how it 82 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:56,920 was born. But yeah, I think I realized at that time that a 83 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,120 lot of people are like me that are more like audio visual learners, and 84 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,800 we're looking for that because of COVID, and they were searching for somebody to 85 00:06:05,879 --> 00:06:11,279 kind of guide them through nursing school, and I just happened to pop up. 86 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:15,160 Yeah, the whole teaching method of Oh my gosh, it's amazing what 87 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,680 you've been doing. So what you started doing, which is talking about teaching 88 00:06:19,759 --> 00:06:24,199 to the wall, the table, whatever, This is a method that I 89 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,680 have, Like I tutored for a little while. I did it myself in 90 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,279 nursing school. These concepts in nursing school. Studying in nursing school is unlike 91 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:34,839 studying for anything else, you know, it's a totally different subject matter. 92 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:41,240 These are we're talking about half of physiology. We're talking about cascades in the 93 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:45,399 body. We're not just talking about like A happens, then B happens, 94 00:06:45,560 --> 00:06:49,000 and you can't just like read about them and remember them. If I'm gonna 95 00:06:49,399 --> 00:06:51,959 learn this, I need to be able to recite this I need to make 96 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:57,639 this part of me, and so that's like such a good way to learn. 97 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:01,519 And then also what you said about some people are just audio video learners. 98 00:07:01,879 --> 00:07:05,079 Some people don't learn well that way. Some people don't need the like 99 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:10,680 kinesthetic like acting it out. Some people just need to hear it over and 100 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,639 over. They need to see it. And so those are the people that 101 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:19,800 are tapping into you, you know, your beautiful penmanship, your your beautiful 102 00:07:19,839 --> 00:07:24,399 way breaking things down. Yeah, And some people don't have the time, 103 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,639 the energy, the aptitude to be able to do it in that way. 104 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:30,600 So they find you and they're like this is perfect. Yeah. And there 105 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:35,480 are so many other people in different ways that have also found success starting in 106 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:40,360 similar ways you did, Like Han Academy, he was like making videos for 107 00:07:40,439 --> 00:07:46,000 his nephew or something across the country. Mike lenares of some nursing I started 108 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,800 with, like yeah, started with like a dry erase board making YouTube videos. 109 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:55,160 So there's something so wonderful about finding these methods that are like they start 110 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,879 super simple, like helping yourself, like finding ways to make this material makes 111 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:05,040 event, and then parlaying it into something that's like helping totally. Who knows 112 00:08:05,079 --> 00:08:09,680 how many people, So, yeah, that's amazing. And so you start 113 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:15,720 on TikTok or like then moved it over to YouTube or like what was the 114 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,000 Yeah, I just recently started my YouTube channel, like probably within the last 115 00:08:20,079 --> 00:08:24,920 few months. That's super recent. I already got a lot of stuff up 116 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:28,040 there, exactly, and they're all sixty seconds. So back in the day 117 00:08:28,199 --> 00:08:33,000 when TikTok started, you could only post sixty second videos. Now they're like, 118 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:35,159 I think you can go up to like three minutes, ten minutes or 119 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:39,720 something. So back in the day, it was only sixty seconds. So 120 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,720 all of my videos and all of my teachings had to be literally sixty seconds 121 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:46,720 or less. So I had so many videos because I did a part one 122 00:08:46,759 --> 00:08:52,000 and a part two and whatnot. But now I do I post obviously all 123 00:08:52,039 --> 00:08:56,360 the time on TikTok. That kind of fed over into my Instagram. So 124 00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:01,440 now my Instagram is like totally aren't explained everything education and everything. And then 125 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,320 just recently I started doing YouTube, which are a lot more professional because TikTok 126 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:09,399 and Instagram. I film on my phone, I mean, and you don't 127 00:09:09,399 --> 00:09:13,480 really need that many resources to teach or you know, to get yourself out 128 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:18,879 there. But I did want videos of mine to be professional and a little 129 00:09:18,879 --> 00:09:24,559 bit longer to explain, like more difficult concepts or more interventions or treatments or 130 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:28,279 whatever. So I started making YouTube videos just recently that are about five minutes. 131 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:33,799 None of them really go over five minutes because I'm I also teaching things 132 00:09:33,799 --> 00:09:37,639 out loud is my thing. But I also don't think any lecture needs to 133 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:43,559 be longer than five minutes or maybe like max ten minutes. But yeah, 134 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,120 so I wanted a place that I could kind of expand a little bit on 135 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,600 topics, and that was YouTube. So I just kind of started that one. 136 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:54,840 And that's the perfect time length because if I'm looking for study videos online, 137 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:58,320 and even when I was in school, if there's a twenty five minute 138 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:03,240 video and six minute video, I'm clicking the six minute video. No literally, 139 00:10:03,279 --> 00:10:09,840 and I especially these days, like everything is online now and the new 140 00:10:11,159 --> 00:10:16,799 generation just doesn't have the attention span to sit there for twenty minutes and learn 141 00:10:16,799 --> 00:10:20,279 about a heart attack. And look, I'm I'm an elder millennial. I'm 142 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:24,159 in my forties. I was a non traditional student. I got my ADN 143 00:10:24,519 --> 00:10:30,080 and then my bachelor's in my thirties. Yeah, I wanted digestible quick. 144 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:33,840 I don't have all days. I had a job to go to. You 145 00:10:33,919 --> 00:10:37,200 know, other people I don't have kids. Other people have kids, they 146 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,759 have they have things going on. They got to make dinner, they got 147 00:10:39,799 --> 00:10:43,279 to get the kids to bed. They don't have time to Like, they 148 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:48,240 already sat through the lecture, They've already got the study groups. They don't 149 00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:54,279 have time for another thirty minutes thirty minute explanation. There's yeah. And I'm 150 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:58,440 also you know, I have I mean people probably roll therize when the others. 151 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:03,679 I have undiagnosed deficit disorder. But I'm like textbook textbook, you know, 152 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:07,320 symptoms. But when I listen to videos, I even put them on 153 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:11,440 like one and a half time speed. Oh that's nice to do, Yeah, 154 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:16,639 just because I just not I cannot wait that long. So all like 155 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:20,240 even if like even though I'm a when I was a student on canvas, 156 00:11:20,279 --> 00:11:22,639 when we had to watch these videos, what have these required videos? I 157 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:26,320 would turn it onto one point five speed. If there wasn't the option to 158 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,399 turn the speed up, I would get so annoyed. Oh no, I 159 00:11:30,399 --> 00:11:35,480 would be checked out psych So it's great to make these digestible. And I 160 00:11:35,519 --> 00:11:41,279 was and like I said kind of earlier. Even I as a you know, 161 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:45,399 I've been a nurse for seven years now, but as a specialty nurse, 162 00:11:45,519 --> 00:11:50,759 I don't see every condition on a regular basis. So it's really nice 163 00:11:50,799 --> 00:11:54,840 to have these resources like your channel where if I have a patient coming up, 164 00:11:54,039 --> 00:11:58,720 you know, I'm taking an admission and they have a diagnosis or comorbidity 165 00:11:58,799 --> 00:12:01,519 or something thing that I just don't take care of very often, I can 166 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:05,679 get a crash course. I can put it on double speed, and you 167 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:07,080 know, this is stuff I've already remembered. You know, I've already learned, 168 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,240 but maybe I haven't seen this type of patient or five years or something, 169 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:15,360 and I just need a refresher. And then I'm like, oh yeah, 170 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,519 okay, I remember this. I'm good to go to. Really, 171 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:22,360 I know those resources. I get a lot of new grads and existing nurses 172 00:12:22,759 --> 00:12:28,200 and even higher ups like npspas mds that kind of look at my resources to 173 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:33,159 just get a quick refresher. So definitely not just for the student, and 174 00:12:33,279 --> 00:12:37,759 any any nurse that's worth her weight is going to know that she's not she 175 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:43,080 or he or they are not meant to know everything. They are meant to 176 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,120 know how to find what they need to know in that moment. Yeah, 177 00:12:46,159 --> 00:12:50,519 so this the speed of growth. Okay, so we're talking what end of 178 00:12:50,519 --> 00:12:54,679 the pandemic. We're talking just a few years here. So how have you 179 00:12:54,840 --> 00:13:01,799 paced your life to match this growth? So, I, like all my 180 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:05,639 life, I have just been a go go go type of person. I 181 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:09,360 don't like to and part of the reason why I love the er is because 182 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:13,600 I cannot sit down. I don't like to just sit. I don't watch 183 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:18,279 TV shows because I can't sit for an episode. There's something else I could 184 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:22,399 be doing. I can't watch movies like it's really bad. So my whole 185 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:26,039 life, I've just been go go go. So when this business kind of 186 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:31,120 took off and took off very quickly, it almost it wasn't too hard for 187 00:13:31,159 --> 00:13:39,480 me to adapt to because that is kind of by nature for me to just 188 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:43,039 go go go and run with something. So I spent all my time, 189 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,399 and especially during COVID, because there was nothing else to do. I spent 190 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:50,360 all of my time on this business, not knowing that it was going to 191 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,200 grow this much at the time. But yeah, all my time went to 192 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,639 this and I just ran with it. So it was easy to adapt. 193 00:13:56,799 --> 00:14:01,799 I would say, are you a very organized or you just someone that just 194 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:05,399 kind of like by nature, things just kind of fall together for you. 195 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:09,279 I I don't think I'm an organized person, but I don't think i'm like 196 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:16,399 a like I see you organized, like sure liked organized. Yeah, like 197 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:22,679 the controlled chaos type of organized. Okay, yeah, and but I do 198 00:14:22,919 --> 00:14:26,879 and yeah, I think that's like the best way to explain it. Yeah, 199 00:14:26,919 --> 00:14:31,200 I'm organized for the most part. Okay, that's a good answer. 200 00:14:31,399 --> 00:14:37,120 I go back and forth. I have days where I'm really icee you organized 201 00:14:37,440 --> 00:14:43,799 type A the lines, everything, everything's labeled, everything's organized, and then 202 00:14:43,799 --> 00:14:48,960 there are days where I look like I've just been running around with my head 203 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:50,679 cut off. So I go back. I can go either way. So 204 00:14:52,279 --> 00:14:56,879 adaptable, I'm I don't know if it's so much adaptable if it is hot 205 00:14:56,919 --> 00:15:00,320 mess some days, but we'll go with adaptable. We'll go with that. 206 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,840 So you and for those that don't know, you keep mentioning ed you still 207 00:15:05,919 --> 00:15:09,240 work as a bedside nurse. You've had great success, you've had you know, 208 00:15:09,279 --> 00:15:13,440 you've got the Etsy shop, You've got which let's before we talk about 209 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:18,120 the bedside nursing, which you still do because you love it. Let's also 210 00:15:18,159 --> 00:15:22,240 talk about the fact that like you have the videos, you have the online 211 00:15:22,279 --> 00:15:26,440 content, but then you actually, like you make these notes like you sell 212 00:15:26,639 --> 00:15:33,799 bundles. They're they're all handwritten. That's so this always happens to me. 213 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,519 I always have like like a traffic jam of questions, like fifteen questions I'll 214 00:15:37,559 --> 00:15:41,279 pile up right behind my teeth at the same time. So this is the 215 00:15:41,360 --> 00:15:46,200 question that's really pressing for me. Are you a very artistic person like I 216 00:15:46,519 --> 00:15:50,960 found writing? Do you love lettering? Were you the bubble letter in high 217 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:58,039 school? Yeah? So I have always been very creative, artsy. My 218 00:15:58,159 --> 00:16:00,679 sister is a graphic designer, so I kind of get it. I feel 219 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,759 like I kind of get it from that a little bit. But I also 220 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:08,879 always, throughout my life, have always been complimented on my handwriting, which 221 00:16:08,919 --> 00:16:15,399 is so funny that like now it's actually turned into something like never did I 222 00:16:15,399 --> 00:16:17,600 think that that was gonna be a thing, But truly, like since I 223 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:23,240 was a little kid writing, I have always gotten a compliment or a comment 224 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:27,360 on my handwriting from teachers, from family, friends, like everything. So 225 00:16:27,399 --> 00:16:30,200 in high school, like ASB I was a part I was a big part 226 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,279 of asb doing the rallies and I did all the posters. Everyone wanted me 227 00:16:33,320 --> 00:16:37,559 to write the posters, so I did that. In college and my sorority, 228 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:41,120 I did like the soroting name tags with like our names and like all 229 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,320 that stuff, even when we had to make like birthday presents, like baskets, 230 00:16:45,399 --> 00:16:49,919 like little basket reveals queen of doing that. I actually, back in 231 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:56,120 the day, I used to have a Pinterest board of my like gifts that 232 00:16:56,159 --> 00:16:59,159 I would make people like little baskets, and it had ribbons. It was 233 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:03,240 so aesteadic pleasing. I loved it. That's a pinch smart. I would 234 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,400 totally follow. I follow so many pint sports I would be down with that. 235 00:17:07,519 --> 00:17:11,400 Yeah. So, like, I've always had this like artistic I like 236 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:18,519 to things, and then when it came to making these sheets, I had 237 00:17:18,559 --> 00:17:22,559 no I honestly made these sheets. They were for myself, and the colors 238 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,200 I just added so it wasn't just so plain like on the piece of paper 239 00:17:26,279 --> 00:17:30,119 that I was reading. But yeah, my once again, my handwriting just 240 00:17:30,240 --> 00:17:33,720 kind of popped off and everybody loved it. Truly, I think my handwriting 241 00:17:33,759 --> 00:17:37,480 is messy. I don't know how anybody thinks that it's like so great, 242 00:17:37,559 --> 00:17:42,680 which is so funny. But yeah, I've always had this artistic feel to 243 00:17:42,799 --> 00:17:48,400 me. I guess people like my handwriting as well, and I feel like 244 00:17:48,759 --> 00:17:52,880 it's not special. I feel like my handwriting is very stylized. Yeah, 245 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:57,240 but I really like certain people's handwriting and they say the same thing. They're 246 00:17:57,279 --> 00:18:00,359 like, oh, really, yeah, I love your handwriting. I wish 247 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,319 I could make a aunt out of it. I can't believe how many people 248 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:06,799 like it. Like I just am like, wow, this looks so messy, 249 00:18:06,799 --> 00:18:07,720 and they're like, are you kidding? That looks like a typewriter, 250 00:18:07,799 --> 00:18:12,119 And I'm like what how? Yeah, No, some people just I mean, 251 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:17,440 you can't. I don't know. I just feel like some things people 252 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:21,480 just really really like, yeah, and you can't argue with that. If 253 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:26,519 that's what they want. You've got to give the people what they want totally. 254 00:18:26,799 --> 00:18:30,079 So I think that's really interesting that you're kind of like this busy, 255 00:18:30,119 --> 00:18:33,680 busy person. And I can also can't sit and do like movies, TV 256 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:38,079 shows. I've always I can't something, but I'm not productive about it, 257 00:18:38,119 --> 00:18:42,279 like I haven't turned it into like a business. I just have like plants 258 00:18:42,279 --> 00:18:48,599 and art all over my house. It's just but yeah, my partner Doug, 259 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:52,039 he's like a huge movie buff and he's always just like like, I'll 260 00:18:52,039 --> 00:18:56,640 be watching a movie with him and then suddenly I don't even realize it. 261 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:59,039 He'll just be like, are you coming back? And I'll be like, 262 00:18:59,079 --> 00:19:03,519 oh, I just wandered off. I did not realize I did it. 263 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,839 Or I'll be like folding laundry and he'll be like you, yeah, I 264 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,200 can't just do one thing and I can't help it. I can't, but 265 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,279 I too, I'm thinking like I could be I could be like editing a 266 00:19:14,319 --> 00:19:17,599 podcast, I could be like making some graphics. Like that's where my mind 267 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:19,039 is at all. I know, I can't help it. I think we're 268 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:23,160 very similar in that way. I need to I need to grasp some of 269 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:27,519 that spirit of like doing something with it though, and that just like it's 270 00:19:27,559 --> 00:19:34,000 sitting on my coffee table. So you are still at the bedside now, 271 00:19:34,079 --> 00:19:37,640 so you do all of this, you're very very go go go. You 272 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:42,039 have this like wonderfully like productive chaotic energy, Like I really like that, 273 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:47,720 And so you're still are you full time at the bedside. So I'm kind 274 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:49,640 of all over the place. I did travel nursing for a little bit, 275 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:53,160 so I was full time. I did travel nursing for a little bit part 276 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,720 time. I switched day shift, midshift, night shifts. Some come all 277 00:19:56,759 --> 00:20:02,160 over. Okay, So so first of all, I have to ask, 278 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:06,079 what's been your favorite shift? Days? Mid's night? Oh, if you 279 00:20:06,079 --> 00:20:11,200 could do anything by far, it'd be days. Okay. I actually don't 280 00:20:11,599 --> 00:20:17,599 mind mids. I did twelve to twelves. I did two to two, 281 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:22,599 and I don't mind those ones. As long as I'm going to bed when 282 00:20:22,599 --> 00:20:29,400 it's dark outside, I think I'm okay. I just like night shift. 283 00:20:30,079 --> 00:20:33,039 This is the struggle, and I think everybody has this struggle. Is like 284 00:20:33,279 --> 00:20:38,079 I love the night shift crew. I think there's no bond better than the 285 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:45,400 night shifters together. However, I cannot my own sanity and like my mental 286 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:51,480 health is going to bed in the morning time and then waking up and like 287 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:56,200 missing half the day and you like and you're totally out of it and whatever. 288 00:20:56,839 --> 00:20:59,599 I can't do it. I like, physically can't do it, but 289 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:03,720 I love the people. So it was hard. But I'm definitely a day 290 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,119 shift or midshift person. I can understand that. Yeah, I've been night 291 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:15,960 shift for almost twenty years now, Holy crap. Yeah, but I think 292 00:21:15,799 --> 00:21:18,920 I think, I think, I think I'm long overdue for a switch and 293 00:21:18,960 --> 00:21:23,279 I'm going to be night shift a little bit longer. But let's just say, 294 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:26,799 yeah, let's just say time's about up. Probably should have been up 295 00:21:26,839 --> 00:21:30,720 a long time ago. Yeah, it's super hard. Kudos to people that 296 00:21:30,759 --> 00:21:34,200 do night shift, truly, because it is so incredibly hard to adjust the 297 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:38,440 lifestyle to that, and especially to do it for that long. That's insane. 298 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:45,640 Nuts, I'm nuts. Yeah, but the crew, the crew is 299 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:51,599 unmatched. The vibe on night shift is totally different, but it does it. 300 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:55,839 I wonder what my life would have been like if we hadn't slept, 301 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,359 you know, I think about the so it is. It is completely different. 302 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,839 So yeah, so did you go to ED, like right out of 303 00:22:03,599 --> 00:22:07,319 school? Yeah, so that's like, that's your vibe. Iwas about ED 304 00:22:07,559 --> 00:22:11,279 for sure. Yeah. So what I mean? Are you just? I 305 00:22:11,319 --> 00:22:15,759 mean most people I hate to I don't. I'm not gonna do the cliche 306 00:22:15,799 --> 00:22:18,720 of like, oh, are you an adrenaline junkie because most people think that, 307 00:22:18,079 --> 00:22:21,880 but there's something very different. It's not. Everybody is, And I 308 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,880 think you get adrenaline in different places like, what do you love about it? 309 00:22:26,039 --> 00:22:30,240 Well, first off, go go go type of place. Of course, 310 00:22:30,279 --> 00:22:33,839 of course, it's literally perfect for me. What I one thing I 311 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,240 love is that no to patients are the same, no to diagnoses are the 312 00:22:37,279 --> 00:22:41,480 same. You don't know what's coming through that door. I love the unknown 313 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:47,200 of that aspect of really thinking on your feet and having to critically think. 314 00:22:47,279 --> 00:22:52,400 And I think that stems from me just also on the side being this educator 315 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:57,559 that loves to critically think and teach people all of these diagnoses and difficult things. 316 00:22:57,799 --> 00:23:03,920 I love to actually put that into action, and you do that perfectly 317 00:23:03,039 --> 00:23:07,079 in the er because you're constantly having to critically think. That's a huge one 318 00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:11,839 for me. Is like all of the things that you see, it's it's 319 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:19,319 always different and I love that. I also I love the fact that you 320 00:23:19,799 --> 00:23:26,119 are meeting these patients. You're the first person to meet these patients first off, 321 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,559 when they come to the hospital through the er, You're the first person 322 00:23:30,599 --> 00:23:36,599 they see, and they're so vulnerable and probably some of their worst days. 323 00:23:36,799 --> 00:23:41,720 And to be the nurse that gets to greet them and hopefully treat them and 324 00:23:41,519 --> 00:23:47,200 get them out of the hospital is awesome. I love that. I love 325 00:23:47,279 --> 00:23:52,559 everything about the vulnerability of the patients in the er. I think that's huge. 326 00:23:52,759 --> 00:23:56,240 Yeah, that's that's the part that scares me. That's the part that 327 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,440 keeps me away. Yeah, so I'm glad that there I want to filter 328 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:04,799 between me and the outside world. That's the uncertainty, the vulnerability, the 329 00:24:04,839 --> 00:24:10,279 anxiety. I like when they come up and I at least know something. 330 00:24:11,559 --> 00:24:18,160 I like that you're the greeter and the stabilizer. And then I'm second in 331 00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:22,880 the line to be like, okay, you you've got them breathing, you've 332 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:27,680 stop the bleeding. I'll take you see them, Yeah, you see them. 333 00:24:29,039 --> 00:24:33,960 Yeah, I'll take it from there. We have that symbiotic relationship there. 334 00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:38,359 I'm glad you guys exist because that is not part of my personality. 335 00:24:38,759 --> 00:24:45,119 Yeah. I'm a special person to like not to enjoy not knowing the unknown. 336 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:48,839 Yeah. Yeah, and so, and since you started in ED, 337 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,079 what like, what would you tell new grads like people that are coming out 338 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,359 now. There's a million things I could say, but the first one that 339 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:06,720 comes to mind is it will take time for things to click for you. 340 00:25:07,599 --> 00:25:11,359 And I think a lot of new grads get are really hard on themselves, 341 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:17,359 especially when they start their first job because they think they need to know everything 342 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:22,279 and not everybody likes them, or they were knocked down a few times, 343 00:25:22,319 --> 00:25:26,920 and it's hard for people to realize that it's going to take some time for 344 00:25:26,079 --> 00:25:32,240 everything to click. It's overwhelming, it's chaotic, and you just have to 345 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:36,880 embrace everything that's going on and just put your best foot forward and if you 346 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:40,720 do that, there will be a day that things click for you. For 347 00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:47,400 me, it took about six months for things to click and where I found 348 00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,720 my voice and I found my place and I was like, I actually think 349 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,359 I deserve to be here. And it took a long time, and I'm 350 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,519 sure I questioned myself all the time, am I fit for this? Am 351 00:25:57,559 --> 00:26:02,039 I ready to be here? Like? Do they want me here? Et 352 00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:06,319 cetera. But you just have to push through. And I think the perseverance 353 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:11,279 that you show in that time as a new grad will really show you the 354 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:14,440 type of nurse that you're going to be. Yeah. I think that's a 355 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:19,799 big one, especially in the er, because you are thrown so many things 356 00:26:19,799 --> 00:26:27,240 that you never really experienced a nursing school, for sure, and it's a 357 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:34,559 shock to new grads. Yeah, to say the least, especially in an 358 00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:38,960 environment where things are constantly changing, you don't know what's coming through the door. 359 00:26:40,279 --> 00:26:42,519 Yeah, yeah, for sure, that's great advice. Yeah, I 360 00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:48,519 think that's what kind of advice do you have for people that have maybe an 361 00:26:48,559 --> 00:26:52,160 idea or a business they want to start, or a side hustle. I 362 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:57,480 always tell people that they need to be ready to work twenty five to eight. 363 00:26:59,319 --> 00:27:04,559 If there's starting a business or a venture, even a podcast or whatever, 364 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:10,240 you you got to put your all into that. And for me, 365 00:27:11,039 --> 00:27:17,480 my business was so unintentional when it started, but to get it to where 366 00:27:17,519 --> 00:27:22,200 it is today is extremely intentional. And I worked twenty five eight to get 367 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,359 it to where it is today. I mean I still do to this day. 368 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,599 But it's not easy. So you had like to run a business, 369 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:37,720 it's a lot of sacrifice. People will not always understand from the outside how 370 00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,119 stressful it is on the inside. And that's okay because not a lot of 371 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,759 people are going to get that. But as long as you do something that 372 00:27:45,839 --> 00:27:53,039 you absolutely love and you develop a dang good product, you cannot fail. 373 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,359 You you will succeed. You just have to put your mind to it and 374 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,960 be able to do the work to get to see it through. Yeah, 375 00:28:02,759 --> 00:28:06,279 I think it's it's hard, but it's so rewarding. Yeah, yeah, 376 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:10,319 it sounds like it. And that's like, that's like the critical piece is 377 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:14,680 I've never heard anybody say twenty five eight, but that truly is It really 378 00:28:14,759 --> 00:28:18,079 is like when I when I started this podcast, you know, not that 379 00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:21,960 this is not my full time job. This is still very much like my 380 00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:26,359 my side gig, Like this is not paying my rent or you know anything 381 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,720 like that. But you know, we're ten seasons in and there are so 382 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:36,559 many times where I've like you know, stayed up after a night shift to 383 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:42,240 record episode or like as you know, I'm like, I'm like not coming 384 00:28:42,319 --> 00:28:45,640 up with a great example of a zacrifice here. You go from working to 385 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:51,519 working. Yeah, yeah, that's the reality. And when something doesn't work, 386 00:28:51,559 --> 00:28:55,599 you have to figure out something else. And when you know something doesn't 387 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,680 doesn't turn offly you want it, you find another way to come at it. 388 00:28:59,759 --> 00:29:03,759 So it is constantly, it's like a constant like it's not a struggle 389 00:29:03,759 --> 00:29:07,039 because I don't feel like necessarily own error. Yeah yeah, I feel like 390 00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:11,799 that's what it is. Yeah, And yeah, I think that's what makes 391 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:19,480 people successful, is that if you're willing to go through the trials and the 392 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:25,440 errors and not get knocked down and continue to push through that for something that 393 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:29,839 you believe in or that you love and you think would make a good product 394 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:34,200 or service one day. That is when the people succeed, when they're able 395 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:38,400 to push through that. Most people, when they get knocked down or someone 396 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,680 talks bad about their product or service or they don't get any sales, they 397 00:29:44,839 --> 00:29:49,599 quit. And that's when businesses don't flourish. So I think it's a lot 398 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,000 of trial and error, and it's the ones that kind of push through that 399 00:29:53,559 --> 00:29:57,759 make it somewhere and become somebody in a business and whatever. And it doesn't 400 00:29:57,759 --> 00:30:00,880 mean that you don't feel like quit, but but it's what you feel like 401 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,640 every day. I know, I've there have been so many times where like 402 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:11,559 you know, like either I haven't met a self self set deadline or whatever, 403 00:30:11,599 --> 00:30:14,279 and then I just think like, well, I'm you know, I'm 404 00:30:14,319 --> 00:30:17,200 failing at this. Maybe I should just give up. I think that literally 405 00:30:17,279 --> 00:30:19,680 every day. Yeah, and then you think, well, then, why 406 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,839 why the hell did I do all of this? Like why you know or 407 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,640 you think you know? There are people that wrote, like sent me letters 408 00:30:26,759 --> 00:30:30,720 or instant messages this week that were like, oh, hey, this episode 409 00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:36,200 really resonated with me, or you know, I bought this item and it 410 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,720 really helped me, or you know I've had you know, I've tutored people 411 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:41,440 and they're like, hey, you know, I passed my end clacts after 412 00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:45,000 they didn't pass the first couple of times they took it. Those are the 413 00:30:45,039 --> 00:30:47,799 things that like keep us going so that when we have those moments of like, 414 00:30:48,359 --> 00:30:51,039 I don't think this is a good idea anymore, and then we have 415 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:56,440 that thing show up, that letter in the inbox, or like the purchase 416 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,160 in the Etsy shop, and you're like, oh my god, somebody actually 417 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,039 does resonate with what I'm doing. So yeah, so those are the little 418 00:31:03,079 --> 00:31:06,119 things that we keep us going. So you've kind of gone, You've gone 419 00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:11,000 from students to nurse. You're now a teacher, so like this has be 420 00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:15,119 crazy. Yeah, So it's that crazy because as nurses, like we learn 421 00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:19,640 from the moment we get into nursing school that we're like we're advocates, we're 422 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,720 caretakers, we're teachers. You know, we we were doing patient education, 423 00:31:23,839 --> 00:31:30,079 but now you're like educating nurses other nurses. So what was that transition, 424 00:31:30,279 --> 00:31:33,599 like what's it, What's what's that whole role? Like, I mean telling 425 00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:37,720 me about that, I'm so fascinated, so funny, I think. To 426 00:31:37,759 --> 00:31:41,839 be honest, it was pretty easy for me, and I say that because 427 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:49,039 of running this business. If I was not running Aren't Explained and teaching every 428 00:31:49,119 --> 00:31:53,160 single day on social media, it would be a little bit different. But 429 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:56,640 for me, it was like, Okay, I'm just you know, I'm 430 00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,079 doing the same thing. I'm teaching the same same way it just in person 431 00:32:00,319 --> 00:32:05,559 now to real humans. And so that was the only adjustment I'd say is 432 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:13,000 having to follow like a rubric, I guess, like a syllabus again, 433 00:32:13,119 --> 00:32:15,119 which is so weird because I haven't seen one since I was a student, 434 00:32:15,599 --> 00:32:22,599 But having to follow a syllabus and create the like teach, create these lessons 435 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,839 and these teachings through that because usually I'm used to teaching whatever I want, 436 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:30,680 you know, in any type of order. And so that was the only 437 00:32:30,759 --> 00:32:34,200 real hurdle. And I say that lightly because it wasn't really a hurdle. 438 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,119 I just had to follow a structure. So it was pretty easy for me. 439 00:32:38,559 --> 00:32:45,480 It was so cool to have real people in front of me while I 440 00:32:45,519 --> 00:32:52,960 taught. I had twenty nine sophomores. They were so cute and I love 441 00:32:52,359 --> 00:32:57,759 them so much. Yeah, it was very very cool. But I would 442 00:32:57,759 --> 00:33:00,480 say the teaching aspect, the transition was so easy for me. It's actually 443 00:33:00,599 --> 00:33:07,319 very interesting to see it on the other side now that I am faculty and 444 00:33:07,359 --> 00:33:14,599 not a student, which really sparked I think, if there's anything I learned 445 00:33:15,279 --> 00:33:20,000 this semester teaching. On the other side, there are a lot of things 446 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,000 that need to be changed in nursing programs, and hopefully I can be a 447 00:33:24,039 --> 00:33:30,519 part of changing those someday, because I just I and I felt this way 448 00:33:30,559 --> 00:33:34,799 when I was a student. I'm like, what are we doing? Why 449 00:33:34,839 --> 00:33:37,039 are we doing this? Why are there's just perked up for another episode. 450 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:42,079 That's like another topic, Yeah, like why are things the way they are 451 00:33:42,119 --> 00:33:44,960 in nursing school, Because there's some things that I'm just like, what the 452 00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:50,480 hell are you thinking with the structure of this or the teaching or whatever. 453 00:33:51,119 --> 00:33:54,519 And so being on the other side and seeing that and seeing so many changes 454 00:33:54,759 --> 00:34:01,960 that could be made is wild and I hope to change them one day. 455 00:34:02,359 --> 00:34:07,799 And then knowing what the process is to change these things. Yeah, like 456 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:12,559 the hurdles and no one does it, yeah, and like yeah, yeah, 457 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:17,280 it's like it just really gets me going because it's some hold that thought 458 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:22,679 hold that I would love to have you back to talk about that literally, 459 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,280 like why are we making it so hard? I don't know. Yeah, 460 00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:29,639 So it's not like there's a nursing shortage or anything. It's not like we 461 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,360 yeah, we don't need to eat our young as that that saying is still 462 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:37,840 alive and true and I hate it. And also we don't need to make 463 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:43,360 it so damn hard. Like I remember being in school. I mean, 464 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:47,000 this is just one thing, but I remember using I'm not going to name 465 00:34:47,039 --> 00:34:53,519 the software, but there's a particular adaptive learning software that. Yeah, And 466 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:58,679 there were multiple times, and I still have the screenshots on my computer because 467 00:34:58,719 --> 00:35:01,440 they're like almost like troph for me now, where you would have a question 468 00:35:01,519 --> 00:35:07,639 pop up on the screen and then there would be four bullets of choices multiple 469 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:13,840 choice, but there's no text next to the bullets like this happened. I 470 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,039 have screenshots of this, and I would call my instructor over and I would 471 00:35:16,039 --> 00:35:20,920 be like, hey, teacher, I have this question and four bullet points 472 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,920 and I have to choose. This is a proctered exam and there's no text 473 00:35:24,519 --> 00:35:29,119 next to the bullet points, and they'd be like, well, we're going 474 00:35:29,199 --> 00:35:31,679 to have to contact the company you bought that, but for now, you're 475 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,920 just going to have to click something so you can get past this question. 476 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,480 So basically I'd have to just click something, hope it was right, got 477 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:45,280 twenty five percent chance of getting it right. That would be a point that 478 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,679 would affect my score, yeah, and then have to go through all of 479 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:53,159 the unnecessary stuff afterwards to fix it. I just don't get it like that. 480 00:35:53,199 --> 00:36:00,400 There were many times like so I was one of five pharmacology instructors for 481 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,800 the sophomore class, so there was like one hundred. I had twenty we 482 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:08,800 each had twenty nine students, right, and we all had to conversate for 483 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:13,559 the exams, and everybody got the save exam, and every class it was 484 00:36:13,679 --> 00:36:20,199 very like, you know, everyone was uniform, and there would be I 485 00:36:20,559 --> 00:36:23,880 everybody, every professor was supposed to go through the exam. We would point 486 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:27,480 out if there was anything that we thought, you know, was not a 487 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:32,639 great question or whatever beforehand. I would grow go through that exam so incredibly 488 00:36:32,679 --> 00:36:37,679 hard because I'm like, okay, I am the one that's most recently a 489 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,679 student, and I know how they feel, and I know that this is 490 00:36:40,679 --> 00:36:45,239 going to cause an issue, or I know that this question is stupid or 491 00:36:45,079 --> 00:36:50,039 this is very contradictory, these two answers. So I would bring these up 492 00:36:50,119 --> 00:36:52,079 and no one would listen to me. No one would listen to me. 493 00:36:52,159 --> 00:36:57,000 And then it came time for the exam, and lo and behold, the 494 00:36:57,119 --> 00:37:00,960 issues with the exam was exactly what I said. And then we had to 495 00:37:00,000 --> 00:37:05,159 go through the entire process of we scared all these students that they were going 496 00:37:05,199 --> 00:37:08,400 to be like, you know, you don't get no points on this question. 497 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:12,559 That was a horrible question to begin with, and then how to put 498 00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:14,679 them through that, and then we all had to discuss it, and then 499 00:37:14,679 --> 00:37:16,639 we had to trash the question, and then had to change all the grades 500 00:37:16,679 --> 00:37:21,159 afterwards, and I'm like, this is just so unnecessary, Like why aren't 501 00:37:21,159 --> 00:37:24,199 we sing so much time? And the bottom line is they're still confused about 502 00:37:24,199 --> 00:37:29,000 the material and they're still confused. And then and then at the end of 503 00:37:29,079 --> 00:37:35,199 the semester, these students are literally calculating your grades down to points. It's 504 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,400 really upsetting, I know, And that is another thing we could go on 505 00:37:38,519 --> 00:37:45,119 for days, but like this is an okay, the minimum. I am 506 00:37:45,159 --> 00:37:47,679 sure you had this too, and everybody, every student in ours school has 507 00:37:47,679 --> 00:37:52,719 had to deal with this of the seventy five percent minimum to pass, Like 508 00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:58,039 my last my school was eighty. Oh you're so lucky, Okay, So 509 00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:00,840 mine was you had to get I had a minimum seventy five percent on the 510 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:07,960 exams and quizzes alone in order to pass the class. And so that meant 511 00:38:08,039 --> 00:38:15,800 that everything you did extra wise, like discussion posts, essays, whatever they 512 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:20,440 had you do, like all of the busy work didn't even matter unless you 513 00:38:20,519 --> 00:38:23,719 did you made the seventy five percent on the quizzes and the exams, So 514 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:28,760 you could have busted your ass off that entire semester, made a seventy four 515 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,280 point five percent on all of the quizzes and exams, and then nothing you 516 00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:39,400 did elsewhere mattered and you failed. And I just truly do not understand that. 517 00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,920 Yeah, I don't get it. I'm like I had that happen with 518 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:49,920 one student of mine once. She was like maybe maybe less than one percent 519 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,920 off of making that seventy five percent, And if it were me, she 520 00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:58,679 would have passed because she busted her ass off and it's one percent. I'm 521 00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:01,920 going to resist the urge to keep going because I could keep I could keep 522 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:07,239 going. But yes, it's true, and we need instructors, professors, 523 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,679 teachers, we need people that are going to not just go, Yeah, 524 00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,559 this is the way it is. There's the way. It's always been the 525 00:39:14,559 --> 00:39:19,119 most dangerous phrase. This is just the way it is. Yeah, if 526 00:39:19,159 --> 00:39:22,119 it's if it's not helpful, if it's not right, and if the bottom 527 00:39:22,159 --> 00:39:27,639 line is it's not enforcing safe care for our patients, then what are we 528 00:39:27,679 --> 00:39:30,719 doing? So yes, I agree, and I'm glad to know that there 529 00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:34,440 are teachers like you that are out there that are not just like you, 530 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,440 just go with the flow. Yeah, it's not just like, Eh, 531 00:39:37,519 --> 00:39:39,320 it's been this way, this test has been being given for the last like 532 00:39:39,679 --> 00:39:43,599 eight years. We're not going to change it. It's too much work to 533 00:39:43,679 --> 00:39:46,039 change it. No, that's not that's not how we operate. That's not 534 00:39:46,039 --> 00:39:50,800 how we operate. So I think that it's really important that people know that 535 00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:52,760 they can, like, you know, they can do all these things, 536 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:57,800 that they can challenge the status quo, and they don't have to you know, 537 00:39:57,840 --> 00:40:00,679 they don't have to like settle. But I also think that people. 538 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,400 You know, there's two things I want people to walk away from this interview 539 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:07,960 with, and that is that that they can do anything they want, they 540 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,360 don't have to be told. But also I came at this with a very 541 00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:19,960 like like a caveat or like a personal like I was joking with Doug this 542 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,480 morning and I was like, man, I'm just you know, and I've 543 00:40:22,519 --> 00:40:25,320 heard other people say another podcasts they were just like, man, she makes 544 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:30,559 me feel like I'm not doing enough well. But I think that it's really 545 00:40:30,599 --> 00:40:34,760 important to know that everybody has their niche, everybody has their like stuff that 546 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,639 they're good at. And like, if you're a go, go go kind 547 00:40:37,679 --> 00:40:42,000 of person, that's wonderful and you need to nurture that and you need to 548 00:40:42,119 --> 00:40:45,199 like but if you're not that kind of person, I think it's really important 549 00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:49,480 that you don't try to force yourself to be that kind of person totally, 550 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,559 and that even if you are that kind of person, you still have like 551 00:40:52,599 --> 00:40:57,239 your beach time and you're time to like bake, and you're time to like 552 00:40:57,320 --> 00:41:01,039 spend with your family. So I think that that's it's it's it's wonderful to 553 00:41:01,079 --> 00:41:06,320 hear you talk about these things in balance, and to hear you sound so 554 00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,920 happy about all of these things that you're doing, because at no point, 555 00:41:10,119 --> 00:41:14,360 you know, I'm sure, I know that you have times that have been 556 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:19,519 stressful and that have been you know, like difficult to navigate and like learn 557 00:41:19,679 --> 00:41:22,320 through. But it's just wonderful to hear you talk about how these things have 558 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:29,159 been like a natural progression and like how you've found your found your way naturally 559 00:41:29,199 --> 00:41:30,760 through this. And I think that's the way it should be. Definitely, 560 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:35,840 it shouldn't be forced, right, right, never be forced. It's that 561 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,840 the most successful people it just happens naturally and you're capitalizing on your talent everyone. 562 00:41:42,039 --> 00:41:45,840 Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, and yeah, capitalizing on my talents is 563 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,880 huge too. Yeah, I didn't force anything. I think a lot of 564 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:55,039 great businesses are not. They just happen naturally. It's not organic when you 565 00:41:55,119 --> 00:41:59,960 try to force it. And I think that's what sets it is so clear 566 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:07,079 the people who are inorganic versus organic. Yeah, but everybody has a talent, 567 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,960 and there are people that I look at daily that I'm like, wow, 568 00:42:10,119 --> 00:42:15,360 I wish I was like that, or I wish that I had your 569 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:20,000 talents, or I wish you know, I could be going to beach today 570 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,480 like how you are, but and like you know, yeah, it's just 571 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:30,400 pain. It's so funny because even people that we think of as highly motivated, 572 00:42:31,199 --> 00:42:37,199 admirable people, they still have people that they look up still that they 573 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:44,400 all ye, yeah, I think I think that that's wonderful. I think 574 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,239 that this has been this is talking to you has said a really good outlook 575 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:52,000 for my days. It's good, so good. So how can people find 576 00:42:52,039 --> 00:42:58,320 you? People want to know more about you? So on TikTok at Steph 577 00:42:58,599 --> 00:43:02,159 Beg, no s at the end, be Egg at Steph Beg, I 578 00:43:02,199 --> 00:43:07,360 post all the time, just little tidbits of education on there, same thing 579 00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:12,519 on Instagram at Stephanie Begg's every single day there's a new education up there. 580 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,360 They're fun too. I mean you don't even have to be You could be 581 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,280 at any point in your nursing journey and still learn something. It's still fun. 582 00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,599 YouTube Aren't explained on YouTube is where I do a little bit longer teachings 583 00:43:22,679 --> 00:43:29,639 if you're studying for an exam or something very helpful. And then Etsy at 584 00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:35,079 RN explained on Etsy is where you can find any of my products, all 585 00:43:35,159 --> 00:43:38,320 my bundles, my merchandise, all that stuff excellent, and I'll link all 586 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:43,639 of that in the show notes so people can click and go to wherever they 587 00:43:43,639 --> 00:43:46,400 want to find you. So thank you so much for joining me today. 588 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:50,239 It's joyable to talk with you, and I do mean it. I do 589 00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,840 want to have you come back and talk about nursing education. We could go 590 00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:58,920 on forever, we could be could awesome. Well, thank you so much. 591 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:00,280 It was great talking to you, and I hope you have a wonderful 592 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,360 day. Yes, of course, thank you for having me. Yeah, 593 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:15,800 the Nursing Uncensored podcast, like nursing itself, can be intense. 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