Feeding Our Young
Encouragement for today's student nurse... and life lessons for the rest of us! Have you ever heard the phrase “nurses eat their young?” Feeding Our Young® is more than a podcast – it’s a movement. It’s a desire to see new nurses of all ages be supported and uplifted by their peers. Join the movement! COME and hear host Eric Miller's vision for a radical culture change - in nursing, healthcare, and elsewhere; then STAY for a stable of all-star nursing students, nurses, and nurse educators! They might make you LAUGH... they might make you CRY... but they will all definitely make you THINK... and be ENCOURAGED!
Episodes
[explicit - opening swearing and brief discussion about gun violence] Join nursing student and Cle Elum, Washington and Pacific Northwest native Honored Guest Christopher Vertefeuille as he discusses an oddly deeply impactful pizza party, previous careers including flipping burgers and chaplaincy, the hardship that informed his decision to become a nurse, navigating being a leader in the midst of harrowing tragedy, his ever-changin...
Continue with very recent graduate and Jasper, Alabama native Honored Guest Katelyn Makemson as she describes her short- and long-term career plans, how she’s prepping for the NCLEX, working through nursing school with a jaw-dropping diagnosis, and so much more, including closing her episode with her two favorite Bible verses!
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Join very recent graduate and Jasper, Alabama native Honored Guest Katelyn Makemson as she describes her love of the Lord and trusting in Him for her future, the importance of her family, how she pictures her family during labs/sims, nursing externships, and more!
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Join nurse and Curlew, Washington native Honored Guest Haleigh Gibson as she articulates the oddity of wearing masks, her initial foray into dental hygiene, following your heart and gut, how to develop that gut instinct, how to communicate a clinical picture to a provider, go-to-girls, the value of your first RN position, kindness, being in charge of your own learning, being present, pursuing further education, and more!
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Join very recent graduate and O’ahu, Hawai’i native Honored Guest Aysia Ramos as she chats about her touching inspiration behind becoming a nurse, prep work advice for taking the NCLEX, the importance of self advocacy and asking for accommodations, her favorite parts of nursing school, balancing extracurriculars, how you never want to be the smartest person in the room, and more!
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Continue with hot-off-the-presses graduate and Meridian, Idaho and Oregon coast native Honored Guest Brooke Peterson as she talks about books, her favorite parts of nursing school, not being the best student in high school, her practical study tips, the joy of capstone/practicum, failing anatomy and physiology, dealing with bad news along the journey, and more!
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Join hot-off-the-presses graduate and Meridian, Idaho and Oregon coast native Honored Guest Brooke Peterson as she talks about how she prepared for the NCLEX, her most helpful NCLEX resource, cramming, the importance of keeping busy post NCLEX, how being a NAC/CNA helped her nursing school journey, learning how much she could work during nursing school, and more!
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Continue with Washington State University’s Foundational Practice and Community-Based Care Department Chair and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Tiffanie Rampley as she waxes eloquent about her career including her reluctant journey into leadership, unexpectedly serving the chief of the Air Force Nurse Corps, how honesty is the best policy, her leadership learning lab, Air Command and Staff College, running the Air Force Nu...
Join Washington State University’s Foundational Practice and Community-Based Care Department Chair and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Tiffanie Rampley as she waxes eloquent about her career including receiving multiple degrees from many universities, why she chose nursing, joining the Air Force, falling in love with critical care, becoming a Critical Care Air Transport nurse, her incredible experience being deployed to Af...
Continue with recent graduate and Bay Area, California and Phoenix, Arizona native Honored Guest Daphne Roberts as she discusses her experience taking the NCLEX (and her advice for students), her recommendations regarding how long to wait to take the NCLEX and/or find a job, her recommendation to work as a nurse tech during school if possible, focusing on the “little in-between things,” finding a unit/facility that matches the cult...
Join recent graduate and Bay Area, California and Phoenix, Arizona native Honored Guest Daphne Roberts as she discusses her inspirational grandparents, how a paper cut and a special band-aid got her into nursing, her love of emotional intelligence, wanting to transplant other students’ abilities into her own knowledge base, enjoying always having the opportunity to learn from someone else, looking forward to teaching others, her cu...
Join soon-to-be nursing student and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Maia Siemers as she chats about her family, her activities and hobbies, how her sports background will help her in nursing school, other jobs she has had, how her little sister is her hero, how her mom and grandma inspire her both in life and her future career, being open to all areas of nursing, her 12-hour shift shadow experience, what she is most nervou...
Continue with nurse and Puyallup and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Christina Peterson as she eloquently describes navigating the traumatic grief surrounding her unexpected divorce, the importance of taking advantage of counseling, “going to the moon” for 12-plus hours, how acute care almost cut her career short, her many incredible experiences working in Papua New Guinea with a medical ship, and more!
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Join nurse and Puyallup and Spokane, Washington native Honored Guest Christina Peterson as she eloquently describes her round-the-world trip from one side of the state to the other, being okay with being weird (and accepting being weird to feel good), the importance of having matching underwear, her passion for health and nutrition and tying that into nursing, the importance of what you use for snacks during shift, the financial va...
Continue with nursing student and Portland, Oregon native Honored Guest Ani Posner as she discusses the role the VA has played in her education, the Health Professional Scholarship Program (HPSP), advice for working with inappropriate patients (especially as a young lady), the importance of leaning into your faculty, setting definitive boundaries, doing chest compressions on a patient for the first time and navigating the mental an...
Join nursing student and Portland, Oregon native Honored Guest Ani Posner as she discusses her special ability to fly by the seat of her pants, addressing the rumor she’s bummed that school is done for the summer, starting out wanting to do pediatric hospice, the influence of her nurse aunt, the many factors that helped her chose what university she went to, and more!
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Continue with Gonzaga University’s Director of Undergraduate Programming and Development and San Diego, California native Honored Guest Chris Sloan as she waxes eloquent about her passion for nursing students and educators, once upon a time having a lot of responsibility without a lot of power, mentoring faculty, her advice for those students who say “I’m just a number,” her thoughts on “weeding out,” reassuring students they don’t...
Join Gonzaga University’s Director of Undergraduate Programming and Development and San Diego, California native Honored Guest Chris Sloan as she waxes eloquent about how she entered the nursing field, not being a bad or stellar student, her unimaginable and challenging nursing career path (including being on the forefront of bone marrow transplant), taking a little break from nursing to be an office manager, her shocking re-entry ...
Join nurse, nurse anesthetist student, and Conifer, Colorado native Honored Guest Hannah Warnecke as she discusses detesting night shift, graduating in December of 2019 and starting in the ICU at the same time as the global pandemic, being “dually” oriented, how her public health degree helped her, having zero clue how to help a patient using a call light, why nursing (followed by public health followed by anesthesia), the incredib...
Continue with nurse, nurse anesthetist student, and Conifer, Colorado native Honored Guest Hannah Warnecke as she discusses her boyfriend’s distaste for poop stories, how she came about adopting her fur baby, her passion for legislative advocacy, building bridges with coworkers, having a life-long learning attitude, what she wishes she knew when transitioning from being a nursing student into nursing practice, and more!
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