May 21, 2025 • 33 mins
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You’re mid-shift, mid-crisis, and maxed out. You’ve got zero privacy, 30 seconds (if that), and an urgent need to NOT spiral. In this episode of The Ritual Nurse, we’re diving deep into how to emotionally regulate when you’re still on the floor—with tools that actually work.
You’ll learn two trauma-informed, DBT-inspired skills made specifically for nurses:
- Code Blue to Code You (a must after any traumatic event)
- The IV Push (for that mid-shift, panic-tinged chaos)
We break down why they work, how to do them in real time, and exactly when to use them—even if you’re a psych nurse, med-surg warrior, floor manager, or burnt-out exec. Trauma isn’t just for codes, and regulation isn’t a luxury. It’s your lifeline.
Plus:
- A guided mid-episode reset (pause, hydrate, breathe)
- This week’s Coffee, Crystals & Divination
- How YOU can help this podcast go viral and heal the soul of nursing
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Welcome to the Ritual Nurse, where healing meets
humor, science and a touch ofmagic.
Hey friends, welcome back tothe Ritual Nurse podcast, the
place where we care for thecaregivers and remind nurses
everywhere that healing startswith you.
I'm Reba, your host, yourfellow nurse and your ride or
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die in the sacred work ofsurviving this profession with
your soul intact.
Questionable about the sanitypart, but for the most part, our
aim is for sanity and soul tobe sacred and intact at the end
of the ride.
Today's episode is called howto regulate when you have 30
seconds and zero privacy.
Let's be real.
Some days you don't even have30 seconds.
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You have call lights, pain meds, behavioral escalations,
charting backed up and your owndamn bladder screaming at the
injustice of it all.
In those moments, emotionalregulation still matters,
actually more than ever.
Regulating mid-shift is reallynon-negotiable, and here's why
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the hard truth is that ournervous system is working
overtime every shift.
Whether you're in psych,med-surg, icu management,
outpatient, trauma doesn'talways mean a code or a death.
It might mean a patientscreaming in your face.
It might mean a parent watchingtheir child spiral.
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It might mean your fifthstraight hour of being
understaffed with no relief orbeing told that you're not air
quotes, allowed to beemotionally upset or cry after
something devastating happens.
So what do we do when there'sno privacy, no break, no peace
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and, for many teens, nodebriefing?
We reach for the skills thathave been designed for these
exact moments.
Today, I'm going to teach youtwo of my favorite nurse
specific regulation tools that Icreated for two specific
scenarios.
One of them is for acute trauma, one for everyday chaos.
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Keep in mind this doesn't meanthe floor you work on.
It means the context, theenvironment that you find
yourself in.
Both of these are based on acouple different modalities DBT
theory, trauma, informed care.
Also aspects of neuroscienceimagined for nurses by a nurse,
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because the language that wespeak in the context that we
find ourselves in often means wehave to have specific tools
that are geared forcircumstances that we face and
understand that a lot of otherswon't.
The first one that we're goingto look at is called Code Blue,
to code you.
Now, if you've been listeningfor a while and you know, heard,
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uh, some of the other skillstalked about, you're probably
thinking why do they all havenames?
Well, it's because we live in aworld where acronyms and
mnemonics are common vernacularfor us and having skill sets,
that pattern, that commonlanguage usage makes them easier
to remember, easier toincorporate in muscle memory and
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they fit in the communicationand understanding that we use
frequently.
So Code Blue to Code you is askill designed for those moments
when something traumatic occurs, whether it's a literal code, a
patient crisis or anemotionally charged interaction
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and you're expected to continuefunctioning without pausing.
Now, the neuroscience behind whythis works has a lot to do with
grounding.
When we experience trauma oracute stress, our brain's
amygdala, the center forprocessing fear and emotional
responses, becomes hyperactive.
This activation triggers ourhypothalamic pituitary adrenal
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axis, otherwise known as the HPA.
This leads to the release ofstress hormones like cortisol
and adrenaline.
These chemicals prepare thebody for a fight or flight
response.
So increasing the heart rate,respiration, muscle tension,
grounding techniques counteractthis response by engaging the
prefrontal cortex, the arearesponsible for executive
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functions like decision-making,attention and emotional
regulation, by focusing on thepresent moment, through sensory
input or cognitive tasks, we canactivate this region, which in
turn helps to modulate theamygdala's activity and reduce
the intensity of the stressresponse.
Having a stress response isn'tabnormal and isn't negative.
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Having an overwhelmingintensity of stress response is
something that we need tomitigate, just so that there's
clarity that this isn't designedto make you emotionally
unresponsive or deadened ordisassociate from the
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environment that you're in.
This is simply designed tolower the intensity of the
stress response so that you canchoose and navigate with healthy
coping mechanisms, instead ofmaladaptive coping behaviors or
getting locked up and not beingable to function at all in that
moment, which in turn doublyincreases the sense of overwhelm
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because we're in a position, ina situation where we have to
function.
So, additionally, groundingpractices enhance interoceptive
awareness, which is the abilityto perceive internal bodily
sensations.
This is crucial for emotionalregulation.
Improved interoception has beenlinked to better management of
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emotional responses and reducedsymptoms of anxiety and PTSD.
So how to practice somethinglike this?
So, first of all, you're goingto acknowledge the trauma, name
it.
You mentally note I justexperienced a traumatic event.
Or you say something like thatwas really disturbing, that was
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terrifying, that was upsetting,that was scary.
You actually acknowledge it andname it.
Recognizing the impact is thefirst step towards processing it
.
And then you're going to find abrief moment of privacy, even
10 seconds, in a supply room,bathroom, a quiet corner, a few
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steps down the hall, evenactually shifting your physical
position to turn around and facethe computer or to turn around
and face away from the situationfor just 10 to 15 seconds will
suffice.
You're going to engage yoursenses touch, hold a cold object
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or press your feet firmly intothe ground site.
You can focus on a specificcolor or specific object in your
environment Sound, listen toambient noises or listen to your
own breathing.
Recite a grounding mantra,silently or out loud.
Say that was a code, this is me, I am alive.
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I choose calm.
And that mantra can be changedto relate to whatever it is
you're doing, can be changed torelate to whatever it is you're
doing, but there's a specificformula.
You are identifying thetraumatic context as separate
from yourself.
So that was a death, this is me.
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That was an extremely angry andfurious mother.
This is me.
And then you're establishingsafety I am alive, I am safe.
I am not who that person isactually angry at.
And then you tell your nervoussystem what choice you're making
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.
I choose to be calm, I chooseto regulate.
So that mantra can definitelybe be changed.
In the moment I find it's morehelpful to have you know the
four pieces of that formula,kind of kind of repetitious when
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I practice it, so that themuscle memory in that moment is
intact and it's not somethingthat you feel like you're having
to come up with in the momentright then, because that really
blocks the ability.
Our cognitive ability in thatmoment is already impaired
because we're struggling withthat fight or flight response.
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So if you work in particularsituations, if you deal with
particular traumatic context orenvironment, you might want to
structure that four piece verysuccinct mantra to fit your
needs specifically and then keepthat pretty much the same when
you practice it.
And you're going to want topractice it over and over,
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because the whole point of goingover these skills and learning
them is for you to have reallife application of them and
muscle memory of them.
So let's kind of go over.
You know an example or two of ofwhat this might look like.
So imagine you've justwitnessed a patient rapidly
deteriorate and pass awaydespite all interventions.
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The family is grieving and youare filled with a rush, a mix of
emotions and adrenaline sadness, maybe guilt, maybe
helplessness.
You step into the medicationroom, take a deep breath in
through your nose, feel thecoolness of the countertop under
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your hands and recite thatmantra and you're going to do
each thing intentionally.
You're going to acknowledge thetrauma.
You're going to take that 10seconds in the supply closet,
the med room, or even just steparound the corner to where your
charting station is and you'regoing to feel the coolness of
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the wall, the countertop, themetal pole of an IV pole, maybe
in the hallway, and you're goingto recite that mantra while you
inhale through your nose, countto four and slowly exhale.
It takes 10 seconds at most todo that, but this brief practice
helps to center you, allowingyou to return to the ensuing
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chaos in that moment with aclearer mind and a steadier
heart.
With a clearer mind and asteadier heart, it's like
pumping the brakes on that fightor flight response, pumping the
brakes on the amygdala, kickingus into overdrive.
By incorporating theseevidence-based grounding
techniques, you're not onlyaddressing the immediate
emotional aftermath of traumaticevents, but you're also
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fostering long-term resilienceand emotional well-being.
The body remembers trauma.
The body remembers trauma byencoding our physical responses
in that moment, in the contextof that moment, as a memory.
So if we allow our fight orflight response to run unchecked
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and overwhelm us, thosephysical responses, that
physical state of being in themoment, is what the body is
going to encapsulate as ourresponse to that situation.
So when you later on, when you,when you recall that situation,
when you remember thatsituation, your body brings up
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that coding, that picture, thatpattern that was created of the
physical responses and status ofyour body, and slaps that back
on when you're revisiting thatmemory, because the body has
associated that event in thatcontext with that physical
picture.
So every time we utilize theseskills I know it seems brief, it
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seems like it wouldn't even bea panacea in the moment, but it
actually is the science actuallyshows that these brief
interventions keeping themodulation of our physical
response to the context of thetrauma that we're surrounded, by
keeping them modulated andkeeping them from going out of
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control does build that longerterm resilience and maintains
our emotional wellbeing.
Because then when you debrief,when you think about the event,
what your body is remembering isyou bringing it back to safety,
you bringing yourself back toemotional grounding and a
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feeling and a sense of controland purpose, and that is what
the body is going to associatewith that context.
So these practices are reallyquick, they are proven to be
effective and they can beseamlessly integrated into our
demanding environment of nursing.
Heck, they can be integratedinto a fender bender that you
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get into and your adrenalinespikes and you want to jump out
of the car, sit still, evaluate,make sure that you're not hurt,
passengers aren't hurt,whatever might be going on, and
go through your CBCY before youstep out of the car or before
you make your next decision inthat moment.
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It's not just nursing, we'retalking about it in a nursing
application, because that's themuscle memory I'm trying to help
you build so that we can use iton the floor to thrive in our
profession instead of gettingcrushed by it.
Crushed by it All right.
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So take a deep breath.
We're right at the midpoint.
This is your pause point.
So if you're in the middle of ashift and you need to stop here,
do it.
You showed up for yourselftoday.
That counts, and we will behere holding space for you for
the next break, for the car ridehome.
We're going to discuss thesecond skill set and, of course,
our coffee crystals anddivination.
So you've got some really goodstuff waiting for you when you
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return to the podcast.
But if you have another fewminutes, stay with me, stretch
your neck, sip your water,hydrate your damn soul.
We've got another tool comingup that's built for that
everyday drama.
So just sit with me for a fewminutes here and just inhale
through your nose and exhalethrough your mouth.
Love it.
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So we are back for the secondhalf of the podcast.
All right, so the next skillthat we're going to talk about
is called the IV push.
This technique is designed forthose moments when the demands
of the shift are overwhelmingMultiple call lights and
unexpected patient admission,critical lab results requiring
immediate attention and action.
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It's a rapid intervention tohelp you regain composure and
continue providing careeffectively.
So again, let's look at theneuroscience behind why this
works.
What we're doing is activatingthe parasympathetic nervous
system.
The PNS is often referred to asour rest and digest system.
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It counteracts our fight orflight response that's initiated
by the sympathetic nervoussystem during stress.
Those of you that have beenlistening for a while have heard
me talk about the balancebetween these two systems and
other skills that I've taught inearlier episodes, and engaging
the PNS helps slow the heartrate, reduces blood pressure and
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promotes a state of calm.
Techniques such as deepdiaphragmatic breathing have
been shown in research tostimulate the vagus nerve, a key
component of the PNS, therebyinducing relaxation and reducing
stress levels.
And the thing about stimulatingthe vagus nerve is that it has
an almost immediate effect.
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And nurses, you know this ifyou've had patients, especially
my cardiac nurses, if you've hadpatients that have a really
high heart rate, and you know,give them the old plunger trick,
here you go.
Here's a 10 CC syringe.
I want you to blow the plungerout of the back of it.
And we're trying to get them tovagal.
What we're doing is intenselystimulating the vagus nerve and
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that response in order to causea cardiac response.
Stimulating the vagus nerve andthat response in order to cause
a cardiac response.
The IV push for the skill setisn't that intense, but it's
along similar principles.
So another thing that isinvolved is progressive muscle
relaxation.
Pmr involves tensing and thenrelaxing muscle groups, which
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can interrupt the stressresponse cycle.
So this practice not onlyreduces physical tension, but it
also signals to the brain thatit's safe to relax, thereby
decreasing the production ofstress hormones like cortisol or
the release of adrenaline.
Visualization techniques, whichis also incorporated, like
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guided imagery and visualization, those can shift attention away
from stressors and towardscalming mental images.
This redirection can modulatethe activity of the limbic
system, which is our brain'semotional center, thereby
reducing feelings of anxiety andpromoting emotional regulation.
Reducing feelings of anxietyand promoting emotional
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regulation.
So how do you practice the IVpush, like when it comes to
nurses, and not an illegal oneon yourself?
So the first thing you're goingto do, you're going to inhale
deeply, you're going to take aslow, deep breath in through
your nose.
While counting to four, focuson the sensation of air filling
your lungs.
To four, focus on the sensationof air filling your lungs.
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Visualize clouds moving by orclouds filling your lungs.
You're going to visualizestress release.
As you hold your breath briefly, you're going to imagine the
stress as a physical substancethat's being gathered.
You're going to exhale slowlythrough your mouth and you're
going to release.
You're going to count to six.
While you're doing that, as youbreathe out, you're visualizing
those clouds, water, whateversubstance it was that you were
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visualizing being gathered andheld.
You visualize that leaving yourbody and dissipating into the
air.
And remember, this is only for aquick count of sixcle tension
and release.
So, as you start to inhale,you're going to either clench
your fists tightly or you canpress your thumb and your
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pointer and index fingertogether tightly.
If you're standing somewherewhere clenching your fists
simultaneously might look ratherodd, you can pinch the seam of
your scrub pants between yourthumb and forefinger and middle
finger tightly and count to fiveseconds.
So you're going to start themuscle tension as you start to
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inhale through your nose.
You're going to count to fourand that brief second that you
hold it is that fifth count ofyou having that muscle tension,
that muscle flexion.
And then, as you start to doyour six count, exhale.
You release the tension, youallow your hands to relax
completely, like to completelaxity.
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By the time you get to the endof that six count and you're
going to repeat that as needed.
You can perform the cycle twoto three times or as necessary
to regain a sense of calm.
And if you think about it, youcounted to four, you held for
one, you released for six.
That's basically 10 seconds.
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That's it.
It's that fast, butneurologically and
therapeutically it is so deeplysignificant.
A real life application of thiscould be something where,
imagine you're in the middle ofdocumenting patient notes when
an urgent lab result comes inrequiring immediate action and
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simultaneously a family memberapproaches with concerns and a
colleague sticks their head outof the room and asks for
assistance.
The mounting pressure cantrigger a stress response,
feeling overwhelmed.
So you want to take 10 to 15seconds to perform the IV push.
That'll help you reset.
It'll allow you to address eachtask with a clearer mind and
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steady your hands.
And you can take, you know,even longer.
You can take 20 or 30 secondsto run through this once or
twice, or you can simply runthrough it once as as kind of a
break point to steady yourselfand move forward.
Another example you just got anadmit dumped on you mid charting
.
You haven't caught yet up onthe two discharges you had, and
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orders just came in to take yourother patient to CT for imaging
.
You're starting to feeloverwhelmed.
You just step to the side, holdyour fists tight or pinch the
seam.
You're going to breathe in.
You're going to visualize thatpressure and then you're going
to release it like a flush.
You're pushing and it's that IVpush Sometimes I find, since
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it's called the IV pushvisualizing that saline flush
connected to the port and themoment right before you depress
the plunger of that 10 ml flushis that fifth count.
Your muscles are tense.
You're going to push and flushall of that tension.
You're flushing that salineinto that line, just like you
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are exhaling and releasing thatstress and overwhelm, releasing
that tension as you completelyand utterly relax your hands to
the point of laxity, completerelaxation.
Your brain resets just enoughin that moment to not spiral.
By incorporating the IV pushinto your routine, you're
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equipping yourself with ascientifically grounded tool to
manage stress effectively.
This practice not only enhancesyour wellbeing but also ensures
that you can provide thehighest quality care to your
patients with a clear anddirected mind.
The most important thing inaddition to your patient
outcomes is care of self.
Just like code blue to code you, the IV push gives you
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emotional reset buttons that arefast, that are easy and that
enhance resilience, becauseyou're teaching your body that,
instead of roller coaster swingsof emotions and reactions in a
chaotic environment, you have amuch narrower band of natural
and normal human emotionalcycles of reaction to your
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contextual environment anddemands that are placed on you.
But they are regulations thatyou control.
They are cycles and depths thatyou regulate and control as you
move through and cognizantlychoose your actions.
It's implementing copingbehaviors instead of reactionary
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behaviors.
So, just as a reminder for theIV push, I you're going to
inhale slow through the nose forfour seconds.
V, you're going to visualizestress, leaving you as if you're
flushing a line and the pushpart of it is when you're
tensing that muscle group.
You start tensing the musclegroup as you inhale slowly
through your nose.
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You do that four count.
That fifth count is whereyou're holding it and you're
starting to visualize stress,leaving you as if you're
flushing a line as you'rebreathing out for six and that
relaxation of the muscle grouphappens at the same time that
you're breathing out for thatcount of six.
That's one round, that's maybe10 seconds at most, so you want
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to do two if you've got the time.
It's not therapy, but it istriage for your sanity and it's
a skill set that you can utilizeanywhere, anytime.
This is also something that youcan use for anxiety prior to
doing something, an exam, aprocedure, a difficult
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conversation with someone.
If you're somebody that doesn'tlike conflict not many people
do, but for some it's morecomfortable than others and if
you're somebody who conflict isintensely anxiety provoking,
before you have thatconversation, before you face
that confrontation, iv push isabsolutely effective as a
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skillset to use to reset, toremind yourself of your goal
posts for that conversation andcontinue forward.
So at this point we've made itto our ritual part of our
episode, our favorite coffee,crystals and divination.
It's our moment to recenterreset, really kind of tap into
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the magic that matters for us.
Tea, it can be decaf, but theprotein blend part is really the
part that we're hitting on.
So it's kind of like a cinnamonvanilla protein blend.
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Cinnamon really supportscirculation and energy, our
protein for nourishment andsubstance.
And well, the espresso, thecaffeine for survival.
Iced coffee, vanilla proteinshake for your creamer or
protein powder, and like an oatmilk or even cream.
Um, if you're not lactoseintolerant, it could be coconut
milk.
If you are, whatever your vibeis, you're going to pour that
over ice.
You're going to add cinnamonand stir.
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It's a pretty good amount ofcinnamon.
Um, really as much as you cantolerate flavor wise.
If cinnamon isn't your thing,um, it can be ginger, it can be
all spice, anything that hasthat kind of warm hint of spice.
Iced golden milk, like theturmeric golden milk,
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accomplishes the same thing, andyou can also make that with
protein powder or vanillaprotein shake.
But it's refreshing, it's sweet, it's perfect for right now
when we're feeling the urge tomaybe start to get more active
and enjoy the nicer weather,depending on where you live.
This past Saturday, where welive, northern Nevada lost its
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damn mind and it was hailing, sotake it or leave it.
Hopefully, where you are,there's nicer weather happening.
But we're going to do our livedraw of our crystal of the week
and see what it has for us.
I really would love to seepictures of you guys, uh and tag
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the ritual nurse of you guyswith your crystals, your bangles
, bracelets or, if you have likea little worry, stone or
crystal that you keep on yourperson.
I mean, we carry crystals andwe don't judge, so even if you
have a bra buddy that you tuckin your bra and you, uh, you
keep with you on your shift awayfrom all the goo and ick of the
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floor.
Like I said, we carry crystalsand we don't judge.
That's the whole thing.
But let's see what this week'scrystal prescription will be.
Let's get a good shuffle going,all right.
Radiance oh, it's agate, andthis one looks like a beautiful
fiery orange one and itsignifies radiance.
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Oh my gosh, this card isabsolutely stunning.
So this signifies confidence,courage and ground grounding
totally irrelevant, right, theradiant energy of agate and the
empowering warmth of the sunsymbolize a profound moment of
self-discovery and confidence,this card signifies a
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transformative journey towardsembracing your inner radiance
and finding the courage to shinebrightly.
Just as agate brings groundingand stability, allowing you to
find balance and harmony within,the sun's light illuminates the
path to self-assurance andbelief in your own abilities.
Welcome this moment of radiance.
Trust in your inner strengthand step into the light with
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confidence and grace, knowingthat you are supported by the
universe on your journey towardsfulfillment.
Absolutely, amazing.
I am so in love with this week'spoll this week, um, and it's
something that you're going tohear about in a future podcast
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episode, so I'm not going togive too much away, but I am in
the middle of something uh,incredibly stressful, positive,
positive, positive.
It's very positive, butincredibly stressful.
And that card and that imageryis just so absolutely fitting
for this week.
And, amazing, I am using theseskills myself in real time.
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Oh, my goodness, um, thisentire week, uh, just just
constantly.
A because they work and bbecause when I tell you that
this is stressful, this isstressful.
So, while I was talking, I hadimmediately had a card jump out
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um, and it is the nine ofpentacles and it is a beautiful
image of bumblebee Jasper.
So let's find pentacles.
No matter how many times I lookthrough this, my brain always
likes to reshuffle the order inwhich the suits are actually.
So the nine of pentacles.
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So we are looking at financialindependence, comfort and
gratitude, and bumblebee Jasperis celebration, positive
attitude and abundance.
Treat yourself.
You worked so hard to createall of this abundance in your
life, so don't be afraid tosplurge and enjoy the fruits of
your labor.
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Celebrate your achievements.
You deserve it.
So these are absolutely stunning.
The images almost matchperfectly the radiant colors of
the sun, shaded agate and thebeautiful piece of bumblebee
jasper.
I mean they look like they'realmost cut from the same stone.
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That's incredible.
But these messages together arecelebratory and really
significant.
Definitely celebrate yourself.
Definitely celebrate how faryou've come to keep yourself in
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emotional grounding andregulation and every time you do
that, acknowledge how amazingyou are for being able to.
Nobody is ever going to tell youthat the context isn't going to
provoke emotional reaction orthat the stress is just going to
melt away.
It isn't, it's going to bethere.
And also these skill sets giveyou the opportunity to withstand
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that in a healthy manner andcontinue to be effective and
thrive and provide the bestpatient care or survive the
moment in the best way possible,while taking care of yourself.
All right, my ritual nursefamily.
This podcast is growing andit's because of you.
So if today's episode helpedyou, please share it.
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Text it to your work.
Bestie, your precept T, evenyour deal in.
For heck's sake, leave a review, hit that star rating, post it
in your group chat.
I really would love to startseeing pictures of you guys with
your crystals, skill sets,anything, and tag the Ritual
Nurse.
But we are creating a newculture in nursing and we're
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just at the beginning.
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you.
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sacred.
I love your faces.
Breathe deep, regulate oftenand stay sacred.
I love your faces.
This is your Ritual Nurse Reva.
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Welcome to the Ritual Nurse, where healing meets
humor, science and a touch ofmagic.
Hey friends, welcome back tothe Ritual Nurse podcast, the
place where we care for thecaregivers and remind nurses
everywhere that healing startswith you.
I'm Reba, your host, yourfellow nurse and your ride or
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die in the sacred work ofsurviving this profession with
your soul intact.
Questionable about the sanitypart, but for the most part, our
aim is for sanity and soul tobe sacred and intact at the end
of the ride.
Today's episode is called howto regulate when you have 30
seconds and zero privacy.
Let's be real.
Some days you don't even have30 seconds.
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You have call lights, pain meds, behavioral escalations,
charting backed up and your owndamn bladder screaming at the
injustice of it all.
In those moments, emotionalregulation still matters,
actually more than ever.
Regulating mid-shift is reallynon-negotiable, and here's why
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the hard truth is that ournervous system is working
overtime every shift.
Whether you're in psych,med-surg, icu management,
outpatient, trauma doesn'talways mean a code or a death.
It might mean a patientscreaming in your face.
It might mean a parent watchingtheir child spiral.
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It might mean your fifthstraight hour of being
understaffed with no relief orbeing told that you're not air
quotes, allowed to beemotionally upset or cry after
something devastating happens.
So what do we do when there'sno privacy, no break, no peace
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and, for many teens, nodebriefing?
We reach for the skills thathave been designed for these
exact moments.
Today, I'm going to teach youtwo of my favorite nurse
specific regulation tools that Icreated for two specific
scenarios.
One of them is for acute trauma, one for everyday chaos.
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Keep in mind this doesn't meanthe floor you work on.
It means the context, theenvironment that you find
yourself in.
Both of these are based on acouple different modalities DBT
theory, trauma, informed care.
Also aspects of neuroscienceimagined for nurses by a nurse,
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because the language that wespeak in the context that we
find ourselves in often means wehave to have specific tools
that are geared forcircumstances that we face and
understand that a lot of otherswon't.
The first one that we're goingto look at is called Code Blue,
to code you.
Now, if you've been listeningfor a while and you know, heard,
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uh, some of the other skillstalked about, you're probably
thinking why do they all havenames?
Well, it's because we live in aworld where acronyms and
mnemonics are common vernacularfor us and having skill sets,
that pattern, that commonlanguage usage makes them easier
to remember, easier toincorporate in muscle memory and
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they fit in the communicationand understanding that we use
frequently.
So Code Blue to Code you is askill designed for those moments
when something traumatic occurs, whether it's a literal code, a
patient crisis or anemotionally charged interaction
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and you're expected to continuefunctioning without pausing.
Now, the neuroscience behind whythis works has a lot to do with
grounding.
When we experience trauma oracute stress, our brain's
amygdala, the center forprocessing fear and emotional
responses, becomes hyperactive.
This activation triggers ourhypothalamic pituitary adrenal
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axis, otherwise known as the HPA.
This leads to the release ofstress hormones like cortisol
and adrenaline.
These chemicals prepare thebody for a fight or flight
response.
So increasing the heart rate,respiration, muscle tension,
grounding techniques counteractthis response by engaging the
prefrontal cortex, the arearesponsible for executive
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functions like decision-making,attention and emotional
regulation, by focusing on thepresent moment, through sensory
input or cognitive tasks, we canactivate this region, which in
turn helps to modulate theamygdala's activity and reduce
the intensity of the stressresponse.
Having a stress response isn'tabnormal and isn't negative.
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Having an overwhelmingintensity of stress response is
something that we need tomitigate, just so that there's
clarity that this isn't designedto make you emotionally
unresponsive or deadened ordisassociate from the
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environment that you're in.
This is simply designed tolower the intensity of the
stress response so that you canchoose and navigate with healthy
coping mechanisms, instead ofmaladaptive coping behaviors or
getting locked up and not beingable to function at all in that
moment, which in turn doublyincreases the sense of overwhelm
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because we're in a position, ina situation where we have to
function.
So, additionally, groundingpractices enhance interoceptive
awareness, which is the abilityto perceive internal bodily
sensations.
This is crucial for emotionalregulation.
Improved interoception has beenlinked to better management of
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emotional responses and reducedsymptoms of anxiety and PTSD.
So how to practice somethinglike this?
So, first of all, you're goingto acknowledge the trauma, name
it.
You mentally note I justexperienced a traumatic event.
Or you say something like thatwas really disturbing, that was
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terrifying, that was upsetting,that was scary.
You actually acknowledge it andname it.
Recognizing the impact is thefirst step towards processing it
.
And then you're going to find abrief moment of privacy, even
10 seconds, in a supply room,bathroom, a quiet corner, a few
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steps down the hall, evenactually shifting your physical
position to turn around and facethe computer or to turn around
and face away from the situationfor just 10 to 15 seconds will
suffice.
You're going to engage yoursenses touch, hold a cold object
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or press your feet firmly intothe ground site.
You can focus on a specificcolor or specific object in your
environment Sound, listen toambient noises or listen to your
own breathing.
Recite a grounding mantra,silently or out loud.
Say that was a code, this is me, I am alive.
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I choose calm.
And that mantra can be changedto relate to whatever it is
you're doing, can be changed torelate to whatever it is you're
doing, but there's a specificformula.
You are identifying thetraumatic context as separate
from yourself.
So that was a death, this is me.
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That was an extremely angry andfurious mother.
This is me.
And then you're establishingsafety I am alive, I am safe.
I am not who that person isactually angry at.
And then you tell your nervoussystem what choice you're making
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.
I choose to be calm, I chooseto regulate.
So that mantra can definitelybe be changed.
In the moment I find it's morehelpful to have you know the
four pieces of that formula,kind of kind of repetitious when
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I practice it, so that themuscle memory in that moment is
intact and it's not somethingthat you feel like you're having
to come up with in the momentright then, because that really
blocks the ability.
Our cognitive ability in thatmoment is already impaired
because we're struggling withthat fight or flight response.
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So if you work in particularsituations, if you deal with
particular traumatic context orenvironment, you might want to
structure that four piece verysuccinct mantra to fit your
needs specifically and then keepthat pretty much the same when
you practice it.
And you're going to want topractice it over and over,
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because the whole point of goingover these skills and learning
them is for you to have reallife application of them and
muscle memory of them.
So let's kind of go over.
You know an example or two of ofwhat this might look like.
So imagine you've justwitnessed a patient rapidly
deteriorate and pass awaydespite all interventions.
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The family is grieving and youare filled with a rush, a mix of
emotions and adrenaline sadness, maybe guilt, maybe
helplessness.
You step into the medicationroom, take a deep breath in
through your nose, feel thecoolness of the countertop under
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your hands and recite thatmantra and you're going to do
each thing intentionally.
You're going to acknowledge thetrauma.
You're going to take that 10seconds in the supply closet,
the med room, or even just steparound the corner to where your
charting station is and you'regoing to feel the coolness of
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the wall, the countertop, themetal pole of an IV pole, maybe
in the hallway, and you're goingto recite that mantra while you
inhale through your nose, countto four and slowly exhale.
It takes 10 seconds at most todo that, but this brief practice
helps to center you, allowingyou to return to the ensuing
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chaos in that moment with aclearer mind and a steadier
heart.
With a clearer mind and asteadier heart, it's like
pumping the brakes on that fightor flight response, pumping the
brakes on the amygdala, kickingus into overdrive.
By incorporating theseevidence-based grounding
techniques, you're not onlyaddressing the immediate
emotional aftermath of traumaticevents, but you're also
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fostering long-term resilienceand emotional well-being.
The body remembers trauma.
The body remembers trauma byencoding our physical responses
in that moment, in the contextof that moment, as a memory.
So if we allow our fight orflight response to run unchecked
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and overwhelm us, thosephysical responses, that
physical state of being in themoment, is what the body is
going to encapsulate as ourresponse to that situation.
So when you later on, when you,when you recall that situation,
when you remember thatsituation, your body brings up
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that coding, that picture, thatpattern that was created of the
physical responses and status ofyour body, and slaps that back
on when you're revisiting thatmemory, because the body has
associated that event in thatcontext with that physical
picture.
So every time we utilize theseskills I know it seems brief, it
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seems like it wouldn't even bea panacea in the moment, but it
actually is the science actuallyshows that these brief
interventions keeping themodulation of our physical
response to the context of thetrauma that we're surrounded, by
keeping them modulated andkeeping them from going out of
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control does build that longerterm resilience and maintains
our emotional wellbeing.
Because then when you debrief,when you think about the event,
what your body is remembering isyou bringing it back to safety,
you bringing yourself back toemotional grounding and a
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feeling and a sense of controland purpose, and that is what
the body is going to associatewith that context.
So these practices are reallyquick, they are proven to be
effective and they can beseamlessly integrated into our
demanding environment of nursing.
Heck, they can be integratedinto a fender bender that you
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get into and your adrenalinespikes and you want to jump out
of the car, sit still, evaluate,make sure that you're not hurt,
passengers aren't hurt,whatever might be going on, and
go through your CBCY before youstep out of the car or before
you make your next decision inthat moment.
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It's not just nursing, we'retalking about it in a nursing
application, because that's themuscle memory I'm trying to help
you build so that we can use iton the floor to thrive in our
profession instead of gettingcrushed by it.
Crushed by it All right.
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So take a deep breath.
We're right at the midpoint.
This is your pause point.
So if you're in the middle of ashift and you need to stop here,
do it.
You showed up for yourselftoday.
That counts, and we will behere holding space for you for
the next break, for the car ridehome.
We're going to discuss thesecond skill set and, of course,
our coffee crystals anddivination.
So you've got some really goodstuff waiting for you when you
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return to the podcast.
But if you have another fewminutes, stay with me, stretch
your neck, sip your water,hydrate your damn soul.
We've got another tool comingup that's built for that
everyday drama.
So just sit with me for a fewminutes here and just inhale
through your nose and exhalethrough your mouth.
Love it.
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So we are back for the secondhalf of the podcast.
All right, so the next skillthat we're going to talk about
is called the IV push.
This technique is designed forthose moments when the demands
of the shift are overwhelmingMultiple call lights and
unexpected patient admission,critical lab results requiring
immediate attention and action.
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It's a rapid intervention tohelp you regain composure and
continue providing careeffectively.
So again, let's look at theneuroscience behind why this
works.
What we're doing is activatingthe parasympathetic nervous
system.
The PNS is often referred to asour rest and digest system.
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It counteracts our fight orflight response that's initiated
by the sympathetic nervoussystem during stress.
Those of you that have beenlistening for a while have heard
me talk about the balancebetween these two systems and
other skills that I've taught inearlier episodes, and engaging
the PNS helps slow the heartrate, reduces blood pressure and
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promotes a state of calm.
Techniques such as deepdiaphragmatic breathing have
been shown in research tostimulate the vagus nerve, a key
component of the PNS, therebyinducing relaxation and reducing
stress levels.
And the thing about stimulatingthe vagus nerve is that it has
an almost immediate effect.
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And nurses, you know this ifyou've had patients, especially
my cardiac nurses, if you've hadpatients that have a really
high heart rate, and you know,give them the old plunger trick,
here you go.
Here's a 10 CC syringe.
I want you to blow the plungerout of the back of it.
And we're trying to get them tovagal.
What we're doing is intenselystimulating the vagus nerve and
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that response in order to causea cardiac response.
Stimulating the vagus nerve andthat response in order to cause
a cardiac response.
The IV push for the skill setisn't that intense, but it's
along similar principles.
So another thing that isinvolved is progressive muscle
relaxation.
Pmr involves tensing and thenrelaxing muscle groups, which
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can interrupt the stressresponse cycle.
So this practice not onlyreduces physical tension, but it
also signals to the brain thatit's safe to relax, thereby
decreasing the production ofstress hormones like cortisol or
the release of adrenaline.
Visualization techniques, whichis also incorporated, like
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guided imagery and visualization, those can shift attention away
from stressors and towardscalming mental images.
This redirection can modulatethe activity of the limbic
system, which is our brain'semotional center, thereby
reducing feelings of anxiety andpromoting emotional regulation.
Reducing feelings of anxietyand promoting emotional
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regulation.
So how do you practice the IVpush, like when it comes to
nurses, and not an illegal oneon yourself?
So the first thing you're goingto do, you're going to inhale
deeply, you're going to take aslow, deep breath in through
your nose.
While counting to four, focuson the sensation of air filling
your lungs.
To four, focus on the sensationof air filling your lungs.
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Visualize clouds moving by orclouds filling your lungs.
You're going to visualizestress release.
As you hold your breath briefly, you're going to imagine the
stress as a physical substancethat's being gathered.
You're going to exhale slowlythrough your mouth and you're
going to release.
You're going to count to six.
While you're doing that, as youbreathe out, you're visualizing
those clouds, water, whateversubstance it was that you were
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visualizing being gathered andheld.
You visualize that leaving yourbody and dissipating into the
air.
And remember, this is only for aquick count of sixcle tension
and release.
So, as you start to inhale,you're going to either clench
your fists tightly or you canpress your thumb and your
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pointer and index fingertogether tightly.
If you're standing somewherewhere clenching your fists
simultaneously might look ratherodd, you can pinch the seam of
your scrub pants between yourthumb and forefinger and middle
finger tightly and count to fiveseconds.
So you're going to start themuscle tension as you start to
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inhale through your nose.
You're going to count to fourand that brief second that you
hold it is that fifth count ofyou having that muscle tension,
that muscle flexion.
And then, as you start to doyour six count, exhale.
You release the tension, youallow your hands to relax
completely, like to completelaxity.
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By the time you get to the endof that six count and you're
going to repeat that as needed.
You can perform the cycle twoto three times or as necessary
to regain a sense of calm.
And if you think about it, youcounted to four, you held for
one, you released for six.
That's basically 10 seconds.
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That's it.
It's that fast, butneurologically and
therapeutically it is so deeplysignificant.
A real life application of thiscould be something where,
imagine you're in the middle ofdocumenting patient notes when
an urgent lab result comes inrequiring immediate action and
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simultaneously a family memberapproaches with concerns and a
colleague sticks their head outof the room and asks for
assistance.
The mounting pressure cantrigger a stress response,
feeling overwhelmed.
So you want to take 10 to 15seconds to perform the IV push.
That'll help you reset.
It'll allow you to address eachtask with a clearer mind and
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steady your hands.
And you can take, you know,even longer.
You can take 20 or 30 secondsto run through this once or
twice, or you can simply runthrough it once as as kind of a
break point to steady yourselfand move forward.
Another example you just got anadmit dumped on you mid charting
.
You haven't caught yet up onthe two discharges you had, and
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orders just came in to take yourother patient to CT for imaging
.
You're starting to feeloverwhelmed.
You just step to the side, holdyour fists tight or pinch the
seam.
You're going to breathe in.
You're going to visualize thatpressure and then you're going
to release it like a flush.
You're pushing and it's that IVpush Sometimes I find, since
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it's called the IV pushvisualizing that saline flush
connected to the port and themoment right before you depress
the plunger of that 10 ml flushis that fifth count.
Your muscles are tense.
You're going to push and flushall of that tension.
You're flushing that salineinto that line, just like you
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are exhaling and releasing thatstress and overwhelm, releasing
that tension as you completelyand utterly relax your hands to
the point of laxity, completerelaxation.
Your brain resets just enoughin that moment to not spiral.
By incorporating the IV pushinto your routine, you're
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equipping yourself with ascientifically grounded tool to
manage stress effectively.
This practice not only enhancesyour wellbeing but also ensures
that you can provide thehighest quality care to your
patients with a clear anddirected mind.
The most important thing inaddition to your patient
outcomes is care of self.
Just like code blue to code you, the IV push gives you
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emotional reset buttons that arefast, that are easy and that
enhance resilience, becauseyou're teaching your body that,
instead of roller coaster swingsof emotions and reactions in a
chaotic environment, you have amuch narrower band of natural
and normal human emotionalcycles of reaction to your
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contextual environment anddemands that are placed on you.
But they are regulations thatyou control.
They are cycles and depths thatyou regulate and control as you
move through and cognizantlychoose your actions.
It's implementing copingbehaviors instead of reactionary
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behaviors.
So, just as a reminder for theIV push, I you're going to
inhale slow through the nose forfour seconds.
V, you're going to visualizestress, leaving you as if you're
flushing a line and the pushpart of it is when you're
tensing that muscle group.
You start tensing the musclegroup as you inhale slowly
through your nose.
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You do that four count.
That fifth count is whereyou're holding it and you're
starting to visualize stress,leaving you as if you're
flushing a line as you'rebreathing out for six and that
relaxation of the muscle grouphappens at the same time that
you're breathing out for thatcount of six.
That's one round, that's maybe10 seconds at most, so you want
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to do two if you've got the time.
It's not therapy, but it istriage for your sanity and it's
a skill set that you can utilizeanywhere, anytime.
This is also something that youcan use for anxiety prior to
doing something, an exam, aprocedure, a difficult
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conversation with someone.
If you're somebody that doesn'tlike conflict not many people
do, but for some it's morecomfortable than others and if
you're somebody who conflict isintensely anxiety provoking,
before you have thatconversation, before you face
that confrontation, iv push isabsolutely effective as a
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skillset to use to reset, toremind yourself of your goal
posts for that conversation andcontinue forward.
So at this point we've made itto our ritual part of our
episode, our favorite coffee,crystals and divination.
It's our moment to recenterreset, really kind of tap into
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the magic that matters for us.
Tea, it can be decaf, but theprotein blend part is really the
part that we're hitting on.
So it's kind of like a cinnamonvanilla protein blend.
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Cinnamon really supportscirculation and energy, our
protein for nourishment andsubstance.
And well, the espresso, thecaffeine for survival.
Iced coffee, vanilla proteinshake for your creamer or
protein powder, and like an oatmilk or even cream.
Um, if you're not lactoseintolerant, it could be coconut
milk.
If you are, whatever your vibeis, you're going to pour that
over ice.
You're going to add cinnamonand stir.
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It's a pretty good amount ofcinnamon.
Um, really as much as you cantolerate flavor wise.
If cinnamon isn't your thing,um, it can be ginger, it can be
all spice, anything that hasthat kind of warm hint of spice.
Iced golden milk, like theturmeric golden milk,
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accomplishes the same thing, andyou can also make that with
protein powder or vanillaprotein shake.
But it's refreshing, it's sweet, it's perfect for right now
when we're feeling the urge tomaybe start to get more active
and enjoy the nicer weather,depending on where you live.
This past Saturday, where welive, northern Nevada lost its
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damn mind and it was hailing, sotake it or leave it.
Hopefully, where you are,there's nicer weather happening.
But we're going to do our livedraw of our crystal of the week
and see what it has for us.
I really would love to seepictures of you guys, uh and tag
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the ritual nurse of you guyswith your crystals, your bangles
, bracelets or, if you have likea little worry, stone or
crystal that you keep on yourperson.
I mean, we carry crystals andwe don't judge, so even if you
have a bra buddy that you tuckin your bra and you, uh, you
keep with you on your shift awayfrom all the goo and ick of the
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floor.
Like I said, we carry crystalsand we don't judge.
That's the whole thing.
But let's see what this week'scrystal prescription will be.
Let's get a good shuffle going,all right.
Radiance oh, it's agate, andthis one looks like a beautiful
fiery orange one and itsignifies radiance.
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Oh my gosh, this card isabsolutely stunning.
So this signifies confidence,courage and ground grounding
totally irrelevant, right, theradiant energy of agate and the
empowering warmth of the sunsymbolize a profound moment of
self-discovery and confidence,this card signifies a
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transformative journey towardsembracing your inner radiance
and finding the courage to shinebrightly.
Just as agate brings groundingand stability, allowing you to
find balance and harmony within,the sun's light illuminates the
path to self-assurance andbelief in your own abilities.
Welcome this moment of radiance.
Trust in your inner strengthand step into the light with
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confidence and grace, knowingthat you are supported by the
universe on your journey towardsfulfillment.
Absolutely, amazing.
I am so in love with this week'spoll this week, um, and it's
something that you're going tohear about in a future podcast
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episode, so I'm not going togive too much away, but I am in
the middle of something uh,incredibly stressful, positive,
positive, positive.
It's very positive, butincredibly stressful.
And that card and that imageryis just so absolutely fitting
for this week.
And, amazing, I am using theseskills myself in real time.
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Oh, my goodness, um, thisentire week, uh, just just
constantly.
A because they work and bbecause when I tell you that
this is stressful, this isstressful.
So, while I was talking, I hadimmediately had a card jump out
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um, and it is the nine ofpentacles and it is a beautiful
image of bumblebee Jasper.
So let's find pentacles.
No matter how many times I lookthrough this, my brain always
likes to reshuffle the order inwhich the suits are actually.
So the nine of pentacles.
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So we are looking at financialindependence, comfort and
gratitude, and bumblebee Jasperis celebration, positive
attitude and abundance.
Treat yourself.
You worked so hard to createall of this abundance in your
life, so don't be afraid tosplurge and enjoy the fruits of
your labor.
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Celebrate your achievements.
You deserve it.
So these are absolutely stunning.
The images almost matchperfectly the radiant colors of
the sun, shaded agate and thebeautiful piece of bumblebee
jasper.
I mean they look like they'realmost cut from the same stone.
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That's incredible.
But these messages together arecelebratory and really
significant.
Definitely celebrate yourself.
Definitely celebrate how faryou've come to keep yourself in
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emotional grounding andregulation and every time you do
that, acknowledge how amazingyou are for being able to.
Nobody is ever going to tell youthat the context isn't going to
provoke emotional reaction orthat the stress is just going to
melt away.
It isn't, it's going to bethere.
And also these skill sets giveyou the opportunity to withstand
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that in a healthy manner andcontinue to be effective and
thrive and provide the bestpatient care or survive the
moment in the best way possible,while taking care of yourself.
All right, my ritual nursefamily.
This podcast is growing andit's because of you.
So if today's episode helpedyou, please share it.
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Text it to your work.
Bestie, your precept T, evenyour deal in.
For heck's sake, leave a review, hit that star rating, post it
in your group chat.
I really would love to startseeing pictures of you guys with
your crystals, skill sets,anything, and tag the Ritual
Nurse.
But we are creating a newculture in nursing and we're
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just at the beginning.
So follow me at the RitualNurse on TikTok, the code team.
On Instagram.
You can visit tcthorg.
We've got tons of freedownloads tools.
Our new store has been up, butwhat we are doing is so damn
important, because healingnurses heal nursing, and I see
you.
So until next time, breathedeep, regulate often and stay
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sacred.
I love your faces.
Breathe deep, regulate oftenand stay sacred.
I love your faces.
This is your Ritual Nurse Reva.
Thanks for tuning in to theRitual Nurse podcast.
You can find us wherever youlisten to podcasts, so don't
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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!