CE Podcasts for Nurses

Supporting Neurodivergency in Healthcare Professionals

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Neurodiversity is an important consideration in nursing education, clinical learning environments, and healthcare workforce development. This activity explores how neurodivergent learners and professionals experience traditional educational systems, including barriers related to disclosure, accommodations, assessment design, communication, executive functioning...

Before You Post: Professional Standards and Social Media in Healthcare

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Social media has become a powerful influence on how the public perceives healthcare and nursing practice. Viral videos often present brief, emotionally engaging snapshots of clinical situations, yet they frequently omit critical context related to patient safety, ethical decision making, and standards of care. This podcast explores how social me...

Nursing Scandals Unmasked: What Social Media Isn’t Telling You

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This episode examines the rise of healthcare content on social media platforms, analyzing viral nursing videos through the lens of professional standards, patient privacy regulations, legal consequences, and public perception. Participants will explore documented cases, regulatory responses, platform policies, and the gap between what's shown in v...

A Nurse’s Guide to Hormones and Mental Health: Menstrual Tracking Insights

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Hormonal fluctuations across the menstrual cycle don't just affect physical health—they have measurable, clinically significant mental health implications that are still widely misunderstood, underdiagnosed, and often dismissed in practice. This episode breaks down the hormone-mood connection, explains the phases of the menstrual...

Crisis Mode Activated: How Nurses Navigate Medication Shortages

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Medication shortages have become a persistent and escalating challenge across healthcare settings, affecting inpatient and outpatient populations alike. With more than 300 active drug shortages nationally and documented associations with increased medication errors and adverse outcomes, nurses must be prepared to respond safely and effectively. Frontli...

Your Nursing Career Doesn't Have to Follow a Straight Line

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What if your nursing career didn’t have to follow the traditional bedside path to be meaningful—or impactful? 
In this episode, host MacKenzie Butler sits down with Donna Cardillo, a nurse whose career journey defies convention. From psychiatric hospitals and emergency departments to healthcare reimbursement, education, writing, and care...

Precision Medicine in Mental Health: A Game-Changer for Nurses

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Mental healthcare is undergoing a revolutionary transformation as precision medicine moves from bench to bedside. For decades, psychiatric treatment has relied on trial-and-error approaches, leaving patients cycling through multiple medications before finding one that works—if they find one at all. But emerging biomarker technologies and genetic t...

Episode 4: The Woman Who Turned Blue

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This course explores a complex case of methemoglobinemia, a rare but potentially fatal condition in which hemoglobin is unable to carry oxygen effectively despite normal respiratory status and pulse oximetry readings. Through narrative storytelling and expert debrief, learners are introduced to the diagnostic challenges of cyanosis with normal oxygen saturation and the critical ...

Episode 5: The Phantom Fever

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This accredited continuing nursing education activity explores the clinical complexities of diagnosing central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in the presence of negative cultures and nonspecific systemic signs. Through a compelling case narrative, learners will follow the journey of a patient whose persistent fever and subtle hemodynamic changes defied traditional seps...

Episode 6: The Red Man That Collapsed

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This course examines a high-acuity infusion reaction, Red Man Syndrome (RMS), as it unfolds during vancomycin administration in an ICU setting. Through narrative reenactment and clinical analysis, the course helps nurses differentiate RMS from anaphylaxis, understand the underlying pathophysiology of histamine-mediated reactions, and explore the critical importance of adhering ...

Episode 7: The Case of Sudden Paralysis

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This course presents a clinical case of acute flaccid paralysis in a postoperative patient, ultimately diagnosed as Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS). The episode emphasizes the diagnostic complexities of neurologic deterioration following surgery, particularly when symptoms mimic more common conditions such as stroke, medication reaction, or critical illness neuropathy. Through ...

Episode 8: The Heparin that Clotted

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This course presents a complex postoperative case involving Heparin-Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT), a rare but potentially life-threatening immune-mediated reaction to heparin. Though widely used for venous thromboembolism prophylaxis, heparin can, in susceptible individuals, paradoxically trigger thrombosis through platelet activation and antibody formation. Through a structured...

Medical Mysteries Episode 1: The Case of Suspicious Swelling

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This continuing education podcast episode unpacks a perplexing clinical case of steroid toxicity caused by an imported supplement, initially masked as classic Cushing’s syndrome. Learners will follow a real-world diagnostic journey that highlights the dangers of unlabeled medications, and the challenges clinicians face in identifying non-obvious sou...

Episode 2: The Itch That Wouldn’t Stop

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This continuing education activity explores a diagnostically challenging case of persistent pruritus that ultimately revealed an underlying malignancy. Through the narrative of a patient whose symptoms defied dermatologic explanation, learners will examine the clinical presentation and pathophysiology of paraneoplastic pruritus. The course emphasizes the importance of co...

Episode 3: The Woman Who Couldn’t Wake Up

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This course presents a complex case of progressive hypersomnia and neuropsychiatric decline initially misdiagnosed as a psychiatric disorder. Learners will explore the diagnostic process that led to the identification of paraneoplastic hypothalamic dysfunction, a rare syndrome in which an occult tumor triggers an autoimmune response against the brain’s sleep-wak...

Reversing Type 2 Diabetes: What Nurses Need to Know

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Headlines flood our patients' social media feeds daily, promising quick fixes to a complex chronic disease. But what does the science actually say about Type 2 diabetes reversal or remission? This episode cuts through the hype and examines the evidence behind low-carb diets, intermittent fasting, bariatric surgery, and intensive lifestyle interventions. We'll expl...

Cultural Competence in Hospice Nursing

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In hospice, small cultural missteps can become big barriers to trust, comfort, and dignified end-of-life care. This 60-minute episode explores practical, team-based strategies for providing culturally responsive hospice care—such as recognizing patient cues, asking the right questions about beliefs and decision-making, customizing care plans, and ensuring language access...

The Full Scope of Nurses' Work at the Bedside

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This episode unpacks what bedside nurses actually do—and why so much of that high‑stakes, outcomes‑driving work is invisible in traditional hospital metrics. Using Carr and Vollman’s “The Full Scope of Nurses’ Work in Hospitals” as our springboard, we explore nurse surveillance, anticipatory prevention, care coordination, and the cognitive,...

Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy and Psychiatric Nursing

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Psychedelic therapies are moving from headlines to care pathways. Ketamine and esketamine already have defined clinical footprints, and psilocybin is advancing in late-phase trials. This episode equips nurses with a pragmatic playbook: how to screen, prep, administer, and monitor patients safely; what to watch for physiologically and psychologically; and where re...