Lightning rounds 36: Nurses are from Venus

Theresa Human, former academic clinical pharmacist in neurocritical care and now medical liaison for a large pharmaceutical company, chats about late-career transitions and working for private industry. Check out the Intensive Care Academy here! 

We step into the ring with Nick Ghionni, pulm/crit attending at MedStar Baltimore Hospital, who tries to convince us that the pressure-targeted, volume-titrated vent mode known as “PRVC” actually sucks. Check out the Intensive Care Academy here! 

The critical care landscape is a dynamic one, filled with team members with all sorts of backgrounds who have various skill sets and experiences to bring to the table. In this episode of Critical Care Time we focus on the role NPs & PAs - sometimes referred to collectively as APP ...  Show more

[We're on vacation, so enjoy this recent show in case you missed it!] Medical students share insights on hitting milestones and navigating transitions. The rollercoaster of medical school transitions is hitting some peaks, from the first nerve-wracking days of clerkships to the u ...  Show more

I think we all know how under appreciated nurses are in the world. Rebecca Rogers sits with Jen Hamilton, a labor and delivery nurse, and talks about her experience in both her current department and the emergency room. Jen shares some of the pain points in her career from mean c ...  Show more

Doctors and nurses can feel as if they’re living in two worlds. One in which patients are getting sick and dying from the coronavirus, and another in which people deny the virus is real. Emergency room physician Mike Hunihan describes what it’s like to live and work with that dis ...  Show more