On the Nurse Gwenny Podcast

Nurse Gwenny welcomes Katelyn, a dual licensed flight paramedic and nurse who has grown in popularity online for her easy to understand teaching style found on tik tok and instagram.

They discuss lessons they wish they had learned earlier. Things like:

• Proactively seeking mentors
• Finding safe places to ask “seemingly” dumb questions
• Developing skills to self education and find resouces

Katelyn compares the helicopter and it’s limitations to some of the critical access hospitals she helps supply and service. Simply put, supplies and resources are limited and sometimes non existant! This breeds the development of those sometimes forgotten or the skillsets that can be taken for granted when working in larger, more fully resourced hospitals.

Nurse Gwenny and Katelyn celebrate the joys of being educators and the moments they cherish hearing about the wins and successes of others.

Katelyn Dykas shares how she is proud of stepping into a CCRN review education project and Nurse Gwenny mentions her latest book, a CEN test prep book similar to “BUT WHY.”

Check out videos from Katelyn Dykas and content on:

Instagram / Tik Tok @AtTheReadyMed

AND ON

Facebook @ University of Michigan Survival Flight

Passing exams, whether it's the FP-C, the NREMT, the CEN, or CFRN, can be a tough battle! If you're someone who has struggled to earn that green check, this podcast will encourage you as you adjust your mindset into manifesting your passing score!

If you're looking for 1:1 coaching to help you get ready for your paramedic exams or to stand out as a candidate for flight interviews, you can find Mustache Medic on Instagram under the handle TN.Mustache.Medic

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New ER Nurse Reality: Fear, First Mistakes, and a Mindset Shift. This episode discusses starting in the ER straight out of nursing school, describing it as both exciting and terrifying and emphasizing that feeling intimidated is completely normal due to the constant noise, unfamiliar situations, and emotionally difficult cases. The conversation highlights common new grad “flubs,” especially struggling to learn and locate equipment because of different brands and terminology, like being asked to fetch a “pigtail” without knowing what it is. It also shares a practical mindset shift for people pleasers: stop defaulting to “I’m sorry” when asking for help and instead say “thank you,” recognizing that needing guidance is part of learning.

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