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Welcome to Bedpan Banter | The Human Side of Healthcare -- the podcast that feels like sitting at the nurses’ station swapping stories with your favorite coworkers. Hosted by the one and only Nurse Mike, this show goes beyond the textbooks and into the real, raw, and hilarious moments that make up nurse life.Whether it’s unfiltered stories from the floor, emotional patient moments, or those laugh-until-you-cry shifts you’ll never forget... we’re talking about it all. Oh, and don’t worry, we’ll be sneaking in a few knowledge bombs you can actually use on the job.If you're a nursing student, new grad, or seasoned pro who just needs to feel seen (and maybe laugh a little), you’re in the right place.
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- 2 weeks ago10 min
Follow The Fluid To Understand Heart Failure w/ Nurse Mike
Heart failure doesn’t have to feel like a blur of random symptoms. We make it click by using one guiding rule: when the heart fails as a pump, blood can’t move forward, it backs up and fluid follows. Once you can track where the fluid goes and why it’s there, assessment findings stop feeling scattered, medications start to make more sense, and NCLEX-style questions get a lot easier to decode. We walk through right-sided versus left-sided heart failure as two directions of fluid backup. Right...
- Oct 5, 20269 min
NCLEX Electrolyte Imbalances Review with Nurse Mike
A tiny lab value can be the difference between a stable patient and a rapid crash, and that is exactly why electrolyte imbalances show up nonstop on nursing exams and the NCLEX. We walk through the Fab Five electrolytes in a way that actually sticks: simple ranges, what each electrolyte does in the body, what high looks like, what low looks like, and how to turn symptom clues into the safest next step. We start with the core test-taking mindset: the NCLEX is a safety exam, so the most danger...
- Sep 21, 202615 min
A Nurse-Friendly Guide To Reading EKG Strips Fast with Nurse Mike
Your patient says, “My chest feels fluttering,” and suddenly that monitor feels louder than your own thoughts. We’re taking the fear out of ECG interpretation by turning EKG strips into a simple, repeatable process you can use on exams and at the bedside. I’m Nurse Mike, and I walk you through the heart’s electrical pathway in plain English, then connect each waveform to what the heart is actually doing so the squiggles finally mean something. From there, we get practical: PR interval ...
- Aug 31, 20267 min
Anxiety Medications Breakdown using Memory Tricks w/ Nurse Mike
Most nursing pharmacology mistakes happen when a question quietly hints at sedation, and you miss what that means for airway and breathing. We slow anxiety medications down into a simple, test-ready framework built around patient safety, ABCs (airway, breathing, circulation), and the patterns that show up again and again on the NCLEX and in nursing school exams. We walk through the “three big players” you must recognize on sight: benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and buspirone. You’ll hea...
- Aug 17, 202613 min
You Will Never Mix Up DKA And HHS Again with Nurse Mike
DKA vs HHS can feel like a blur when you’re studying, but the body tells a clear story if you know what to listen for. I’m Nurse Mike, and I’m breaking these two diabetic emergencies into a simple framework you can use under pressure on exams and in real clinical care: speed of onset, what’s happening at the cellular level, and the few “can’t miss” signs and labs that separate them. We start with the core pathophysiology. DKA is a no-insulin problem that pushes the body into fat burning, ket...
- Jul 27, 20268 min
Stop Guessing And Start Nailing ABG Questions w/ Nurse Mike
ABGs have a way of making smart nursing students freeze, not because they’re impossible, but because they’re often taught like a memorization game. We’re flipping that. Once you see arterial blood gases as relationships between pH, PaCO2, and HCO3, the confusion drops fast and the questions start to feel predictable. We walk through the exact ranges you need for nursing school and the NCLEX, then lock in the rule that keeps everything straight: CO2 is respiratory and bicarbonate (HCO3) is me...
- Jul 13, 202639 min
Your Hospital Won’t Protect You: How Nursing Unions Protect Nurses and Patients w/ NNU
Your first nursing job can feel like a test you never studied for: short staffing, missed breaks, supply shortages, and that sinking sense that if something goes wrong, your license is on the line. We sit down with Kristine and Monica, RNs and union representatives with National Nurses United, to spell out what a nurse union actually is and why it matters for real bedside nursing, not just politics or headlines. We dig into the problems that push nurses to organize, including unsafe patient ...
- Jun 29, 202628 min
Nurse Erica EXPOSES Healthcare Worker Rights | Unions, Strikes & Ending Workplace Violence
Getting hit, threatened, or harassed shouldn’t be a rite of passage in healthcare, yet too many nurses are told to accept violence as “part of the job.” Nurse Erica joins us to draw a clear line: this is a workplace safety crisis, and nurses have more rights and options than most people realize. We dig into what the data says about how often violence happens, why it’s under-reported, and why filing a police report still matters as documentation and accountability, even when prosecution feels ...
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About Bedpan Banter
Welcome to Bedpan Banter | The Human Side of Healthcare -- the podcast that feels like sitting at the nurses’ station swapping stories with your favorite coworkers. Hosted by the one and only Nurse Mike, this show goes beyond the textbooks and into the real, raw, and hilarious moments that make up nurse life.Whether it’s unfiltered stories from the floor, emotional patient moments, or those laugh-until-you-cry shifts you’ll never forget... we’re talking about it all. Oh, and don’t worry, we’ll be sneaking in a few knowledge bombs you can actually use on the job.If you're a nursing student, new grad, or seasoned pro who just needs to feel seen (and maybe laugh a little), you’re in the right place.
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