1106. A Day in the Life of a Registered Nurse, Robin Cogan
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
Don Hutcheson
5.0 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, is a Nationally Certified School Nurse with more than 20 years as a school nurse. She serves on several national boards and is the Legislative Co-Chair for the New Jersey State School Nurses Association. She serves as faculty in the School Nurse Certificate Program at Rutgers University-Camden School of Nursing, "I would suggest talking to as many nurses as you can, looking at the different areas of nursing based on what your interests are. There are so many areas to explore, today you need a guide and mentor."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, world. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. |
| 0:14.9 | I'm your host, Don Hutchison. |
| 0:17.1 | Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. |
| 0:27.3 | On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do. |
| 0:39.6 | Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Robin Kogan, and our topic A Day in the Life, |
| 0:46.3 | what's it really like to be a registered nurse? Welcome, Robin. Hi, thank you for having me. |
| 0:51.7 | It is our pleasure. Robin, are you using your talents doing work that you love? |
| 0:55.8 | What a loaded question in the middle of COVID-19. Yes, I am using my talents doing work that I love |
| 1:03.6 | and work that I feel is very important right now in the middle of this pandemic. |
| 1:08.9 | All righty. Well, we certainly want to hear the backstory of how you got there and what you're |
| 1:13.3 | working on right now. A few words about Robin. Robin Cogan, M-E-D-R-N, is a nationally certified school nurse |
| 1:21.8 | currently entering her 20th year as a school nurse in Camden, New Jersey. She serves on several national boards and is the |
| 1:29.7 | legislative co-chair of the New Jersey State School Nurses Association. She's the honored recipient |
| 1:36.0 | of multiple awards for her work in school nursing. She also serves as faculty in the school nurse |
| 1:41.9 | certificate program at Rutgers University, Camden School of Nursing, |
| 1:46.2 | where she teaches the next generation of school nurses. |
| 1:49.3 | She writes a blog called The Relentless School Nurse. |
| 1:52.6 | You can also follow her on Twitter at Robin Kogan. |
| 1:56.5 | Well, Robin, I want to give a few statistics about your profession, the profession of nursing |
| 2:01.4 | from the U.S. News and World Report and the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics. People know |
| 2:06.0 | conceptually what a nurse is, but the definition here by U.S. News is that registered nurses |
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