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Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX

#178.5: BONUS! Decreasing ICU Delirium with Kali Dayton

Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX

Straight A Nursing

Education, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I am joined by Kali Dayton, host of the Walking Home From The ICU podcast. Kali is a nurse practitioner who is passionate about reducing the incidence of acute delirium by decreasing sedation use in intubated patients. If you're also passionate about improving patient outcomes, and open to looking at critical care in a different way, you'll love hearing from Kali! Kali Dayton - You can get more of Kali's wisdom through her podcast, Walking Home From The ICU. FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh!  Med Surg Solution - Are you looking for a more effective way to learn Med Surg? Enroll in Med Surg Solution and get lessons on 57 key topics and out-of-this-world study guides.  Clinical Success Pack - One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet.  💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.2

Well, hello again, everyone, this is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing Podcast. I'm super excited to have another bonus episode for you guys with an

0:20.8

interview with someone I think you're really going to enjoy hearing from.

0:25.0

This interview is with Kaylee, who has the Walking Home from the ICU Podcast.

0:31.0

She is passionate about decreasing delirium and sedation in ICU and ventilated patients.

0:38.0

So if you are at all interested in critical care or in the subject of ICU delirium, then you definitely want to pop in those

0:47.6

earbuds and hear what Cayley has to say.

0:51.2

So let's dive in to the interview. So Kaylee, why don't we start with you telling

0:57.2

us a little bit about yourself and what you are passionate about as it comes to sedation and immobility with these critical care

1:05.9

patients.

1:06.9

Thanks so much, Maureen, I'm really excited to be on your show.

1:10.9

I'm Kaye Dayton.

1:12.0

I'm an ICU nurse practitioner. I started my career as a nurse in an

1:18.5

ICU that I now call in my podcast The Awake and Walking ICU. And like many of your students, maybe I did not realize how significant that was going to be.

1:32.6

That was my first job as a nurse.

1:34.6

I didn't know anything else.

1:36.1

So they even asked me in the interview,

1:38.3

would you be willing to walk patients

1:40.0

that are on the ventilator?

1:41.8

And I was just so excited to be having a job interview that I said yeah totally of course

1:45.9

absolutely really I was excited to learn anything they could teach me so when I started started there it was just completely normal to have almost every patient awake

1:57.4

texting on their laptop writing on a whiteboard, communicating, walking on the ventilator, sitting in the chair during the day.

2:06.0

It was just so normal that no one really explained to me that that was probably the only ICU

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