4.4 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 103 minutes
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The MTA crew hopes you had a wonderful Christmas. As the team is traveling this week to see family, we're excited to bring you this interview between Nick and his mom, Robin.
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Here's what Nick and Robin discussed:
00:00:00 - Nursing Specialties and Experience
00:11:10 - Working in the Trauma ICU
00:21:47 - Different Forms of Heart Attack
00:33:00 - Exploitation in the Healthcare System
00:44:00 - Challenges in Obstetrics and Prenatal Care
00:55:10 - Litigious Society and Healthcare Lawsuits
01:06:21 - Vaccine Decision and Employment
01:17:07 - Nursing in Mission Fields
01:28:05 - Delivering a Baby in an Emergency Situation
01:38:28 - Conclusion
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0:00.0 | All right, so around Thanksgiving, we were able to do a couple of podcasts where we had a discussion with my father, |
0:05.0 | who was a former homicide detective with the LAPD. |
0:07.7 | And now, just in time, well, probably right after Christmas, I wanted to be able to do this podcast with my mother, Robin, who has been a nurse for, well, I'm not going to say how many years, because she'll throw something at me, but has been a very accomplished nurse, both in the United States and abroad in the missions |
0:25.9 | field. And we're going to talk a little bit with her today about some of her experiences being |
0:31.2 | a nurse during COVID, some of the craziest stories that she has either, you know, lived through or experienced. And also, some of the craziest stories that she has either lived through or experienced. |
0:39.8 | And also, some of the things that you need to know. |
0:43.2 | Like, what are some of the medical skills you need to know for a variety of conditions? |
0:47.5 | We'll discuss surviving the zombie apocalypse because let's face it. |
0:51.3 | If you don't know how to do basic first aid, the zombies |
0:54.2 | are going to get you. I've seen Walking Dead. I'm somewhat of an expert on this and we all know |
0:57.7 | that'll happen. Plus, having worked, gosh, for decades now, as an OB nurse, she's going to answer |
1:05.6 | the age-old question of, what do you need to know as a guy right now to deliver a baby in a survival |
1:13.5 | situation having only a pocket knife, a handkerchief, and ACDC's greatest hits, right? |
1:19.5 | So all of that will be answered on this podcast brought to you by Good Ranchers. |
1:24.6 | Okay, so Robin, or as I as I prefer to call you, mom, thank you for being on. Thanks for having me here. |
1:34.0 | All right. Well, okay. So are you comfortable telling the audience how long you have been a nurse for now? |
1:40.0 | About 45 years altogether. |
1:41.9 | 45 years as a nurse. And that's been like multiple states, obviously not just at one hospital. |
1:48.1 | You've worked at multiple hospitals. |
1:49.8 | You've worked overseas. |
1:51.8 | What got you into nursing in the first place? |
1:55.0 | What made you want to be a nurse? |
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