CE Podcasts for Nurses

Refuse to Say “I’m Just a Nurse”: Advocacy and Career Agency

SUMMARY:
This intermediate-level course examines how nurses can counter inaccurate public narratives, communicate professionally during workplace conflict, and use nursing expertise across evolving career paths. Drawing on Kelley Johnson’s advocacy experience and reflections on early-practice nursing, the course connects professional identity with patient safety, team trust, direct communication, boundaries, and career sustainability.

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Series: Refuse to Say “I’m Just a Nurse”: Advocacy and Career Agency

Changing the way you think can have a significant impact on your effectiveness. This podcast explores common areas of struggle for individuals striving to achieve and get results but falling short. Learners will explore three mindset struggles that individual’s encounter, as well as reframing strategies that will boost their emotional health and interpersonal effectiveness.

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This is episode 1 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Positive Reframing in Healthcare Leadership

Changing the way you think can have a significant impact on your effectiveness. This podcast explores common areas of struggle for individuals striving to achieve and get results but falling short. Learners will explore three mindset struggles that individual’s encounter, as well as reframing strategies that will boost their emotional health and interpersonal effectiveness.

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Positive Reframing in Healthcare Leadership

Changing the way you think can have a significant impact on your effectiveness. This podcast explores common areas of struggle for individuals striving to achieve and get results but falling short. Learners will explore three mindset struggles that individual’s encounter, as well as reframing strategies that will boost their emotional health and interpersonal effectiveness.

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This is episode 2 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Positive Reframing in Healthcare Leadership

Changing the way you think can have a significant impact on your effectiveness. This podcast explores common areas of struggle for individuals striving to achieve and get results but falling short. Learners will explore three mindset struggles that individual’s encounter, as well as reframing strategies that will boost their emotional health and interpersonal effectiveness.

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Positive Reframing in Healthcare Leadership

Changing the way you think can have a significant impact on your effectiveness. This podcast explores common areas of struggle for individuals striving to achieve and get results but falling short. Learners will explore three mindset struggles that individual’s encounter, as well as reframing strategies that will boost their emotional health and interpersonal effectiveness.

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This is episode 3 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Positive Reframing in Healthcare Leadership

Changing the way you think can have a significant impact on your effectiveness. This podcast explores common areas of struggle for individuals striving to achieve and get results but falling short. Learners will explore three mindset struggles that individual’s encounter, as well as reframing strategies that will boost their emotional health and interpersonal effectiveness.

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Positive Reframing in Healthcare Leadership

Trust is a critical factor in building effective teams. This trust-factor begins with you and your self-awareness, mindset, behaviors, and accountabilities. This discussion focuses on how to develop that healthy mindset to promote respect and commitment allowing you to establish yourself as a trusted member of the team.

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This is episode 1 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Building Your Own Credibility On and Off the Team

Trust is a critical factor in building effective teams. This trust-factor begins with you and your self-awareness, mindset, behaviors, and accountabilities. This discussion focuses on how to develop that healthy mindset to promote respect and commitment allowing you to establish yourself as a trusted member of the team.

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Building Your Own Credibility On and Off the Team

Trust is a critical factor in building effective teams. This trust-factor begins with you and your self-awareness, mindset, behaviors, and accountabilities. This discussion focuses on how to develop that healthy mindset to promote respect and commitment allowing you to establish yourself as a trusted member of the team.

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This is episode 2 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Building Your Own Credibility On and Off the Team

Trust is a critical factor in building effective teams. This trust-factor begins with you and your self-awareness, mindset, behaviors, and accountabilities. This discussion focuses on how to develop that healthy mindset to promote respect and commitment allowing you to establish yourself as a trusted member of the team.

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Building Your Own Credibility On and Off the Team

Trust is a critical factor in building effective teams. This trust-factor begins with you and your self-awareness, mindset, behaviors, and accountabilities. This discussion focuses on how to develop that healthy mindset to promote respect and commitment allowing you to establish yourself as a trusted member of the team.

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This is episode 3 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Building Your Own Credibility On and Off the Team

Trust is a critical factor in building effective teams. This trust-factor begins with you and your self-awareness, mindset, behaviors, and accountabilities. This discussion focuses on how to develop that healthy mindset to promote respect and commitment allowing you to establish yourself as a trusted member of the team.

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Building Your Own Credibility On and Off the Team

Strong collaboration comes from the interdependent efforts of the team. Recent research across multiple industries emphasizes the importance of not just learning what behaviors are important to collaboration, but also in practicing how to demonstrate these behaviors. It is experiential learning that enables both leaders and employees to work well together, learn from one another, and overcome the psychological barriers that get in the way of doing both. In this session we will talk about not just the “what” about collaboration skills, but also the “how,” and encourage participants to practice these collaboration skills within their own team. Through learning, practicing, and applying these skills individually and within a team environment, participants will get more comfortable learning and teaming together.

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This is episode 1 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Effective Collaboration Skills in Healthcare

Strong collaboration comes from the interdependent efforts of the team. Recent research across multiple industries emphasizes the importance of not just learning what behaviors are important to collaboration, but also in practicing how to demonstrate these behaviors. It is experiential learning that enables both leaders and employees to work well together, learn from one another, and overcome the psychological barriers that get in the way of doing both. In this session we will talk about not just the “what” about collaboration skills, but also the “how,” and encourage participants to practice these collaboration skills within their own team. Through learning, practicing, and applying these skills individually and within a team environment, participants will get more comfortable learning and teaming together.

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Effective Collaboration Skills in Healthcare

Strong collaboration comes from the interdependent efforts of the team. Recent research across multiple industries emphasizes the importance of not just learning what behaviors are important to collaboration, but also in practicing how to demonstrate these behaviors. It is experiential learning that enables both leaders and employees to work well together, learn from one another, and overcome the psychological barriers that get in the way of doing both. In this session we will talk about not just the “what” about collaboration skills, but also the “how,” and encourage participants to practice these collaboration skills within their own team. Through learning, practicing, and applying these skills individually and within a team environment, participants will get more comfortable learning and teaming together.

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This is episode 2 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Effective Collaboration Skills in Healthcare

Strong collaboration comes from the interdependent efforts of the team. Recent research across multiple industries emphasizes the importance of not just learning what behaviors are important to collaboration, but also in practicing how to demonstrate these behaviors. It is experiential learning that enables both leaders and employees to work well together, learn from one another, and overcome the psychological barriers that get in the way of doing both. In this session we will talk about not just the “what” about collaboration skills, but also the “how,” and encourage participants to practice these collaboration skills within their own team. Through learning, practicing, and applying these skills individually and within a team environment, participants will get more comfortable learning and teaming together.

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Effective Collaboration Skills in Healthcare

Strong collaboration comes from the interdependent efforts of the team. Recent research across multiple industries emphasizes the importance of not just learning what behaviors are important to collaboration, but also in practicing how to demonstrate these behaviors. It is experiential learning that enables both leaders and employees to work well together, learn from one another, and overcome the psychological barriers that get in the way of doing both. In this session we will talk about not just the “what” about collaboration skills, but also the “how,” and encourage participants to practice these collaboration skills within their own team. Through learning, practicing, and applying these skills individually and within a team environment, participants will get more comfortable learning and teaming together.

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This is episode 3 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Effective Collaboration Skills in Healthcare

Strong collaboration comes from the interdependent efforts of the team. Recent research across multiple industries emphasizes the importance of not just learning what behaviors are important to collaboration, but also in practicing how to demonstrate these behaviors. It is experiential learning that enables both leaders and employees to work well together, learn from one another, and overcome the psychological barriers that get in the way of doing both. In this session we will talk about not just the “what” about collaboration skills, but also the “how,” and encourage participants to practice these collaboration skills within their own team. Through learning, practicing, and applying these skills individually and within a team environment, participants will get more comfortable learning and teaming together.

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Effective Collaboration Skills in Healthcare

In this episode, we discuss how to respond when your personal or professional identity is threatened, wounding your ego or self-esteem.

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This is episode 1 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Overcoming Common Obstacles that Teams Encounter

Any worthwhile project will encounter obstacles along the way and these obstacles often create conflicts. Managing and/or resolving conflicts effectively includes a variety of skills and strategies that build on what you have learned to date. These include:

• Listening and empathizing with another’s viewpoint
• Bringing disagreements into the open and de-escalating the situation
• Orchestrating win-win solutions by finding resolutions that each side can embrace
• Staying engaged with the process of managing your own performance in the midst of conflict while holding each other accountable to the rules of engagement

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Overcoming Common Obstacles that Teams Encounter

In this episode, we discuss how to respond to, and manage, a situation where you feel a team colleague is minimizing your contributions to the team.
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This is episode 2 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Overcoming Common Obstacles that Teams Encounter

Any worthwhile project will encounter obstacles along the way and these obstacles often create conflicts. Managing and/or resolving conflicts effectively includes a variety of skills and strategies that build on what you have learned to date. These include:

• Listening and empathizing with another’s viewpoint
• Bringing disagreements into the open and de-escalating the situation
• Orchestrating win-win solutions by finding resolutions that each side can embrace
• Staying engaged with the process of managing your own performance in the midst of conflict while holding each other accountable to the rules of engagement

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Overcoming Common Obstacles that Teams Encounter

In this episode, we discuss how to navigate and respond to conflicting and/or competing goals within the organization and team.

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This is episode 3 of the series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Overcoming Common Obstacles that Teams Encounter

Any worthwhile project will encounter obstacles along the way and these obstacles often create conflicts. Managing and/or resolving conflicts effectively includes a variety of skills and strategies that build on what you have learned to date. These include:

• Listening and empathizing with another’s viewpoint
• Bringing disagreements into the open and de-escalating the situation
• Orchestrating win-win solutions by finding resolutions that each side can embrace
• Staying engaged with the process of managing your own performance in the midst of conflict while holding each other accountable to the rules of engagement

Nurses may be able to complete an accredited CE activity featuring content from this podcast and earn CE hours provided from Elite Learning by Colibri Healthcare. For more information, click here

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Series: Building Your Credibility and Team Skills: Overcoming Common Obstacles that Teams Encounter

Long COVID in Clinical Practice: Assessment, Treatment, and Referral

SUMMARY:
Long COVID, also known as post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), can present with a broad range of persistent symptoms that affect physical function, cognition, mental health, and quality of life. In this podcast, common manifestations of long COVID, including post-exertional malaise, dyspnea, tachycardia, dizziness, brain fog, and fatigue, along with important considerations for assessment and differential diagnosis are discussed. The discussion also explores symptom-focused treatment strategies, rehabilitation, interdisciplinary care, patient validation, and approaches to supporting recovery over time.

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Series: Long COVID in Clinical Practice: Assessment, Treatment, and Referral

The Nontraditional Path - Nursing Career Flexibility, Precepting, and Mentorship

SUMMARY:
Nursing offers more career flexibility than many nurses realize. This course explores that flexibility through an interview with an ICU nurse and educator who entered the profession through LPN school and a bridge program before earning a BSN, then developed experience in bedside critical care, precepting, and mentorship.

The activity addresses four practical areas for nurses at any stage: nontraditional nursing career pathways, structured shift-to-shift handoff communication, foundational precepting techniques for onboarding new graduates, and self-care and boundary-setting practices that may help reduce burnout risk. Learners will consider strategies they can apply in clinical and educational settings.

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Series: The Nontraditional Path - Nursing Career Flexibility, Precepting, and Mentorship

The Art of Tough Conversations: Communicating With Patients and Families During Serious Illness

SUMMARY:
Nurses routinely encounter difficult conversations with patients and families involving serious illness, prognosis, goals of care, and emotionally charged decisions. This podcast explores communication as a clinical competency and examines practical strategies for responding with honesty, empathy, active listening, and patient-centered communication. Participants will learn approaches for navigating uncertainty, managing challenging reactions, engaging the interprofessional team, and strengthening confidence in difficult conversations.

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Series: The Art of Tough Conversations: Communicating With Patients and Families During Serious Illness

From Bedside to Broadband: Exploring Virtual Nursing

SUMMARY:
Virtual nursing is emerging as an important model for extending nursing expertise, supporting bedside clinicians, and improving care delivery across a variety of healthcare settings. In this podcast, Dr. Katie Boston-Leary discusses how virtual nursing differs from traditional telehealth, common applications of virtual nursing, and the relationship between virtual and bedside nurses. The discussion also addresses implementation challenges, patient relationships, privacy and safety considerations, workforce implications, and opportunities for virtual nursing in areas such as medical-surgical care, maternal health, and rural healthcare.

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Series: From Bedside to Broadband: Exploring Virtual Nursing

She Was Told She Couldn't Be a Nurse Because She Uses a Wheelchair: Andrea Dalzell's Story

SUMMARY:
Meet Andrea Dalzell - a registered nurse and disability advocate who was once told she'd “never be a nurse” because of her disability. In this episode of the Elite Learning Podcast, Andrea shares her journey from patient to bedside ICU nurse during COVID-19, why nursing education still isn’t accessible for students with disabilities, and how her nonprofit The Seated Standard is building frameworks to help hospitals better care for disabled patients. She and host Dr. Mackenzie Butler dig into humanizing bedside care, listening to understand (not to respond), and practical steps any nurse can take to become a stronger disability advocate.

Topics covered in this course include disability inclusion in nursing, accessibility barriers in nursing school, patient-centered care, advocacy for nurses with disabilities, COVID-19 ICU nursing experience, and building a more humane healthcare system.

This podcast course is intended for nurses and other healthcare professionals seeking to strengthen disability inclusion, patient-centered communication, and whole-person care. Through Andrea Dalzell’s experience as a registered nurse and disability advocate, the course explores structural and attitudinal barriers that affect access to nursing education and practice for individuals with disabilities. Learners will examine how bias, assumptions, and diagnosis-focused approaches can limit patient care and professional opportunity. The episode also highlights practical strategies for active listening, humanizing bedside care, connecting patients with community resources, and supporting disabled patients and colleagues. This course is appropriate for professionals interested in improving therapeutic communication, disability advocacy, and inclusive healthcare practice.

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Series: She Was Told She Couldn't Be a Nurse Because She Uses a Wheelchair Andrea Dalzell's Story

From Practice to Publication: Writing for Publication for Nurses

SUMMARY:
Nurses have valuable clinical knowledge, practice improvements, and professional experiences that can benefit others, yet many are unsure how to turn those ideas into publishable work. This episode explores how nurses can identify a strong topic, select an appropriate journal, develop and organize a manuscript, avoid common publication mistakes, and respond to peer review. The discussion also addresses authorship, publication ethics, patient privacy, predatory journals, and practical strategies for moving from an idea to a submitted manuscript.

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Series: From Practice to Publication: Writing for Publication for Nurses

Beyond the Credential: How Nursing Certification Strengthens Practice and Professional Growth

SUMMARY:
Nursing certification is more than a professional credential. It reflects a nurse’s commitment to specialty knowledge, evidence-based practice, lifelong learning, and improved patient and organizational outcomes. In this episode, Dr. Margo Halm discusses the value of nursing certification through the lens of nursing science, professional development, and practice improvement. Listeners will explore how certification supports clinical confidence, strengthens professional practice environments, and helps nurses connect specialty expertise with evidence-based care.

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Series: Beyond the Credential: How Nursing Certification Strengthens Practice and Professional Growth