How Not to Kill Your Patient

About How Not to Kill Your Patient

HNTKYP is a series that address symptomatic presentation and how to move to a working diagnosis and plan for patient care. Kevin McFarlane and Lisa Wolf cover red flags, cognitive pitfalls, and ways to make sure your patients survive their encounter with the health system.

Publisher

Kevin McFarlane RN & Dr. Lisa Wolf

Category

health & fitness · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Feb 2022

Latest episode

29 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 49 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   29 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   HNTKYP: Safe Staffing in the ED

   Host Kevin interviews Dr. Lisa Wolf about the science of safe emergency department staffing, revealing how to accurately measure patient safety beyond simple nurse-to-patient ratios.

2. 

   10 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   HNTKYP: Before the Code

   Host Kevin and Dr. Lisa Wolf, a critical care nurse, interview each other about recognizing subtle patient deterioration signs before a code event occurs.

3. 

   8 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   HNTKYP: Hourly Rounding and Other Dumb Things

   In this episode, Kevin and Dr. Wolf tackle a listener question about hourly rounding, and the conversation quickly evolves into a larger discussion about how healthcare systems often implement sweeping changes with little to no evidence behind them. From "check-the-box" tasks to reactionary policies created after adverse events, they explore how well-intentioned interventions can become burdensome, ineffective, and sometimes even counterproductive. Along the way, they discuss the importance of evidence-based practice, critical thinking, and asking the simple but important question: "What problem are we actually trying to solve?"

Inside a recent episode

HNTKYP: Safe Staffing in the ED

Published 29 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Plus the charge. But that is assuming that everyone has the same level of competency and experience, and that's not true, right? So here's the difference between your A team and your B team, which everybody knows what I'm talking about when I say that, right? Like you walk in on the weekend, you're like, yep, A team's here. We can handle anything, right? That's because you've got, like you think about your A team, experienced nurses who are team players, right? Who will help each other, who will do all the things, right? So it's not... Any kind of staffing discussion needs to talk about not just numbers, but also environment. […]

Who has been a guest on How Not to Kill Your Patient

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Wolf
• Lisa
• Lisa Wolf

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

24,627

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

32 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

19 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 58 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

33

Social presence

94

YouTube

76

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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