NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students

I Don't Think I Should Be a Nurse: New Nurse Stories | First Shift

"I deserve to die. I really think I shouldn't be a nurse." Those are a real nurse's words — posted on allnurses on her sixth day as a nurse. She was working long-term c

QOD: Hypokalemia | NCLEX Practice Question

Today's NCLEX Question of the Day:   The nursing category is labs. The NCLEX category is basic care and comfort. A patient who has been suffering from severe diarrhea

FRIED Hypernatremia | Nursing Mnemonics for NCLEX

Quick... list the signs and symptoms of hypernatremia! In this episode, we nail hypernatremia for the NCLEX with three memory tricks. FRIED: Flushed skin, Restlessness, I

LAB VALUES IN 5: Alanine Aminotransferase for NCLEX

Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) — the must-know liver lab value for the NCLEX, covered in 5 minutes.   In this episode: what ALT measures, the normal reference range o

MED OF THE DAY: Ampicillin (Principen)

Welcome to Med of the Day — new episodes drop every Monday. It's Med Monday!   In this episode: Ampicillin (Principen) — a broad-spectrum aminopenicillin that is bact

My First Code: New Nurse Stories | First Shift

The premiere of First Shift — our new Friday series: real stories from nurses' first shifts, and the honest talk that gets you through yours.   A real nurse wrote on

QOD: Scleroderma | NCLEX Practice Question

Today's NCLEX Question of the Day:   The nursing category is integumentary. The NCLEX category is basic care and comfort. A 36-year-old patient has been diagnosed wit

Odd Man Out Blood Types | Nursing Mnemonics for NCLEX

Quick... name the universal donor! Sweating a bit? Nervous? In this episode, we lock in blood types for the NCLEX with one simple picture: imagine type O as a huge circle

LAB VALUES IN 5: aPTT for NCLEX

Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (aPTT) — the must-know coagulation lab value for the NCLEX, covered in 5 minutes.   In this episode: what aPTT measures, the nor

MED OF THE DAY: Amoxicillin (Moxatag)

Welcome to Med of the Day — new episodes drop every Monday. It's Med Monday!   In this episode: Amoxicillin (Moxatag) — an aminopenicillin anti-infective that inhibit

Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen (Norco): NCLEX Must-Knows

Hydrocodone/acetaminophen (Norco) is one of the most common meds you'll see for moderate-to-severe and post-op pain. In this MedMaster episode: therapeutic and pharmacolo

Nursing Students Are Asking AI the Questions They're Afraid to Ask Their Instructors

It's 2am, the care plan is due at 7, and a nursing student types into a chatbot: "explain preload and afterload like I'm five" — because asking out loud just feels expens

The Nurses of September 11th

Twenty-five years ago today, rows of gurneys stood ready outside St. Vincent's Hospital — and stayed empty. Most of you listening weren't born yet. So today: no study tip

Nursing School Will Cost You Some Relationships. Nobody Warns You Which Ones

Somewhere between first semester and pinning, relationships end — the supportive boyfriend, the childhood best friend, sometimes the fiancé — and every cohort knows it an

Everyone Cries in Their Car in Nursing School. Nobody Talks About Why.

There's a parking lot outside every nursing school in America, and in it, right now, a student is crying — convinced she's the only one. She's wrong. Jon Haws RN names th

The Night Before Nursing School: What Nobody Says to You Out Loud

It's the night before nursing school. The scrubs are laid out, the bag is packed — and around 10pm the thought shows up, the one you haven't said to anybody: "What if I'm

The Nurse Who Noticed: How One ICU Nurse Caught America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

In 2003, detectives hunting one of the most prolific serial killers in American history needed something they didn't have: someone who could read an ICU medication log. T

The 5-Minute Pre-Clinical Routine That Saved My Butt Every Single Shift

Start NURSING.com for free at: NURSING.com It's 0645, you're outside the unit, and your brain is forty open tabs. The next five minutes decide whether today is a shift

Your Nursing School's 98% Pass Rate Isn't Lying — But It's Not Telling the Truth Either.

Start a FREE SIMCLEX at: SIMCLEX.com That 98% NCLEX pass rate on your school's banner is real — nobody's lying. But 98% of whom? Jon Haws RN does the math admissions to

The Test Shut Off at 75 and I Knew I Failed. I Was Wrong.

Start a FREE SIMCLEX at: SIMCLEX.com   The screen goes black at question 75. You're certain you failed. You cry in the parking lot, you google "shut off at 75 did I f