Struggling to stay on track in nursing school or NCLEX prep? This is the plan 300,000+ students have used to pass — with daily structure, Flash Notes™, SIMCLEX®, and a 200% guarantee. 👉 https://nursing.com/ You show up ready to learn. But your preceptor barely looks at you—or worse, tears you down. What do you do when the one person meant to guide you just… won’t? In this episode, we talk about what it really feels like to be stuck with a toxic preceptor—and how to protect your confidence, your...
Apr 28, 2025•13 min
Struggling to stay on track in nursing school or NCLEX prep? This is the plan 300,000+ students have used to pass — with daily structure, Flash Notes™, SIMCLEX®, and a 200% guarantee. 👉 https://nursing.com/ I almost walked away from nursing school. Not because I wasn't cut out for it. Not because I couldn't handle the material. But because I believed the soul-crushing lies that nearly broke me – the same lies that might be breaking you right now. In this raw, unfiltered episode, I share my pers...
Apr 21, 2025•18 min
Struggling to stay on track in nursing school or NCLEX prep? This is the plan 300,000+ students have used to pass — with daily structure, Flash Notes™, SIMCLEX®, and a 200% guarantee. 👉 https://nursing.com/ Visit NURSING.com/different for exclusive resources designed specifically for nurses with learning differences. In this deeply personal episode, Jon Haws, RN and founder of NURSING.com, shares his never-before-told story of withdrawing from nursing school due to crippling anxiety—and how tha...
Apr 10, 2025•23 min
Struggling to stay on track in nursing school or NCLEX prep? This is the plan 300,000+ students have used to pass — with daily structure, Flash Notes™, SIMCLEX®, and a 200% guarantee. 👉 https://nursing.com/ SOCK method quiz/cheatsheets/resources at: https://nursing.com/sock In this raw and revealing episode, Jon Haws, RN, shares his personal journey from pharmacology nightmare to nursing confidence. With vulnerability and humor, Jon recounts his 3 AM study sessions surrounded by scattered flash...
Apr 02, 2025•27 min
Struggling to stay on track in nursing school or NCLEX prep? This is the plan 300,000+ students have used to pass — with daily structure, Flash Notes™, SIMCLEX®, and a 200% guarantee. 👉 https://nursing.com/ See if you might have imposter syndrome: https://nursing.com/imposter In this deeply personal episode, Jon Haws, RN and founder of NURSING.com, opens up about the universal yet rarely discussed feeling of inadequacy that plagues nursing students everywhere. Drawing from his own journey from ...
Mar 24, 2025•22 min
Is nursing still worth it, or is burnout making it impossible to stay in the profession? In this episode, Jon Haws, RN, gets real about the struggles nurses face, sharing his own story of quitting nursing school just 10 weeks before graduation. He breaks down the shocking statistics behind nursing burnout, why it might actually be PTSD, and the hard lessons he learned from hitting rock bottom. But here’s the truth—nursing can still be one of the most rewarding careers IF you take care of yoursel...
Mar 17, 2025•16 min
In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of my unexpected path—from stepping up as a charge nurse to creating a community of thousands of nursing students and professionals. I share how I started by posting my own notes and podcast episodes, only to realize how deeply my story resonated with others struggling through nursing school. You’ll hear how NRSNG rapidly grew, why I left my job in the NEURO ICU, and how I hired a passionate team to meet the skyrocketing demand for our resources. I a...
Feb 17, 2025•9 min
In today’s episode, I’m taking you through a pivotal part of my nursing journey—from my early days in the Neuro ICU to precepting students, becoming a charge nurse, and the moment I realized nursing education was broken. This realization is what fueled me to start NURSING.com (formerly NRSNG). I wanted to fill the gaps I saw in nursing education and give you the tools I never had. I share my struggles with imposter syndrome, the pressure of caring for patients, and why never feeling fully ready ...
Feb 13, 2025•13 min
Welcome to The Nursing Podcast , where we dive deep into the real-life experiences of being a nurse. I’m Jon Haws, RN, founder of Nursing.com, and today, we continue my journey—picking up from landing my first ICU job. In this episode, I share the raw realities of my 13-week neuro ICU internship at a Level 1 trauma hospital, from my first nerve-wracking shift to the heartbreaking cases that shaped my career. I reflect on the profound impact nurses have, including a moment I’ll never forget—when ...
Jan 31, 2025•11 min
Oh man . . . it's hard to believe that about 14 years ago I was sleeping on a mattress I'd found in the dumpster - not even sure if nursing school would ever end. It did. I survived. I passed the NCLEX. And I got a job in the Neuro ICU right out of nursing school. Today I want to share part IV of my journey. Happy Nursing Jon Haws, RN
Jan 30, 2025•18 min
Caveat: some people (nurses) might not agree AT ALL with what I say here . . . oh well! I want to share how it is to give confidence to those struggling. We get hundreds of emails a day from nursing students. Sadly, a good portion of them are from students who feel like they should quit nursing school altogether. I started nursing school with high hopes, but after my fourth semester, I dropped out. I quit nursing school. I knew nursing school was going to be hard . . . I mean the whole point is ...
Jan 29, 2025•13 min
For some FREE resources to help you through nursing school visit www.nursing.com My name's Jon Haws, RN, founder of Nursing.com. Today we're gonna continue the story of my journey in hopes that it will give you some motivation, give you that some of it will resonate with you and give you kind of some background on me, but also some motivation to continue in your journey wherever you are in your nursing journey. Yesterday we left off with me just getting into nursing school, my journey of applyin...
Jan 28, 2025•13 min
When I think back 14ish years, it is hard to believe just how far this nursing journey has taken me. Sometimes it's helpful to think back to the beginning and consider how it began. Over the next couple of days I want to share with you parts of my journey that you may not know and hopefully some of it will resonate with you. #nclex #nursingschool
Jan 27, 2025•11 min
Nursing school is hard enough without the fear tactics. And the truth is, there are so many ways that people learn. Instead of saying "One of you won't be here" - what if we said "I will HELP you be here". You CAN Do This! -Jon Haws, RN
Jan 16, 2025•5 min
The past is prologue - there comes a time when we have to stop wishing for a better past. It took me 5 years to accept the past as a way to move forward.
Jan 15, 2025•10 min
I literally wrote the book on surviving your first year as a nurse (The New Nurse Survival Guide) and today I wanted to share 3 tips from that book that you can start applying TODAY whether you are in nursing school or already working as a nurse.
Oct 21, 2024•11 min
If I could encourage you to start doing ONE thing today while you're in nursing school - it would be this. To join the NURSING.com Insider Circle - just visit https://NURSING.com/insider
Oct 17, 2024•8 min
What I Wish I Knew: Potassium-K Lab Value Levels For resources to help you master Potassium and ALL the lab values, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/labvalues . What do bananas, avocados, and kale all have in common? Potassium! For more resources to help you understand Potassium, Hyperkalemia and Hypokalemia, click here : What role does it play in the body? What’s a normal range level for potassium? And what happens when potassium levels are too low or too high? On a shift early...
Apr 30, 2024•15 min
For resources to help you master ABGs and ALL the LabVales, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/LabValues . At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about ABGs including gas exchange, acidosis, alkalosis (metabolic and respiratory), normal lab value ranges, and more. We also cover key concepts for NCLEX for arterial blood gases. Our gas exchange nursing care plan covers impaired gas exchange nursing management, impaired gas exchange interventions, impaire...
Apr 23, 2024•14 min
For resources to help you master Cardiac topics, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/heart . At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about distributive shock including distributive shock pathophysiology, distributive shock definition, types of distributive shock, and more. We also cover key concepts for NCLEX on distributive shock nursing. Our distributive shock nursing care plan covers distributive shock nursing management, distributive shock interventi...
Apr 16, 2024•7 min
For resources to help you master Cardiac topics, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/heart . At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about coronary artery disease including coronary artery disease pathophysiology, coronary artery disease symptoms, coronary artery disease treatment, and more. We also cover key concepts for NCLEX on coronary artery disease nursing. Our coronary artery disease nursing care plan covers coronary artery disease nursing managem...
Apr 09, 2024•21 min
For resources to help you master Cardiac topics we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/heart . At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about heart failure (CHF) including: heart failure pathophysiology, heart failure pharmacology (heart failure medications), heart failure symptoms heart failure treatment, and more. We also cover key concepts for NCLEX for heart failure nursing. Excerpt : "So let me tell you about this patient of mine. They had just come out...
Apr 02, 2024•5 min
For resources to help you master Cardiac topics we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/heart . At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about agina including: angina symptoms, anginal pharmacology, the difference between stable and unstable angina, and more. We also cover key concepts for NCLEX for angina nursing. Excerpt: ". . . it wasn't my patient that I should have been worried about When my patient's son said he wasn't feeling right, it would have been ...
Mar 26, 2024•8 min
ICU Nurses- Voices for the Voiceless For more on cardiac care to help you in nursing school visit NURSING.com/heart Roughly 1 out of every 3 patients in the Intensive Care Unit, on average, are unable to communicate. Because of this, the role of an ICU nurse stretches far beyond providing medical care alone, but also acting as an advocate, or a voice for the voiceless to ensure that these patient’s needs, rights, and wishes are heard, recognized and respected. In doing so, these warriors in scru...
Mar 19, 2024•13 min
For more Carditis and the heart just visit NURSING.com/heart . Did you know that the average human heart beats 100,000 times a day, pumping 2,000 gallons of blood? Now, imagine if this vital pump was under threat from, pericarditis, myocarditis, or endocarditis and couldn’t pump effectively. In this episode we will look at the importance of understanding carditis and an easy way that I used in nursing school to remember the area affected by each type; then, run through a quick scenario at the en...
Mar 12, 2024•11 min
Ever notice why some students embrace challenges, while others shy away? Mindsets. Your mindset might just change how you approach your goals in nursing school… A fixed mindset: abilities are set. A growth mindset: abilities develop. When challenges appear, your mindsets matter. In nursing school, challenges are constant. A student with a fixed mindset avoids challenges. One with a growth mindset thrives when challenges arise. Having a growth mindset is the secret sauce for success. Putting effo...
Mar 05, 2024•5 min
Does insulin save lives, or does it take lives? Bodies that don’t produce enough insulin shut down, but if too much insulin is in the system it can be just as disastrous. As nurses, we are often tasked with administering insulin to our patients. When done incorrectly it can be life-threatening. For years I was a member of the code team, and count WHEN I was a new nurse I remember trying to keep track of the patients and insulin action times and the dosage times and everything else . . . I felt l...
Feb 27, 2024•6 min
I almost killed my patient. In the days after my scary event I spent hours and hours thinking through what I had done. I knew my ABCs, I had prioritized everything I was supposed to, how could things have gone so horribly wrong… See our full lesson on Prioritization at NURSING.com . And I realized that I had overlooked a very important part of my ABCs. It wasn’t the A - airway, the B - breathing, or the C - circulation What was left, what did I miss? What I violated was Safety . That small littl...
Feb 20, 2024•12 min
Them: "How can we help?" Me: "I don't know . . ." This is a conversation I've had countless times over the last year. If only I had some sort of ailment that could be SEEN and FIXED . . . why can't it be a broken arm? A simple cast would "fix" the problem in just a matter of weeks. With mental health, you read the books, you do the checklists, you take the meds, you attend counseling . . . but at any moment . . . around any corner . . . there it is - ready to crush your hope and happiness. Each ...
Feb 15, 2024•10 min
My first job out of nursing school was in the Neuro ICU at a very large hospital in downtown Dallas. In this particular hospital, new ICU nurses complete a 13 week internship partnered with an experienced nurse (called a preceptor). My preceptors name was Vanessa, she was the typical ICU nurse type - a hardcore, type A nurse. She trained me well . . . but . . . those 13 weeks came to an end and it was time for me to be all on my own - no safety net to fall back on, no babysitter to make sure I d...
Feb 13, 2024•9 min
