Just 4 words saved her life . . . “You CAN do this” In 2018 as a nursing student, Heather found herself in a very dark and lonely place. But those 4 words brought her out of that darkness and gave her hope. I was there with Heather when a nursing student asked her, “Will I make it through this?” ======== Here is her response: “You WILL make it through. When I got back from Iraq in 2008, I suffered from PTSD. And when I first found NURSING.com , I didn't think I was going to make it through. I fe...
Feb 06, 2024•11 min
[After graduating from nursing school with a 3.8 GPA, Ashley failed the NCLEX 3 times. This is her story.] Learn more about NURSING.com: https://nursing.com First one was a knife to my chest. I was miserable. I really honestly thought this was my calling for so long. Nursing is what I wanted to do. For four years, I had worked so hard and I was unsure, should I change my career? Should I do something else? The first time I failed, I decided I would run 10 miles, and I cried the whole time. I rem...
Feb 06, 2024•19 min
Working as a nurse in the ICU, I cared for many patients who are burned into my mind and heart forever. I would like to share with you the stories of two patients that I will remember forever and whom shaped my life and nursing career forever. People NEVER forget their nurses. The rest of their hospital stay will be a blur, but their NURSES will be in their minds forever. It's okay to CARE as a nurse. We went into this profession because we want to ease human suffering. We need more nurses who C...
Jan 30, 2024•6 min
During my first semester of nursing school my son was born and he had a couple issues that required him to stay in the hospital during his first couple weeks of life. My wife and I were sleeping at the hospital. I would go to nursing school and then come back and be with him. But there was one night where we were extremely tired, and so we went down to the hospital cafeteria to get some food. And when we came back a few minutes later after eating his nurse, her name was Tracy (I still remember h...
Jan 24, 2024•6 min
Today's episode is a must-listen for anyone gearing up for the NCLEX: "NCLEX Decoded: Strategies for Success.” The NCLEX can feel like a giant puzzle. It's a test designed not just to quiz you on knowledge but to assess your decision-making and critical-thinking skills. Understanding how the exam works is the first step in conquering it. We can help you put those puzzle pieces together, by giving you a real practice NCLEX Simulation: SIMCLEX. You can take a free sample today at https://nursing.c...
Jan 18, 2024•8 min
In today's special episode, "Mastering the Art of Efficient Study in Nursing School," we're diving deep into strategies that will transform your study habits. Plus, I have an exclusive offer on our Lifetime Membership that you won't want to miss. https://nursing.com/lifetime For more info on mastering efficiency in studying, we have a whole lesson that you can enjoy at https://nursing.com/lesson/test-01-01-time-management...
Jan 11, 2024•7 min
Deal of a Lifetime!! We are actually temporarily bringing back our lifetime plan. From now through Nov 27th (cyber Monday) you can sign of for our NURSING.com Lifetime Plan Enjoy lifetime access for just 9 monhtly payments of $49. Just visit nursing.com/lifetime to learn more!
Nov 08, 2023•9 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. Fractures Did you know that there a several different types of fractures? Closed – skin intact Open/Compound – bone pierces skin Transvers...
Sep 08, 2023•9 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. Diabetes mellitus, or diabetes, is a chronic condition affecting how your body handles sugar (glucose). It's due to issues with insulin, a...
Sep 07, 2023•9 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. Lymphoma is a kind of cancer in the body's defense system. It affects lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell, and can be Hodgkin or non-H...
Sep 06, 2023•6 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. You've probably heard the word cirrhosis, but what is it and why is it so concerning? Cirrhosis is deeply concerning due to its potential ...
Sep 05, 2023•5 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. Understanding Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is so important because it's a common heart condition. Trust me I get it, it can be super tric...
Sep 04, 2023•4 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. It's vital for you to grasp why potassium matters. Potassium helps nerves, muscles, and the heart work right. Imbalances can cause serious...
Sep 03, 2023•16 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. If you're looking for a quick overview of pharm questions that most commonly appear on the NCLEX - I've got you covered right here in my l...
Sep 02, 2023•21 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. Have you ever seen anything like this written in a patient's chart? G6 T2 P0 A3 L2 Looks like a bunch of scribbles on a notepad. . . am I ...
Sep 01, 2023•6 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. Do you know 3 types of Angina? Stable – With exertion. Relieved by nitroglycerin Unstable – At rest. Lasts longer. Unrelieved by nitroglyc...
Aug 31, 2023•5 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. ABGs refer to "Arterial Blood Gases." These are tests performed on a blood sample taken from an artery to assess the oxygen and carbon dio...
Aug 30, 2023•9 min
NURSING.com FREE Access If you are new to NURSING.com, let me tell you the best place to start! Visit NURSING.com/free for a FREE Access account. For years now NURSING.com has been helping students make huge improvements to their grades, feel confident, and pass tests ALL while putting their textbooks aside and spending less time studying overall!! And you can get FREE Access to the resources that make it all happen. No contract . . . No $$ . . . start your FREE NURSING.com account today and lea...
Aug 30, 2023•12 min
NURSING.com FREE Access NURSING.com is your best place for all the resources you need to not only survive, but to THRIVE in nursing school. Instead of reading hundreds of pages to learn heart failure, we will walk you right through the whole story of how things work. We will also highlight all the need-to-know information, cutting the fluff so you can focus on what really matters. And now, you can watch our incredible video content for FREE. With our new Free Access, you can watch 10 minutes of ...
Aug 30, 2023•12 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. We’ve asked 40,000 nursing students: "What is your biggest struggle in nursing school?" Can you guess the most common answer? 💊 NURSING P...
Aug 29, 2023•9 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. Today we are talking about creating an Abdominal Pain Care Plan. Learning to write a nursing care plan for abdominal pain will ensure qual...
Aug 28, 2023•8 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. Today we are talking about Advanced Directives, and in this lesson, I cut the fluff and give you what you need to know. I hope this Advanc...
Aug 27, 2023•8 min
Full Episode HERE Your 14-Day Jump-Start For Nursing School Success Begins Now!!! Come along for a 14-day series that will push you ahead of the curve, helping you break through the most difficult nursing content with a FREE 10-minute video each day. You can access these lesson videos completely free of charge! Simply set up a password, and you're good to go. Understanding the heart's complex physiology was like decoding a secret language. Ejection fractions, cardiac outputs – the terms seemed t...
Aug 26, 2023•5 min
Free NCLEX Prep Podcast - Just check out www.FlashNotesPodcast.com to start listening for FREE today. The NCSBN - the company that administers the NCLEX - released the NextGen NCLEX in April and it was hailed as the new standard in measuring nursing students' ability to be a successful new nurse Welp, they just published the results for the first batch of test takers These results mean we KNOW the pass rate for all nextgen NCLEX test takers I’m not even kidding when I say . . . . I was shocked -...
Aug 09, 2023•4 min
Get NCLEX Flash Notes here: https://nclexbook.com I know just as well as any other nursing student - nursing school is freaking EXPENSIVE! I attended an Accelerated BSN program or ABSN designed for working professionals interested in a career change. That means that it was about 4 years of nursing school compressed into 18 months of grueling torture - about at the cost of all 4 years combined! My wife and I were pregnant with our son Taz at the time, and… … We were buried in student debt… …We we...
Aug 02, 2023•14 min
Get the free NCLEX Flash Notes ebook at: https://nclexbook.com When we become a part of a group, especially a group that is so underfunded and understaffed (like Nurse Educators) it becomes very easy to defend every action and every individual. (In the past, I have mentioned several things that I feel need to change in nursing education. You can read about that here and here .) This is flawed however, because doing so denies the issues and neglects the need for change. Rather than keeping an ope...
Jul 31, 2023•15 min
Hi NURSING.com family. You can now prep for the NCLEX Anywhere! We just released a new Podcast show, “ NCLEX Flash Notes .” This is the perfect NCLEX review, and as ALWAYS, we have pulled out the MOST important info that you need to become an Amazing nurse! Listen in each week while we review the critical topics you need to pass the NCLEX Exam. Each episode will cover different MUST-know nursing topics, with a perfect overview of all you need to know. Our new show is NCLEX Flash Notes . Just cli...
Jul 28, 2023•2 min
Hi NURSING.com family. Are you getting ready for the NCLEX?? This show is the perfect NCLEX review, and as ALWAYS, we have pulled out the MOST important info that you need to become an Amazing nurse! Listen in each week while we review 77 critical topics you need to pass the NCLEX-RN Exam. Each episode will cover these MUST-know nursing topics with a perfect overview. Our new show is NCLEX Flash Notes. You can search that in apple podcasts or spotify and pull up the SHOW. NCLEX Flash Notes NCLEX...
Jul 21, 2023•3 min
If you want to further improve your test-taking skills, we have a FREE webinar for you - 5 Insanely Easy NCLEX Test-Taking Tips for Nursing Students. Sign up HERE ! Are you preparing for the NCLEX exam and looking for study tips to help you pass? In this episode, we share 20 essential study tips to help you ace the NCLEX. From creating a study schedule to utilizing study groups, these tips are tried and true methods that have helped countless nursing students succeed on the exam. We also cover t...
Jun 13, 2023•12 min
If you want to further improve your test-taking skills, we have a FREE webinar for you - 5 Insanely Easy NCLEX Test-Taking Tips for Nursing Students. Sign up HERE ! Looking to take the NCLEX exam but feeling overwhelmed? Look no further! In this episode, we cover the 8 things you need to know about the NCLEX before taking it. From understanding the computerized nature of the exam to knowing what to expect on test day, this video will give you all the information you need to feel prepared and con...
Jun 07, 2023•8 min
