
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
by Jon Haws RN: Nursing Podcast Host, Critical Care Nurse, Nursing School Men
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You Can't Memorize Nursing Pharmacology. Stop Trying.
Jun 24, 2026
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The Impostor in Your Head Is Lying to You
Jun 22, 2026
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Nursing School Wasn't Built for the Way You Learn
Jun 17, 2026
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Stop Waiting to Feel Ready
Jun 10, 2026
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The NCLEX Is a Terrible Place to Find Out You Weren't Ready.
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| 6/24/26 | ![]() You Can't Memorize Nursing Pharmacology. Stop Trying. | Test your pharm knowledge at: SIMCLEX.com If pharmacology is the thing that's breaking you right now, I want to start with the most freeing sentence you'll hear all week: you cannot memorize pharmacology, and you need to stop trying. I mean it. There are thousands of medications. Nobody — not your sharpest classmate, not your instructor, not a working nurse with twenty years on the floor — has them all memorized as individual facts. So if your study plan is "make flashcards for every drug and its dose and its side effects and its contraindications," I need you to hear that the plan itself is broken. It's not that you're failing pharm. It's that you're playing a game that can't be won the way you're playing it. Here's the shift that changes everything. You don't learn drugs. You learn classes. The whole secret of pharmacology is that medications travel in families, and the family tells you most of what you need to know. If you understand what a beta blocker does, you understand the whole "-olol" family — how it works, what it does to heart rate and blood pressure, what to watch for, who shouldn't get it. You just turned forty flashcards into one concept. Do that across the major classes and the ocean suddenly has a shape. So here's how I'd actually study it. First, learn the mechanism — what does this class do in the body? If you understand the mechanism, the side effects aren't a separate list to memorize; they're just the logical consequences of the mechanism. A drug that lowers blood pressure — of course it can cause dizziness when you stand up. You didn't memorize that. You understood it. Second, learn the class by its stem. The naming isn't random. "-pril" is an ACE inhibitor. "-statin" lowers cholesterol. "-azepam" is in the benzo family. Those word parts are free points the test is practically handing you, if you've trained your eye to see them. Third — and this is the part most students skip — you test yourself with questions, not flashcards. Because here's the thing the NCLEX actually cares about: it does not ask you to recite a drug's half-life. It asks you what you'd do. What you'd assess, what you'd teach the patient, what you'd hold and call the provider about. That's applied knowledge, and the only way to build applied knowledge is to practice applying it — in questions, with rationales, over and over. | — | ||||||
| 6/22/26 | ![]() The Impostor in Your Head Is Lying to You | Get rid of the imposter at: SIMCLEX.com | — | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | ![]() Nursing School Wasn't Built for the Way You Learn | Take a SIMCLEX at: SIMCLEX.com I want to talk to the student who has started to believe something quietly devastating: that the reason nursing school is so hard for you is that something is wrong with you. Maybe you have ADHD. Maybe you're dyslexic. Maybe you process things more slowly, or anxiety hijacks you the second a test starts. And somewhere along the way you started to wonder if you're just not built for this. I want to flip that whole thing on its head. Nursing school wasn't built for the way you learn. That is not the same as you being incapable of learning nursing. Those are two completely different statements, and the difference between them might be the difference between you quitting and you becoming a nurse. Here's what I mean. The traditional nursing school model is built for one specific kind of brain — the one that can sit through a three-hour lecture, read fifty dense pages, hold it all in working memory, and reproduce it on a timed test. If that's not your brain, the system doesn't bend. It just makes you feel like you're failing. But notice what's actually happening there: the system is testing how well you fit its method, not how good a nurse you'll be. And those are not the same thing. Some of the most extraordinary nurses I've known are people who struggled badly in that lecture-hall model. So let's talk about what actually works when school wasn't built for you. If you have ADHD and a three-hour study block is a fantasy, stop pretending it isn't. Work in short, intense bursts with real breaks. Use questions to create the stimulation and feedback your brain craves, instead of fighting to stay awake over highlighted notes. If you're dyslexic and reading is slow and exhausting, stop making reading your primary input — lean on questions, audio, diagrams, and patterns. If you process more slowly, give yourself permission to go deep on fewer things instead of skimming everything badly. And if anxiety is the enemy, the antidote isn't "calm down" — it's evidence. Anxiety thrives on uncertainty, and the cure for uncertainty is data about where you actually stand. Notice the thread running through all of those. The fix is never "try to be a different kind of brain." The fix is "study in a way that gives your brain feedback and patterns instead of brute-force memorization." Feedback is the great equalizer. It doesn't care how you learn. It just tells you what you know and what you don't — and that works for every kind of mind. | — | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | ![]() Stop Waiting to Feel Ready | Go take the first step: SIMCLEX.com If you're waiting to feel ready before you take the next step, I want to lovingly tell you something: that feeling may not show up first. It may not show up at all the way you're picturing it. I see this constantly, and I've lived it. We tell ourselves, "I'll start when I feel ready. I'll schedule the test when I'm confident. I'll take the practice exam once I've reviewed just a little more." On the surface, that sounds responsible. It sounds careful. It sounds like preparation. Here's the problem. Waiting feels safe. More time, more notes, more videos, one more review pass — it all feels like getting ready. It scratches the itch of "I'm doing something." So we keep doing it, and the calendar keeps moving. But waiting can quietly become avoidance. And the dangerous part is the two look absolutely identical from the inside. Sometimes "I need more time" is true. And sometimes "I need more time" really means "I'm scared to find out where I stand." You have to be honest about which one it is — because one moves you forward and the other keeps you stuck while pretending to help. | — | ||||||
| 6/8/26 | ![]() The NCLEX Is a Terrible Place to Find Out You Weren't Ready. | Start a SIMCLEX now at: SIMCLEX.com The NCLEX is not the place where you want to discover that your prep wasn't working. Sit with that for a second, because it's the whole episode. There's a question hiding underneath all your studying that most students never ask directly. It's not "Did I study?" Of course you studied. The real question — the one that matters — is "Am I ready?" And those two things are not the same. First hard truth. More studying does not always mean more readiness. Activity and progress feel identical from the inside, but they're different animals. You can log a hundred hours and still walk in with blind spots you've never tested, because human nature is to keep practicing what you already know and quietly avoid what you don't. It feels like work. It even feels good. But it leaves the dangerous gaps untouched. That leads to the thing I worry about most: false confidence. You start recognizing the familiar question patterns. The comfortable topics feel comfortable. And comfort disguises itself as readiness. But the NCLEX isn't a familiar quiz you can settle into. It's adaptive. It pushes on you, raises the difficulty as you go, and probes right at the edge of what you know. Recognizing a question on a calm afternoon is not the same as being ready for that pressure. | — | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | ![]() You're Not Behind. You're Just Studying Without Feedback. | Start a SIMCLEX at: SIMCLEX.com Today I want to talk to the student who feels like they're studying all the time but still doesn't feel confident. You know the feeling. You put in the hours. You're not lazy — you're doing the work. And yet there's this constant low hum of "it's not sticking" and "I'm behind." I want to offer you a completely different explanation, because I don't think you have a time problem. I think you have a feedback problem. Here's the trap. Passive studying feels productive. Reading your notes, re-watching a lecture, highlighting, rewriting your slides into prettier slides — all of it feels like progress. Your hand is moving, your eyes are on the material, time is passing. So your brain rewards you: "Good job, we studied." You walk away feeling like you did something. But tests reveal what actually stuck. A topic can make complete sense while you're watching someone explain it — and feel like a foreign language the second it shows up as a question with four answers that all look right. Recognizing information is not the same as knowing it. And passive studying only ever trains recognition. | — | ||||||
| 2/23/26 | ![]() Pass Any Nursing School Exam With Ease [replay]✨ | nursing school examstest preparation+3 | — | — | — | nursing schoolexams+3 | — | 22m 22s | |
| 2/20/26 | ![]() 28 Must-Have Nursing School Supplies [replay]✨ | nursing school suppliesstudent success+3 | — | — | — | nursing schoolsupplies+3 | — | 31m 06s | |
| 2/5/26 | ![]() Why I Quit Nursing School [replay]✨ | nursing educationtoxic culture+3 | — | — | — | nursing schooltoxic culture+3 | — | 25m 37s | |
| 2/2/26 | ![]() They Told Me I'm Not Cut Out for Nursing | Fighting Nursing School Gatekeeping✨ | nursing educationgatekeeping+3 | — | NCLEX study planNURSING.com+1 | — | nursing schoolgatekeeping+3 | NCLEXgenie | 8m 24s | |
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| 1/30/26 | ![]() My First Patient Died and Nobody Told Me It Would Feel Like This✨ | patient deathgrief processing+3 | — | NURSING.comNCLEXgenie.com+1 | — | first patient deathnursing grief+3 | — | 7m 18s | |
| 1/28/26 | ![]() Why You Should Feel Scared for Your First Nursing Job (and how to deal with it)✨ | first nursing jobnursing career+3 | — | NURSING.com | — | nursingfirst job+8 | NCLEXgenie.com | 9m 11s | |
| 1/23/26 | ![]() I Failed Out With One Semester Left | What Happens Now & How to Decide What's Next✨ | failing out of nursing schoolstudent loans+5 | — | NURSING.com | — | nursing schoolfailed out+6 | — | 10m 53s | |
| 1/21/26 | ![]() My Preceptor Calls Me Stupid Every Clinical✨ | verbal abuseclinical education+3 | — | NURSING.com | — | preceptorverbal abuse+5 | — | 11m 00s | |
| 1/19/26 | ![]() The Discrimination That's Ignored In Nursing✨ | nursing school discriminationracial discrimination+5 | — | NURSING.comTitle VI+2 | — | nursing school discriminationracial discrimination nursing+8 | — | 11m 14s | |
| 1/8/26 | ![]() When Your Nursing Instructor Wants You to Fail✨ | nursing educationinstructor bias+3 | — | NURSING.com | — | nursing instructorevaluation+3 | — | 9m 11s | |
| 1/7/26 | ![]() The Nursing Brain Sheet That Actually Works (PLUS FREE DOWNLOAD) | The Nursing Brain Sheet That Actually Works (PLUS FREE DOWNLOAD) GET YOUR FREE DOWNLOAD AT: https://nursing.com/cheat-sheet It's 10am on your first clinical day. You've got four pages of notes you can't make sense of, vital signs written on your hand, and you just forgot to chart that your patient went to the bathroom. Meanwhile, that beautiful color-coded brain sheet your instructor gave you? Completely useless. The problem isn't you. It's that academic brain sheets are designed for perfect theoretical patients who don't exist. You need a brain sheet for chaos. For the real world. For keeping your patients alive and yourself sane. You'll Learn: The 3 reasons most brain sheets fail (and why instructors keep giving them to you anyway) The only 6 sections your brain sheet actually needs Why time-based organization is the difference between success and medication errors The "pro move" for end-of-shift documentation that protects you legally The 3 biggest mistakes students make with brain sheets (and how to avoid them) Why your instructor will hate your brain sheet—and why that's totally fine The truth: Your brain sheet isn't about making your instructor happy. It's about keeping your patients safe when you're managing four people who all need pain meds at the same time. Resources mentioned: Head to NURSING.com for downloadable brain sheet templates, videos showing exactly how to fill them out, and examples from real clinical shifts. We built an entire section on clinical organization skills because nobody teaches you this in nursing school—they just expect you to figure it out. Keywords: nursing brain sheet, clinical organization, nursing student tips, clinical nursing, shift report, patient care organization, nursing documentation, med-surg clinical, student nurse, nursing school tips, clinical survival Connect with NURSING.com: 🌐 NURSING.com 📥 Download free brain sheet templates 📹 Watch step-by-step fill-out tutorials #NursingStudent #BrainSheet #ClinicalNursing #NursingSchool #StudentNurse #NursingTips #MedSurgNursing #NurseOrganization #ClinicalRotation #NursingDocumentation #FutureRN | — | ||||||
| 1/6/26 | ![]() How to Survive an Nursing Abusive Preceptor | You're doing everything right in clinical, but your preceptor is setting you up to fail. They humiliate you in front of patients, refuse to let you practice skills, then write that you "lack initiative." When you report it, you're told to "build a better relationship" or "be more confident." This isn't about being tough. This is abuse. And it's happening in nursing programs everywhere. In this episode, I'm giving you the exact survival strategy for getting through a toxic preceptorship without tanking your grade—or your mental health. You'll Learn: How to tell the difference between a tough preceptor and an abusive one Why some preceptors specifically take students to bully them The 6-step documentation strategy that protects your grade When to fight for reassignment vs. when to just survive How to build evidence that actually holds up in grade appeals What to do when your instructor gaslights you about the abuse The hard truth: Sometimes the system protects the preceptor over you. But you can survive this. And you will become a nurse. Resources mentioned: Visit NURSING.com and search "clinical survival" for documentation templates, communication scripts for difficult preceptors, and a community of students going through the exact same thing. We're the resource that tells you the truth about nursing education—including the parts nobody else wants to talk about. Keywords: nursing student, clinical preceptor, toxic preceptor, abusive preceptor, nursing school survival, clinical instructor, nursing education, preceptorship problems, student nurse, nursing clinical Connect with NURSING.com: 🌐 NURSING.com 📧 Search "clinical survival" for free resources #NursingStudent #NursingSchool #StudentNurse #ClinicalRotation #NursingEducation #PreceptorProblems #ToxicWorkplace #NurseLife #FutureNurse #RNtoBe | — | ||||||
| 10/10/25 | ![]() Pressure Ulcers Nursing Care Plan | View the full lesson here: https://academy.nursing.com/lesson/nursing-care-plan-ncp-for-pressure-ulcer-decubitus-ulcer-pressure-injury/?quiz-view=open All right. Let's work through an example Nursing Care Plan for a patient with a pressure ulcer or pressure ulcers, right? Let's look at the hypothetical patient. Let's think just about what we might see on this specific patient regarding the pressure ulcers. So subjective data, if I have a patient with a big wound, whether it's on their sacrum or their shoulder or their leg, they're probably going to be pretty uncomfortable, right? They might actually have some pain, right? Or they could potentially have some tenderness over the area, especially over those bony prominences. So that's something to think about for sure. Then you might actually see it, right? We're actually gonna see the pressure ulcer. So depending on the stage, stage one to stage four, make sure you check out the lesson on pressure ulcers inside of the med surg integumentary course to know how to stage these pressure ulcers. | — | ||||||
| 10/9/25 | ![]() Encephalopathy Nursing Care Plan | Find the full lesson here: https://academy.nursing.com/lesson/nursing-care-plan-ncp-for-encephalopathy/ This here is the nursing care plan for encephalopathy. So, the pathophysiology. Encephalopathy is a general term for disease of the brain tissue. It's a syndrome of brain dysfunction caused by damage to brain tissue and failure. This damage can be done by atrophy, lack of oxygen, edema, or toxins. So some nursing considerations, there are a few things that we want to consider when taking care of these patients, we want to consider putting them on seizure precautions. So we want these patients to be protected. The best way to do that is with seizure precautions. We want to do vital signs. We want to monitor their vitals. We want to do frequent neuro checks and if available and if necessary, we would need to monitor their ICP. And we want to draw labs; more importantly, ammonia and finding levels to see if that is the root cause. The desired outcome for these patients is to treat or reverse the cause in order to restore proper brain function, it returns the patient to their usual baseline mental status. So when this patient comes in to you, this encephalopathic patient comes in to see you. There's going to be a few things that we see, but there's going to be some things that either them or their family tells us. Some of the subjective data that we see is that they are going to complain about mood or personality changes. | — | ||||||
| 10/8/25 | ![]() be YOUR best self (not this) | I was so wrong . . . let me explain. I first created this shirt back in 2019 - at the time I was focused on the word "BEST". As in, "Be Your BEST Self". However, going through 2021 and all the way through 2023 my depression began to grow - immensely. At a few points it absolutely has been debilitating. This is nothing new - I've battled depression, bipolar, and anxiety for many years - but this time - the cloud was much darker. Nursing can be tough. Find hope at NURSING.com ❤️ Happy Nursing! Jon Haws, RN | — | ||||||
| 10/8/25 | ![]() Abdominal Pain Nursing Care Plan | Find the full lesson here: https://academy.nursing.com/lesson/nursing-care-plan-ncp-for-abdominal-pain/ First, we're going to collect our data. Remember, our data is just our assessment, so subjective from the patient and objective from the nurse. A patient with abdominal pain, that's having symptoms, the subjective data for this patient is likely going to be the pain, maybe they have a decreased appetite, and how about some nausea? Those kinds of things are going to be all their subjective data. For objective data, maybe they feel really restless. This is what the nurse is observing. Let's say we see on this patient, that the patient is having some guarding of the abdomen. Maybe some rebound tenderness when they're pushed down. Maybe we see, or assess the patient and realize they're constipated or have constant vomiting or diarrhea. These kinds of things will be our objective data. My hypothetical patient for our care plan will say that they're having abdominal pain and it's from excessive vomiting. We have to analyze the information. This is going to help us to diagnose and prioritize. So what is the problem? Well, the problem is the pain and the problem is that they are having some excessive vomiting. So, what needs to be improved? What can we do to improve or what needs to be improved to help the patient, is going to be the pain, right, but more than that, we need to, for this patient, we need to fix the vomiting, so that can help fix the pain. What is our priority? So, our priority is going to be to stop the vomiting and to help that abdomen just not be so tender right, so stop that vomiting, which is going to help with the pain for this patient and relieve that pain. | — | ||||||
| 10/7/25 | ![]() i cried as they mourned their loss | Working as a nurse in the ICU, I cared for many patients who are burned into my mind and heart forever. One of those patients was a young mom, in her early 40s with children in their early teens, who had suffered from cancer that had metastasized to her brain. She was incredibly sick, and this cancer was extremely advanced. One night as I cared for her, she was feeling exceptionally sick. Just a couple hours into the shift, I was preparing her for bed. Her family stepped out and went home for the night. I could see that this night she was very upset - more so than other nights. She was low on energy, she was sad, she looked weaker than normal. Within moments of her family leaving for the night, she passed away quietly. Nursing is hard, find hope at NURSING.com ❤️ Happy Nursing! Jon Haws, RN | — | ||||||
| 10/6/25 | ![]() "i don't know . . ." | Them: "How can we help?" Me: "I don't know . . ." The hardest part is I honestly don't know what will help. [many of you know I struggle with depression, anxiety, bipolar, and OCD] 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 time you start a new medication you feel hopeful . . . "this time it will work" And each time a new medication doesn't help, you feel a bit more hopeless . . . "maybe I am beyond repair. Visit us at NURSING.com to rekindle your hope. ❤️ Happy Nursing! Jon Haws, RN | — | ||||||
| 10/3/25 | ![]() sound familiar? | I've been where you are. During my first semester of nursing school, I walked into a room of 25 students who would be my cohort. As I scanned the faces, a chill ran down my spine. "I'm the only lucky one here," I thought. "Everyone else is so much more prepared. I hope no one discovers how dumb I am." This feeling didn't go away after graduation. On my first day as a new grad nurse in the Neuro ICU of a large Trauma I hospital in Dallas, I was sweating, out of breath, and utterly convinced I'd slipped through the cracks in the hiring process. I was certain all the other new nurses had gone to better schools, done better internships, and would survive orientation when I wouldn't. Visit NURSING.com to find the hope you need right now. ❤️ Happy Nursing! Jon Haws, RN | — | ||||||
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