Nursing School Week by Week
Get the inside scoop on nursing school from someone who's been through it! Join nursing student Melanie each week for expert tips on studying smarter, passing exams, mastering clinicals, and landing your first nursing jo...
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| 4/3/25 | Head-to-Toe Physical Assessment: Listen & Learn! [Rewind] | Send a text Mastering the Head-to-Toe Physical Assessment in Nursing Hey there, future nurses! In this episode, I’m bringing back one of the most popular and highly requested episodes—a full, step-by-step head-to-toe physical assessment, demonstrated on my then-fiancé (now husband!). I’ll walk you through each step, explaining not just what to do but why it matters. We’ll talk about the difference between subjective and objective data, the essential tools you’ll need, and how to structure you... | 19m 16s | ||||||
| 3/28/25 | Mastering Bedside Shift Report: A Nursing Student’s Guide to ISBAR | Send a text Mastering the ISBAR Method: How to Give a Clear, Confident Bedside Shift Report Giving a bedside shift report can feel intimidating, but it’s a skill every nursing student needs to master. In this episode of Nursing School Week by Week, I walk you through the ISBAR method—Identify, Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendations—so you can communicate clearly, concisely, and professionally during handoff. I’ll share my own experiences with shift reports, break down each ISB... | 17m 12s | ||||||
| 3/20/25 | The BEST Nursing School Schedule | Send a text Feeling overwhelmed trying to keep up with nursing school lectures, clinicals, and exams while balancing work and life? You’re not alone! In this episode of Nursing School Week by Week, I’m giving you a step-by-step Nursing School Study Schedule—the exact system I used to get straight A’s and pass the NCLEX while working part-time and being a mom to five kids. You’ll learn: ✅ How to structure your study time to stay ahead in nursing school ✅ The biggest study mistakes that ... | 23m 01s | ||||||
| 3/13/25 | Electrolytes Made Simple (Part 3): Calcium, Magnesium & Life-Threatening Imbalances Explained | Send a text Mastering Electrolytes: Understanding Calcium and Magnesium in Nursing In this final installment of the Electrolytes series at Nursing School Week by Week, the focus is on calcium and magnesium. The role of calcium extends beyond strong bones to muscle contractions, nerve transmission, and blood clotting, while magnesium maintains muscle and nerve functions. Detailed signs of imbalances such as Chvostek's and Trousseau's signs for hypocalcemia and symptoms of hypercalcemia and hy... | 34m 00s | ||||||
| 3/7/25 | Potassium: The Heart’s MVP – Essential Electrolyte for Nursing Students | Episode 2 of Electrolytes 101 | Send a text Mastering Potassium: Essential Knowledge for Life-Saving Nursing In this episode of Nursing School Week by Week, the focus is on the critical role of potassium in the body. The discussion includes the importance of potassium for heart function, recognizing the dangers of both hyperkalemia (high potassium levels) and hypokalemia (low potassium levels), as well as the symptoms and causes of these imbalances. Practical tips are provided on how to manage these conditions, including a... | 14m 41s | ||||||
| 3/1/25 | Electrolytes Made Easy: Hyponatremia & Hypernatremia Explained for Nursing Students | Send a text Understanding Electrolyte Imbalances in Nursing Practice In this episode of Nursing School Week by Week, host Melanie breaks down the critical concept of electrolytes, focusing on their imbalances and the associated dangers. She emphasizes the real-world implications for nursing practice and provides detailed information on the four key electrolytes: sodium, potassium, calcium, and magnesium. The episode covers symptoms, causes, and nursing interventions for both hyponatremia and... | 18m 29s | ||||||
| 2/18/25 | First Semester Success Guide: What to Do NOW to Prepare for August | Send a text Preparation Tips for Nursing Students: Insights from Nurse Melanie In this episode of Nursing School Week by Week, I share essential tips to help you prepare for nursing school. I cover how mastering time management and organization skills with the use of digital and paper planners can be a game-changer. I also explain the importance of setting up an organized workspace and creating a study schedule. You'll hear my advice on refreshing prerequisite knowledge such as anatomy, phys... | 33m 59s | ||||||
| 2/11/25 | Mastering Cardiac Meds: Your Ultimate Nursing Guide | Send a text In this episode of 'Nursing School Week by Week', we dive deep into cardiac medications, breaking down complex pharmacology concepts into bite-sized pieces. We start with an overview of the main categories: diuretics, antiarrhythmics, and anticoagulants, using various analogies to make them memorable, like plumbers for diuretics and electricians for antiarrhythmics. We discuss specific medications such as ACE inhibitors, ARBs, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, and diuretics... | 46m 01s | ||||||
| 1/14/25 | Go to Nursing School for Free | Send a text Nursing is one of those few degrees that you can get for free, if you play your cards right. And this is one of those times when it pays to do some research, because besides paying for your first house, college will probably be your biggest expense in life. Paying out of pocket for nursing school is expensive. Average costs range from $12,000 to $35,000 for an associates degree in nursing; and a bachelor’s degree is $30,000 to $80,000. And if you go to a private colleg... | 15m 46s | ||||||
| 4/3/24 | Home Health Nursing For The Win | Send a text The difference between working in a hospital and working home health is night and day. I’m going to be talking about my experience as a home health nurse, what a day in the life looks like. I’m going to touch on some myths about home health nurses, kind of the reputation that they have and if I think that that’s warranted or not. And how it compares to working in the hospital. These are just things to kind of tuck in your back pocket if you’re going through nursing school right no... | 20m 26s | ||||||
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| 10/1/23 | FALLS | Send a text Today we're talking about a basic one but a big one. We’re talking about falls. We're gonna get into what constitutes a fall, because it may not be exactly what you think a fall is but it would still count as a fall. We're gonna get into what makes a person more likely to have a fall; we're gonna get into what we as nurses can do to help prevent falls, and we're also going to touch a little bit on the good and bad of placing so much importance on preventing falls. Get 20-30% off ... | 26m 00s | ||||||
| 9/5/23 | Night Shift vs Day Shift (Part 2) | Send a text Let's continue talking about the pros and cons of working night shift vs day shift as a new nurse. Get 20% off a Lecturio Nursing subscription with Discount Code: nursingschoolwbw20 First up, on the day shift, there are more meds to give. So, that can be good if you’re trying to practice your skills, but bad just because it’s more work and it’s going to take longer to do each of your med passes. Especially that first morning med pass. That’s when the patients are getting the bu... | 14m 10s | ||||||
| 8/30/23 | Night Shift Nursing vs Day Shift | Send a text Today I want to talk about the differences between day shift vs night shift for nurses. Maybe you’re on the fence, you don’t know if you want to work day shift or night shift when you graduate, so I want to go over the pros and cons of each to help you make your decision. Check out Lecturio for incredibly helpful videos and so much more! Get 50% off a subscription through August! http://lectur.io/nursingschoolweekbyweek After August, you can still get 20% off Lecturio with... | 17m 09s | ||||||
| 8/18/23 | Stroke - Case Study | Send a text You just graduated from nursing school, and now you're working as a nurse in the emergency department. The EMTs bring in a 26 year old female with generalized weakness of the left lower and upper extremities, and a sudden headache. What do you do? Can you complete all 5 critical actions, or will you carry out a dangerous action? Learn the most important things to do for stroke patients as a nurse. Check out TrueLearn for an NCLEX program that perfectly integrates with Picmonic! h... | 27m 17s | ||||||
| 8/3/23 | Stroke | Send a text Today we are focusing on Strokes, or Brain attacks. This is one of those conditions that is so important for us nurses to know the signs and symptoms of, because your patient could have a stroke at any point. They could come into the ER with a suspected stroke, or they could be recovering on the med-surg unit, about to be discharged, and then have a stroke. So it can happen at any time, and we want to make sure we know what to look for. We also want to make sure we know what... | 13m 41s | ||||||
| 7/27/23 | WHAT'S IN MY CLINICAL BAG? | Send a text It’s almost time for a new semester to start and a lot of you will be going to clinicals for the first time, and the rest of you will be going to clinicals again. I am all done with clinicals now, but I know when I was going through it, I packed a lot of things that I really didn’t need at all, and then there were some things that I didn’t pack, that I kept having to bum off my friends. So, we’re gonna go through all the things that you need for nursing school clinicals. Thinking... | 22m 39s | ||||||
| 7/19/23 | Re-Release: My INSANELY Effective Study System | Send a text With a new semester just around the corner, and some of you starting nursing school for the very first time, it is so important to make sure your study system is top-notch and ready to go. As James Clear would say, "You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." In this episode, I'm sharing my insanely effective study system for nursing school, step by step. It is efficient and it works. Take what you like, and leave the rest! This is a study... | 9m 19s | ||||||
| 7/12/23 | LPN Degree vs RN: What You Need to Know | Send a text There are pros for going straight for your RN, there are pros for doing LPN first, or even just doing LPN. Not everyone who gets their LPN degree is planning on becoming an RN. The first obvious pro for going the LPN route is that it’s faster. You can get your LPN in just 12 months, whereas getting your RN takes about 18 months. So you’re gonna save like half a year, which isn’t a huge deal. I mean, once you’re in nursing school, the time goes by so quickly anyway, that 6 m... | 16m 46s | ||||||
| 7/5/23 | Myocardial Infarction - Case Study | Send a text I patient comes into the emergency room with chest pain. What are you, the nurse, going to do about it? Would you recognize it? Go through this case study with us and see what to do when a patient is having a heart attack, or myocardial infarction. Learn the 5 critical actions you must take as a nurse to prevent lasting damage from a myocardial infarction. Are you looking for an easier way to study for your nursing school classes? Check out Picmonic and get 20% off an alrea... | 16m 10s | ||||||
| 6/28/23 | Myocardial Infarction | Send a text Everything you need to know as a nursing student about Myocardial Infarction, or a heart attack. Know the signs and symptoms of myocardial infarction in patients, know the nursing interventions for a STEMI heart attack. And know what medications to give for a myocardial infarction. Check out Picmonic for an audiovisual learning system with unforgettable stories to help your remember EVERYTHING you need to know for nursing school and the NCLEX. Click here for 20% off! Instagram ... | 24m 52s | ||||||
| 6/21/23 | Non-Bedside Nursing Jobs (Part 2) | Send a text Not all nurses are bedside nurses, and I don’t want you guys to feel like just because you don’t want to work in a hospital, as a bedside nurse, that you’re somehow not a “real” nurse. 61% of nurses work in a hospital setting. So that means almost 40% of nurses work non-bedside nursing jobs. And do not try to tell them they are not “real” nurses. Cause that’s not gonna go over well! In last week’s episode we talked about 5 great options away from the bedside. We talked about Home ... | 23m 35s | ||||||
| 6/14/23 | Not All Nurses Are Bedside Nurses | Send a text Today I want to address the Elephant in the Nursing School room. I want to talk about this myth that’s out there that says you’re not a “real” nurse unless you work as a bedside nurse in a hospital. And that’s just not the case, and in a bit, I’m gonna give you 10 alternative jobs that you can do as a new grade nurse. Nursing is a big, huge field. There are over 100 specialties in nursing! How many other fields can claim that? That’s one of the great things about nursing. B... | 27m 30s | ||||||
| 6/7/23 | Sepsis - Case Study | Send a text You are working as a nurse in the emergency department when you get a new patient. A 65 year old female with a chief complaint of altered mental status. Will you be able to use your nursing spidey-senses to figure out what is wrong with this patient before she crashes? Once you recognize signs of Sepsis, don't forget to "CALL IT"! CALL IT = Cultures, Antibiotics, Lactate, Lactate, IV fluids, and Tissue perfusion https://www.instagram.com/nursingschoolweekbyweek/ https://www.nur... | 16m 24s | ||||||
| 5/31/23 | Sepsis | Send a text With sepsis, or septicemia, it can get real complicated, real fast. But we’re gonna try to just keep it simple today and talk about what you really need to know as nursing students. Sepsis is when the body has an extreme response to an infection. The body tries so hard to fight off the infection, that it can even damage the patient’s own tissues and organs. Sepsis usually starts with a bacterial infection, but we also see it caused by fungal, viral, or even parasitic infections. ... | 22m 17s | ||||||
| 5/24/23 | This is Why You Will FAIL Out of Nursing School | Send a text Today I'm talking about the reasons why you will fail out of nursing school, if you fail out of nursing school. I’m rooting for all of you, and I want you all to succeed. I don’t want anyone to fail out of nursing school. But the reality is that according to the National League for Nursing Study, the rate for students that either fail or drop out is 20%. That’s 1/5th. So at orientation, if you look around, every one out of 5 of you will not make it. Will not be there at gr... | 39m 10s | ||||||
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Chart history for Nursing School Week by Week
Peaked at #8 in South Korea, top 10 in 1 of 14 tracked markets, currently #8 in South Korea.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea | — | #8 | #8 | — |
| SA | — | #17 | #17 | — |
| HK | — | #18 | #18 | — |
| AE | — | #27 | #27 | — |
| South Korea | — | #45 | #45 | — |
| SA | — | #77 | #77 | — |
| PH | — | #79 | #79 | — |
| United States | — | #104 | #104 | — |
| NG | — | #104 | #104 | — |
| RO | — | #165 | #165 | — |
| HK | — | #173 | #173 | — |
| Australia | — | #176 | #176 | — |
| AE | — | #178 | #178 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #183 | #183 | — |
Chart Positions
14 placements across 10 markets.
Chart Positions
14 placements across 10 markets.