3 Surgeries and Professor from H*** (My Journey Part II)
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
Release Date: 01/28/2025
My First Patient Died and Nobody Told Me It Would Feel Like This
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
Visit NCLEXgenie.com to create a personalized NCLEX study plan in just 30 seconds: If you're processing your first patient death right now, or if you're scared about when it's going to happen, we've got resources at NURSING.com that can help. We've got articles on grief processing for nurses, videos on coping with loss, and a community of nursing students who've been exactly where you are. Head to NURSING.com/griefandloss and find the support you need. And if this episode helped you, share it with a classmate who might need it. Because nobody should have to process their first patient...
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Why You Should Feel Scared for Your First Nursing Job (and how to deal with it)
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
Get a personalized NCLEX study plan in just 30 seconds at: I can still remember my first shift. . . I arrived to the Neuro ICU about 5 minutes late, sweating, out of breath, and flustered . . . not to mention nervous, scared out of my mind, and excited! What a way to start my career as a nurse, right? My initial plan was to arrive 30 minutes early, look up my patients, and try to feel prepared for the shift . . . things didn’t work out that way and I ended up stuck in traffic for nearly two hours.
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I Failed Out With One Semester Left | What Happens Now & How to Decide What's Next
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
We can help if you decide to return or need help making the decision. Visit us at You were so close. One semester left. And then you failed. Your whole life plan just collapsed. I'm going to tell you what nobody else will: what actually happens next, how to handle student loans, and whether you should go back or walk away. We'll cover: • What happens to your student loans when you fail out • Your transcript and readmission options • The sunk cost fallacy (and why it's okay to quit) • How to decide if you should reapply or pivot to something else • What to do differently...
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My Preceptor Calls Me Stupid Every Clinical
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
VISIT NURSING.com for help with communication with preceptors: Being called stupid by your preceptor isn't "tough love" - it's verbal abuse. In this episode, I break down the exact difference between constructive criticism and verbal abuse so you know when to document and report. We'll cover: • The real difference between tough feedback and abuse • What verbal abuse actually looks like in clinical (eye rolls, public humiliation, constant criticism) • How to document every incident (and why this matters) • When and how to report to your clinical instructor • How to request a...
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The Discrimination That's Ignored In Nursing
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
A Black student mistaken for housekeeping. A disabled student told to "reconsider her career choice." A trans student deliberately misgendered daily. When students report discrimination in nursing school, they're told they're "too sensitive" or "misinterpreting" the situation. Jon breaks down what discrimination actually looks like in nursing education, why it persists in a profession built on hierarchy and conformity, and exactly what to do if you're experiencing it. Includes specific steps for documenting incidents, understanding your legal rights under Title VI, Title IX, and ADA, and...
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When Your Nursing Instructor Wants You to Fail
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
Get help at: Episode 3: When Your Instructor Wants You to Fail You're prepared. You know your meds. You practice your skills. You do everything right. And somehow, you're still getting destroyed in evaluations. Your instructor tells you you're "not ready for this." That you're "not cut out for nursing." They find fault with everything you do. And you're starting to believe them. This isn't about having high standards. This is about an instructor who has decided you won't make it—and who is actively working to prove themselves right. In this episode, I'm giving you the exact strategy for...
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The Nursing Brain Sheet That Actually Works (PLUS FREE DOWNLOAD)
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
The Nursing Brain Sheet That Actually Works (PLUS FREE DOWNLOAD) GET YOUR FREE DOWNLOAD AT: 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...
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How to Survive an Nursing Abusive Preceptor
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
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...
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Pressure Ulcers Nursing Care Plan
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
View the full lesson here: 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...
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Encephalopathy Nursing Care Plan
Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)
Find the full lesson here: 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...
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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 applying and how this all happened.
So today we're gonna continue that story and if you haven't heard the first part, go ahead and listen to the previous episode. But today we're gonna continue that journey.