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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)

Release Date: 01/07/2026

Your Nursing School’s 98% Pass Rate Isn’t Lying — But It’s Not Telling the Truth Either.

Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)

Start a FREE SIMCLEX at: That 98% NCLEX pass rate on your school’s banner is real — nobody’s lying. But 98% of whom? Jon Haws RN does the math admissions tours skip: how attrition and exit-exam gates shape pass-rate statistics, why programs protect the number (the incentive, not the people, is the monster), and the one question that reveals more than any brochure: “Of students who START, how many graduate and pass first try?” Plus the mindset shift for students already in a program — your school’s predictor answers THEIR question; you need your own answer — and the playbook if...

The Test Shut Off at 75 and I Knew I Failed. I Was Wrong.

Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)

Start a FREE SIMCLEX at: The screen goes black at question 75. You’re certain you failed. You cry in the parking lot, you google “shut off at 75 did I fail” forty times, you grieve for 48 hours — and then: PASS. This story happens to thousands of nursing grads every cycle, and this episode explains why. Jon Haws RN breaks down how the NCLEX’s adaptive algorithm is designed to make EVERYONE feel like they’re drowning, why the better you’re doing the harder your test feels, why a minimum-question shut-off is a neutral signal, and the parking-lot protocol for protecting your...

Pass Any Nursing School Exam With Ease [2026 Update]

Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)

TRY NURSING.com FOR FREE AT: The most-requested episode in the history of this podcast — completely re-recorded and updated for 2026, with a FREE printable study template. Jon Haws RN breaks down the 5-step system for passing any nursing school exam: studying the test before the content, turning objectives into questions, retrieval over re-reading (highlighting is banned), the 3-2-1 spacing method, and rehearsing real test conditions — the step that separates knowing it from proving it under pressure. Plus the worst exam of Jon’s life and what it taught him about why hard-working...

My Instructor Failed Me By One Point. On Purpose.

Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)

Try SIMCLEX for FREE at: A 79.4. Passing was an 80. “I don’t round.” If you’ve ever felt like a nursing instructor was looking for a reason to fail you, this episode is for you — no instructor-bashing, just the truth about why subjective clinical grading keeps hurting good students, and the exact 5-move playbook to protect yourself: documentation habits, email trails, appeal deadlines, and how to fight with a rubric instead of emotions. Jon Haws RN shares his own story of being the student who stopped raising his hand — and the message from a 34-year-old career changer that...

The 30-Day NCLEX Plan for People Who Are Working Full Time

Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)

If you're working full-time, raising kids, or both, this episode is your entire NCLEX prep roadmap: 30 days, about 2 hours a day, built for people with real jobs and real lives. Jon Haws, RN, CCRN walks through the complete 4-phase system, day by day: PHASE 1 — Days 1–3: DIAGNOSE. Take a full-length adaptive diagnostic under real test conditions (not a static quiz), audit your results by client-need category, identify your bottom 3 weak areas, and build your 30-day calendar around YOUR shifts — including why night shifters should never study after a twelve. PHASE 2 — Days 4–19:...

Why 'Just Do More Questions' Is the Worst NCLEX Advice in Nursing School

Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)

"Just do more questions" — the advice every nursing student gets and the reason so many walk into the NCLEX unprepared for what it actually is. Jon Haws RN breaks down computer-adaptive testing, why you can miss 45% of questions and still pass, why static question banks train the wrong skill, and how to rehearse the shut-off before test day. Start a SIMCLEX free — first 15 questions on us at SIMCLEX.com. Keywords: NCLEX study tips, computer adaptive test NCLEX, NCLEX question banks, how NCLEX scoring works, Next Gen NCLEX.

I Failed the NCLEX. Nobody Tells You What Happens Next

Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)

(start free — first 15 questions free) Failed the NCLEX? Nobody tells you what happens next — not your school, not your program, nobody. Jon Haws RN walks through the exact 45-day retake roadmap: reading your Candidate Performance Report, why most retakes fail on format (not content), and how repeat test-takers turn a fail into a pass. Start a SIMCLEX free — first 15 questions on us at SIMCLEX.com. Keywords: failed NCLEX, NCLEX retake, candidate performance report, NCLEX fail what next, computer adaptive test, NCLEX simulation.

You Can't Memorize Nursing Pharmacology. Stop Trying.

Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)

Test your pharm knowledge at: 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...

The Impostor in Your Head Is Lying to You

Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)

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Nursing School Wasn't Built for the Way You Learn

Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)

Take a SIMCLEX at: 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...

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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

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