Nursing Students Are Asking AI the Questions They’re Afraid to Ask Their Instructors
NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students
Release Date: 09/11/2026
LAB VALUES IN 5: Alkaline Phosphatase for NCLEX
NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students
Alkaline Phosphatase (ALP) — the must-know liver and bone lab value for the NCLEX, covered in 5 minutes. In this episode: what ALP measures, the normal reference range of 40-130 units per liter, where ALP is found in the body with the highest concentrations in bone and liver, how this test detects liver disease and bone disorders, why ALP rises with blocked bile ducts and hepatobiliary disorders, how elevated ALP can signal cancer that has spread to the bone, how ALP fits into the liver panel alongside bilirubin, AST and ALT, liver symptoms like jaundice, weakness, fatigue, dark urine...
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MED OF THE DAY: Benztropine (Cogentin)
NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students
Welcome to Med of the Day — new episodes drop every Monday. It's Med Monday! In this episode: Benztropine (Cogentin) — an anticholinergic anti-Parkinson agent that blocks acetylcholine to reduce tremors and rigidity. The must-knows: watch for anticholinergic effects — dry mouth, constipation, tachycardia; plus arrhythmias, hypotension, and palpitations; assess for extrapyramidal symptoms; instruct patients to maintain good oral hygiene; and take it exactly as directed. Download your FREE cheatsheet of the 50 most commonly prescribed medications: https://nursing.com/50meds
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First Night Alone: New Nurse Stories | First Shift
NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students
Two years on the unit as a tech — then her first night alone as the nurse. The quiet shift that teaches you everything. "She'd worked the unit for two years. As a tech. And then came her first night... alone. As the nurse." Not every first shift is a disaster. Some of them are quiet — and the quiet ones teach you something too. The night team took care of her with a fair, gentle assignment. She made it through. And she wrote something worth keeping: it felt "really, really lonely"... with no preceptor beside her. But she didn't mind the sound of silence. In this episode of First Shift, Jon...
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QOD: Impaired Physical Mobility | NCLEX Practice Question
NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students
Today's NCLEX Question of the Day: The nursing category is musculoskeletal. The NCLEX category is basic care and comfort. A nurse has given a patient with joint stiffness and limited range of motion a nursing diagnosis of impaired physical mobility. Which nursing intervention would be most appropriate when caring for this patient? A, screen for signs of ineffective coping or helplessness. B, ensure that the patient receives enough food and fluids. C, assess the patient's relationship with his spouse. D, monitor for changes in the patient's affect that indicate anxiety or panic. ...
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6 L's Hypokalemia | Nursing Mnemonics for NCLEX
NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students
Welcome to Nursing Mnemonics — new episodes drop every Wednesday. Low potassium signs and symptoms are pure NCLEX gold. This episode walks you through the 6 L's mnemonic so you can recall every sign of hypokalemia without second-guessing. Go to nursing.com/cheatsheets to get the must-know nursing mnemonics for NCLEX.
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LAB VALUES IN 5: Albumin for NCLEX
NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students
Albumin — the must-know protein lab value for the NCLEX, covered in 5 minutes. In this episode: what albumin is, the normal reference range of 3.5-6 grams per deciliter, how this liver-synthesized transport protein carries bilirubin, calcium, progesterone and medications through the blood, its key role in fluid balance and colloid oncotic pressure keeping fluid in the blood, why it's part of the comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP), how it evaluates liver function, nutritional status and kidney function, causes of low albumin including liver disease, cirrhosis, inflammation, shock,...
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MED OF THE DAY: Azithromycin (Zithromax)
NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students
Welcome to Med of the Day — new episodes drop every Monday. It's Med Monday! In this episode: Azithromycin (Zithromax) — a macrolide anti-infective that inhibits bacterial protein synthesis. Broad-spectrum: respiratory infections, otitis media, skin infections, STIs, endocarditis prophylaxis, and cystic fibrosis. The must-knows: watch for C. diff and pseudomembranous colitis (report new diarrhea, or blood or pus in stool), Stevens-Johnson syndrome, angioedema that can close the airway, anaphylaxis, and increased warfarin toxicity; and patients must finish the entire course even once...
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Everything Went Wrong: New Nurse Stories | First Shift
NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students
Six months pregnant, first day in the ER — everything that could go wrong did. The disaster shift every nurse survives. "She was six months pregnant. It was her first day in the ER. And everything that could possibly go wrong... went wrong." She'd been out of clinical for four months — a new grad, back for her first ER shift. Her hands were so sweaty the sterile gloves wouldn't go on. She blanked on the foley kit, forgot IVs she'd done as a student, pulled the glucometer strip out mid-reading, forgot to hit START on the blood pressure cuff. In her own words: "Everything that...
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QOD: General Adaptation Syndrome | NCLEX Practice Question
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Today's NCLEX Question of the Day: The nursing category is mental health. The NCLEX category is basic care and comfort. Which of the following descriptions best defines general adaptation syndrome? A. Activation of brain signals followed by avoidance and response to a perceived threat. B. The arousal of the hippocampus after being triggered by a specific memory. C. The body's response to stress over both short and long-term periods. D. The development of depression over time as a result of a negative situation. Think you know the answer? Listen to the episode for the full...
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CATS Hypercalcemia and Hypocalcemia | Nursing Mnemonics for NCLEX
NURSING.com Podcast — NCLEX Prep for Nursing Students
Welcome to Nursing Mnemonics — new episodes drop every Wednesday. Calcium imbalances show up on the NCLEX all the time. This episode teaches you CATS for hypocalcemia (convulsions, arrhythmias, tetany, spasms) and the groans, moans, bones, stones, and overtones of hypercalcemia — so you can nail any calcium question. Go to nursing.com/cheatsheets to get the must-know nursing mnemonics for NCLEX.
info_outlineIt’s 2am, the care plan is due at 7, and a nursing student types into a chatbot: “explain preload and afterload like I’m five” — because asking out loud just feels expensive. All over the country, students are having their most honest learning conversations with a machine, and everyone’s debating whether it’s cheating. Wrong debate. Jon Haws RN asks the more useful question — why does asking a machine feel so much easier than asking out loud? — and delivers the honest guide: the green zone (tutoring, practice questions, explainers), the yellow zone (AI is confidently wrong — verify anything that would touch a patient; care plans; know your program’s policy), the red zone (integrity, borrowed understanding, and the HIPAA rule that can end a career: never paste real patient information into AI, ever), and the office-hours script that brings your questions back to the humans. Then the question only you can answer: is the understanding actually YOURS yet? Find out free — start a SIMCLEX at SIMCLEX.com, first 15 questions on us: true adaptive engine, every Next Gen item type, the most realistic mirror of the real thing that exists. Free Green-Yellow-Red screenshot card in the show notes. Keywords: nursing students using ChatGPT, is it cheating to use AI in nursing school, AI care plans nursing, ChatGPT nursing school policy, how to use AI to study nursing, HIPAA AI nursing students, free NCLEX simulation.