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Send us 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 cal...

Even a slight change outside the normal potassium range of 3.5 to 5 can lead to serious symptoms. So, as nurses, we need to stay vigilant about monitoring for any potassium imbalances to ensure patient safety and health.

Electrolytes 101 – How to Spot Life-Threatening Imbalances Electrolytes aren’t just numbers on a lab report—they can be the difference between life and death. In this episode of Nursing School Week by Week, we’re breaking down sodium imbalances in a way that actually makes sense. Imagine this…

Hey everyone! Congrats on getting into nursing school! It's a big deal, but the question is, what should you be doing to prepare? I’ve got you covered with some practical tips to get organized and brush up on key knowledge. First, master time management—get a planner, start time-blocking, and set u…

Hey everyone, welcome to Nursing School Week by Week! This week we’re diving deep into cardiac medications. We'll break down the big categories: diuretics (the plumbers), antiarrhythmics (the electricians), and anticoagulants (the superheroes). The focus will be on making these complex concepts eas…

In this video, we dive into various methods to fund your nursing education without breaking the bank. Nursing school can be very expensive, with costs ranging from $12,000 for an associate's degree to upwards of $120,000 at private colleges. However, there are many options to mitigate these costs, …

T he 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 a...

T oday 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 g...

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 ...

T oday 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 ...

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 hea...

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 ...

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 ...

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 no...

T here 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 i...

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...

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 k...

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...

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 a…

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...

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 resp...

These are 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 f…

You are working in the emergency room when the charge nurse says, "You've got a new patient. It's a 45 year old female complaining of dizziness." Little do you know, things are about to go from bad to worse for this patient b...

Knowing how to recognize hypoglycemia, and knowing what to do about it to get their glucose level back up is super important. This is one of those conditions that you will see on a regular basis. Hypoglycemia is when the blood sugar level drops below 70 mg/dL. The normal range for blood glucose …