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#217: Preparing for NCLEX

In this show, Nurse Mo breaks down a wide range of nursing school concepts so they’re easy to understand. Each episode aims to help nursing students improve their study techniques, pass nursing school exams, and feel more confident in clinical. If you’re nervous about nursing school, not “getting it” in lecture, or feeling overwhelmed with all the information you have to learn, this podcast will help you optimize your study time so you can learn more with less stress.
While nursing school is challenging, it doesn’t have to be impossible. When concepts are explained in a way that “just makes sense”, nursing students have better recall on exams, feel more confident working with patients in clinical, and are better prepared for NCLEX.
Nurse Mo understands the struggles nursing students face and draws on more than 11 years of clinical experience to make nursing school less intimidating. Each episode removes the “fluff” and focuses on the key things a nursing student (and nurse) needs to know about a variety of disease conditions. The show also provides tips for succeeding in nursing school, guidance for students and new nurses, and insider information to help you excel at the bedside.

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Language Courses

Higher Education

K-12

Educational Technology

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Health & Fitness

Noticing changes in condition often means noticing changes in the patient’s skin signs. Unfortunately, nurses are not always taught how to assess skin signs in patients with darker or yellow-toned skin. In this case study, you’ll follow along as a patient presents to the ED and shows various skin sign changes due to his clinical condition. 
Hit play on this episode, and get ready to take report on Mr. Abrams!
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#349: Assessing Skin Signs Case Study

Molar pregnancy, which also goes by the name “hydatidiform mole” is a gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) that involves abnormal egg fertilization and subsequent growth of nonviable tissue.
In this episode, you’ll learn:

The key differences between complete and partial molar pregnancy

Risk factors for molar pregnancy

Complications of molar pregnancy

Common signs and symptoms of an individual with complete or partial molar pregnancy

Priority assessments

Key tests utilized to evaluate the condition

Treatments for molar pregnancy

Follow-up education

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Study Sesh - If you enjoyed the PodQuiz at the end of this episode, you'll LOVE Study Sesh! Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go…including maternal/newborn! Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! 
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#348: Molar Pregnancy NCLEX Review

Hyperkalemia is an elevated potassium level that can have serious consequences if left untreated. In this episode, you’ll learn:

The role of potassium in the body

Dangers of hyperkalemia

Causes of hyperkalemia

What is a hyperkalemic emergency?

Treatments for hyperkalemia

Hyperkalemia prevention for patients with ESRD

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Full Transcript - Read the article and view references.
FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life!
Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh!
Med Surg Solution - Are you looking for a more effective way to learn Med Surg? Enroll in Med Surg Solution and get lessons on 57 key topics and out-of-this-world study guides. 
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#347: Hyperkalemia Deep Dive

This special episode is part of a nursing podcast PodCrawl to celebrate Nurses Week and increase awareness about the different types of shock. This episode covers distributive shock, and you can find episodes about hypovolemic shock, obstructive and cardiogenic shock in the links down below. And, you might even discover a new nursing podcast to binge!
In this episode you’ll learn: 

The basics about hemodynamics, including the factors that affect blood pressure

The hemodynamics of distributive shock

Key things to know about each subtype of distributive shock - anaphylactic shock, neurogenic shock and septic shock 


Check out the other nursing podcasts participating in this PodCrawl to learn more about shock:

Critical Care Scenarios

Nurse Dose Podcast

The Q Word Podcast

Rapid Response RN Podcast

Up My Nursing Game Podcast


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Hypovolemic Shock - Learn about hypovolemic shock in this episode featuring the hosts from the Q-Word podcast and Up My Nursing Game podcast.
Cardiogenic Shock - Learn about cardiogenic shock in this episode featuring the hosts from the Nurse Dose podcast and Up My Nursing Game podcast.
Obstructive Shock - Learn about hypovolemic shock in this episode featuring the hosts from the Rapid Response RN podcast and Critical Care Scenarios podcast.
FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life!
Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! 
Pharmacology Success Pack - Want to get a head start on pharmacology? Download the FREE Pharmacology Success Pack


#346: Distributive Shock Simplified

Children can have a wide range of gastrointestinal disorders, and exams will require you to be able to differentiate between each one. In this episode, I’m providing a high level overview of common pediatric GI disorders:

Gastroesophageal reflux disease

Hirschsprung disease

Intussusception

Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis

Biliary atresia

Meckel’s diverticulum

Short bowel syndrome

Plus, there’s a PodQuiz at the end…so make sure you listen all the way through!
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Full Transcript - Read the article and view references.
FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life!
Study Sesh - If you liked the PodQuiz at the end of this episode, you'll LOVE Study Sesh! Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go.



#217: Preparing for NCLEX

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