If you're just heading in to clinical or are still feeling a bit overwhelmed at the end of every shift, this episode is for you.

In this episode, I'm sharing how you can reframe your clinical experience to go from just trying to survive, to walking out of every shift sharper than when you walked in.

You'll learn:

Nursing school gets easier when you have a system to build your clinical thinking from the ground up. I'd love to get you started building that system by walking you through the key shifts that separate struggling students from thriving ones in my free ⁠Nursing School Survival Blueprint⁠.

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Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more.

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Next time you get your patient assignment, skip the panic-prep session and instead, try the five-minute clinical prep routine I'm breaking down in this episode. By the end of this episode, you'll know how to focus your clinical prep on what actually matters so you can walk into clinical feeling prepared and confident enough to learn.

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It's really helpful to know a few specific things in advance of your pediatric clinicals so you can make the most of your experience from the start. 

In this episode, I'm sharing my top 6 pediatric clinical tips, including:

Having a system in place for your approach to nursing school is just as important as reviewing key things ahead of your peds clinicals. You don't want just any system though, you want one that sets you up to thrive. I get you started with building a system that allows you to study smarter and feel more prepared in my free Nursing School Survival Blueprint.

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Read the article "6 Peds Clinical Tips to Help You Thrive" and view references here. 

This is a throwback to episode 360 of the Straight A Nursing School Podcast, where nursing school help is at your fingertips with hundreds of episodes covering your journey from taking the TEAS through passing NCLEX and having success as a new-grad nurse. 

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Test your knowledge of respiratory failure with this quick set of audio flashcards. Dive right in or brush up on your nursing knowledge of respiratory failure first, in episode #503: Respiratory Failure.

These mini-reviews are a great way to study on the go, and they give you a taste of what it’s like inside Study Sesh, my audio study tool for busy nursing students.

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Respiratory failure occurs when the respiratory system can no longer adequately meet the oxygen demands of the body, remove carbon dioxide effectively, or both.

In this episode you'll learn:

- Types and causes of respiratory failure

- Signs & symptoms of respiratory failure

- Tests used to evaluate respiratory failure

- Treatments for hypoxemic respiratory failure and hypercapnic respiratory failure.

Read the article "A Quick Guide to Respiratory Failure for Nursing Students" here.

Review how to conduct a respiratory assessment in episode #237.

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Cushing's Triad is one of those concepts that nursing students often memorize for an exam but don't always understand. Hit play to change that, because once you understand the "why," it's actually a much easier concept to remember.

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All nursing schools teach you the five rights of medication administration as a key component in keeping your patients safe, but if you want to take it further to understand all the factors that go into giving medication safely, this episode is for you.

In this podcast episode, I’ll talk you through the five rights of medication administration, and then keep going with six more that will take your critical thinking skills to the next level.

Medication rules are AWESOME because they're designed to keep both you and your patient safe, and I absolutely want that for you. So hit play and bulletproof your medication administration!

Snag a copy of these to keep in your clinical binder here. 

You can read the article "Bulletproof Medication Administration" ⁠here⁠.

Now that you've got a foolproof system for your medication administration, why not take it a step further and build one for approaching nursing school as a whole. I get you started by walking you through the key shifts that separate struggling students from thriving ones in my free ⁠Nursing School Survival Blueprint⁠. Nursing school gets easier when you have a system. 

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This is a throwback to episode 76 of the Straight A Nursing School Podcast, where nursing school help is at your fingertips with hundreds of episodes covering your journey from taking the TEAS through passing NCLEX and having success as a new-grad nurse.

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It’s PodQuiz Monday! Test your knowledge from a recent episode with a quick set of audio flashcards designed to reinforce what you learned.

These mini-reviews are a great way to study on the go, and they give you a taste of what it’s like inside Study Sesh, my audio study tool for busy nursing students.

If you need a brush-up on the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems before you do this podquiz, I've got you covered in episode #500: Sympathetic vs. Parasympathetic Nervous System - Your Secret Weapon for Pharm.

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In this episode, I break down the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems in a way that goes way beyond the vocabulary test version. You'll learn:

- what triggers each system

- which neurotransmitters and receptors are involved

- what happens to each major body system when one is dominant,

- how understanding this makes drug mechanisms predictable instead of mysterious.

By the end, you'll be able to look at medications like atropine, epinephrine, metoprolol, and albuterol and understand exactly why they do what they do, including the side effects.

If pharmacology has felt like a wall of memorization up until now, this episode is the key that changes that.

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Nursing School Survival Blueprint - It's free & it walks you through how to study with intention, how to reduce cognitive load in real study sessions, and how to build the kind of understanding that actually shows up on your exams and in clinical.

#485: Why Nursing School Feels Overwhelming - Learn how cognitive load theory explains why you struggle to retain information no matter how much you study — and the five-step approach that helps nursing students study smarter, not longer.

Read the coinciding article and view references for this episode here.

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You might be wondering, what in the world is JVD? It's another of those terms that nursing students hear all the time and plan to look up later. First, JVD stands for jugular venous distention. Second, hit play and I'll tell you all about JVD and why you should never stop noticing it.

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Straight A Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network.

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