{"podcast":{"title":"Nursing Podcast by NURSING.com (NRSNG) (NCLEX® Prep for Nurses and Nursing Students)","slug":"nursing-podcast-by-nursing-com-nrsng-nclex-prep-for-nurses-and-nursing-students-1013977","podcast_index_feed_id":1013977,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/59442/rss","website_url":"http://nrsng.libsyn.com/webpage","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/0/d/e/f0dece3341f03ca3/THE_NURSING_PODCAST_COVER_ART.png","author":"NURSING.com","episode_count":100,"summary":"Helping Nursing Students Succeed. Period. Free Nursing School and NCLEX Cheat Sheets at nursing.com/freebies Welcome to the NURSING.com Show from NURSING.com . . . #1 Nursing Podcast and the leader in nursing student education. New motivational episodes 2-3 times per week covering: Struggling Students - common questions and concerns from students. Tips and Nurse Life - how to succeed as a nursing student and nurse. Interviews - discussion with through leaders, entrepreneurs, and authors. Anatomy and Physiology and Nursing Care for various disease processes. Follow us on social media @nursing.com_ on Instagram or @nursing.comofficial on Facebook From the leading nursing education website (NURSING.com) comes the top nursing podcast. With pharmacology episodes, test taking tips, student struggles, interviews (with leading nurse advocates like Kati Kleber, Nurse Bass, Nurse Nacole, and more), NCLEX review, we cover the information that nurses need to know to accelerate their career and become incredible RNs. Jon Haws RN, the host has worked as a critical care registered nurse in a Level I Trauma hospital in Dallas, TX. Jon is the creator of NURSING.com. Visit the site and check out th…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T16:21:09.529833+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nursing-podcast-by-nursing-com-nrsng-nclex-prep-for-nurses-and-nursing-students-1013977"},"episode":{"title":"You Can't Memorize Nursing Pharmacology. Stop Trying.","slug":"you-can-t-memorize-nursing-pharmacology-stop-trying","published_at":"2026-06-24T07:48:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nursing-podcast-by-nursing-com-nrsng-nclex-prep-for-nurses-and-nursing-students-1013977/you-can-t-memorize-nursing-pharmacology-stop-trying","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nursing-podcast-by-nursing-com-nrsng-nclex-prep-for-nurses-and-nursing-students-1013977","url":"https://nrsng.libsyn.com/you-cant-memorize-nursing-pharmacology-stop-trying","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/nrsng/You_Cant_Memorize_Pharmacology._Stop_Trying.mp3?dest-id=227577","summary":"Test your pharm knowledge at: SIMCLEX.com 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 broken. It's not that you're failing pharm. It's that you're playing a game that can't be won the way you're playing it. Here's the shift that changes everything. You don't learn drugs. You learn classes . The whole secret of pharmacology is that medications travel in families, and the family tells you most of what you need to know. If you understand what a beta blocker does, you understand the whole \"-olol\" family — how it works, what it does to heart rate and blood pressure, what to watch for, who shouldn't get it. You just turned forty flashcards into one concept. Do that across the major classes and the ocean suddenly has a shape. So here's how I'd actually study it. First, learn the mechanism — what does this class do in the body? If you understand the mechanism, the side effects aren't a separate list to memorize; they're just the logical consequences of the mechanism. A drug that lowers blood pressure — of course it can cause dizziness when you stand up. You didn't memorize that. You understood it. Second, learn the class by its stem. The naming isn't random. \"-pril\" is an ACE inhibitor. \"-statin\" lowers cholesterol. \"-azepam\" is in the benzo family. Those word parts are fre…","meta_description":"Test your pharm knowledge at: SIMCLEX.com If pharmacology is the thing that's breaking you right now, I want to start with the most freeing sentence you'l…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":397,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/nursing-podcast-by-nursing-com-nrsng-nclex-prep-for-nurses-and-nursing-students-1013977/episodes/you-can-t-memorize-nursing-pharmacology-stop-trying/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/nursing-podcast-by-nursing-com-nrsng-nclex-prep-for-nurses-and-nursing-students-1013977/you-can-t-memorize-nursing-pharmacology-stop-trying.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}