{"podcast":{"title":"Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX","slug":"straight-a-nursing-study-for-nursing-school-exams-nclex-443170","podcast_index_feed_id":443170,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ARML3850763387","website_url":"https://straightanursingstudent.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/db5384e8-532a-11ee-90c1-430082e36c24/image/c7c3c99406a7630b4635b1d69846e95a.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Straight A Nursing","episode_count":552,"summary":"In this show, Maureen Osuna, MSN, RN (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…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T14:19:12.756688+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/straight-a-nursing-study-for-nursing-school-exams-nclex-443170"},"episode":{"title":"#488: The Perfusion Problem: Why Your Patient is Deteriorating","slug":"488-the-perfusion-problem-why-your-patient-is-deteriorating","published_at":"2026-05-21T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/straight-a-nursing-study-for-nursing-school-exams-nclex-443170/488-the-perfusion-problem-why-your-patient-is-deteriorating","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/straight-a-nursing-study-for-nursing-school-exams-nclex-443170","url":"https://straightanursingstudent.com/perfusion/","audio_url":"https://tracking.swap.fm/track/YfZO4tERxneauNcW9Fgn/mgln.ai/e/211/traffic.megaphone.fm/ARML4873363394.mp3","summary":"You know that moment when you walk into a patient’s room and something just feels… off? Not wrong in a pull-the-crash-cart way. Just… different. Their blood pressure is trending down a little. They’re not quite as sharp as they were two hours ago. Urine output isn’t great. And your brain starts doing that scrambling thing — flipping through every diagnosis you’ve ever learned, trying to figure out what category this falls into. Here’s the thing: that scrambling feeling? It’s not a sign that you don’t know enough. It’s a sign that you’re trying to find the diagnosis before you’ve found the pattern. This episode is about the pattern. Perfusion is one of those foundational concepts that shows up everywhere — cardiac, renal, neuro, sepsis, shock — and yet it rarely gets taught the way it needs to be. Not just “perfusion means blood flow” but what actually happens when it fails, how your patient’s body responds, and what that looks like when you’re standing at the bedside at 10am wondering if you need to make a phone call. In this episode, we go deep. Like, actually deep — the cellular level, the four components of the delivery system, why blood pressure is often the last thing to drop, all four shock types through one unified framework, and three clinical cases that will change how you think about patient assessment. By the end, you’ll have a question you can ask about any patient that will immediately anchor your thinking and help you catch deterioration earlier than you thought possible. Ready to think like a nurse? Hit play. 👉 If this episode helps you see patient assessment differently, the Nursing School Survival Blueprint is a great next step. It’s the free guide that shows you exactly how to build the kind of structured, clinical thinking that makes episodes like th…","meta_description":"You know that moment when you walk into a patient’s room and something just feels… off? Not wrong in a pull-the-crash-cart way. Just… different. 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