Free NCLEX-RN lessons
106 short lessons on prioritization, pharmacology, safety, maternity, pediatrics, labs and every NCLEX client-needs category. Each takes about 5 minutes.
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316 nursing terms explained in one plain sentence each, with the lesson that teaches it.
🧭 How the NCLEX Works
The exam is a machine with rules. Learn the rules before you learn the content.
- 1Why Every Question Feels Hard (That's the Point)
- 2The Three Ways the Exam Ends
- 3The Six Steps Hiding Inside Every Case Study
- 4The Question Is Hiding in the Last Sentence
- 5Distractors Have Tells
- 6Test Day Logistics Nobody Teaches You
- 7Educated Outside the US? Your Route to the NCLEX
- 8PN or RN? Same Machine, Different Scope
🚦 Who Do You See First?
Prioritization and delegation: the skill that decides more NCLEX questions than any single disease
🩺 Fundamentals, Fast
The vital signs, documentation and oxygen basics every question quietly assumes you already know
📋 Management of Care
Consent, confidentiality, ethics, advocacy and the law: the biggest slice of the exam
- 1Whose Job Is Informed Consent? (Not Yours)
- 2HIPAA in the Elevator, the Hallway and the Group Chat
- 3Living Wills, Proxies and the DNR That Is Not 'Do Not Treat'
- 4Six Ethical Principles the Exam Names by Name
- 5Negligence, Malpractice, Assault, Battery, False Imprisonment
- 6SBAR, Handoffs and When to Climb the Chain of Command
- 7Incident Reports, Root Causes and Who to Refer To
🛡️ Safety & Infection Prevention
Isolation, restraints, falls, fire, and the errors that happen on every unit
- 1Contact, Droplet, Airborne: Pick the Right Door
- 2Clean Versus Sterile, and the Chain You Are Breaking
- 3Restraints: Last Resort, Timed Orders, Quick-Release Knots
- 4Falls: Bed Low, Wheels Locked, Call Light in Reach
- 5The Rights of Medication Administration and the Errors That Beat Them
- 6RACE, PASS and the Hazards Hiding in Plain Sight
🌱 Health Promotion
Milestones, vaccines, screenings and pregnancy: the 'normal' the exam expects you to recognize instantly
🧠 Psychosocial Integrity
Therapeutic communication, suicide safety, psych meds, abuse and withdrawal
- 1Never Ask Why: Therapeutic Communication That Passes
- 2Ask the Question Directly
- 3Lithium, SSRIs, MAOIs and the Emergencies They Cause
- 4Recognizing Abuse: What You Document and Whom You Tell
- 5Which Withdrawal Can Kill: Alcohol, Benzos, and the Ones That Just Hurt
- 6Don't Argue With the Delusion, and Other Rules for Psychosis
🤱 Maternity & Newborn
Fetal heart patterns, preeclampsia, hemorrhage, Rh and the first hours of a newborn's life
🛏️ Basic Care & Comfort
Diets, tubes, positioning, mobility aids and skin: the hands-on care the exam still tests hard
- 1The Diet Orders You Must Not Mix Up
- 2NG Tubes, Enteral Feeds and Keeping Food Out of Lungs
- 3Canes, Crutches and Walkers: Which Side, Which Leg, Which Step
- 4Positions That Protect: Hips, Spines, Lungs and Enemas
- 5Pressure Injuries: Stage It, Turn Them, Feed Them
- 6Catheters, Ostomies and the Stoma Color Chart
💊 Pharmacology
Insulin, anticoagulants, antidotes, IV fluids and blood: the exam's second-biggest category
- 1Insulin Peaks: When the Client Will Crash
- 2Heparin, Warfarin and the Labs That Rule Them
- 3Digoxin, Beta Blockers and Nitro: Hold Parameters and Hard Stops
- 4The Antidote Table You Will See on Exam Day
- 5IV Fluids, Potassium Rules and the First 15 Minutes of a Transfusion
- 6Drug Classes by Suffix and the Side Effect That Defines Each
🧮 Dosage Calculations
Desired over have, drops per minute, weight-based dosing and the conversions you cannot get wrong
⚠️ Reduction of Risk
Pre-op, post-op, procedures and the complications you catch before they catch the client
- 1The Pre-op Checklist: NPO, Consent, Jewelry, Void
- 2Post-op Days 1 Through 10: What Goes Wrong When
- 3Procedure Prep and Aftercare: The Questions You Will Get
- 4Compartment Syndrome and Fat Embolism: Pain and Petechiae
- 5DVT Prevention and the Pulmonary Embolism You Must Not Miss
- 6Tamponade, Tension Pneumothorax and Autonomic Dysreflexia
🫀 Physiological Adaptation
Electrolytes, ABGs, cardiac, neuro, respiratory, endocrine, shock and burns: the acute illness core
- 1Potassium: The Electrolyte That Stops Hearts
- 2Sodium, Calcium and Magnesium: Twitching, Seizing and Going Flat
- 3ABGs in Three Steps: ROME
- 4DKA Versus HHS: Ketones, Fluids and the Potassium Trap
- 5MI and Heart Failure: Minutes and Pounds
- 6Stroke Windows and Rising Intracranial Pressure
- 7Chest Tubes, COPD and the Silent Chest
- 8Four Kinds of Shock and the First Hour of Sepsis
- 9Thyroid, Adrenal and the Water Hormones
- 10Burns: The Parkland Formula and Neutropenic Fever
🧪 Lab Values
The reference ranges and drug levels the exam never prints next to the number
🧸 Pediatrics
Small bodies, different numbers: dehydration, croup, congenital hearts and the exam's favorite childhood illnesses
🎯 Next Gen Item Types
Select-all, matrix, bowtie, highlight and drop-down items: how each one is scored and attacked
✨ Featured Lessons
- 1The 3-Second Rule for 'Which Client First?'
- 2Why Potassium Is the Deadliest Electrolyte
- 3My Chicken Hez TB: Isolation in 60 Seconds
- 4Delegation Cheat Code: Never Delegate What You EAT
- 5The Lab Values You Must Recite in Your Sleep
- 6Late Decels: Four Moves in Sixty Seconds
- 7Insulin Peaks in One Picture
- 8Never Push, Never Crush, Never Clamp