Free NCLEX Study Guides
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Study guides
What AI is good for, where it goes wrong, what never to paste into a chatbot, and a 4-step check for anything it tells you.
One printable page: the 4-step check, the source ladder, red flags, and what never to paste into AI.
Typical adult ranges for electrolytes, CBC, coagulation, ABGs, kidney function, glucose, and drug levels.
The 8 client needs categories with their percentages, the 6 clinical judgment steps, how the exam ends, and the Next Generation item types.
The 'who first' ladder, the five rights of delegation from the 2019 national guidelines, and who can do what on the care team.
Every conversion and formula you need for med math, with a worked example for each and the rounding rules.
Standard, contact, droplet, and airborne precautions with example infections, the PPE order, and hand hygiene rules.
Med-surg visual sheets
One page per topic, built to be scanned in a minute: color-coded comparisons, key numbers, and the priority action.
Left backs up into the lungs, right backs up into the body. Signs, the four core medicines, daily weights, and when it's an emergency.
The diagnostic numbers from the 2024 consensus, the treatment order (fluids, potassium, insulin), insulin onset and peak, and the rule of 15.
Low vs. high for the four big electrolytes: what you'll see, the ECG clues, common causes, and the first nursing actions.
Read any blood gas in three steps with ROME, see the four disorders and their common causes, and check yourself with two worked examples.
Hypovolemic, cardiogenic, distributive, and obstructive shock side by side, the numbers to watch, and the sepsis first-hour steps.
Spot it with BE-FAST, tell ischemic from hemorrhagic, the first-hour checklist with BP limits, and left- vs right-brain deficits.
How they differ, rescue vs. controller inhalers, peak-flow zones, the 88–92% oxygen target in COPD, and the red flags.
Hyperthyroid vs. hypothyroid and Cushing vs. Addison on one page: signs, treatment, the emergencies, and the teaching points.
Sudden vs. chronic kidney disease, prerenal-intrarenal-postrenal causes, the CKD stages by GFR, what builds up, and dialysis access care.
The adult rule of nines diagram, burn depth at a glance, the Parkland formula with a worked example, and airway-first priorities.
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