Nursing Nerds

The library

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One free book that teaches you how to think, and fifteen deep-dive guides that each own a domain outright. Nothing is taught twice. When a page needs something it does not own, it points at the book that does.

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The free book

Book 00 · 163 pages

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1,000+ Free Nursing Notes

The reasoning frames, a one-page map of every domain, three unfolding cases, thirty questions with full rationales, and the study plan. Start here.

The deep-dive guides

Guide 01 · 17 pages

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Clinical Judgment & NGN Case Logic

  • One Question, Asked Six Times at Higher Resolution
  • How a Cue Becomes a Hypothesis
  • Recognize Cues Versus Analyze Cues

Guide 02 · 26 pages

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Prioritization, Delegation and Assignment

  • Priority is a sort, not a fact
  • The tie-break ladder: which lens fires first
  • Unstable versus stable, unexpected versus expected

Guide 03 · 20 pages

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Infection Prevention, Isolation, and PPE

  • Route First: The Only Question an Isolation Item Is Asking
  • Six Links, Six Cuts: The Chain as an Engineering Problem
  • Droplet or Airborne: Distance, Filter, and the Door

Guide 04 · 22 pages

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High-Yield Pharmacology

  • Learn the Class, Derive the Drug
  • The Four-Link Chain: Mechanism, Effect, Adverse Effect, Action
  • Adrenergic Against Cholinergic: The Two Switchboards

Guide 05 · 24 pages

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Dosage Calculations and IV Math

  • One method that checks itself: dimensional analysis
  • The ladder: every conversion the exam will hand you
  • Three roads, one answer: formula, proportion, analysis

Guide 06 · 25 pages

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Laboratory Values, Electrolytes and ABGs

  • A Lab Value Is a Call, Not a Fact
  • How the Body Holds the Numbers Steady
  • Sodium and Potassium, All Four Directions

Guide 07 · 17 pages

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Cardiac Nursing and Rhythm Priorities

  • The only cardiac question: is this patient perfusing?
  • The coronary tree decides which wall dies
  • Unstable angina, NSTEMI, STEMI: what the marker adds to the twelve-lead

Guide 08 · 25 pages

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Respiratory Failure, Shock and Critical Care

  • Two failures, one patient: is it oxygen in, or carbon dioxide out?
  • Where the gas actually stops: the alveolar-capillary unit
  • Type I versus Type II failure, and the oxygen ladder that separates them

Guide 09 · 31 pages

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Neurologic, Renal and Endocrine Emergencies

  • One cue, then the cliff
  • Reserve is finite: pressure inside a closed box
  • DKA versus HHS: two ways glucose becomes an emergency

Guide 10 · 32 pages

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GI, Hepatic, Hematology and Oncology Red Flags

  • The finding you can explain away
  • One pressure, six red flags: portal hypertension
  • Crohn's versus ulcerative colitis

Guide 11 · 29 pages

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Maternal and Newborn Rapid Review

  • One pipeline, two patients
  • Pregnancy rewrites the normal values
  • Decelerations, read by their timing

Guide 12 · 28 pages

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Pediatrics, Growth, and Development

  • Age Is the First Assessment Finding
  • Two Clocks: What the Child Understands, What the Child Fears
  • Croup, Epiglottitis, and Bronchiolitis: Three Noisy Airways, One You Never Look At

Guide 13 · 32 pages

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Mental Health and Therapeutic Communication

  • Stay with the feeling: the pattern behind every correct response
  • Underneath the words: defense mechanisms and the technique that meets each one
  • Delirium versus major neurocognitive disorder: one of these is an emergency

Guide 14 · 42 pages

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Nursing Skills, Step by Step

  • One Route, Every Patient: The Head-to-Toe Sequence
  • Look, Feel, Tap, Listen, and the Belly That Breaks the Order
  • Sterile Against Clean: Two Different Jobs, One Catheter

Guide 15 · 24 pages

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The Last 72 Hours

  • The Last Three Days Are for Consolidation and Nerve
  • How the Adaptive Test Decides It Has Seen Enough
  • What the Question Asks Versus What You Know