Happy Nurse Educator

Jon Haws and Abby Rose

Nursing Education Insights for Nurse Educators. Welcome to the Happy Nurse Educator Podcast with Jon Haws and Abby Rose from NURSING.com where we take nurse educators from discouraged and stressed to motivated and passionate. We are working to improve nursing education by providing FREE resources for you! Download FREE Lesson Plans today - happynurseeducator.com Nursing education seems to require the impossible task of choosing WHAT to focus on (when patient lives are at stake), and HOW to teach it so that it sticks. In this podcast, we provide the best nurse educator tips for teaching. that you can take and implement in the classroom today. Discover the ultimate resource for nursing educators – our revolutionary product offers complimentary access to a NURSING.com educator account. Immerse yourself in a collection of expertly designed lesson plans addressing complex nursing concepts. Each plan includes detailed objectives, analogies, CCMM implementation, and NCJMM, providing a comprehensive teaching framework. Additionally, access a suite of free resources for your students, such as cheat sheets, Cornell notes, lesson videos, quizzes, and case studies. Join a community of educators who have embraced this empowering and innovative resource, revolutionizing teaching methods and elevating student outcomes. Download FREE Lesson Plans today - happynurseeducator.com

  1. 22小時前

    Lithium Toxicity Nursing Lesson Plan: Narrow Therapeutic Index, Signs & Nursing Care | Happy Nurse Educator

    A lithium lesson plan for nurse educators and nursing faculty. Lithium acts like salt — and it teaches students to think about the whole patient, not just the pill. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan covering the razor-thin therapeutic window, the sodium-and-water traps that raise lithium levels (NSAIDs, thiazide diuretics, dehydration, low-salt diets), and the toxicity progression from early whisper to severe shout. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lessons: lithium is salt's twin — the kidneys can't tell them apart, so anything that drops sodium or water raises lithium levels; toxicity is a progression — early (coarse tremor, GI upset, polyuria, thirst) vs severe (confusion, ataxia, slurred speech, seizures); the nursing playbook — fluids, steady sodium, hold the dose for dehydration or vomiting, monitor levels, hemodialysis as the last resort The twins-at-the-door analogy: the kidney is a bouncer who can't tell sodium and lithium apart — when the body clings to salt, it clings to lithium too The unfolding case drill: a stable patient, three hidden traps (thiazide, low-salt diet, ibuprofen), climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on spotting the traps, staging the toxicity, and prioritizing severe presentations Why even working nurses find the dehydration mechanism unintuitive — and how the salt-twin framing fixes it Academy lessons referenced: Mood Stabilizers, Lithium (Lithonate) Nursing Considerations, Lithium Lab Values Get your free nursing.com educator account — ready-to-use nursing lesson plans, concise lesson videos, visual cheat sheets, and thousands of NCLEX questions: nursing.com/educator

  2. 2日前

    Heart Blocks Lesson Plan: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Degree AV Block Strips | Happy Nurse Educator

    A heart blocks lesson plan for nurse educators and nursing faculty. Every heart block is a story about a signal that can't get through — and once your students read the P.R. interval story, the strip reads itself. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan covering first-degree, Mobitz I (Wenckebach), Mobitz II, and third-degree complete heart block: which ones warn, which ones kill, and when to reach for atropine versus the pacer. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lessons: first-degree — P.R. greater than 0.20 but every P gets a QRS (delayed, not dropped); Mobitz I warns before it drops (lengthening P.R. until the QRS drops) vs Mobitz II drops with no warning (the dangerous one); third-degree — complete dissociation, atria and ventricles on their own, pace now The symptomatic bradycardia ladder: atropine first, then transcutaneous pacing, then a permanent pacemaker The toll-booth analogy: the A.V. node is the only road between atria and ventricles — is everything getting through, does it warn before it drops, or is the bridge out? The four-strip drill: an unfolding case study climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on reading the P.R. story and choosing the right intervention for a symptomatic patient Academy lessons referenced: 1st Degree AV Heart Block, 2nd Degree AV Heart Block Type 1 (Mobitz I, Wenckebach), 2nd Degree AV Heart Block Type 2 (Mobitz II), 3rd Degree AV Heart Block (Complete Heart Block) Get your free nursing.com educator account — ready-to-use nursing lesson plans, concise lesson videos, visual cheat sheets, and thousands of NCLEX questions: nursing.com/educator

  3. 5日前

    Pneumonia Lesson Plan for Nurse Educators: Teaching Consolidation Assessment & Prevention | Happy Nurse Educator

    A pneumonia lesson plan for nurse educators and nursing faculty. Pneumonia is a reading lesson — the lungs tell you exactly what's happening, if your students know how to read them. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan covering community versus hospital-acquired pneumonia, why sputum culture comes before antibiotics, and how to read consolidation with a stethoscope, your hands, and percussion. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lessons: name it and classify it — pneumonia is an inflammatory process with alveoli filled with fluid or pus; community-acquired versus hospital-acquired (and hospital-acquired often comes down to hand hygiene); prove it before you treat it — sputum culture first, phlegm not saliva, because antibiotics without an identified organism is guessing; read the consolidation — crackles and rhonchi, tactile fremitus with the "ninety-nine" technique, dullness on percussion, and the E-to-A change of egophony The soaked-sponge analogy: healthy alveoli are a dry sponge, pneumonia soaks it — and a soaked sponge left sitting grows things, which is why prevention is turn, cough, deep breathe, incentive spirometry, and early mobility The priority concept underneath it all: oxygenation and gas exchange, because the alveoli are filled with fluid The reading drill: an unfolding post-op case study climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on recognizing consolidation, sequencing culture before antibiotics, and prioritizing the incentive spirometer and ambulation Academy lessons referenced: Nursing Care and Pathophysiology of Pneumonia, Thorax and Lungs Assessment Get your free nursing.com educator account — ready-to-use nursing lesson plans, concise lesson videos, visual cheat sheets, and thousands of NCLEX questions: nursing.com/educator

  4. 11月4日

    Meningitis Lesson Plan for Nurse Educators: Teaching the Triad, Kernig's & Brudzinski's Signs | Happy Nurse Educator

    A meningitis lesson plan for nurse educators and nursing faculty. Fever, altered mental status, nuchal rigidity — hear those three together and the alarm should go off. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan covering the classic triad, the Kernig's and Brudzinski's bedside signs, droplet precautions, and why antibiotics never wait for the lab. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lessons: the triad is the alarm — fever, altered LOC, nuchal rigidity (FAN: fever, altered, nuchal — two out of three is enough to suspect it); the neck tells the truth — nuchal rigidity means the patient can't tuck chin to chest, Kernig's is pain on knee extension with the hip at 90 degrees, Brudzinski's is the knees drawing up when the neck flexes; suspect it, isolate it, prove it, treat it — droplet precautions at suspicion, lumbar puncture confirms (cloudy CSF, low glucose in bacterial), antibiotics immediately for suspected meningococcal disease The fire-in-the-attic analogy: the triad is the smoke alarm, the named signs are checking the hallway for smoke, the LP opens the attic door — and you call the fire department while the alarm is still ringing The FAN LIPS mnemonic: Fever, Altered LOC, Nuchal rigidity, Lethargy, Increased ICP, Photophobia, Seizures The alarm drill: an unfolding case study (the 19-year-old college student) climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on recognizing the triad, analyzing positive Kernig's and Brudzinski's findings, and prioritizing precautions, cultures, antibiotics, and LP Academy lessons referenced: Nursing Care and Pathophysiology for Meningitis, Meningitis (Pediatric), Meningitis for CEN, Meningitis Assessment Findings Mnemonic (FAN LIPS) Get your free nursing.com educator account — ready-to-use nursing lesson plans, concise lesson videos, visual cheat sheets, and thousands of NCLEX questions: nursing.com/educator

  5. 11月2日

    SIADH vs Diabetes Insipidus Teaching Strategy for Nurse Educators: The Sodium Seesaw Lesson Plan | Happy Nurse Educator

    A fluid and electrolyte teaching strategy for nurse educators and nursing faculty. SIADH and diabetes insipidus are the most-mixed-up pair in nursing school — one hormone, two opposite disasters. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan built on the sodium seesaw: too much ADH versus too little, dilute blood versus concentrated blood, restrict fluids versus replace them. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lessons: one hormone, two opposite problems — SIADH is excessive ADH from the posterior pituitary ("it really should be called the Syndrome of Excessive ADH"), DI is decreased ADH action; the numbers run opposite — SIADH means concentrated urine above 1.032 with dilutional hyponatremia, DI means 4 to 30 liters a day of water-like urine below 1.006 with severe hypernatremia; the treatments run opposite — restrict fluids and give hypertonic saline for SIADH, replace free water and give desmopressin for DI The bathtub analogy: ADH is the drain plug — jammed plug and the tub overflows into the brain (seizures, coma), pulled plug and the tub drains dry (cellular dehydration) The monitoring rules your students must carry to the bedside: hourly urine output and specific gravity, and report any hourly output above 200 to the provider The seesaw drill: two lab panels, no diagnoses — an unfolding case study climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on recognizing which side of the seesaw, analyzing a fluid order that makes things worse, and evaluating hypertonic saline therapy Academy lessons referenced: Nursing Care and Pathophysiology for SIADH, Nursing Care and Pathophysiology for Diabetes Insipidus (DI) Get your free nursing.com educator account — ready-to-use nursing lesson plans, concise lesson videos, visual cheat sheets, and thousands of NCLEX questions: nursing.com/educator

  6. 10月30日

    Chest Tube Lesson Plan for Nurse Educators: Teaching Tidaling, Water Seal & Troubleshooting | Happy Nurse Educator

    A chest tube lesson plan for nurse educators and nursing faculty. A few rules make the scariest box on the unit completely boring — and boring is the goal. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan covering the TWO AA'S assessment, water seal versus suction, and the nevers (never clamp, never strip) plus the plan for when the tube comes out. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lesson: what it does — a one-way valve draining fluid, blood, or air so the lung can expand, with the golden rule (upright, below the chest, always); the TWO AA'S assessment — tidaling as the "it's working" signal, water seal and air leak, output, ability to breathe and SpO2; the nevers — never clamp except to troubleshoot an air leak, never strip, and the three-sided occlusive dressing if the tube comes out The sump-pump analogy: below the house, one way out — and you check the slosh before you touch anything else The boring-box drill: an unfolding case study climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on reading tidaling, locating an air leak, and prioritizing when the tube is pulled out Why dry-suction chambers confuse even experienced nurses — and the physics every box obeys Academy lessons referenced: Chest Tube Management Get your free nursing.com educator account — ready-to-use nursing lesson plans, concise lesson videos, visual cheat sheets, and thousands of NCLEX questions: nursing.com/educator

  7. 10月28日

    Digoxin Teaching Strategy for Nurse Educators: Toxicity Signs & Hold Parameters Lesson Plan | Happy Nurse Educator

    A digoxin teaching strategy for nurse educators and nursing faculty. Digoxin helps a weak heart squeeze — and it can stop that same heart if you miss the parameters. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan covering the hold-below-60 wall, the early signs of toxicity, and why potassium loads the gun. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lesson: what it does — positive inotrope that increases the squeeze while slowing the rate (CHF, AFib, A-flutter); the hold parameter — apical pulse for one full minute, hold below 60, no negotiations; toxicity has a look — blurred and yellow-green vision changes, GI upset, bradycardia, and the potassium connection (hypokalemia raises toxicity risk, and diuretics drop potassium) The one-foot hallway analogy: the parameters are the handrails — you don't walk a hallway that narrow without holding them The parameter drill: an unfolding case study climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on holding the dose, analyzing the furosemide-potassium interaction, and naming digibind for severe toxicity The 2 a.m. test — why the parameter doesn't care what time it is or who's tired Academy lessons referenced: Digoxin (Lanoxin) Nursing Considerations Get your free nursing.com educator account — ready-to-use nursing lesson plans, concise lesson videos, visual cheat sheets, and thousands of NCLEX questions: nursing.com/educator

  8. 10月26日

    COPD Teaching Strategy for Nurse Educators: CO2 Retention & Oxygen Titration Lesson Plan | Happy Nurse Educator

    A COPD teaching strategy for nurse educators and nursing faculty. COPD patients are CO2 retainers — and once your students truly understand why, the oxygen rule finally sticks. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan covering chronic CO2 retention, the low-and-slow oxygen rule, and how to tell COPD apart from asthma on sight. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lessons: COPD is a CO2-retainer disease — a tourniquet on the lungs, chronically above 45; the oxygen rule — CO2 dependent, so too much oxygen can kill the respiratory drive, target SpO2 90–92%; COPD is not asthma — chronic and progressive, with barrel chest, clubbing, and cor pulmonale as the receipts The sink-with-a-clogged-drain analogy: the faucet works fine, but the drain is clogged — cranking the faucet doesn't unclog the drain, and pursed-lip breathing is the patient plunging it The oxygen-dial drill: an unfolding case study climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on recognizing a CO2 retainer, analyzing a compensated ABG, and prioritizing when the respiratory rate drops Treat the patient, not the number — why 89% can be fine and 98% can be the warning sign Academy lessons referenced: Nursing Care and Pathophysiology of COPD, COPD for CEN, COPD Exacerbation for PCCN Get your free nursing.com educator account — ready-to-use nursing lesson plans, concise lesson videos, visual cheat sheets, and thousands of NCLEX questions: nursing.com/educator

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Nursing Education Insights for Nurse Educators. Welcome to the Happy Nurse Educator Podcast with Jon Haws and Abby Rose from NURSING.com where we take nurse educators from discouraged and stressed to motivated and passionate. We are working to improve nursing education by providing FREE resources for you! Download FREE Lesson Plans today - happynurseeducator.com Nursing education seems to require the impossible task of choosing WHAT to focus on (when patient lives are at stake), and HOW to teach it so that it sticks. In this podcast, we provide the best nurse educator tips for teaching. that you can take and implement in the classroom today. Discover the ultimate resource for nursing educators – our revolutionary product offers complimentary access to a NURSING.com educator account. Immerse yourself in a collection of expertly designed lesson plans addressing complex nursing concepts. Each plan includes detailed objectives, analogies, CCMM implementation, and NCJMM, providing a comprehensive teaching framework. Additionally, access a suite of free resources for your students, such as cheat sheets, Cornell notes, lesson videos, quizzes, and case studies. Join a community of educators who have embraced this empowering and innovative resource, revolutionizing teaching methods and elevating student outcomes. Download FREE Lesson Plans today - happynurseeducator.com

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