Happy Nurse Educator

Jon Haws and Abby Rose
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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

  1. 1d ago

    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

  2. 4d ago

    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

  3. 6d ago

    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

  4. Oct 26

    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

  5. Oct 23

    Burns Lesson Plan for Nurse Educators: Teaching the Parkland Formula & Rule of Nines | Happy Nurse Educator

    A burns lesson plan for nurse educators and nursing faculty. Burns look chaotic — but resuscitation is pure arithmetic. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan covering the emergent phase: airway before arithmetic, the rule of nines for TBSA, the Parkland formula for fluid resuscitation, and why hourly urine output is the gauge that steers everything. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lessons: airway before arithmetic — suspected inhalation injury means prepare for early intubation even if the patient is breathing (and never trust the pulse ox with carboxyhemoglobin); size it with the rule of nines — head/neck 9%, each arm 9%, each leg 18%, trunk 36%, genitalia 1%; resuscitate by the formula, steer by the kidneys — Parkland (4 mL x kg x %TBSA), half the 24-hour total in the first 8 hours, then titrate to urine output The pure-arithmetic analogy: measure the burn, run the formula, check your answer against the kidneys — like scaling a recipe, with urine output as the taste test The run-the-numbers drill: an unfolding case study (80 kg, 27% TBSA = 8,640 mL/24h, 4,320 mL in the first 8 hours) climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on recognizing inhalation injury, calculating Parkland fluids, and prioritizing the airway over the math "Burns hurt, period. Treat their pain!" — pain control as a resuscitation priority Academy lessons referenced: Burn Injuries, Burns for CEN 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. Oct 21

    Shock Teaching Strategy for Nurse Educators: Cardiogenic vs Hypovolemic vs Distributive Lesson Plan | Happy Nurse Educator

    A shock teaching strategy for nurse educators and nursing faculty. Shock isn't a blood pressure number — it's a perfusion story. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan built on the three-tank framework: pump failure (cardiogenic), volume loss (hypovolemic), and the pipe problem (distributive — septic, neurogenic, anaphylactic). Every shock question answers itself once your students name the tank. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lessons: shock is inadequate perfusion to organs and tissues — everything else is the search for why; name the tank, because the fix matches the tank — fix the pump, fill the tank, or tighten the pipes (norepinephrine is the #1 pressor); the numbers that name it — MAP above 65, lactate released when tissues go without oxygen, and the warm-shock warning: don't be fooled by warm, flushed skin and bounding pulses The three-tank water-system analogy: broken pump, drained tank, pipes sprung wide open — "Can we just fill up the space? When that doesn't work, we bring in the pressors" Sepsis priorities: blood cultures FIRST, then broad-spectrum antibiotics within one hour of recognition; pressors to hold MAP above 65; trend the lactate as the report card on tissue oxygenation The name-the-tank drill: an unfolding case study climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on recognizing early septic patterns, analyzing warm vs cold presentations, and prioritizing cultures before antibiotics Academy lessons referenced: Shock, Nursing Care and Pathophysiology for Distributive Shock, Sepsis for CEN 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. Oct 19

    Preeclampsia Teaching Strategy for Nurse Educators: HELLP Syndrome & Magnesium Sulfate Lesson Plan | Happy Nurse Educator

    A preeclampsia teaching strategy for nurse educators and nursing faculty. Preeclampsia doesn't always knock — sometimes the labs are screaming while the patient is smiling. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan covering the hypertension-plus-proteinuria must-haves after 20 weeks, how fast HELLP syndrome can move, and the magnesium sulfate monitoring that keeps the seizure from happening. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lessons: preeclampsia's two must-haves — hypertension after 20 weeks plus proteinuria (140/90 twice, 4 hours apart; 160/90 is severe); HELLP — Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes, Low Platelets — can crash in hours while the patient looks fine, and it is not a neat continuum; magnesium sulfate prevents the seizure, but delivery is the only cure The pressure-cooker analogy: the BP cuff and lab trends are the only gauge — mag is the lock on the lid, delivery takes it off the heat Magnesium sulfate safety: check reflexes and respirations before every dose (reflexes must be present, RR above 16, call if below 12); calcium gluconate is the antidote and stays at the bedside The trend-watch drill: an unfolding case study climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on recognizing the must-haves, analyzing a crashing HELLP trend, and holding the mag dose when reflexes fade Academy lessons referenced: Preeclampsia: Signs, Symptoms, Nursing Care, and Magnesium Sulfate, Magnesium Sulfate, Preeclampsia, Eclampsia, and HELLP Syndrome for CEN 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. Oct 16

    Blood Transfusion Reaction Lesson Plan for Nurse Educators: Stop the Blood First | Happy Nurse Educator

    A blood transfusion lesson plan for nurse educators and nursing faculty. The first fifteen minutes of a transfusion are the most dangerous — and the first move is always the same: stop the blood first, then assess. Jon gives you a ready-to-use nursing lesson plan teaching the early warning signs of transfusion reactions and how to differentiate febrile, allergic, and hemolytic reactions. In this episode: The 3 linchpins, straight from the academy lessons: the first fifteen minutes (reactions peak early — stay with the patient; anxiety is the first sign, before rash, itching, tachycardia, or fever); stop the blood first ("Always stop transfusion — blood back to lab. Start NS, except TACO. Then look at symptoms"); name the reaction — febrile, allergic, or hemolytic Febrile (fever rise of 1°C) vs allergic (hives, itching, rash, wheezing → anaphylaxis) vs hemolytic (dropping BP, chest pain, flank pain, shock/DIC) — three patterns, three urgencies, one first move The circuit-breaker analogy: cut the power first, then find the fault The stop-and-assess drill: an unfolding case study climbing Bloom's taxonomy, plus NCJMM-mapped questions on recognizing early cues and prioritizing the transfusion stop Academy lessons referenced: Blood Transfusions (Administration), Anemia 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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  • Creator
    Jon Haws and Abby Rose
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    39
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    Happy Nurse Educator

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