Nursing
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Exam Week Execution Plan: From Final Review to Test-Day Performance
By: Lynda Malcolm, JD, MD Exam week is looming. Notes are marked up, practice questions worked through, and the big exam is now just over a week away. You’ve already put in the hard yards. This final stretch is where many students lose their edge. It’s not because they don’t know the material, but because…
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Struggling with Anatomy? 8 Concepts That Make Anatomy Click
Anatomy is often seen as a subject you simply need to memorize with hundreds of names for bones, muscles, and nerve pathways. But anatomy is really a language, a common systematic way of describing the human body so that clinicians, students, and researchers can communicate clearly from anywhere in the world. In this post, we’re…
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Shift-Style Schedules: Adapting Nursing School Days to Real-World Work Rhythms
By: Lynda Malcolm, JD, MD Nursing school doesn’t run on neat 9-to-5 blocks. Clinical days stretch long, labs eat into evenings, and suddenly it’s midnight, and you’re wondering where the time went. The students who thrive aren’t cramming study time into random gaps. They’re building their days around the same rhythm they’ll live by once…
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Ultimate Midwifery Reading List
Midwifery care requires you to be a practitioner and a care giver, navigating medication dosing, and holding space for fear, pain, and the joy of birth all in one. Having the right book will ensure you develop and sharpen those essential skills. Here we have gathered our recommended reedling list that cover foundational knowledge, anatomy,…
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Best Books for Nursing Students after Year 1
As a first year nursing student your goal was understanding the foundations: anatomy, physiology, and the basics of care. Now, as a returning nursing student is when things start to feel different – more real. Placements get longer, the cases are more complex, and you’re expected to bring more clinical reasoning to every decision –…
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Webinar – The Art of Failing: How to Fail Well
Presenter Dr. Maria Ahmad explores the psychological and professional impact of failure, particularly within the demanding field of healthcare. The session reframes the concept of failure as an inevitable and valuable “setback”—a crucial component of learning, growth, and long-term success. Session Highlights Four Key Shifts in Perspective: 1. Self-Worth vs. Mistakes: Drawing on Carol Dweck’s…
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Navigating the Demands of Nursing School Without Burning Out
By: Lynda Malcolm Nursing school tests even the strongest students. It will challenge you in new ways. You aren’t just learning new material; you’re learning to keep people alive. Most programs don’t tell you that you need to learn to be two very different types of student at the same time—the scholar who can absorb…
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Surviving the Transition: Real Talk for Incoming Medical & Nursing Students
By: Lynda Malcolm, MD, JD Somewhere in your first few weeks, there’ll be a moment when you start to doubt yourself. Everyone around you seems so confident and prepared while you are a bundle of nerves. You’ll begin questioning whether you belong here. Newsflash—you do. The truth is everyone has doubts. Here’s what the brochures…
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The guide every health science student should read before using AI again
If you study medicine, nursing, or any health profession, you already use artificial intelligence. The question is no longer whether you use it, but how . And that’s precisely where “Learning in the Age of AI: A Practical Guide for Health Sciences Students ,” by Dr. Javier Flores Cohaila, comes in, now available completely free for download on our HUB. This is not…
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Every Clinician has Faced Failure. What Matters is How They Responded.
Online Session The Art of Failing: How to Fail Well Thursday, September 17th 6pm UK | 1pm US ET 🔗 Register Here The thought of failure fills us with dread – whether failing an exam, not getting a job we wanted, or making an incorrect diagnosis. And because we talk about failure so rarely, we…