Maureen Osuna, MSN, RN - Nursing school educator, author, and nursing student enthusiast.
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In this show, Maureen Osuna, MSN, RN (Nurse Mo) breaks down a wide range of nursing school concepts so they’re easy to understand. Each episode aims to help nursing students improve their study techniques, pass nursing school exams, and feel more confident in clinical. If you’re nervous about nursing school, not “getting it” in lecture, or feeling overwhelmed with all the information you have to learn, this podcast will help you optimize your study time so you can learn more with less stress.While nursing school is challenging, it doesn’t have to be impossible. When concepts are explained...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Maureen Osuna makes complex nursing concepts usable by connecting clinical terminology, patient consequences, and the decisions nurses may need to make.
Straight A Nursing turns dense clinical material into patient, sequential walkthroughs. Maureen Osuna explains what nurses may see, why it happens, and what action follows, moving from anticoagulation and heart blocks to ventilator settings and code response.
A dropped QRS looks less like ECG hieroglyphics when Nurse Mo walks you through the pattern.
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A practical rhabdomyolysis lesson that keeps dialysis, electrolyte risk, circulation, and gradual recovery in clear view.
Rhabdomyolysis comes through as a high-stakes condition with several complications in play, including dialysis, dangerous electrolyte shifts, DIC, compartment syndrome, and impaired circulation.
A clear bedside review of recognizing serotonin syndrome and acting on early nursing priorities.
Serotonin syndrome is framed as a bedside recognition problem, anchored in a patient who becomes agitated and develops tremors and diarrhea a few hours after starting linezolid for a staph infection.
A practical mental health exam review on organizing psychopharmacology side effects by drug class.
Mental health nursing exams put real weight on psychopharmacology, and this episode keeps its strongest focus on medications and adverse effects.
A hyperkalemia question shows why nursing exams ask for clinical judgment, not just memorized lab ranges.
Nursing school gets harder when a study method no longer matches what the exam is really asking. This episode grounds that problem in hyperkalemia, where a patient on lisinopril may need an EKG, telemetry monitoring, and medication selected by how seriously potassium is…
A practical bedside walkthrough that makes bubble study setup easy to follow.
The piece keeps bubble study setup grounded in a practical bedside sequence, moving cleanly from supplies to IV access and stopcock preparation.
A clear walk-through of when to shock, where to place pads, and why speed and safety both matter.
It treats defibrillation as a practical sequence rather than a narrow skill, keeping attention on shockable rhythms, common triggers such as ischemia, how the shock works, and where external pads belong.
A clear, bedside-minded look at how stress tests flag possible heart problems.
The piece keeps its focus on bedside nursing concerns, using cardiac stress testing to explain exercise stress testing in plain terms. It connects angina, neurological symptoms, and pale or poor skin signs to possible ischemia, and it points to specific ST segment changes as the…
Too much oxygen can matter just as much as too little.
The episode treats oxygen toxicity as a safety problem that can show up even when a patient on 100% FiO2 looks settled at first. It keeps the focus on respiratory and neurologic signs, and it also calls out eye changes such as myopia and visual disturbance.
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Asian Efficiency's Tan Pham and Brooks Duncan on time management, habits, and AI tools.
A call-in helpline where listener questions turn into reported science and history investigations.
Nurse Mo shares three essential tasks for nurses and nursing students to perform at the start of a shift: reading physician notes, reviewing key labs, and checking medication schedules.
Nurse Mo revisits stroke alerts, explaining when and how to call them, using the BE FAST acronym for assessment, and detailing the rapid interventions and patient safety measures involved.
Nurse Mo guides listeners through a mock code blue simulation featuring patient Mr.
This episode revisits atelectasis, a common but serious lung condition often seen in post-operative patients.
Nurse Mo provides a comprehensive guide to cardiac stress tests, covering both exercise and pharmacologic methods.
Nurse Mo explains oxygen toxicity, covering its pathophysiology, risk factors, signs and symptoms, assessments, tests, treatments, and patient education for nursing students.
This encore episode revisits deep vein thrombosis (DVT), covering its definition, risk factors like Virchow's triad, signs and symptoms, diagnostic tests, treatments with anticoagulants, complications such as pulmonary embolism, and nursing interventions for prevention.
Nurse Mo provides a comprehensive guide to defibrillation, covering shockable rhythms like V-fib and pulseless V-tach, types of defibrillators including AEDs and ICDs, and essential safety tips for effective use.
Nurse Mo provides a foundational overview of ventilator basics for nursing students, covering key concepts like oxygenation vs.
Nurse Mo explains what a bubble study is, a procedure using agitated saline to detect abnormal heart or lung shunts, covering indications like unexplained strokes, step-by-step setup with stopcocks, and safety risks including air embolism.
Nurse Mo hosts Stephanie Griffith to discuss nurse shock, a metaphor for the emotional and professional challenges new nurses face, using medical shock types like hypovolemic and cardiogenic to frame self-care strategies.
This encore episode of Straight A Nursing provides a comprehensive guide to recognizing heart blocks, covering first, second, and third-degree blocks with clear explanations, clinical implications, and a memorable relationship analogy to aid learning for nursing students.
Nurse Mo explains the doorway assessment, a nursing technique for continuously observing patients to catch early signs of trouble, such as changes in consciousness or respiratory distress.
Nurse Mo breaks down the five core ethical principles in nursing—autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice, and fidelity—using real-world examples and NCLEX-style practice questions.
Nurse Mo hosts Stephanie Griffith to discuss the #1 mistake new grad nurses make: having a fixed mindset.
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A nursing educator promotes scrubs and then transitions into a history podcast ad, but the show's core is nursing study tips.
Nurse Mo opens Straight A Nursing's "Serotonin Syndrome - Signs, Symptoms & Nursing Interventions" with a linezolid case: a patient on sertraline and tramadol develops agitation, tremors, diarrhea, and 102.8°F fever after treatment for a staph infection.
A nursing education podcast that uses a history anecdote about the Battle of Trenton to introduce a sponsored segment about scrubs, then transitions into study tips for nursing students.
A nursing education podcast that uses a history story about the Battle of Trenton to introduce a sponsored segment on scrubs, then likely returns to nursing study tips.
A nursing school study podcast that opens with a sponsored ad for scrubs and then transitions into a history podcast segment about the Battle of Trenton.
["Straight A Nursing episode #476 says nursing school feels hard because the exams are layered and non-linear, not because students lack ability.", "Nurse Mo contrasts prereq-style recall tests with scenario questions like renal insufficiency, potassium 6.1, and lisinopril, where telemetry monitoring comes first.", "She argues that copying notes, heavy highlighting, rereading textbooks, and oversized study guides can create false confidence instead of nursing judgment.", "Her fix is structured learning, weekly blueprint reviews, and the free nursing school survival blueprint at straightanursingstudent.com/blueprint."]
Digoxin toxicity can present as bradycardia, nausea, and seeing yellow, with Digibind as the antidote.
Nurse Mo’s #438: Chemo Basics explains how cytotoxic chemotherapy targets rapidly dividing cancer cells while also affecting bone marrow, hair follicles, and the gastrointestinal tract.
A nursing educator promotes FIGS scrubs and then transitions to a history podcast segment about the Battle of Trenton.
Nurse Mo introduces the podcast and discusses preparing for the NCLEX exam, with a sponsored segment about scrubs and betting app.
This episode discusses the importance of comfortable scrubs and includes a sponsored ad for FIGS scrubs, then transitions into nursing school study tips.
A nursing educator discusses study strategies for nursing school exams and NCLEX, with a sponsored segment about scrubs.