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What is The Nurse Brain?
The Nurse Brain helps you go beyond memorising nursing concepts to understand how they work, why they matter and how they connect with clinical practice. Explore a growing library of structured guides and hundreds of free articles across nursing science, clinical practice, academic skills and nursing careers.
Whether you're building foundational knowledge, strengthening clinical skills, or planning your next career move, there's a hub designed to support you.
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The Knowledge Hub is a structured collection of anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology and academic skills articles, designed to build understanding from foundations to practice.
Practical guidance to support your transition into nursing, including new graduate advice, job applications and interviews, and specialty areas. Designed to support every stage of your career.
Practical clinical education focused on patient assessment, escalation, basic life support, and diagnostic interpretation. Designed to help you build clinical reasoning and confidence for practice.
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A&P
CO = HR x SV
Cardiac Output Explained
A breakdown of the factors that affect cardiac output and how they impact perfusion.
Clinical
Recognising Patient Deterioration
How to identify early signs of deterioration and escalate care with confidence.
Career
How to Write a Nurse Cover Letter
A step-by-step guide to writing a compelling cover letter that stands out.
About The Nurse Brain
The Nurse Brain was founded by a university nurse lecturer with extensive clinical and teaching experience. A nurse who is passionate about making learning easier and more practical for nurses and nursing students. The nursing career requires such a unique breadth of knowledge - and the content here is specifically designed to provide a comprehensive hub of learning resources.
From study tips and downloadable tools, to job application tips and educational content, the Knowledge Hub, Practice Hub and Career Hub will have you covered.
Understand what happens when major bleeding becomes a clinical emergency. The Massive Haemorrhage & MEP Guide breaks down the key components of massive haemorrhage management, connecting the blood products, equipment, physiology, investigations and clinical care involved during a massive transfusion.
Rather than simply listing what happens during an MEP, the guide explains why each component matters, helping you understand what is happening to the patient, what is being given, what needs to be monitored and the complications that can develop.