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Build your school profile once — pick the programs you're considering from 1,082 nursing schools nationwide — and Nick coaches you against the real admissions picture. Learn the NCLEX test plan before day one, prep for nursing-school interviews with scenarios and mock interviews, and try real practice questions early.

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Screenshot of the school profile page with role and target-school pickers Your school profileTell Nick where you are and which schools you're considering. Build yours → Screenshot of the NCLEX test plan guide The test plan, decodedThe 8 categories and where the points concentrate, in plain language. Read it → Screenshot of the interview prep page Interview prepScenarios, structured answers, and Nick's mock interviews. Prep →

First-year prep

Start nursing school one step ahead

Two plain-language guides written for future nurses: what the first year actually holds (and how to prep for it this summer), and the theories and concepts your instructors will assume you know.

Guide

What to expect your first year

The courses subject by subject, how clinicals really work, why nursing exams feel different, study strategies that work — plus a May-to-August prep checklist.

Read the guide → Guide

Theorists & concepts to know before you start

Nightingale, Orem, Roy, Leininger, and Watson in plain language — plus ADPIE, QSEN, Maslow for prioritization, and therapeutic communication, with sources.

Meet the theorists → Free tools

First-year prep tools

Hands-on practice in your browser: the dosage-calculations primer, the head-to-toe assessment checklist, and a pre-nursing study schedule builder.

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First-year prep: start before day one

Three free prep tools — no sign-up, everything runs in your browser — covering the skills that matter most when nursing school starts. What to expect your first year → Plus a 150-question first-year foundations practice bank (easy, "before you start" level: vital signs, infection control, the five rights, basic A&P) in the exam app.

Dosage-calculations primerThe part future nurses fear most — broken into convert, set up, check. Worked examples plus no-stakes practice with instant feedback. Start the primer → Head-to-toe assessment checklistWalk a full nursing assessment step by step, with normal-findings hints. Track your progress, print it, saved on your device. Open the checklist → Pre-nursing study schedule builderPick your start date, hours per day, and weeks until your program starts — get a week-by-week plan across the five first-year foundations. Build your schedule →
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