Your first year is hard. You should not have to work it out alone.
Nursing Gateway gives you a path for every stage of your first year, and a guide you can talk to any hour. Short lessons you can read between shifts, straight answers to what school left out, and a real person who writes back.
Built by a nurse with 30 years at the bedside. Start free.
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Built by David, an RN, BSN, MBA with 30 years in nursing, from Med-Surg floors to Cardiac ICU and 10 plus years in Utilization Review. He still reviews the clinical content himself before it goes up.
More than lessons. Real guidance for your first year.
A path for every stage of your first year, the Gateway Journey, so you always know what to read or do next
Two guides you can talk to any hour: ask where to start, what to study next, or practice a hard conversation before your shift
Six modules that walk you from orientation to building your career, using the shifts you are actually having
Clinical articles you can finish in one sitting, on vital signs, medication safety, sepsis, and pain and opioids
Stories set where nursing takes you, so you get the judgment and the why, not just the steps
Relaxed and self-paced. No classroom, no live calls, just short lessons on your phone when you have a minute
New content added as it is ready
Most sites hand you a library. This is a year with someone beside you every step of the way.
Concierge level support, for every member
You are not just getting access to content. You are getting someone in your corner.
A personal check-in: A few days after you join, you hear from David directly. He asks how it is going and what would help most.
Tell us what you need: Looking for something we do not have yet? Just ask. We review every request. If we already have it, we send you straight to it. If we do not, we tell you honestly and consider building it.
A real reply: Questions go to a person, not a form. We are here for any question, and we will do our best to help.
Two guides, any hour: The Nursing Gateway Guide is free for every member. It helps you find your stage, work out what to read next, and make sense of what you just learned. The Starter Guide comes with Starter and Pro. It does everything the Gateway Guide does, and goes further into practice, so you can rehearse a hard conversation before your shift. Both ask you a question back, so it feels like thinking out loud with a colleague. They are for learning and practice. They do not give medical advice, your facility policy and your preceptor always come first, and please keep patient details out of the chat.
Every member is included, free or paid. The Nursing Gateway Guide is free for all, and the Starter Guide comes with Starter and Pro.
This is for you if….
You finished orientation and still feel like you are guessing.
You are afraid of the mistake you cannot take back.
You want someone who has been there to tell you what school did not.
You start in two weeks and want to walk in ready.
You are past your first year and wondering what comes next.
You want a guide to talk it through with when it is 3am and nobody else is up.
Nursing Gateway is for nurses who want a clear next step, not more noise. Pick your stage on the Gateway Journey, ask your Guide when you need it, and start free. Go deeper when you are ready.
Not sure where to start? Start here.
5 Things No One Tells New Grad Nurses is a short, free mini-course on what orientation skips. Five lessons you can finish in a few short sittings.
It is the front door. Take it and you land inside the Gateway Journey, where you pick your stage, your Guide is there to ask, and the rest of the library is one step away.
Also free for every member: Getting Your First Nursing Job, five lessons on applying, interviewing and choosing your first role.
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Find Your Direction: The Career Clarity Checklist
Not sure which specialty is right for you, or whether to travel, lead or stay put? This free 2-page checklist walks you through 15 questions across five areas. Ten minutes gives you a clearer map of your next move. Join Nursing Gateway free and your checklist is waiting inside. No credit card needed.
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Adventures in Nursing: a story for the nurse who needs a breather
Fiction set where nursing takes you, from Norwegian ice fields to a Mekong Delta ward. Real clinical situations, real decisions, and no textbook voice. Read one and ask yourself what you would do.
That is not a break from your learning. It is your learning with the pressure taken out. A nurse who has thought it through in a story has already thought it through on the unit.
Arctic Pulse: a trauma nurse in the Norwegian ice fields
Monsoon Ward: pediatrics on the Mekong Delta
Amazon Vigil: critical care in the Brazilian rainforest
Start with a course built for your first year.
Short, relaxed lessons you can read between shifts, like talking it through with a nurse who has been there.
Survive & Thrive: The New Grad RN Roadmap Six modules and 35 lessons that take you from orientation to building your career, with real scenarios, practical tools and printable worksheets. Lesson 1 is free. The full course is included with Starter and Pro.
It does not stop there.
Medications That Scare New Nurses. Five modules on the drugs that make new grads nervous, and the checks that keep you and your patient safe.
Your First Code. The first minutes of a code, written as a story you move through.
Documentation That Protects You. Charting that holds up when someone reads it back.
Patient and Family Communication. The conversations school skipped, with your Starter Guide there to practice them before your shift.
Getting Your First Nursing Job. Free. Five lessons on applying, interviewing and choosing.
New courses added as they are ready.
Your Gateway Journey
Where are you right now? Pick your answer and your path opens, with what is waiting there and the one thing to do first. Come back as often as you like and change your answer as you grow.
Before day one. Get ready before you walk in. Survive & Thrive Lesson 1 and the 90 day intention template, so your first shift is not the first time you have thought about it.
My first weeks. Get through the days that blur together. Module 1 again for the week that falls apart, plus shift report and the charting checklist. Then rehearse what you will say to your preceptor with your Guide.
My first 90 days. Build real confidence on the floor. Module 2, then the clinical articles on vital signs and medication safety, in the order they come up on the shift.
I'm past my first year. Work out what comes next. The free Career Clarity Checklist and the story library while you think it over. The Beyond Burnout path is coming.
I'm an experienced nurse. Keep growing, on your terms. The same door, with advanced courses and coaching as they are ready.
Every stage has your Guide beside it. Ask it where to start, what to read next, or how to practice a hard conversation. This is the part that is hard to put in a feature list. It feels like a year with company, not a folder of files.
Meet your Guides
Two AI guides come with your membership. They are there at 3am, when nobody else is up, and they ask you a question back, so it feels like thinking out loud with a colleague.
The Nursing Gateway Guide. Free for every member. Not sure where to start? Ask. It helps you find your stage, work out what to read next, and make sense of what you just learned.
The Starter Guide. Included with Starter and Pro. It does everything the Gateway Guide does, and goes further into practice. Rehearse the conversations your first year is made of before your shift: giving a clear shift report, speaking up, asking for help, or talking with a patient, a family member or a colleague. It coaches you one question at a time, so you leave with words you can actually use.
The Guides are for learning and practice. They do not give medical advice, your facility policy, charge nurse and preceptor always come first, and please keep patient details out of the chat.
Start free. Go deeper when you are ready.
Gateway, free. The 5 Things mini-course, Survive & Thrive Lesson 1, the Career Clarity Checklist, the Gateway Journey, and the Nursing Gateway Guide to ask anything.
Starter, $27 a month or $197 a year. The full Survive & Thrive Roadmap, the clinical article library and the Starter Guide, to practice the conversations your first year is made of, with the worksheets and handouts that go with every lesson.
Pro, $57 a month or $497 a year. Everything in Starter, plus the full story library and the Beyond Burnout path as it opens.
Every level includes the personal check-in and a reply from a person.