Corde · Nursing Reference
You can memorize the whole drug list and still freeze at the bedside.
Corde starts with the physiology and works forward to what you actually do about it. Written by a nurse who needed it first.
Volume I
The Med-Surg Thinking System
Take sepsis. The heart rate climbs while the pressure drops, which looks like a contradiction until you know the vessels have dilated and the tank is now too big for the volume in it. An hour later he is less responsive, because the brain is not getting what it needs. One cause, three findings, and it only looks like a mystery if nobody explained the middle part.
157 pages of that. Why the heart failure patient cannot breathe lying down, what the BNP is telling you, what the diuretic is actually fixing.
$44.99 printed · digital from $27.99
Open Volume IBegin where you are
Start with the problem you're in.
Why Corde exists
My coworker started stealing my handouts.
Patients kept asking me what their pills were for and I kept not knowing, so I started writing my own med sheets at the desk on copier paper. One of the other nurses liked them enough to take them for herself. That was the moment I understood it was not a me problem. Common Medications is that stack of copier paper, cleaned up and bound.
The collection
Everything on the shelf
Print & digital
The Med-Surg Thinking System
from $27.99
Print & digital
ADHD-Friendly Pharm Study Sprints
from $19.99
Printed
Common Medications: What to Say to Patients
$44.99
Digital
The New Nurse Shift Brain System
$19.99
Digital
Provider Call Scripts for New Nurses
$14.99
Digital
The Corde Shift Reflection Journal
$12.99
The nurse behind Corde
Made by a nurse who needed this first
I started college on a full academic scholarship, and I flunked out my first year. The reason turned out to be undiagnosed ADHD, something I didn't learn until right before my first semester of nursing school.
Nursing school only worked once I stopped trying to memorize my way through and started building systems to actually think. The references in Corde are the ones I built for myself. More than five years later, I'm a nurse with a master's in nursing informatics, and Corde exists so the next nurse doesn't have to lose years learning how to learn.
Keely, MSN, RNFounder of Corde
The Ambassador Program
Bring the next nurse with you.
You get a code to share and a cut of every sale it brings in. No quotas, no posting schedule, no contract. If a Corde book got you through, pass it on.
Become a Corde AmbassadorThe Corde Letter
A letter, now and then.
No schedule. I write one when something is worth your inbox, usually a lab that half the unit reads wrong or a drug that finally made sense to me on a night shift.