Nursing School Week by Week Melanie

You are working as a nurse in the emergency department when you get a new patient. A 65 year old female with a chief complaint of altered mental status. Will you be able to use your nursing spidey-senses to figure out what is wrong with this patient before she crashes? Once you recognize signs of Sepsis, don't forget to "CALL IT"!

CALL IT = Cultures, Antibiotics, Lactate, Lactate, IV fluids, and Tissue perfusion

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With sepsis, or septicemia, it can get real complicated, real fast. But we’re gonna try to just keep it simple today and talk about what you really need to know as nursing students.

Sepsis is when the body has an extreme response to an infection. The body tries so hard to fight off the infection, that it can even damage the patient’s own tissues and organs. Sepsis usually starts with a bacterial infection, but we also see it caused by fungal, viral, or even parasitic infections.

Acronyms used in this episode:
TIME: Temperature, Infection, Mental decline, and Extremely ill

HATTT: Hypotension, Altered Mental State, Tachycardia, Tachypnea, and Temperature

CALL IT: Cultures, Antibiotics, Lactate, Lactate, IV Fluids, and Tissue perfusion

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Today I'm talking about the reasons why you will fail out of nursing school, if you fail out of nursing school.  I’m rooting for all of you, and I want you all to succeed. I don’t want anyone to fail out of nursing school. But the reality is that according to the National League for Nursing Study, the rate for students that either fail or drop out is 20%. That’s 1/5th.

So at orientation, if you look around, every one out of 5 of you will not make it. Will not be there at graduation. And that’s a pretty sobering statistic, and one that I do want you to keep kind of in the back of your mind, especially if that motivates you to work harder. Because the reality is that some of you will flunk out. Some of you will drop out, and I don’t want that for any of you.

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You are working in the emergency room when the charge nurse says, "You've got a new patient. It's a 45 year old female complaining of dizziness." Little do you know, things are about to go from bad to worse for this patient before you implement life-saving interventions.

Hypoglycemia is a condition that you, as the nurse, will see on a regular basis. Get ready for it with this episode!

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Knowing how to recognize hypoglycemia, and knowing what to do about it to get their glucose level back up is super important. This is one of those conditions that you will see on a regular basis.

Hypoglycemia is when the blood sugar level drops below 70 mg/dL. The normal range for blood glucose is between 70-100. A low blood sugar level is very serious and you, as the nurse, must act quickly to fix it. I mean, think about it, What is the main fuel source for your brain? Glucose. Your brain needs glucose, or sugar, for energy. If the brain goes too long without enough glucose, it can cause seizures, coma, permanent brain damage, and even death.
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There are so many great reasons to become a nurse. No job is going to be all bad or all good, but a mixture of the two. And nursing definitely has it’s good and it’s bad qualities. But, let’s talk about the good things. The reasons why you should become a nurse.

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