#145: ACE Inhibitors

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Today we’re taking a deep dive into angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (otherwise known as ACE inhibitors). In this podcast episode you will learn: * The RAAS pathway (understanding this is crucial to understanding how and why ACE inhibitors work!) * How to easily spot an ACE inhibitor * What conditions ACE inhibitors are used to treat * Adverse effects of ACE inhibitors...including one that can be life threatening! Are you as obsessed about patient safety as I am? Learn how to BULLETPROOF your medication administration here Are you looking for an awesome community to support you on your nursing school journey? Join my Facebook group, Thriving Nursing Students and instantly have more than 16K new friends :-) https://www.facebook.com/groups/thrivingnursingstudents ___________________ Full Transcript - Read the article and view references FREE CLASS - If all you've heard are nursing school horror stories, then you need this class! Join me in this on-demand session where I dispel all those nursing school myths and show you that YES...you can thrive in nursing school without it taking over your life! Fast Pharmacology - Learn pharmacology concepts in 5 minutes or less in this audio based program. Perfect for on-the-go review! 💕Did you love this episode? Please take a moment to follow or subscribe to the show so you never miss an episode! ___________________ The information, including but not limited to, audio, video, text, and graphics contained on this podcast are for educational purposes only. No content on this podcast is intended to guide nursing practice and does not supersede any individual healthcare provider's scope of practice or any nursing school curriculum. Additionally, no content on this podcast is intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Straight a Nursing is a proud member of the Airwave Media Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.1	Streaming Now. Well, hello there everyone, this is Nurse Mo Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:45.0	podcast. This is episode 145 and today we're diving into pharmacology and
0:50.4	talking about ACE Inhibitors.
0:53.0	Before we do that, let's take a quick moment for our listener shout out.
0:58.0	And this one is from Missy who writes,
1:00.0	I have been a nurse for 11 years,
1:02.0	and I have been listening to this podcast on the regular since I discovered it.
1:06.7	I love that it brings me back to the basics and let's face it.
1:09.7	Even after nursing as long as I have, I still learn something new each time I listen thanks
1:15.0	nurse mow hey missy thank you so much it's so funny because I was just having this
1:19.1	conversation with a couple of nurse friends just this past week.
1:23.6	So I was in, I was actually at work yesterday
1:28.2	and one of my coworkers came up to me and said,
1:30.1	hey, I had a patient who had a thyroidectomy and I wasn't sure how to care for her so I
1:34.8	listened to your podcast real quick on that subject and I said oh my gosh that's
1:38.2	exactly why I recorded that podcast because I had a patient with thyroidectomy and when I went online real quick before I got the patient and researched all the things that I needed to do and watch out for and you know monitor for to take care of this patient and keep her safe I thought wow
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