#148: Calling a Stroke Alert

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🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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When your patient has a sudden change in neurological status, it can be very scary for everyone involved. If your patient is having a stroke, their best chance for a positive outcome is TIMELY intervention. In today’s episode we’ll be talking through what happens when you call a stroke alert on your patient. ___________________ 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! New Nursing Student Checklist - Get prepped and ready for your nursing school program with this free checklist! Clinical Success Pack - One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This FREE pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet. Crucial Concepts Bootcamp - Start nursing school ahead of the game, or reset after a difficult first semester with my nursing school prep course, Crucial Concepts Bootcamp. Learn key foundation concepts, organization and time management, dosage calculations, and so much more. All Straight A Nursing Resources - Check out everything Straight A Nursing has to offer, including more free resources and online courses to help you succeed throughout nursing school! 💕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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0:00.0	Have you ever wished that you had a direct line to your pediatrician to ask all the questions that constantly crop up while parenting? We sure have.
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0:13.8	Every morning will answer a commonly asked
0:16.3	pediatric question in five minutes or less.
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0:24.8	So be sure to tune in to Bites of Health.
0:28.1	Streaming Now. Well hello their friends this is Nersmo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:45.9	podcast. Today is episode 148 and we're talking about what happens when you call a stroke alert on your patient.
0:55.9	It can be really scary so I thought it would be really beneficial to talk that through.
1:01.4	So hopefully when it happens to you you have a little bit more
1:05.3	confidence in that stressful situation. Before we do that let's take a quick moment for our listener shout out.
1:14.6	And this one goes to Rachel, who writes this, huge thank you to Nurse Mo.
1:21.1	I just took my drug calculations test for first semester and I got a 100%.
1:28.9	I literally couldn't believe it. Without the nursing boot camp before class started, who knows what would have happened. I couldn't have done it without the boot camp. Thank you.
1:38.0	So Rachel, I'm so thrilled that you had so much confidence going into your dosage
1:43.6	calculations exam and nursing school in general. So what Rachel is
1:48.0	talking about you guys for those of you that haven't heard me talk about
1:51.0	boot camp is she's talking about my crucial concepts, boot camp,
1:55.1	which is a course for nursing students,
1:57.8	especially those starting their programs,
1:59.8	but it works for students who are struggling and looking for a way to kind of reset in between
2:04.8	semesters and really develop that core foundation knowledge.
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