#15: Arrhythmia Basics for Nursing Students

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 8 May 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Let's review arrhythmia basics for nursing students. In this podcast episode, we'll talk through what causes them, how to identify them AND what you are going to do about them. * PACs * Atrial Flutter * Atrial Fibrillation * SVT * V-Tach * V-Fib * Idioventricular rhythms * Pulseless rhythms This episode is a great review if you're in Advanced Med/Surg, heading into your final semester preceptorship or starting out as a new nurse. ___________________ 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! Study Sesh - Change the way you study with this private podcast that includes dynamic audio formats that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! More on Arrhythmias - Review the most common arrhythmias you’ll see in the clinical setting and what you are going to do about it. Heart Blocks - After reading this post, you will be able to easily and quickly identify and differentiate between the various types of heart block and keep them all straight. 💕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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0:50.0	. . . . . . Hey everybody welcome back to the Straight Aid Nursing
0:55.1	podcast as I mentioned in the last episode today we will be talking
1:00.1	about dysrhythmia's and a little bit about the common features of each one and
1:07.2	what you're going to do about it. So note that the what you're going to do about a part is based on general knowledge and is in no way intended to replace your hospital or school or
1:22.8	or clinical locations policies and procedures.
1:26.9	So with that said, let's just do a quick-y-quick review
1:30.7	of the main elements of the electrocardiogram and that is your P wave, your
1:37.6	QRS in your T wave. So the Pwave represents your atrial depolarization, which is basically your atria
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