#155: The Nurse’s Guide to Gallstones

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Straight A Nursing

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Gallbladder disease is often due to gallstones (cholelithiasis) and inflammation (cholecystitis). In this podcast episode we’ll talk through some key things you need to know to take care of patients with these conditions, including: Gallbladder A&P review (it’s quick, I promise!) What are gallstones anyway? What causes gallbladder inflammation? Nursing care using the Straight A Nursing LATTE method 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! 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! Med Surg Solution - Are you looking for a more effective way to learn Med Surg? Enroll in Med Surg Solution and get lessons on 57 key topics and out-of-this-world study guides. LATTE Method Template - Download the free LATTE Method Template so you can streamline how you study and focus on what a nurse needs to know. 💕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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0:28.1	Streaming Now. Hey there everybody it is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:45.7	Podcast this is episode 155 and we will be talking about gallstones, gallbladder disease, basically
0:55.7	coly lithiasis and colesestitis. Before we do that I always like to take a moment to recognize the listeners with my
1:06.0	listener shout out. So this one goes out to Addie, and Addie writes,
1:11.6	Nurse Mo is informative, helpful, kind, easy to listen to and funny.
1:18.6	I greatly appreciate her podcast as a pre-Nursing student. It helps me understand what to expect when I get
1:26.2	into nursing school. Thank you, Nurse Mo. I highly recommend this podcast to everyone.
1:32.0	Thank you so much, Addie. I really, really appreciate that so very much.
1:37.8	So in this episode, you guys, we're going to be talking about gallbladder disease, and then at the end we'll have a few of those
1:45.3	pod quiz questions that I know you love and if you love them then stick around to
1:52.3	the very end for an exciting announcement.
1:55.6	Okay, who's ready to dive into gallbladder disorders?
1:59.9	So gallbladder disease can fall into a few different categories.
2:06.1	It can be gallstones, it can be inflammation of the gallbladder, it can even be gangrene, abscesses, gallbladder cancer, and something called
2:16.9	sclerosis colangitis. However, the most common disorders that you'll see are obstructions and inflammation.
2:27.0	So we'll be focusing on those in today's episode.
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