#16: Developing Your Nursing Intuition

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Straight A Nursing

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 22 May 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Developing your nursing intuition and clinical judgment takes time, experience and exposure to LOTS of patients and many different situations. Learning which five assessments you'll need to get you there is key! Over time (and after you've assessed a lot of patients and dealt with multiple scenarios) you'll start to develop an intuition and be able to "sense" when your patients are in trouble. And it all starts right here with five basic (and easy) assessments. ___________________ 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! 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. Clinical Confidence - Here are my best tips for feeling confident in clinical. Pain Assessment - Review pain assessment and management in episode 309. Respiratory Assessment - In this episode I’m sharing my best tips for conducting a respiratory assessment step-by-step. Level of Consciousness - Knowing the difference between each level of consciousness will help you chart accurately and communicate your patient’s condition with precision. 💕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.
0:10.0	That's why we launched the Bites of Health Podcast.
0:13.8	Every morning will answer a commonly asked
0:16.3	pediatric question in five minutes or less.
0:19.5	You can tune in while you're making your second cup of coffee or from the school drop off line.
0:24.8	So be sure to tune in to Bites of Health.
0:28.1	Streaming Now. You're going to go and Well, hello, hello again everyone. Thanks for checking back in with the Straight Aid Nursing Podcast.
0:55.2	And this one will probably be pretty short and sweet.
0:59.8	A lot of you are in finals or wrapping up this semester, maybe you're graduating and maybe you have other things to do besides study nursing.
1:12.0	But in case you don't, this podcast will talk about
1:16.3	something that will help you prepare not only for your clinical rotations but
1:21.6	also for your life as a working nurse in the
1:25.2	acute care clinical setting and what we are talking about today is simply some very basic, very key assessments that you're going to perform.
1:38.0	If not every single time you interact with your patient, then just about every single time you interact with your patient than just about every single time you interact with
1:45.0	your patient.
1:46.4	And it becomes one of those things that you start doing very automatically and without even realizing you're kind of
1:55.4	ticking through the list of things. But of course when you're starting out it is
2:01.0	a little bit more of a formalized process and then as you gain experience
2:06.2	and exposure to lots of different patients lots of different scenarios these five
2:12.1	key assessments all kind of meld together and they become what I call
2:16.7	your Spidey sense or your nurse sense and that is the ability to look at someone and know they're sick or they're in trouble or they need help.
2:32.0	So, key skill to have. or they need help.
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