#25: The Basics of Stroke Nursing

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🗓️ 4 September 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In Med/Surg 1, you learn the basics of stroke nursing and how rewarding and challenging it can be to care for these patients. And, because the human brain is an extraordinary thing, the manifestations of stroke and the nursing interventions are enough to make your head spin! In this podcast we cover the basics of stroke, including: * Causes and pathophysiology * Difference between ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke * Stages of stroke * Clinical manifestations of stroke * Prevention * Treatment of an evolving stroke * Long-term treatment of a stroke patient ___________________ 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! 💕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.
0:09.6	That's why we launched the Bites of Health Podcast.
0:13.7	Every morning will answer a commonly asked
0:16.2	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 offline. So be sure to tune in to
0:26.4	bites of health. Streaming now. Hey guys it's Nurse Mo and thanks for coming back to listen in to the
0:46.7	Straight A Nursing podcast. Today we are talking about stroke. You might also
0:51.8	hear it called CVA, which is cerebral vascular
0:56.4	accident and some places are calling it brain attack because they want it to be
1:01.2	taken as seriously in regards to the timing as heart attack.
1:06.7	So you might hear it called one of those three things.
1:11.4	And so this will be kind of just a basic overview of stroke. Perfect
1:17.0	information for your medsurge one course and clinicals. So there's a couple of different types of stroke. You're going to have
1:26.4	your embolic stroke which is caused by a blood clot and then you're going to have your
1:31.5	hemorrhagic strokes but most of them are caused by
1:36.1	emboli basically because of clots. So one of the things to know about stroke is that it is one of the leading causes of death in the United States.
1:48.0	It is also very leading cause of disability.
1:53.1	It's really expensive from a financial impact standpoint
1:58.6	for the individual patient,
2:01.4	for the health care system as a whole. But overall the death
2:07.1	rate due to stroke has gone down thanks to a lot more prevention and addressing comorbidities, quicker diagnosis and
2:17.8	timely intervention.
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