#26: Potassium and Calcium

Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX

Straight A Nursing

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Understanding the important role that electrolytes play will separate you from the ho-hum nurse and catapult you into Awesome Nurse Status. If you're a student, you might think that it's simply a matter of knowing what the normal and abnormal values are...but that's just a teeny tiny part of it! In this podcast, we talk about potassium and calcium: * important roles of potassium and calcium * potassium and calcium "fun facts" (and yes...they ARE fun!) * signs and symptoms of hypokalemia, hyperkalemia, hypocalcemia and hypercalcemia * common causes of potassium and calcium imbalances * assessment parameters, nursing interventions and how to treat ___________________ 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! Straight A Nursing App - Study on-the-go with the Straight A Nursing app! Review more than 5,000 flashcards covering a wide range of subjects including Fundamentals, Pediatrics, Med Surg, Mental Health, Maternal Newborn, and more! Available for free in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. 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. Electrolytes Episodes - Tune in to my other episodes related to electrolytes 💕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 offline.
0:24.8	So be sure to tune in to Bites of Health.
0:28.1	Streaming Now. Hey everybody welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:45.7	Podcast. Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:50.3	And today what we are going to be talking about are some electrolytes.
0:55.0	This is key foundation knowledge that you need to understand pretty much starting off early on in your nursing school career and then it will carry
1:06.4	over and you will use this knowledge every time you just need to
1:15.0	just need to memorize the lab values that are normal for a particular electrolyte.
1:25.1	And actually, the lab value range
1:29.1	is probably the last thing that you need
1:31.9	to know about these electrolytes. What you need to
1:35.4	understand about each one is why it's important, what its functions are in the body, the signs and symptoms of both hyper levels and
1:49.3	hypo levels, so high and low levels, causes for it being too high or being too high or being too low. And then the
1:59.2	most important thing as a nurse, what are you going to do about it?
2:05.0	So we'll see how many we can get through.
2:08.3	I don't want this podcast to get too long.
2:11.5	So if we end up having to do a two-parter, we'll do a two-parter. So let's start with probably
2:19.1	the most common one that you will be keeping an eye ion for a variety of reasons and that is
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