#31: Trauma Case Study

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🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As I've said many times before, nursing is all about solving problems. You SEE something, you DO something...it's so simple. But, at the same time, putting it into practice can be quite complex. The patient problems you start out with at the beginning of your shift, are not always going to be the same problems you're dealing with a few hours in. As a nurse, your ability to adapt, reprioritize and reevaluate is the MOST ESSENTIAL thing you can do. In this podcast, we go through a trauma case study that highlights this in detail. Follow along through four shifts as you take care of a young trauma victim with multiple problems, multiple changes in condition and multiple priorities to manage. *DISCLAIMER: This is a fictitious patient and is not based in any way on actual events. ___________________ 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! Conquering Case Studies - Learn how to approach case studies so they feel less overwhelming while honing your clinical judgment skills in the process. 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 Case Studies - Want more case studies? You can find a few more here, and even more in 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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0:28.1	Streaming Now. Hey there everybody welcome back to the Straight A Nursing Podcast and today we are
0:48.8	going to be going through a trauma case study. So if you read the website strady nursing
0:56.0	student.com you might have seen this case study there. If you haven't and you feel
1:02.2	like there's a ton of information that we're going over.
1:05.0	Check it out afterwards just to reinforce what you're hearing by reading it,
1:11.0	but it's one of my most popular posts on the website, so I thought
1:15.8	it would make a really great podcast episode as well. So my disclaimer is that this is not a real patient. All the problems are real. I've dealt with each of these issues here and there in different scenarios. I don't think I've had a patient specifically
1:35.0	with all this stuff happening all at the same time,
1:38.4	but you could.
1:39.4	And it is just an excellent example of how priorities change in nursing, whether you work critical care, trauma,
1:50.6	telly the floor, home health, whatever, you're always reprioritizing, you're always reassessing.
1:59.1	It's a very fluid kind of thing. You know you might start off the day with a plan.
2:06.0	That does not mean that your plan is going to be relevant two hours later or five hours later. So I wanted to share with you a case study that shows how
2:17.8	you're constantly reassessing, re-evaluating, and reprioritizing. So again, if you feel like it's a lot, you can check out the actual case study
2:28.0	originally as it was shared with you guys at straight a nursing student.com. Okay, so
2:38.2	Here we go. It's your first shift. You're working four nights in a row.
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