#369: Four Cases of Acute Confusion

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🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In today’s episode, we cover four common cases of acute confusion (delirium) in hospitalized patients. While these scenarios provide insight, remember that any confusion should be thoroughly evaluated to find the underlying cause. Phyllis: A 76-year-old post-surgical patient becomes confused after surgery. Learn how medications, missed meals, and beta blockers played a role in this situation. Stanley: An 84-year-old man becomes disoriented after receiving two commonly used medications. Bob: A 64-year-old COPD patient experiences confusion and has a very restless night. Meredith: A 53-year-old woman arrives at the ED with confusion and signs of a serious infection. Press play on this episode to dive into these scenarios and see common ways confusion occurs in the clinical setting. ___________________ 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. 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. 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. Fast Pharmacology - Learn pharmacology concepts in 5 minutes or less in this audio based program. Perfect for on-the-go review! Clinical Success Pack - One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet. Delirium 101 - Learn more about delirium in episode 160 The Low-down on Hypoglycemia - Dive deeper into hypoglycemia with the Straight A Nursing LATTE Method in episode 191 Sepsis Bundle - Learn the key components of the sepsis bundle in episode 24 💕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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0:25.0	Engarnu versus Fheera, October 19th live on the zone and this is the Straight A Nursing
0:45.1	podcast where I teach concepts and share tips on how to thrive in nursing
0:49.7	school and at the bedside. Today we're going to be talking about a situation that happens a lot in the clinical setting
0:57.0	and that is acute confusion and we'll go through
1:00.0	four patient scenarios each having acute confusion for a different reason.
1:06.7	Now before we hop into that let's take a quick minute for our listener shout out and this one goes out to Heather Heather says for 18 months I've
1:17.8	listened and re-listened to Nursemo's podcasts well before I even understand much of anything she's even saying.
1:26.1	Adding to my understanding with each prerequisite and each podcast through the
1:31.7	tease test, trudging along through the application
1:34.6	process until finally I'm three weeks from my first semester of nursing school.
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1:44.2	I picked up the med search program and study sess as well.
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