#408: MMM - Got an Unexpected BP?

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Let's start your week strong with a quick tip you can incorporate right away. In this Mo's Monday Minute shortie episode, I'm talking about what to do when you get a blood pressure reading you aren’t expecting. Maybe it’s too high, maybe it’s too low…but overall, the result just doesn’t make sense. ___________________ 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! 20 Secrets of Successful Nursing Students – Learn key strategies that will help you be a successful nursing student with this FREE guide! All Straight A Nursing Resources - Check out everything Straight A Nursing has to offer, including free resources and online courses to help you succeed! 💕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	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time
0:22.6	put your phone down
0:23.8	Tombollah
0:24.6	Open for fun
0:26.4	Terms apply 18 plus gamblerware
0:28.7	org
0:29.3	Google Well, hello there and welcome to Mo's Monday Minute, a shorty episode of the straight
0:45.5	A nursing podcast where I, Nurse Mo, share a quick tip you can start using to improve your
0:50.8	practice or habits right away.
0:53.0	For more in-depth topics, check out the episodes
0:55.4	that I release on Thursdays. So today, we're talking about what to do when you measure your
1:02.2	patient's blood pressure and it is not what you are expecting. So this could be an abnormally low reading.
1:09.6	It could be an abnormally high reading. And generally,
1:14.0	we base this off of what the patient's baseline blood pressure is or maybe what we heard in report
1:21.5	or what we know about their past medical history. Now, the first thing to do, when you get a reading that is a bit weird, is not to freak out.
1:32.3	We want to make sure that that reading is actually correct before we get in there and do anything
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