#55: The Nurse’s Guide to Hyperkalemia

Straight A Nursing: Study for nursing school exams & NCLEX

Straight A Nursing

Education, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Of all the electrolytes you'll evaluate when taking care of patients, potassium is one of the most important. In this podcast episode, Nurse Mo talks about the causes of hyperkalemia, the signs of this common condition, and what you are going to do to keep your patient's safe. ___________________ Full Transcript - View transcript and references Episode 347 - Tune in to this updated episode about hyperkalemia 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! 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. New Nursing Student Checklist - Get prepped and ready for your nursing school program! 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	P. Have you heard? You can save up to 640 pounds on the new Galaxy AI pilot
0:07.7	Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra with three. Plus get Buds 2 Pro under SMART tag 2 free.
0:14.8	Available with unlimited data from 54 pounds a month and 60 pounds up front.
0:19.5	Annual April airtime price rise of CPI plus 3.9% applies. Search 3 or head in store today.
0:27.0	Terms apply, C3.co. UK. Hey there everyone it is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:46.7	podcast this is episode 55 and today we are talking about hypercolemia.
0:55.0	Now if you've been listening to my podcast for a while,
0:58.0	you were probably thinking,
1:00.0	but wait, we did a whole series on Electrolytes a while back. Yes, we did, but I wanted to touch on hyper-colemia in a little more detail because it honestly is one of the electrolyte imbalances rather that you will be following
1:18.8	the most closely in your clinicals and when you're working as a nurse if you're working
1:26.1	especially in the acute care setting. So just to review a typical normal potassium level is 3.5 to 5.0 millimoles per liter.
1:39.8	Now again some institutions facility schools might say that their reference range is a little bit different, but it's not going to be vastly different.
1:49.4	So going by the general range of 3.5 to 5 is typically going to serve you well.
1:56.4	So in this podcast we're going to talk about what hyperclemia is, why we care,
2:02.0	what causes it, and as always what we as awesome nurses and nursing
2:08.0	students are going to do about it's
2:18.2	So hypercolemia is defined as any potassium level above that normal range So technically it's any level above that 5.0 or whatever your institution in hospital school says is the normal
2:26.4	range.
2:28.4	Optimally, we like to keep potassium in the facility that I work up to about 3.9 to 4.0.
2:36.3	If we can keep the levels right around there we are feeling pretty solid
2:40.4	about our patient's potassium levels.
2:44.0	Now when you get into higher levels of hyperclemia,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Straight A Nursing, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Straight A Nursing and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.