#58: Hypothyroidism…When Your Thyroid Just Can’t Anymore

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🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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I get so many questions about how to study for endocrine disorders because, frankly, they can be confusing as heck. Hypo-this, hyper-that, feedback loops, stimulating hormones, signaling pathways and a dizzying array of signs/symptoms. In this podcast episode, Nurse Mo talks you through hypothyroidism using the Straight A Nursing LATTE method. ___________________ 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! LATTE Method Template - Download the free LATTE Method Template so you can streamline how you study and focus on what a nurse needs to know. 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. More Endocrine - Looking for more endocrine topics? I've got you covered here. 💕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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0:46.2	Nurse Mo and today we are going to be talking about hypothyroidism. I get a lot of questions and it seems like a lot of
0:55.9	you are confused or having trouble with endocrine disorders so I thought this would be
1:01.2	a great way to talk about all of the endocrine disorders and we would start with one that is near and dear to my heart, ha ha ha, hypothyroidism, because I just had to start taking medication for hypothyroid and yes I'm a little bit cranky about it.
1:19.2	So if you hear a lot of background noise I apologize I have been putting off this episode for so
1:26.3	long because we're doing some work on the house and every time I want to come
1:30.6	record there's saws and nail guns and all kinds of ruckus that I finally decided,
1:37.0	you know what, I can't hold off. I don't think anybody's going to care that much about a little background noise. Also I might sound a little
1:45.1	strange because I've also been sick so I am on the tail end of that thing.
1:51.0	Goodness. So today we're going to talk again about hypothyroidism and the way
1:56.2	we're going to do this is through the Lautet method. So if you don't know what the Lautet method is,
2:01.3	I will put the link to it in the description below so that you can go to it on the
2:09.3	website and see what it is. There's also a podcast about the Lauté method as well. So if you search for that, you'll find it.
2:16.9	And then if you look on the website, you'll find it there as well. So basically the Lauté method is just a short simple easy way to keep different disease states straight in your head so that you can really rock those exams.
2:28.0	But first we're going to talk just a little bit of an overview of the thyroid gland. It's a very important, tiny little little body. So heart rate is one of the big things.
2:43.0	Breathing, nervous system, temperature.
2:48.0	The menstrual cycle is even regulated by thyroid hormones, who knew?
2:55.0	Plus of course a lot of other hormones, as you all know.
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