#75: Nursing Care of Patients in Alcohol Withdrawal

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🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Helping a patient through alcohol withdrawal is, hands down, one of the most challenging things you will encounter as a nurse. It requires patience, empathy, a strong backbone and high vigilance to keep both you and the patient safe. In this podcast episode, you will learn: * The timeline of alcohol withdrawal * The range of symptoms and when they occur * Serious complications such as delirium tremens and Wernicke’s encephalopathy * Nursing care of the patient following the LATTE method framework If you, or someone you know, needs help with substance abuse, please reach out to SAMHSA via their national helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357) or through their website at https://www.samhsa.gov. ___________________ 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! 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. 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! 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. 💕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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0:27.0	Terms apply, C3.co. UK. Hey there everyone it is Nurse Mo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing
0:45.7	Podcast today is episode 75 and we're talking about alcohol with drawl. So this is a topic that you will be
0:55.2	introduced to in your mental health lectures and maybe clinical rotations.
1:00.1	So helping a patient through alcohol withdrawal, I have to say, is probably one of the most challenging things that you will encounter as a nurse. It requires an enormous amount of
1:16.9	patients, empathy, you have to be very strong and you have to be incredibly vigilant to keep both the patient and yourself safe.
1:31.0	It can be incredibly heartbreaking to witness, especially when it is severe and it can be very severe.
1:38.7	So my hope for you is that when you are in this situation you approach it with compassion and grace because
1:49.9	it is incredibly difficult for everyone involved.
1:54.6	For some patients, though, not all cases of alcohol withdrawal
1:59.5	are absolutely devastating.
2:01.5	For some patients, the symptoms can be pretty mild. You know, they may have
2:06.1	some tremors, they may have a little nausea, a little headache, and that might be the extent of it,
2:12.1	but for others they can be just absolutely severe.
2:16.8	So the first time I saw a patient really going through it, like really going through it, it was really eye-opening to me what it was like because you think
2:28.2	alcohol, it's legal, it's common, how could alcohol withdrawal be that bad like if you had asked me
2:36.2	before I knew what kind of withdrawal was worse to witness I mean I've never been through withdrawal so I can't tell you
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