#84: Corticosteroids and Nursing Interventions

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Straight A Nursing

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🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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One of the most common medication classes you'll encounter in nursing is corticosteroids. They are used to treat a variety of conditions and come with unique side effects and dosing schedules. In this podcast episode you'll learn: * What are corticosteroids? * Conditions treated by corticosteroid therapy * The risks of using long-term corticosteroids * The many formulations that corticosteroids come in * Side effects of corticosteroids * How a patient stops taking corticosteroids * Nursing care plan components including diagnoses, interventions and expected outcomes ___________________ 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! Pharmacology Success Pack - Want to get a head start on pharmacology? Download the FREE Pharmacology Success Pack Fast Pharmacology - Learn pharmacology concepts in 5 minutes or less in this audio based program. Perfect for on-the-go review! 💕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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0:45.7	Straight A Nursing Podcast this is episode 84 and today we are talking about
0:51.4	cortico steroids.
0:53.8	But before we dive into that,
0:56.2	I want to take a moment for a listener shout out.
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1:14.0	I currently work as a PCT at a level one hospital in the ER.
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1:25.3	especially this podcast. The information is thoroughly explained in a way that
1:30.6	makes everything easy to understand. I love how she explains everything and provides
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