ENCORE! #101: The Beginner’s Guide to Recognizing First, Second and Third Degree Heart Blocks

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Every other week I'm republishing one of my most popular or impactful episodes and adding an update, new insight, or context that will help you benefit from it even more. This week I'm highlighting Episode 101, which is all about first, second and third-degree heart blocks. Together, we’ll cover: -key ECG elements of each heart block -the many names for the second-degree blocks (why are there so many???) -causes of heart blocks -nursing assessments and interventions -an easy way to keep it all straight ___________________ ⁠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! ⁠Clinical Success Pack⁠ - One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This FREE pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet. 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. ⁠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! ⁠All Straight A Nursing Resources⁠ - Check out everything Straight A Nursing has to offer, including free resources and online courses to help you succeed throughout nursing school! 💕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	Hello and welcome to another encore episode of the Straight A nursing podcast.
0:04.9	For this encore episode, we're diving back into heart blocks because it is a little bit or
0:11.4	maybe a lot a bit trickier of an arrhythmia or type of arrhythmia to notice.
0:18.0	And with certain heart blocks, like the high degree heart blocks, it's really,
0:21.9	really important that you notice them very quickly because they can be emergent. I don't know
0:28.4	about you, but third degree heart block is really, really scary to me. I've never had a patient
0:33.6	go into third degree heart block. I've had first and second degree. And even that is a little bit
0:40.0	scary. So just knowing that I could identify it quickly if it happened and get the right people,
0:46.9	get the right interventions in place is very confidence boosting because, again, some of these heart
0:53.2	blocks if they occur the patient can
0:55.2	deteriorate very very quickly so let's revisit the essentials of heart blocks and a breakdown recognizing
1:01.6	them so it's easy for you to remember This is episode 101, and today we're talking about heart block.
1:21.7	So two things before we get started.
1:25.1	Item number one, if you're sitting at your desk or, yeah, I think that's it.
1:32.0	If you're sitting at your desk, can we change that up? Can you put on your running shoes,
1:38.3	your walking shoes and get outside for a little bit? If that's not going to work, can you go fold the laundry, maybe get something
1:45.9	done around the house that'll make you feel more in command of your home life? Maybe you're
1:52.6	commuting, driving to class, driving to clinicals. That's fine. That's allowed. I'll allow that.
1:58.4	But if you're just sitting at your desk, I want you to get up
2:01.0	and move your body or do something productive but mindless so that you can still pay attention.
2:06.6	I'm a huge fan of multitasking. So if you can multitask and do something good for you or something
2:12.5	that's going to help you feel like you're getting caught up with things, that'll relieve your
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