ENCORE! #148: Calling a Stroke Alert

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 22 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 148, where I walk you through when to call a stroke alert and what happens next. When your patient has a sudden change in neurological status, it can be very scary for everyone involved. A timely intervention provides the best chance for a positive outcome if your patient is having a stroke. ___________________ ⁠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! ⁠New Nursing Student Checklist⁠ - Get prepped and ready for your nursing school program with this free checklist! ⁠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. ⁠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. ⁠All Straight A Nursing Resources⁠ - Check out everything Straight A Nursing has to offer, including more 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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0:31.8	encore episode of the Straight A Nursing podcast. For this encore episode, we're revisiting stroke alerts. It's very, very important
0:40.6	to understand what happens with the stroke alert, when to call a stroke alert, because when it
0:46.1	comes to stroke, as you know, time is brain. And as nurses, as the ones at the bedside, as the
0:52.3	ones who are interacting the most with the patient,
0:55.4	it really is many times up to us to recognize changes in neurostatus that can kick off this
1:02.8	whole chain of events that occur with a stroke alert. I remember a time in the ICU when I was
1:08.1	taking care of a patient who had symptoms of a stroke.
1:12.5	And I'm telling you, scared the heck out of me. I did not waste any time, though,
1:16.9	notifying the physician, getting that patient over to CT scan. Luckily, they were not having a stroke.
1:22.9	But did I regret taking them to the CT scan? Absolutely not. So let's dive into this episode on
1:31.9	stroke alerts. Today is episode 148, and we're talking about what happens when you call a stroke alert on your patient.
1:53.7	It can be really scary.
1:55.7	So I thought it would be really beneficial to talk that through.
1:59.3	So hopefully when it happens to you, you have a little bit more confidence in that stressful
2:06.2	situation.
2:07.7	Before we do that, let's take a quick moment for our listener shoutout.
2:12.4	And this one goes to Rachel, who writes this.
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