ENCORE! #287: Everything You’ve Been Taught About Digital Clubbing is Wrong

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 20 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 287, which is one of my all-time favorite episodes. And that’s because it completely debunks some things I (and many students) are taught in nursing school. I learned a ton creating this episode, still re-listen to it on occasion, and hope you find it just as valuable, too! In nursing school, I learned that digital clubbing was a key sign of COPD and I accepted this as gospel and moved on with my life. I used this information to answer exam questions on the topic and I always included assessing for it in my care plans for patients with COPD. But, like all things in nursing, there’s so much more to this story. In this episode you’ll learn why much of what you’ve been taught about digital clubbing is wrong, and what’s actually going on (spoiler alert…we don’t fully know!) In this episode, you’ll get answers to your burning questions: What is digital clubbing? What disease conditions are associated with digital clubbing? How is digital clubbing evaluated, measured and categorized? What is the pathophysiology of digital clubbing? ___________________ 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 including podquizzes, case studies and drills that help you review and test your recall of important nursing concepts on-the-go. Free yourself from your desk with Study Sesh! 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. Clinical Success Pack - One of the best ways to fast-track your clinical learning is having the right tools. This pack includes report sheets, sheets to help you plan your day, a clinical debrief form, and a patient safety cheat sheet. 💕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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0:30.5	Hello, hello and welcome to an encore episode of the Straight A Nursing podcast.
0:35.3	And I have to say this one is probably one of my all time
0:41.1	favorite episodes and I think the reason I love it so much is because I learned so so much
0:49.0	while I was creating it and one of the key things that I learned which I felt was a really
0:53.2	valuable lesson was that not everything I learned, which I felt was a really valuable lesson, was that not
0:55.5	everything I learned in nursing school was entirely accurate, at least not in this case.
1:03.4	For example, I was taught that digital clubbing meant the patient had COPD, and that came up over and over and over again.
1:11.9	I thought it was gospel. I thought it was the most true thing in the world. But give this
1:17.5	episode a listen, and you'll see that digital clubbing is actually so, so much more. And in fact,
1:24.8	does not mean the patient has COPD at all. So if you're looking to
1:28.7	dispel some common nursing myths, start with this one and keep listening.
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