Working as a nurse in the ICU, I cared for many patients who are burned into my mind and heart forever.  I would like to share with you the stories of two patients that I will remember forever and whom shaped my life and nursing career forever.  People NEVER forget their nurses.  The rest of their hospital stay will be a blur, but their NURSES will be in their minds forever.   It's okay to CARE as a nurse. We went into this profession because we want to ease human suffering.  We need more nurses who CARE. Thank you for choosing this profession. I started NURSING.com to reduce your stress in nursing school, so you can focus on the patients.  Happy Nursing! -Jon 

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What I Wish I Knew: Potassium-K Lab Value Levels For resources to help you master Potassium and ALL the lab values, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at NURSING.com/labvalues.   What do bananas, avocados, and kale all have in common? Potassium! For more resources to help you understand Potassium, Hyperkalemia and Hypokalemia, click here: What role does it play in the body? What’s a normal range level for potassium? And what happens when potassium levels are too low or too high? On a shift early in my career, while I was still being oriented to the unit, I held tight to that rule of NEVER pushing IV potassium even when my preceptor was providing instructions that conflicted with that big rule. Here is that story...

Potassium-K Lab Value Levels- What I Wish I Knew...

For resources to help you master ABGs and ALL the LabVales, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at    NURSING.com/LabValues.   At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about ABGs including gas exchange, acidosis, alkalosis (metabolic and respiratory), normal lab value ranges, and more.     We also cover key concepts for NCLEX for arterial blood gases.     Our gas exchange nursing care plan covers impaired gas exchange nursing management, impaired gas exchange interventions, impaired gas exchange diagnosis, etc.      Excerpt:     This patient’s lungs were so bad, gas exchange had to take place outside of his body... Learning to read ABGs, and understanding what to do with that information is a very important skill for any nurse, but particularly a cardiovascular ICU nurse.  Hi I am Nurse Abby, and I loved working in the cardiovascular ICU - that was truly one of my favorite nursing jobs. Today I want to share with you the story of one of my MORE complicated patients. 

Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation | How I Learned ABGs

For resources to help you master Cardiac topics, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at  NURSING.com/heart.   At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about distributive shock including distributive shock pathophysiology, distributive shock definition, types of distributive shock, and more.     We also cover key concepts for NCLEX on distributive shock nursing.     Our distributive shock nursing care plan covers distributive shock nursing management, distributive shock interventions, distributive shock diagnosis, etc.      Excerpt:     This week I opened up some old nursing school notes, and I started remembering how hard nursing school really was!   I remember, in particular, getting a little confused between the different types of shock.   When I was studying distributive shock I found one key 

What I Wish I Knew | My Patient With Distributive Shock

For resources to help you master Cardiac topics, we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at  NURSING.com/heart.   At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about coronary artery disease including coronary artery disease pathophysiology, coronary artery disease symptoms, coronary artery disease treatment, and more.     We also cover key concepts for NCLEX on coronary artery disease nursing.     Our coronary artery disease nursing care plan covers coronary artery disease nursing management, coronary artery disease interventions, coronary artery disease diagnosis, etc.      Excerpt:    "One afternoon I got a phone call from Todd - our content director here at NURSING.com.   Hey man, so uh, just letting you know that I’m at the hospital being admitted. I’m having a heart attack, so I probably won’t be in tomorrow." 

What I Wish I Knew | Coronary Artery Disease CAD for Nurses

  For resources to help you master Cardiac topics we have a FREE Cheatsheet Download at  NURSING.com/heart.   At NURSING.com you can learn everything you need to know as a nurse about heart failure (CHF)  including: heart failure pathophysiology, heart failure pharmacology (heart failure medications), heart failure symptoms heart failure treatment, and more.     We also cover key concepts for NCLEX for heart failure nursing.     Excerpt:   "So let me tell you about this patient of mine.  They had just come out of heart surgery for what is referred to as the ROSS Procedure.  Part of this procedure requires the surgeon to reattach the coronary arteries to the aorta. While reattaching them, they were accidentally sutured closed. "  

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