Nitty Gritty Nursing
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Are you a nursing student who struggles to understand nursing concepts your professor is teaching you? Do you wish there was a simple bite sized podcast to help further your knowledge base? Then you've found the right podcast. Nitty Gritty Nursing is a podcast designed for nursing students trying to understand how to care for different types of patients you might encounter with an acute care focus. Disclaimer: refer to whatever your nursing faculty want you to know. This is just me talking about the different topics and key considerations of nursing care and patho that a nurse should know.
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Nitty Gritty Nursing
Latest Episodes
Pediatric: Pathologic vs. Physiologic Jaundice
In this episode, we break down physiologic vs pathologic neonatal jaundice, highlighting timing, red-flag features, and bilirubin trends so you can quickly distinguish benign newborn jaundice from conditions that require urgent evaluation and t...
ABO Incompatibility!!
ABO incompatibility can sound intimidating, but once you understand the “why,” the nursing care starts to click. In this episode, we unpack how maternal and newborn blood type differences can lead to hemolysis, rising bilirubin, and newborn jau...
Huntington's Disease - Neurodegenerative Progressive Disorder
In this episode I breakdown the pathophysiology of the terrible disease process known as Huntingtons and talk about how patient's who develop this present, what interventions to consider, and how to evaluate and educate patients and their famil...
Guillain-Barré Syndrome
In this episode I try to quickly breakdown the rare neurological disorder that happens have an illness where the patients immune system mistakenly attacks the peripheral nervous system causing weakness, paralysis and sensory disturbances! Come ...
Autonomic Dysreflexia Demystified
In this episode I talk about that pathophysiology baseline knowledge you need to understand to put the pieces of autonomic dysreflexia together. I then break down how patients who may experience this present, what interventions you'd want to co...
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