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
Memorizing Lab Values (CBC & BMP)!
Struggling to remember what the "normal" values are for the key elements of a complete blood count (CBC) or a basic metabolic panel (BMP). In this episode I provide some fun ways to try and remember the normal values that you might see in your clinical setting or on a nursing exam.
* Disclaimer - this is just rough lab values, you may find other normal values that are slightly different than these I discuss. This is due to the type of equipment and lab. There are also variances in male to female gender as well. Please don't hang your testing skills solely on these lab values I talk about here.