Toxic Syndromes Review for Nurses

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Patients coming in to the ED exhibiting symptoms of possible toxicological causes should be carefully assessed to determine which substance or chemical is responsible for toxicity. In this week's episode of the Nursing Show, toxicology specialist Liza Booze does another tox segment on toxic syndromes otherwise know as toxidromes. Toxidromes are collections of symptoms which as a whole is reflective of a substance causing it. The discussion includes the types of toxidromes commonly seen and the signs and symptoms defining each toxidrome. The show also includes news for nurses and links to this week's tip for a more comprehensive review.

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Basic Nursing Pharmacology in Episode 140 of the Nursing Show

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In this week's episode of the Nursing Show, host Jamie Davis, the podmedic, provides a review on basic nursing pharmacology concepts. The discussion includes pharmacokinetics, the mechanism in which a drug travels in the body and pharmacodynamics, how a drug affects the body. It is important for nurses and nursing students to be knowledgeable in these concepts to understand more why a drug is given to a patient, how these drugs work to resolve the patient's symptoms or illness and also to be able to educate their patient and make them understand the importance of taking their prescribed medications religiously. The show also provides news for nurses and links for follow through to have a more comprehensive review.

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Nurse Review on the Immune System

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In response to the previous weeks' episodes on asthma and allergies, this week's episode will be a review for nurses on the immune system including the systems involved, cells, antibodies and cytokines and the types of immunity like passive and active and such. The show also provides news for nurses and links for this tip for a more comprehensive review.

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Nurse Career Interview with Public Health Nurse Ann Robinson

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This week on the Nursing Show, host Jamie Davis the podmedic, does an interview segment with Public Health Nurse Ann Robinson. Find out more about this type of nursing career, Ann's experiences while moving up into the nursing career path and eventually into public health nursing. This episode will certainly give insight to both nurses and student nurses by giving them more information about this particular field in nursing and maybe even consider getting into this career path.

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