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The Nursing Show In this week’s episode of the Nursing Show podcast for professional nurses and nursing students, the podmedic discusses the different tests done to assess the function of cardiac muscles as well as events of MI and heart disease. It includes what nurses should do to prepare patients for such tests and patient [...]

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The Nursing Show This week on the Nursing Show, the podmedic provides nurses and nursing students a review on a commonly seen arrhythmia, atrial fibrillation. This episode features nursing assessment, signs and symptoms, risk factors and causes of atrial fibrillation as well as links for the featured tip for a more comprehensive review. Listen to [...]

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The Nursing Show In continuation of this past weeks’ featured episodes on adrenal gland disorders, this week’s featured tip on the Nursing Show is a review for nurses and nursing students on Acute Adrenal Crisis. The review includes the difference of acute adrenal crisis from Addison’s disease, causes, signs and symptoms,treatment, and nursing care. The [...]

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The Nursing Show This week on the Nursing Show, the podmedic, Jamie Davis features an episode on another endocrine disorder, Addison’s disease. Professional and student nurses will learn that this disorder that affects the adrenal gland can result to life-threatening complications if left untreated. Included in the show are featured news for nurses together with [...]

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The Nursing Show This week on the Nursing Show, the podmedic, Jamie Davis discusses K2, also known as synthetic marijuana as well as other designer drugs with toxicology specialist Lisa Booze from Maryland Poison Center. This information will help nurses effectively assess patients coming in to the ER and recognize those under the influence of [...]

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Nurses should have a broad knowledge on anatomy and physiology of the body for them to perform an effective assessment. To be able to be competent nurses, nursing students should have a good foundation of nursing knowledge and apply it to their skills. To provide student nurses with this foundation, Nursing Top Student provides study [...]

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Nurse Review on MRSA

April 5, 2010 by

The Nursing Show In this week’s episode of the Nursing Show, the podmedic, Jamie Davis, provides a review for nurses and nursing students on methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections. Learn more about MRSA as Jamie discusses about signs and symptoms of the infection, how it spreads, and most importantly what practices nurses in the hospital [...]

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Vital signs is one of the assessment tools that medical professionals rely on to have an idea of the overall status of the patient. Since it is an integral part of nursing assessment, it is important that student nurses learn how to do it correctly and accurately to be an effective nurse in the future. [...]

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Foodborne Illnesses

March 30, 2010 by

The Nursing Show Foodborne diseases are caused by ingesting food or water contaminated with bacteria, viruses, or parasites. Though early symptoms caused by these infections are similar, there cannot be called a single syndrome because of the variety of pathogens that cause foodborne illnesses. In this week’s episode of the Nursing Show, the podmedic discusses [...]

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To provide a preview of what subscribers can get from Nursing Top Student.com, here is a free tip segment on Acid-Base balance. The segment offers all the features of tip files in Nursing Top Student including downloadable audio and video reviewers, online media players, and pdf files. Check in regularly for more free sample tips. [...]

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