Nursing Notes

When a patient presents to you with something as life threatening as a heart attack or acute heart failure, it can be hard to think clearly. Use these mnemonics to quickly remember what to do! For a suspected heart attack (myocardial infarction/MI), remember MONA: Morphine Oxygen Nitroglycerin Aspirin (This rule isn’t true for all of heart attacks. For example, in … [Read more...] about Nursing Mnemonics: MONA + LMNOP – What to do 1st when your patient has a “broken heart”

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Nursing Mnemonics: Sputum Cultures A sputum culture is a test to detect and identify bacteria or fungi (plural of fungus) that are infecting the lungs or breathing passages. Sputum is a thick fluid produced in the lungs and in the airways leading to the lungs. … [Read more...] about Nursing Mnemonics: Sputum Cultures

Nursing Mnemonics: Blood Transfusion Reaction IF A TRANSFUSION REACTION IS SUSPECTED Stop the transfusion immediately! Disconnect the intravenous line from the needle. Do not disconnect the unit from the IV set. Attach a new IV set and prime with saline, or flush the line with the normal saline used to initiate the transfusion and reconnect the line. Open the line to a … [Read more...] about Nursing Mnemonics: Blood Transfusion Reaction

Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depression, major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities, and depression may make you feel as if life … [Read more...] about Nursing Mnemonics: Depression Assessment