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Hi guys! In this video we're going to go over the NIH MRC Muscle grading scale. This scale will help us communicate effectively with our medical team on our patients status. This is called the MRC scale or medical research council which is the institution that sets up the standard for muscle testing. The strength is categorized on a scan from 0-5 Lets do a live demonstration to live demonstration to learn the scale. Grade zero - no muscle contraction is seen or felt with assessment. Grade 1 - The muscle can contract and movement can be seen or felt, however, it is not enough to move the joint ..read more

In this video I will go over how I would assess my patient suspected of brain death during my physical assessment. Of course, there are many more test that could be performed to assess the brain or brainstem function, however I would say that these are the most common ones that you will see the nurses perform. So, lets go through these one by one. First, you will try to arouse your patient. You have to try to arouse them fairly vigorously, because sometimes patients will wake up to certain stimuli. Next, I would assess the pupils. When you are assessing the pupils, if you see any reaction to l ..read more

In this video we will go over the ICU nursing skill of obtaining the intra abdominal pressure. This is usually performed on a patient where abdominal compartment syndrome is suspected. Your patient will need to have a foley catheter because the device is connected to it. In this video we use the compass universal hg ..read more

In this video we are going to go over the NIH Stroke Scale. We will go through each section of the stroke scale one by one with demonstration. We will also show you how to document it in meditech. Documentation will be similar, no matter what your hospital uses. The main thing is that your supposed to perform one test at a time and document as you go. This video was created for our ICU nursing skills, however, the this can be performed on pretty much any unit in the hospital. Every nurse would benefit from familiarizing themselves with this scale and the more you practice, the better it gets ..read more

when clamping the chest tube, make sure you only clamp the tube for a few seconds, while checking for the leak, because a risk of clamping longer is a tension pneumothorax . If the bubbling stops, you know the air leak is either at the insertion site or in the lung itself. If bubbling continues, briefly clamp the tube just above to the first tubing connection. If bubbling stops, you know the air leak is most likely at the connection, which you can seal by reinforcing the connection. If bubbling continues, move down the tubing. If you get all the way to the drain and still have bubbling, you kn ..read more

In this video we will go over the things you will find in the crash cart. We also briefly go over the ACLS protocols as a quick reminder. We will also go over a great code app called code scribe ..read more

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