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As a nurse, seizure prevention and management are integral to your practice. You must thoroughly understand seizure types, risk factors, triggers, and treatments to care for seizure patients properly. In addition, educating the patient and their family about seizure precautions and prevention strategies they can utilize at home is also critical.
Seizure Precautions. Our policy states that all patients with a HX of seizures will be placed on precautions. It seems a little silly that a known seizure patient, on meds, and seizure free should have padded side rails (I'm sure the majority don't at home). I was wondering if anyone has time frames in their policies.
366 Posts. Just took Kaplan - taking the NCLEX 2 weeks from today. They taught us in Kaplan that padding the side rails is NOT appropriate for seizure precautions (contradicting what we were taught in school). They said that the correct method for seizure precautions is to place a mattress on the floor next to the bed (to "catch" the patient if ...
Provide seizure precautions such as lowering the height of the bed and using padding on side rails. Rationale: Protects against injury during seizures. Irrigate nasogastric tubes with normal saline. Rationale: Isotonic solutions reduce electrolyte loss in gastrointestinal fluids. Encourage foods and fluids high in sodium, such as eggs, milk ...
This one has always confused me, even though it is a fundamental topic. One of my nursing instructors gave a lecture on ensuring bedside suction is always set up during your initial visit and safety inspection of patients' rooms. In this lecture I could have sworn she meant ALL PATIENTS should have working bedside suction.
Mar 24, 2009. Try to turn them to their side and apply oxygen, by mask, not nasal cannula. Note the type of seizure, length of time, etc. As stated above don't try to put anything in the mouth. Try to protect them from harm. If they are on the floor, leave them there until the event is over.
Institute seizure precautions to . protect the patient from injury; protect the patient from complications as a result of the seizure; observe the characteristics the patient exhibits during the seizure; Nursing interventions prior to the administration of IV Valium: gather and have ready at the bedside
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I am writing a care plan for a 2 year old that was in the hospital for 23 hour observation following a suspected seizure and obvious post-ictal state upon comin...
One trach/vent case, maybe 15 higher acuity cases, and the majority of the rest are just seizure precautions, GT, or just PO feeds or a combo of these. I was surprised how many babysitting type cases there are. The four cases I've gone out to already are so low acuity that a regular baby sitter could've done them.