 Hey guys, so today's video is going to be on a nurses intuition and I want to talk about this because recently actually it's kind of it's happened to me a few times since being a nurse but recently I had an instant where I was taking care of this patient and I just had this like Gut feeling that something was gonna happen to this patient like something wasn't you know, even though nothing was like You know wrong at the moment. I just have like this You know kind of weird gut feeling and you know the patient ended up being fine on my shift But the next shift I came in and found out that this patient actually got transferred to ICU and eventually got transferred out of the hospital because this patient was so sick and I want to talk about nurses intuition because It's so important You follow your nurses intuition and it's kind of a hard thing to explain But basically what I mean is sometimes when you're working as a nurse You're gonna just all of a sudden get this weird feeling or you're gonna see something and you're gonna go hmm Something's not right. I cannot pinpoint it. I don't know exactly what's wrong, but something's not right I have this bad feeling and I want to say if you get that while you're working You know as a student whenever you get that feeling Follow your nurses intuition something is telling you when the little hairs on the back of your neck are sticking up Something's telling you that something's not right and you know, sometimes you can't pinpoint it a lot of times I can't pinpoint it. I just all of a sudden get this like bad feeling that something is Wrong, so if you if you get that feeling well, what what do we do about it? Well when I get that feeling of course your number one priority is your patient assessing your patient So the easiest thing is take a set of vital signs Relisten to their heart and lungs You know relook back at their medications their labs like is could something be causing this and go and just you know Assess your patient and when all else fails, even if you have no rhyme or reason for it go tell the doctor say I Don't know what's really going on. These are the valid lab values. I have these are the vital signs This is what the patient's doing right now But something is just not right with this patient, you know Maybe they earlier were really chatty and all of a sudden they are Solemn and not speaking as much or another Example that this actually happened to me recently was this patient had an abdominal surgery and they're being monitored and All of a sudden just had an increased amount of pressure and was tachycardic, but the pressure was in the Abdomen and this patient had been having pain. So it really looked like like pain, you know in abdominal surgical pain and They were tachypneic and tachycardic which could mean pain Well later on in that in the evening this patient's heart rate started spiking up to 160 170 and coming back down within a few seconds Something was just not right and so, you know other vital signs were stable other than the tachycardia so we made a call to the doctor and We got some labs and turned out that this patient was having an active MI and you know The all the symptoms did not present to be an MI But just that that weird feeling of like what is going on turned out to be this patient was having an MI so Just it goes to say trust your nurse's intuition Never doubt your nurse's intuition if you feel something's not right And if you can't pinpoint it still say something and still chart that you say that you said something because even if you go to the Doctor and and say you know hey something's just not right This is what the patient's doing and something's just not sitting well with me and you chart that you talk to the doctor about it And let's see the doctor says um no I don't want to do anything about it right now and then hours go down the road and then something goes really wrong Well, then you can at least show that you were One step ahead of the game and notified the doctor before that instant happened So chart chart chart chart chart. I am so big on charting, especially when it comes to speaking to doctors That's a whole nother topic, but in other words trust your nurse's intuition Don't doubt yourself and speak up when something is not setting right with you Anyways, leave some comments in the comments below if you ever had an instant with your nurse's intuition sticking out And you know something jumping out at you leave it in the comments below Give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel, and I'll see you guys next time Bye