
Learn how to anticipate and manage the 5 most common nursing emergencies:
Cardiac • Pulmonary • Endocrine • Renal • Neurologic
Nursing is changing rapidly. More than ever, nurses are being asked to care for acutely ill patients, often using unfamiliar technology
Now is the time to learn more about nursing emergencies and how to identify problems and respond quickly!
Nursing Emergencies will help you manage patients in crisis with confidence. The focus is on helping you prevent, detect, and rapidly respond to crises in even your sickest patients.
Nursing Emergencies will help you to:
- Decrease complications by using prevention strategies
- Rapidly detect problems in their early stages
- Implement prompt action to decrease complications
Objectives
- Match etiologies with the corresponding cardiac emergencies in the comprehensive assessment
- Explain how cardiac compensatory mechanisms can worsen cardiac function using the matching tool
- Compare and contrast the functional defects caused by common respiratory emergencies
- Assess and identify pulmonary disorders using a comprehensive assessment
- Compare and contrast common disorders of glucose control using a comparison chart
- Choose appropriate emergency care for thyroid storm using the comprehensive assessment
- Be able to identify etiologies for adrenal insufficiency in Med-Surg patients on the comprehensive assessment
- Compare and contrast symptom presentation in acute and chronic renal disorders on the comprehensive assessment
- Identify common drugs that can cause nephrotoxicity from a list
- Evaluate treatment priorities for ischemic stroke using priority questioning
- Choose strategies to preserve maximal renal function on the comprehensive assessment
- Compare and contrast symptoms of increased intracranial pressure with those from other neurological disorders by matching appropriate terms with definitions
- Differentiate care for the seizure patient on the comprehensive assessment
Content
Cardiac
- Acute coronary syndrome
- Pericarditis
- Heart failure
- Cardiogenic shock
- Cardiac tamponade
Pulmonary
- Pulmonary embolism
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- Pulmonary edema
- Pneumothorax
- Pneumonia
Endocrine
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Hyperglycemic, hyperosmolar syndrome
- Hypoglycemia
- Thyroid storm
- Adrenal insufficiency
Renal
- Acute renal failure
- Chronic renal failure
- Drug-induced nephrotoxicity
- Renal stones
- Glomerulonephritis
Neurologic
- Transient ischemic attacks
- Stroke
- Intracranial bleed
- Increased intracranial pressure
- Seizures
Ready to Get Started?
This activity has been submitted to the Ohio Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. The Ohio Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91)

Learn directly from the best!
David W. Woodruff
PhD, APRN, NPD-BC, CNE, CNE-cl, CCRN-K, PCCN-K, CEN, FNAP


