Nursing cheat sheets — just the essentials.
Concise, evidence-based reference cards for nurses and nursing students. Each one gives you the essentials of a condition — what to recognize, the key numbers, the priority actions, and the common exam traps — with no filler. Practice any of them as a full case in Nursio.
Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated response to infection. For nurses it is the arch…
Decompensated heart failure is acute worsening of congestion — dyspnea, orthopnea, weight gain, and edema from fluid ove…
Anaphylaxis is a rapidly evolving, multi-system, life-threatening allergic reaction. It is the archetypal take-action em…
ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is total occlusion of a coronary artery causing transmural ischemia — "time i…
Severe hyperkalemia is a serum potassium >=6.5 mmol/L and/or any ECG change — a "lab + ECG = act now" emergency. The nur…
Opioid overdose is opioid-induced respiratory depression — an airway/breathing emergency before it is a "drug" emergency…
An acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) is acute worsening of dyspnea, sputum volume, and sputum purulence — the Anthonis…
Atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response (RVR) is an irregularly irregular, narrow-complex tachycardia with n…
Severe (ADA Level 3) hypoglycemia is a low-glucose event with altered mental or physical status that requires assistance…
