HOW I EXPLAIN LAB WORK TO PATIENTS | Family Nurse Practitioner

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HOW I EXPLAIN LAB WORK TO PATIENTS | Family Nurse Practitioner. In today’s video I go over how I talk to my patients about their lab work. The labs we will be looking at are a CBC (Complete Blood Count), CMP (Complete Metabolic Panel), Thyroid with TSH, Hemoglobin A1C, and Lipid Panel. I’ll also give you some tips that I use In primary care for discussing lab work with patients that helps with retention and what I like to touch on with basic disease management. As I mentioned in the video, these aren’t the most scientific descriptions, but the target audience is someone with little to no background in healthcare. I’d love to hear how you describe things to your patients as well, let me know below!
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@dkibwage 5 жыл бұрын

amazing video, can you do more of "how you talk to patients about chronic diseases..." that would be awesome. thank you Liz

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Sure!

@barbi3499 Жыл бұрын

Yes plz.. did u do more?

@marianaden803 5 жыл бұрын

I follow a few nurses/NPs here on KZfaq and have never commented until now. I love how you explained all of this in a laguage that the average person can understand. You're a natural teacher. Please do more of this . Thank you👌👌👌 -a fellow nurse

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the encouragement!!

@Mixedbeauty941 5 жыл бұрын

Great explanations! I’m a new nurse and this is how the labs should have been explained in school. I’m definitely going to use this with my patients, thanks so much!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful!

@davichels 4 жыл бұрын

Agree! I’d love more of these!

@prettyqirl87 4 жыл бұрын

You would make a GREAT nursing instructor😩😍 Love your videos❤️

@NurseLiz 4 жыл бұрын

You are so sweet!

@suongho6585 5 жыл бұрын

You explain everything so well to your patients. Will definitely utilize your tips, thanks Liz!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Aww thanks! Glad it was helpful!

@BarbaraWilhelm 5 жыл бұрын

I love how you explained everything! This was very helpful.

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Yay I'm glad it was helpful!

@charlesstutts4578 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you ! You did a great job explaining everything I really appreciate you.

@MNBLONDY 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. So glad to find you! Thank you for all your teaching!

@btfulmom1 5 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is an awesome video. Thank you Liz. You did an amzing job at explaining the lab result.

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Aww thanks! I'm glad it was helpfu!

@yubyikem3106 2 жыл бұрын

This was really helpful. Your everyday language is amazing.

@tinalee5643 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Liz. I truly enjoyed the way you explained the Labs. I will be using these tips. You are Amazing!!!!

@tonerstummy5680 5 жыл бұрын

Love this! Thank you so much for all these videos. Graduating in a few weeks from nursing school and your videos have been so helpful.

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

So exciting about graduation!!

@Mila-Sapphire 5 жыл бұрын

Perfection! Love the role-play aspect. Great work!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful!

@MelissaReist 5 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU. Best explanation I’ve heard!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

yay! I'm so glad!

@mntn_moth 5 жыл бұрын

These explanations are so amazing!! I honestly wish I had watched this video when I was in nursing school!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad it was helpful!

@achamberlain1006 Жыл бұрын

This was so helpful. I'm in clinicals now. I've always tried to think of relatable ways to explain things to patients. I definitely plan to use this. Thank you!

@mbwatk02 2 жыл бұрын

I love this.. thank u sooooo much.. this we never go over this in school

@Sam-fc2ir 5 жыл бұрын

As someone who is only a prenursing student.. I learned a lot! I always wondered why feet were such a big deal for diabetics.. now I know! I definitely could see myself using your explanations in the future because they sure worked well for me!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful!

@zincman1995 3 жыл бұрын

This was so good; Mr. Note taker Man here. This has to be one of your best vids you have done, thanks

@kellyrobinson2380 4 жыл бұрын

This was so helpful! Love your analogies! Thank you!

@NurseLiz 4 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful!

@katieschwartz7730 5 жыл бұрын

I love the way you explain things. So simple yet effective! I'm a baby nurse and an aspiring NP will definitely remember this when talking to patients. Thank you! PS: happy nurses week!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Aww thank you! I'm glad it was helpful! Happy nurses week to you as well!

@Jloyd18 5 жыл бұрын

Happy Nurses week Liz

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@GodIsGreat2058 5 жыл бұрын

Great job on the video! Thank you so much for that great breakdown and explanations. It really puts it all in preceptive for the patients. I hope you don't mind me using your explanations especially with the glucose and A1c. It's one of the best I've heard in terms of explaining labs to patients in a sort of layman's terms. Keep up the great work and happy nurses week!!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad it was helpfuL!

@jbentajado90 5 жыл бұрын

I'm an FNP student and this is so useful as I start my clinical rotations. Thanks!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

So glad!!

@carmenespada8475 3 жыл бұрын

Great explanation! Thank you

@daniele9834 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a nursing student and currently a tech in the MICU and this was SOOOOO helpful! Never really knew how to describe different labs.

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful! Also you are getting such crazy good experience working there!

@TheMiaMTZ 3 жыл бұрын

This was sooo good! Love your way of teaching! I wish you lived close so you could be my preceptor! Thank you for your awesome videos!!

@jrg6284 Жыл бұрын

This was great! I am in clinical now and this is helpful

@Greenwolf18 5 жыл бұрын

Nice break down great job many people know but don't really know they are afraid to sound dumb or look like they have a small idea but just shake their head up and down again nice job Happy Nurses week as always nice job be blessed Jim RN

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

I for sure always did that before I understood them! Probably why I'm so particular about explaining them. Happy Nurses Week to you as well!

@alberta6662 5 жыл бұрын

Hi Liz New Subscriber, as a NP student starting clinical rotations this video is super helpful. Thanks for sharing 😊

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful! Starting clinicals is the best! Best of luck!

@ameliaevans2149 5 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love you. Thanks so much!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

glad it was helpful!

@cassandrafortin4684 5 жыл бұрын

This was the most amazing and helpful video EVER! Thanks Liz!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful!

@bbkoda2278 5 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video! Super helpful thank you!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful!

@Stefenie423 5 жыл бұрын

Loved this video! I’ve never had a provider explain labs like this before. They usually just go over the abnormal values and tell you to eat healthy and exercise.

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

That’s been my experience as well

@melanierose9015 Жыл бұрын

I love the pokey ball analogy. It actually helped my understand why renal and diabetic patients are often difficult sticks. But only renal patients typically are fine.

@karenx623 5 жыл бұрын

Great explanation! Thank you:)

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

So glad it was helpful!

@mr1323 2 жыл бұрын

This is such a helpful video as a nursing student, and I really appreciate your techniques. I visited a doctor a few months ago and they literally ripped off a tiny little piece of paper towel from the roll to write down 3 of their concerns regarding my physical lol in my opinion this was quite unprofessional. They’ve been practicing for decades so I’m not sure if this was just a one time thing or what, but it was really strange lol

@valeriegyebi-antwi2675 Жыл бұрын

Great job 👏🏽

@andreahennessy8527 4 жыл бұрын

Liz, I had a pt with a triglyceride level of 2665 !! It was quite the interesting case. We recently diagnosed the pt with type 2 diabetes (HGA1C 12.5). I can now say the pt is doing great!

@NurseLiz 4 жыл бұрын

Dang ! Thats high!!

@cherylann2271 5 жыл бұрын

This was an amazing and helpful video. I’m definitely going to use some of your tips for explaining labs to patients. My wackiest lab was my own blood sugar was 29. Yes, I felt terrible.

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Oh gosh I would imagine you would feel AWFUL. I'm glad it was helpful!

@andreakuenzel3483 5 жыл бұрын

This was an excellent video!!!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@shara.nelson95 5 жыл бұрын

Cholesterol pipe. Haha love the fact that you explain it- most don’t- before I was a nurse, I would research my labs so I understood it all. It also makes people feel in control and become a team player on their health, I imagine. Have you thought about teaching nursing down the road?

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

I think it could be fun to teach for sure. But I'm also very opinionated and don't like the way a lot of things happen in nursing school so we shall see if that ever works out haha

@aprillong6313 5 жыл бұрын

Love this video!! I’m going to have my husband listen to it because he is diabetic. He is a science teacher so he is always very interested in the physiology of a disease. The highest bs I’ve seen was 900+ and the pt was conscious. The lowest bs I’ve seen with a conscious pt was 30’s. INR around 10 and they weren’t bleeding to death. Hgb around 3 and they were feeling crappy but conscious. Trop in the 300’s-I think I’ve seen higher than that but I don’t remember for sure..definitely an MI, but lived to tell about it. Creatinine about 10, usually a non compliant esrd pt. It’s interesting to see such wacky numbers and the pts are still functional. And then to have extremely symptomatic, unstable pts with just a little bit of wackiness. Thanks again for the video! I love all of them.

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

I worked GI/Liver and those hgb labs were wild but I dont think I ever saw a 3! Yikes!!

@shondiaevans12 5 жыл бұрын

April Long - Doesn’t that just affirm that God has a sense of humor and we are not in control! What is your area of nursing?

@mojo21ist 5 жыл бұрын

That was really good

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@HereComethePauls 5 жыл бұрын

Such an informative video , Liz! I’ve been an RN for 3 years and I’m planning on going back to school. I love your videos!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!!

@shondiaevans12 5 жыл бұрын

Stephanie Dame - Just asking...why are you already going back to school? Where are you working now and what is in your future? Good Luck!🍀

@HereComethePauls 5 жыл бұрын

Shondia Evans I don’t plan on going back this year, probably over the next year or two after I get some more experience under my belt. I work acute care right now medical/neuro, but I’ve don’t post surg and telemetry as well. My main reason for going back is a change of role and environment. I don’t love acute care, is rather be able to create a relationship with my patients and see them grow. That’s why I’d like to do primary care possibly in the next five years or so.

@shondiaevans12 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a solid plan. We need great nurses and NPs. I’m sure you will be successful in any setting. The options for nurses today are immense. Acute care- transition of care- ICUs- EDs- informaticists- Documentation specialist- and I am a Patient Safety/ Quality Improvement Advisor. Who knows what will be here in the next 5 years... Good Luck!👍

@sweetcaramelsmile 5 жыл бұрын

Love the diabetes explanation!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@Misstangg Жыл бұрын

Love your videos! Wish I had you as a preceptor 😢

@Everythingeverywhere03 5 жыл бұрын

Can we have more videos like this? This is awesome! You’re explained it better than my prof😂

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad it was helpful! If you have any ideas for ones you'd like to see let me know :)

@spilledfiction 5 жыл бұрын

This was helpful, thank you! I work in peds oncology; labs are a daily occurrence, and parents can (reasonably) have a lot of questions! Wildest lab value I ever saw was an undetectable Hgb -- it was drawn again and came back in the 2s (still crazy).

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

oh my gosh that is crazy!! I would panic.

@shondiaevans12 5 жыл бұрын

spilledfiction - thank you for what you do! I had one 10 week rotation in pediatric oncology and that was almost more than I could handle. How long have you been there?

@angel-ij4xv Жыл бұрын

@@NurseLiz i hate shots

@jonathanclouse1344 3 жыл бұрын

Oh if only life were so simple. Two years ago, my Psychiatrist fount my Creatinine level was elevated on some routine bloodwork. Ended up getting referred to Nephrology, who has been tracking me for a year now. Chronic dehydration and low blood pressure from some of my anxiety meds was the explanation. Now my Psychiatrist's office wants to be able to communicate with Nephro, and I am worried my Psychiatrist is going to want to change my meds. It's been over 10 years for me to reach this continuing stability. I'll take stability over anything else any day right now.

@danielle4984able 5 жыл бұрын

The craziest lab values I have ever seen were my own thyroid labs! ! My tsh was nearly non-existent at

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Ohhhh my gosh! So glad you are feeling better!

@DarrenscottDarrenscott 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting

@leevancleef358 2 жыл бұрын

Skip to around 4:39 if you want to get right to results interpretation

@scoopfreeman 3 жыл бұрын

Hello! I loved the way you explained the lab values...can you help me make sense of some of my abnormal labs I received ?

@NurseLiz 3 жыл бұрын

Since I'm not your provider, I can't do something like that. But if you call your provider, they should be able to explain anything you're concerned about!

@barbi3499 Жыл бұрын

Hi do u have a video to explain to patients the cbc ? I tried looking for the video but didn't find it, any recommendations? Plz

@kksandhu1779 2 ай бұрын

❤

@karennolin2168 5 жыл бұрын

Hgb 4.9. In a female industrial dump truck driver! Single parent working 2 jobs thought she was just burning the candle at both ends! Found on annual exam.

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Ohh man. Poor lady !

@shondiaevans12 5 жыл бұрын

Karen Watkins- what a great save! Hope you had access to a social worker for supper! How long have you been a nurse?

@DrAdnan 5 жыл бұрын

Some docs just kinda go off, simplifying a little but mostly just saying it straight up, which is probably confusing

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

I think its super easy to forget that not everyone is super health literate, because we are so used to knowing what all the values are and mean.

@nursegaines3519 2 жыл бұрын

👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

@libertyfike4160 5 жыл бұрын

TSH 397!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

AHHH! That is BAD

@macksita1872 5 жыл бұрын

I hope to inspire people in healthcare on my new channel just as you do👏

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

I'm sure you do!

@torielrothschild7874 5 жыл бұрын

My daughter had a WBC and ANC of 0 for a week or so. Completely normal in the context of BMT, but still very strange to see!

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

Oh gosh that would absolutely be so shocking to see. How is she doing now?

@julianacheriza1575 4 жыл бұрын

Is it a hippa violation if you tell the patients spouse their health care buisness?

@crazycocopuff7 4 жыл бұрын

Does printing their notes break HIPPA? Do they have to sign a consent to release medical records?

@NurseLiz 4 жыл бұрын

Printing them, to give to them is fine! No release needed. Printing them and giving them to other people would not be fine.

@chuckbecker8735 3 жыл бұрын

When I watch these videos and read books about which lab tests we should so very kindly beseech and tactfully implore of the doc, no one ever describes how to beg for these labs or talk the doc into allowing it. I want early markers not merely post facto markers. I heard the doc can get wholesale prices for the labs and then merely mark these prices up 25% and charge us instead of our having to private pay 200% markups to Quest or LabCorp. Medicare mandates and the SOC tyrannically dictates the same old worn out items post facto too late tests which always come up too nor normal overly retested again and again. For example: 1] Free T3 and Free T4 instead of the useless precursory over used TSH. 2] valuable Small particle instead of beloved trite Total Cholesterol. 3] LP(a) instead of the same old suspects in the lipid panel 4] hs-CRP 5} Copper::Zinc ratio. 6] SERUM FERRITIN 7] HOMO CYSTEINE 8] RED BLOOD CELL WIDTH 9] ESR % PLATELETS 10] LDH 11] LNR 12] TESTS FOR FATTY LIVER INSTEAD OF bouncy up and and down ENZYMES . 13] precious 25-hydroxy.

@Greenwolf18 5 жыл бұрын

Bnp 10000 and inr 22

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

NOT GOOD

@Jacqueline17678 5 жыл бұрын

Liz, do you have hypothyroidism?

@NurseLiz 5 жыл бұрын

borderline! My values constantly fluctuate between normal and high. I stopped taking Synthroid forever ago because I'm a horrible patient and couldn't be bothered haha.