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Nursing Mnemonics 1
Nursing Mnemonics 1
Nursing Mnemonics 1
MI management: MONA
Morphine
O2
Nitroglycerine
Aspirin
HYPOGLYCEMIA: TIRED
T Tired
I Irritability
R Restless
E Excessive hunger
D Diaphoresis-Depression
Wind (think pneumonia, splinting, incentive spirometer exercises not done, DB+
coughing not done)
Water (dehydration...)
Wound (infection, dehiscence...)
Walking (PE...)
Wonder drug (approriate antibiotic...)
Cranial Nerves
For the third column, S stands for sensory, M for motor, and B is both. Also, you
have one nose, so Olfactory is CNI, two eyes, so optic is CNII. To remember
which order the As come in, ABducens comes before ACcessory alphabetically.
Acute Pancreatitis: I GET SMASHED
I - idiopathic
G - gallstone
E - EtOH
T - trauma
S - steroids
M - mumps (paramyxovirus) and other viruses (EBV, CMV)
A - autoimmune
S - scorpion sting / snake bite
H - hypercalcemia, hyperlipidemia and hypothermia
E - ERCP
D - drugs, duodenal ulcers
"CATS" of "HYPOCALCEMIA"
C - Convulsions
A- Arrhythmias
T - Tetany
S - Spasms and stridor
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