She was initially lethargic and complained of drowsiness but nothing else although her mother stated she has had a seizure on the way to the hospital.
Her estimated dose of propranolol was about 1.2 g and she was about 110 lbs. The patient said that she had been having a severe panic attack and typically takes about 3.5 mg of Xanax to curb her symptoms and help her fall asleep. My patient was a mid-20’s female who came to the ER about 30 minutes after confusing her Xanax pills with her propranolol when she reached for them in the dark. My supervisor told me I can use a Reddit forum for experiences as long as I can back up the reasoning behind what I present! My data from the one patient I had like this is as follows: I had one patient who overdosed on propranolol (which is why I was given this topic) but that’s the extent of my data. Everyone else got typical profiles we see all the time but I got “Propranolol Overdose.” My site is a smaller hospital and I’ve already interviewed all the nurses but most of them haven’t had a patient with a beta blocker overdose, and the one who did said it was a patient who overdosed on a different type of beta blocker. The idea is to present the topic and open a discussion on it at the end of the semester with the other students and the CI. I don’t know if every program does this but basically we were given a general patient profile at our clinical site and our job is to interview other nurses, doctors, etc at the hospital about their personal experiences with that kind of patient and any important things to remember, expected outcomes, clinical presentation and progression, tips and tricks to give them quality care, etc. Hey Nurses! So I’m less than a year out from becoming a critical care nurse! We were just assigned our Patient Case Project which is 15% of our clinical grade.