🧠 Seizures & Epilepsy: Key Nursing Assessments for the NCLEX®

6 May 2025 · 1 min

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The speaker outlines essential nursing assessments for individuals experiencing seizures or living with epilepsy. The guidance emphasizes maintaining a patent airway, implementing seizure precautions and ensuring a safe environment before a seizure occurs, and closely monitoring the seizure’s duration and characteristics to identify its type. During the event, nurses should assess telemetry, perform a neurological exam, and record vital signs. After the seizure resolves, continued vital sign monitoring and post‑seizure care are recommended. The speaker also mentions that related med‑surg flashcards are available in the Nursing SOS shop.

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Here are some key nursing assessments that you'll do for a patient with seizures and epilepsy. Always make sure that they have a patent airway. We're keeping their airway open. Watch for safety and hazards when they're having that seizure, even before they're having a seizure to make sure that the environment is staying safe. This goes back to our seizure precautions here. And then when they are having a seizure, monitor the time and duration of that seizure and watch for those characteristics. What does a seizure present as? What is actually happening during it? So you know what type of seizure is actually happening. And then you'll assess their telemetry, do a neurological assessment, and then vital signs. Once the seizure has ended, you can find all these med surg flashcards inside the nursing SOS shop.