NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 87: Therapeutic Procedures and Tubes: Chest Tubes, Nasogastric Tubes, Tracheostomies, Suctioning, and Drains

Sarah Mitchell walks through every tube the NCLEX tests: reading a chest drainage system, with tidaling normal and continuous water seal bubbling an air leak, plus the disconnection and pull-out emergencies. She covers nasogastric insertion and pH verification, the Salem sump pigtail, sterile tracheostomy suctioning in 10 to 15 second passes, Jackson Pratt, Hemovac, Penrose, and T tube drains, wound vacs, and the rule to assess the patient before the alarm.

Lesson 87 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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