It’s very easy to justify certain symptoms (ex: patient is hypothermic and lethargic because they had 3 diagnostic tests that day and XYZ). And while these may be true, it’s important not to hyper focus on the assumed cause and potentially miss other indicators that a patient is decompensating. This same preceptor told me “they’ll compensate until they can’t any longer and that’s when we ask ourselves ‘what did i miss? they seemed to be doing okay’”😇✨🎥Credit : alysthenurse🤪👩🏻‍⚕ Like our pag