07.08 Basilar Skull Fracture for CCRN Review
Included In This Lesson
Outline
Nursing Points
General
- Basilar Skull fracture
- A broken bone in the base of the skull
- Symptoms
- Raccoon eyes = black eyes
- Battle sign- black and blue on the mastoid
- Bleeding behind eardrum
- Otorrhea – Cerebral Spinal Fluid leak from the ear
- Rhinorrhea – CSF leak from the nose
- Lose cranial nerve 1 = olfactory nerve
CCRN Review (Critical Care Certification Review)
This course is a review for the CCRN exam. Experienced critical care nurses that meet the testing criteria can use this course to review key concepts for their CCRN exam, which is a certification for critical care nurses. Criteria to test includes having 1,750 hours in direct bedside care of acutely and/or critically ill patients during the last 2 years (prior to the exam). 875 hours need to be worked in the year prior to your application.