Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques

Unit 1: Supporting the Patient Through the Health Care System

1 Using Evidence in Practice (no checklists in this chapter)

2 Admitting, Transfer, and Discharge

3 Communication and Collaboration

4 Documentation and Informatics

Unit 2: Vital Signs and Physical Assessment

5 Vital Signs

6 Health Assessment

Unit 3: Special Procedures

7 Specimen Collection

8 Diagnostic Procedures

Unit 4: Infection Control

9 Medical Asepsis

10 Sterile Technique

Unit 5: Activity and Mobility

11 Safe Patient Handling, Transfer, and Positioning

12 Exercise and Mobility

13 Support Surfaces and Special Beds

Unit 6: Safety and Comfort

14 Patient Safety

15 Disaster Preparedness

16 Pain Management

17 Palliative Care

Unit 7: Hygiene

18 Personal Hygiene and Bed Making

19 Care of the Eye and Ear

Unit 8: Medications

20 Safe Medication Preparation

21 Nonparenteral Medications

22 Parenteral Medications

Unit 9: Oxygenation

23 Oxygen Therapy

24 Performing Chest Physiotherapy

25 Airway Management

26 Cardiac Care

27 Closed Chest Drainage Systems

28 Emergency Measures for Life Support

Unit 10: Fluid Balance

29 Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy

30 Blood Therapy

Unit 11: Nutrition

31 Oral Nutrition

32 Enteral Nutrition

33 Parenteral Nutrition

Unit 12: Elimination

34 Urinary Elimination

35 Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation

36 Ostomy Care

Unit 13: Care of the Surgical Patient

37 Preoperative and Postoperative Care

38 Intraoperative Care

Unit 14: Dressings and Wound Care

39 Impaired Skin Integrity Prevention and Care

40 Wound Care and Irrigations

41 Dressings, Bandages, and Binders

42 Warm and Cold Therapy

Unit 15: Home Care

43 Home Care Safety

44 Home Care Teaching