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Basic Principles: . Roles and responsibilities . Delegation . The nursing process . Communication, including charting, end-of-shift report, & guidelines for effective communication . Medical asepsis, including the chain of infection & handwashing . Patient & resident rights
Bathing: . The complete bedbath . Bathing - the male client . Back massage . Bathing - the female client
Bedmaking: . Making the occupied bed
Body Mechanics & Exercise: . Principles of body mechanics . Moving a person up in bed with a lift/draw sheet . Turning & positioning a person in a side-lying position . Dangling . Transfer from bed to wheelchair using a transfer belt . Passive range-of-motion exercises . Ambulation using a gait belt . Signs/symptoms of and precautions for orthostatic hypotension
Measurements: . Height and weight . Intake and output . Vital signs . Temperature, including oral, axillary & rectal . Pulse, including radial and apical . Respiration, including rate, rhythm, & effort . Blood pressure (one-step & two-step methods)
Normal Elimination: . Assisting with a urinal . Assisting with a bedpan (standard & fracture) . Providing catheter care . Applying a condom catheter . Administering a cleansing enema
Nutrition & Fluids: . Preparing for meals . Serving meal trays, including the use of the clock technique for a visually impaired person . Feeding the dependent person, including positioning and observations for person with dysphagia, signs of aspiration and difficulty swallowing, & pocketing of food
Personal Hygiene & Grooming: . Oral hygiene, including oral care for unconscious person, denture cleaning, & precautions for the person at risk of aspiration . Hair care, including shampooing in bed and shaving the male patients facial hair . Nail and foot care, including clipping toenails . Dressing, including changing a gown when an IV is present . Measuring for and application of TED hose
Safety & Restraints: . Preventing accidents and falls . Applying restraints, including vest restraint, extremity restraint, & finger-control mittens . Using restraint alternatives, including the proper use of side rails and bed & wheelchair locks . Safe use of restraints, including physicians orders and delegation guidelines . Monitoring restraint use
Preventing & Treating Pressure Ulcers: . Assessing risk, including elements of the comprehensive assessment (records review, the Braden Scale, after total assessment, skin assessment, assessment documentation) and stages of pressure ulcer formation . Preventive measures, including skin inspection, skin care, positioning, position changes, & pressure-relief devices . Treatment of pressure ulcers, including dressing change, inspection of wound, measuring wounds, application of prescribed medications, & irrigation
Enteral Nutrition: . Feeding tube insertion using nasogastric route, including enteral feedings, continuous feedings using controller pump, & intermittent feedings . Feeding tube irrigation . Feeding tube removal
Managing Intravenous Fluid Therapy: . Regulating IV infusions, including how to calculate the drip rate, using the roller-clamp method and infusion pumps, assessments of infusion site and tubing, & use of fluid volume indicator caps . Changing IV tubing and fluids . Changing IV dressings, including guidelines for dressing changes, assessing and cleansing/re-dressing the infusion site
Ostomy Care: . Pouching an enterostomy . Urinary diversion
Oxygenation video: . Oxygen safety . Flow rates by nasal cannula and face mask . Application of cannula and mask . Airway maintenance, including suctioning & precautions against drying of airway mucosa . Care of tracheostomy . Potential complications & assessment parameters
Preoperative Nursing Care: . Preoperative assessment, including nursing history and physical assessment . Family support and participation . Postoperative exercises and pain management, including PCA instruction, diaphragmatic breathing, incentive spirometry, controlled coughing, turning, leg exercises/ROM, & non-pharmacologic methods of pain relief . Surgical preparation
Postoperative Nursing Care: . Post-anesthesia recovery room transfer . Pain management, including assessment parameters, use of PCA, pain scales and language, & non-pharmacologic measures to promote comfort and relieve pain . Promoting postoperative recovery, including ambulation, breathing and coughing exercises, splinting incisional area, pneumatic compression stockings, wound care and management of wound drainage and drainage systems, NG tube management, & discharge planning
Specimen Collection: . Mid-stream urine specimen collection . Fecal occult blood testing using the Hemoccult test . Gastroccult and gastric pH testing from a NG tube . Sputum specimen collection . Wound culture . Blood glucose testing . Labeling, storage, & transfer of specimens to laboratory . Evaluating results of bedside tests
Suctioning: . Pre- and post-procedure assessments . Oropharyngeal suctioning . Nasotracheal suctioning . Suctioning artificial airway, including suctioning an endotracheal tube
Urinary Catheter Management: . Urinary catheter insertion, including technique for site prep and insertion of indwelling catheter with a female patient and straight catheter for a male patient . Obtaining sterile urine specimen from an indwelling catheter, including technique for clamping catheter and specimen collection by aspiration . Removal of indwelling catheter
Wound Care: . Sterile gloving, including latex precautions, handwashing, proper size and type of glove, opening glove package, gloving technique, & sterile-to-sterile contact precautions . Wound assessments, including indirect and direct assessments, healing by primary and secondary intention, wound drainage systems, & types of wound drainage . Dressing changes, including wet-to-dry dressings and use of the wound VAC system
Administering Intravenous Fluid Therapy: . Initiating a peripheral IV . Troubleshooting intravenous infusions . Discontinuing IV therapy
Injections: . Preparing injections from an ampule and vial . Preparing insulin . Subcutaneous injections . Intradermal injections . Intramuscular injections
Intravenous Medications: . Administering IV piggyback medications . Administering intravenous medications by mini-infusion pumps . Administering medication by IV bolus . Adding medications to intravenous fluid containers
Non-Parenteral Medications: . Topical medications, including transdermal patch and measured ointment . Eye medications, including eye drops and eye ointment . Eardrops . Metered dose inhaler . Insertion of rectal suppository
Safe Medication Administration: . Preventing medication errors (right medication, right dose, right time, right patient, right route) . Administering oral medications . Documentation of medication administration
Vascular Access: . Dressing care . Blood draws and fluid administration . Troubleshooting
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