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Professional Nursing Practice Skill 1.1
Standard Protocols for All Interventions Skill 1.2 Recording Skill 1.3
Giving a Change-of-Shift Report Skill 1.4 Writing an Incident Report 2
Facilitating Communication Skill 2.1 Establishing Therapeutic
Communication Skill 2.2 Comforting Skill 2.3 Active Listening Skill 2.4
Interviewing Skill 2.5 Communicating with an Anxious Client Skill 2.6
Verbally Deescalating a Potentially Violent Client 3 Promoting
Infection Control Skill 3.1 Handwashing Skill 3.2 Using Disposable
Clean Gloves Skill 3.2 Caring for Clients under Isolation Precautions
Skill 3.3 Special Tuberculosis Precautions 4 Basic Sterile Techniques
Skill 4.1 Creating and Maintaining a Sterile Field Skill 4.2 Sterile
Gloving 5 Promoting a Safe Environment Skill 5.1 Safety Equipment and
Fall Prevention Skill 5.2 Designing a Restraint-Free Environment Skill
5.3 Applying Restraints Skill 5.4 Seizure Precautions Skill 5.5 Safety
Measures for Radioactive Materials UNIT TWO: BASIC HUMAN NEEDS 6
Promoting Activity and Mobility Skill 6.1 Assisting with Moving and
Positioning Clients in Bed Skill 6.2 Minimizing Orthostatic Hypotension
Skill 6.3 Transferring from Bed to Chair Skill 6.4 Using a Mechanical
(Hoyer) Lift for Transfer from Bed to Chair Skill 6.5 Transferring from
Bed to Stretcher Skill 6.6 Assisting Ambulation Skill 6.7 Canes,
Crutches, and Walkers 7 Promoting Hygiene Skill 7.1 Complete Bathing
Procedural Guideline 7.1 Care of Dentures Skill 7.2 Oral Care Skill 7.3
Hair Care Skill 7.4 Foot and Nail Care Skill 7.5 Bedmaking Procedural
Guideline 7.2 Unoccupied Bedmaking Skill 7.6 Caring for Incontinent
Clients 8 Promoting Nutrition Skill 8.1 Feeding Dependent Clients Skill
8.2 Assisting Clients with Impaired Swallowing Procedural Guideline 8.1
Obtaining Body Weights 9 Assisting with Elimination Skill 9.1
Monitoring Intake and Output Skill 9.2 Providing a Bedpan and Urinal
Skill 9.3 Applying an External Catheter Skill 9.4 Administering an
Enema Skill 9.5 Catheter Care 10 Promoting Comfort, Sleep, and
Relaxation Skill 10.1 Comfort Measures that Promote Sleep Skill 10.2
Relaxation Techniques 11 Managing Pain Skill 11.1 Nonpharmacological
Pain Management Skill 11.2 Pharmacological Pain Management Skill 11.3
Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Skill 11.4 Epidural Analgesia Skill
11.5 Local Anesthetic Infusion Pump UNIT THREE: ASSESSMENT SKILLS 12
Vital Signs Skill 12.1 Assessing Temperature, Pulse, Respirations, and
Blood Pressure Procedural Guideline 12.1 Electronic Blood Pressure
Measurement Skill 12.3 Measuring Oxygen Saturation with Pulse Oximetry
13 Shift Assessment Skill 13.1 General Survey Skill 13.2 Assessing the
Thorax and Lungs Skill 13.3 Assessing the Heart and Neck Vessels Skill
13.4 Assessing the Abdomen Skill 13.5 Assessing Neurological Function
14 Laboratory Tests Skill 14.1 Urine Specimen Collection?Mid-Stream,
Sterile Urinary Catheter Procedural Guideline 14.1 Collect 24-Hour
Timed Specimens Procedural Guideline 14.2 Urine Screening for Glucose,
Ketones, Protein, Blood, and pH Skill 14.2 Testing for Gastrointestinal
Alterations (Stool specimen, Hemoccult test, Gastroocult test) Skill
14.3 Blood Glucose Monitoring Skill 14.4 Collecting Blood
Specimens?Vacutainer, Blood Cultures Procedural Guideline 14.3
Venipuncture with Syringe Skill 14.5 Collecting Specimens from the Nose
and Throat (nose and Throat Cultures) Skill 14.6 Collecting Sputum
Specimens (Suction and Expectoration) Skill 14.7 Obtaining Wound
Cultures 15 Diagnostic Tests Skill 15.1 IV Conscious Sedation (IVCS)
Skill 15.2 Contrast Media Studies: Arteriogram, Cardiac
Catheterization, Intravenous Pyelogram Skill 15.3 Assisting with
Aspirations: Bone Marrow, Lumbar Puncture, Paracentesis, Thoracentesis
Skill 15.4 Assisting with Bronchoscopy Skill 15.5 Cardiac Studies Skill
15.6 Assisting with Endoscopy (Esophagastroduodenoscopy) Procedural
Guideline 15.1 Assisting with Colonoscopy Skill 15.7 Assisting with
Electrocardiograms UNIT FOUR: ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATIONS 16
Preparation for Medication Administration 17 Non-Parenteral Medications
Skill 17.1 Administering Oral Medications Skill 17.2 Applying Topical
Medications Skill 17.3 Instilling Eye and Ear Medications Skill 17.4
Using Metered-Dose Inhalers Skill 17.5 Using Small-Volume Nebulizers
Skill 17.6 Inserting Rectal and Vaginal Medications 18 Administration
of Injections Procedural Guideline 18.1 Reconstituting Medications from
a Powder Procedural Guideline 18.2 Mixing Medications from Vials
Procedural Guideline 18.3 Teaching Self-Injections Skill 18.1
Subcutaneous Injections (Includes Insulin) Skill 18.2 Intramuscular
Injections Skill 18.3 Intradermal Injections Skill 18.4 Continuous
Subcutaneous Medications UNIT FIVE: PERIOPERATIVE NURSING CARE 19
Preparing the Client for Surgery Skill 19.1 Preoperative Assessment
Skill 19.2 Preoperative Teaching Skill 19.3 Physical Preparations 20
Intraoperative Techniques Skill 20.1 Surgical Hand Scrub Skill 20.2
Donning Sterile Gown and Closed Gloving 21 Caring for the Postoperative
Client Skill 21.1 Providing Immediate Postoperative Care in
Postanesthesia Care Unit Skill 21.2 Providing Comfort Measures During
Phase II (Convalescent Phase) UNIT SIX: WOUND CARE 22 Surgical Wound
Care Skill 22.1 Providing Surgical Wound Care Skill 22.2 Monitoring and
Measuring Drainage Devices Skill 22.3 Removing Staples and Sutures
(Including Applying SteriStrips) 23 Pressure Ulcers Skill 23.1 Pressure
Ulcer Risk Assessment and Prevention Strategies Skill 23.2 Treatment of
Pressure Ulcers and Wound Management 24 Dressings Skill 24.1 Applying
Dressings Skill 24.2 Changing Transparent Dressings Skill 24.3 Applying
Binders and Bandages Skill 24.4 Wound vac NEW! 25 Therapeutic Use of
Heat and Cold Skill 25.1 Moist Heat Skill 25.2 Dry Heat Skill 25.3 Cold
Compresses and Ice Bags UNIT SEVEN: MANAGING IMMOBILIZED CLIENTS 26
Special Mattresses and Beds Skill 26.1 Using a Support Surface Mattress
Skill 26.2 Using a Low-Air-Loss Bed Skill 26.3 Using an Air-Fluidized
Bed Skill 26.4 Using a Rotokinetic Bed Skill 26.5 Using a Bariatric Bed
27 Promoting Range of Motion Skill 27.1 Range of Motion Exercises Skill
27.2 Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) Machine (for Client with Total
Knee Replacement) 28 Traction, Cast Care, and Immobilization Devices
Skill 28.1 Care of Client in Skin Traction Skill 28.2 Care of Client in
Skeletal Traction/Pin Site Care Skill 28.3 Care of Client During Cast
Application Skill 28.4 Care of Client During Cast Removal Skill 28.5
Care of Client with an Immobilization Device (Brace, Splint, Sling)
Procedural Guideline 28.1 Sling Application UNIT EIGHT: MANAGING
COMPLEX NURSING INTERVENTIONS 29 Intravenous Therapy Skill 29.1 Basic
IV Insertion Techniques (Intermittent and Continuous Infusion) Skill
29.2 Regulating Flow Rates Skill 29.3 Maintenance of IV Site Skill 29.4
Administering IV Medications Skill 29.5 Transfusion with Blood Products
30 Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance Skill 30.1 Monitoring
Fluid Balance Skill 30.2 Monitoring Electrolyte Balance Skill 30.3
Monitoring Acid-Base Balance 31 Promoting Oxygenation Skill 31.1 Oxygen
Administration Skill 31.2 Airway Management: Noninvasive Interventions
Skill 31.3 Airway Management: Suctioning Skill 31.4 Airway Management:
Endotracheal Tube and Tracheostomy Care Skill 31.5 Managing Closed
Chest Drainage Systems (Including Managing Postoperative
Autotransfusions) 32 Gastrointestinal Intubation Skill 32.1 Inserting
Nasogastric Tube (Includes Checking Placement of Nasal Tube) Skill 32.2
Irrigating Nasogastric Tube Skill 32.3 Removing Nasogastric Tube 33
Enteral Nutrition Skill 33.1 Intubating the Client with a Small-Bore
Nasogastric or Nasointestinal Feeding Tube Skill 33.2 Verifying Tube
Placement for a Large-Bore or Small-bore Feeding Tube NEW! Skill 33.3
Administering Tube Feedings Skill 33.4 Administering Medication Through
a Feeding Tube 34 Altered Bowel Elimination Skill 34.1 Removing
Impactions Skill 34.2 Pouching an Enterostomy Skill 34.3 Irrigating a
Colostomy 35 Altered Urinary Elimination Skill 35.1 Urinary
Catheterization with Indwelling (Retention) Catheter: Female and Male
Skill 35.2 Removal of an Indwelling Catheter NEW! Skill 35.3 Inserting
Straight Catheter for Specimen Collection or Residual Skill 35.4
Continuous Bladder Irrigation Skill 35.5 Suprapubic Catheters Skill
35.6 Urinary Diversions (Continent and Incontinent) NEW! 36 Altered
Sensory Perception Skill 36.1 Caring for an Eye Prosthesis Skill 36.2
Eye Irrigations Skill 36.3 Caring for Clients with Hearing Aids Skill
36.4 Ear Irrigations 37 Emergency Measures for Life Support in the
Hospital Setting Skill 37.1 Resuscitation Skill 37.2 Code Management 38
Care of the Client with Special Needs Skill 38.1 Managing Central
Venous Lines Skill 38.2 Administration of Total Parenteral Nutrition
Skill 38.3 Mechanical Ventilation Skill 38.4 Care of Clients Receiving
Hemodialysis Skill 38.5 Peritoneal Dialysis 39 Palliative Care NEW
CHAPTER! Skill 39.1 Care of the Dying Client NEW! Skill 39.2 Care of
the Body after Death 40 Discharge Teaching and Home Health Management
Skill 40.1 Client Teaching Skill 40.2 Risk Assessment and Accident
Prevention Skill 40.3 Adapting the Home Setting for Clients with
Cognitive Deficits NEW! Skill 40.4 Medication and Medication Device
Safety NEW! Skill 40.5 Home Oxygen Therapy