Nursing Skills Online for Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques (User Guide and Access Code)

by Perry, Anne Griffin

• ISBN13: 9780323054812
• ISBN10: 0323054811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-30
• Publisher: Elsevier Science Health Science div

Summary

Focusing on the skills that are most labor-intensive to teach and that pose the greatest risk to patient safety, this online course is the perfect tool to help students review and evaluate their competency before performing skills in the clinical setting. This innovative online course consists of 17 modules, with each module comprising several lessons. Each lesson provides a content overview, a variety of interactive exercises, self-check activities, and an exam. In addition to schools of nursing, this is also a valuable and timesaving means of providing periodic training and competency evaluation for nursing staff. This online course is also available packaged with the parent text, Perry: Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 6th edition. Designed to correlate with Perry: Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 6th edition. Reading assignments link online content to text. Activities encourage decision-making, critical thinking, and self-evaluation. Case-based/problem-oriented format of learning activities relates to real-life patient scenarios. Varied self-assessment exercises and lesson exams allow users to test their knowledge of key concepts throughout the module. Correct answers and rationales provide immediate feedback. Scramble function allows user to reset an exercise so that the activities are reordered and presented anew. Video clips demonstrating procedures can be viewed from start to finish, pausing and repeating segments as desired. Step-by-step skill performance guidelines are printable to provide a portable reference.

Table of Contents

Vital Signs: Lesson 1: Overview of Vital Signs Lesson 2: Measuring Body Temperature Lesson 3: Assessing Pulse Lesson 4: Assessing Respiration Lesson 5: Assessing Blood Pressure Lesson 6: Pulse Oximetry Infection Control: Lesson 1: Overview of Infection Control Lesson 2: Hand Hygiene Lesson 3: Creating and Maintaining a Sterile Field Lesson 4: Sterile Gloving Safety: Lesson 1: Safety Equipment and Fall Prevention Lesson 2: Applying Physical Restraints Lesson 3: Moving and Transferring Clients Lesson 4: Feeding the Dependent Person Safe Medication Administration: Lesson 1: Overview of Safe Medication Administration Lesson 2: Preparing for Medication Administration: Applying the Six Rights Lesson 3: Preparing for Medication Administration: Calculating Drug Dosages Lesson 4: Preventing Medication Errors Lesson 5: Administering Oral Medications Non-Parenteral Medication Administration: Lesson 1: Overview of Non-Parenteral Medication Administration Lesson 2: Applying Topical Medications Lesson 3: Instilling Eye Medications Lesson 4: Instilling Ear Medications Lesson 5: Using Metered-Dose Inhalers Lesson 6: Inserting Rectal and Vaginal Medications Injections: Lesson 1: Administration of Injections Lesson 2: Preparing Injections from Ampules and Vials Lesson 3: Administering Subcutaneous Injections Lesson 4: Administering Intradermal Injections Lesson 5: Administering Intramuscular Injections. Airway Management: Lesson 1: Overview of Airway Management Lesson 2: Pulse Oximetry Lesson 3: Oropharyngeal Suctioning Lesson 4: Nasopharyngeal and/or Nasotracheal Suctioning Lesson 5: Open Artificial Airway Suctioning Lesson 6: Artificial Airway In-Line Closed Suctioning Lesson 7: Endotracheal Tube Care Lesson 8: Tracheostomy Tube Care Chest Tubes: Lesson 1: Chest Tube Principles Lesson 2: Chest Tube Drainage Systems Lesson 3: Analysis of Gastric Contents Lesson 4: Assisting with Removal of Chest Tubes Enteral Nutrition: Lesson 1: Overview of Enteral Nutrition Lesson 2: Inserting a Small-Bore Nasogastric or Nasointestinal Feeding Tube Lesson 3: Verifying Feeding Tube Placement Lesson 4: Administering Tube Feedings Lesson 5: Administering Medication through a Feeding Tube IV Fluid Therapy Management: Lesson 1: Overview of Maintenance of Intravenous Site Lesson 2: Regulating Intravenous Infusion Flow Rates Lesson 3: Changing Infusion Fluid/Tubing Lesson 4: Changing a Peripheral IV Dressing IV Fluid Administration: Lesson 1: Overview of IV Fluid Administration Lesson 2: Insertion of Peripheral Intravenous Device Lesson 3: Troubleshooting Intravenous Infusions Lesson 4: Discontinuing Peripheral IV Access IV Medication Administration: Lesson 1: Overview of IV Medication Administration Lesson 2: Administering IV Medications by Peggy back, Intermittent Intravenous Infusion Sets, and Mini-Infusion Pumps Lesson 3: Administering Medications by IV Bolus Lesson 4: Adding Medications to Intravenous Fluid Containers Urinary Catheterization: Lesson 1: Overview of Urinary Catheterization Lesson 2: Inserting a Straight or Indwelling Urinary Catheter Lesson 3: Applying a Condom Catheter Lesson 4: Catheter Specimen Collection Lesson 5: Care and Removal of the Indwelling Catheter Bowel Elimination / Ostomy: Lesson 1: Overview of Bowel Elimination / Ostomy Lesson 2: Enema Administration Lesson 3: Ostomy Overview Lesson 4: Pouching an Ostomy Lesson 5: Irrigating a Colostomy Vascular Access: Lesson 1: Overview of Vascular Access Devices Lesson 2: Blood Drawing & Fluid Administration Lesson 3: Dressing Change Lesson 4: Troubleshooting Vascular Access Devices Wound Care: Le