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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 29: Perioperative Nursing Care
The essential points of perioperative (preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative) nursing care.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 28: Chest Tubes, Artificial Airways, Tracheostomy Care, Home Oxygen Safety
The basics of chest tubes, artificial airways, tracheostomy care, and home oxygen safety.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 27: Oxygen Delivery Devices, Oxygenation Interventions, and Suctioning
Oxygen delivery devices (nasal cannula, non-rebreather, venturi device), therapeutic oxygenation interventions (chest physiotherapy and positive airway pressure), and suctioning.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 26: Hypoxemia, Hypoxia, Techniques to Improve Oxygenation
Ventilation, diffusion, and perfusion, along with hypoxemia, hypoxia, and techniques to improve oxygenation.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 25: Laxatives, Enemas, and Fecal Occult Blood Testing
Learn the key facts on laxatives, enemas, and fecal occult blood testing (FOBT).
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 24: Constipation, Diarrhea, and Ostomies
Constipation, diarrhea, and important content about ostomies (ileostomy and colostomy). Meris's personal experience with a temporary ostomy.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 23: Bladder Scanner Use and Urinary Catheters
The use of bladder scanners and key points of urinary catheters (indwelling, straight, suprapubic, and external).
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 22: Urinary Specimen Collection, Incontinence, and Urinary Tract Infections
The basics of urinary elimination and specimen collection, urinary incontinence, and urinary tract infections (UTIs).
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 21: Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
Learn the most important facts on enteral and parenteral nutrition.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 20: Nasogastric Tubes
Considerations for the indication, insertion, placement confirmation and removal of nasogastric (NG) tubes.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 19: Dysphagia, Diet Types, Foodborne Illnesses, Blood Glucose Measurement
Dysphagia, therapeutic diet types (NPO, clear liquid, full liquid, soft, dysphagia, and regular), prevention of foodborne illnesses, and capillary blood glucose measurement.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 18: Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and BMI
The key points you need to know on macronutrients, micronutrients, and body mass index (BMI).
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 17: Acid/Base Imbalances
Learn all about the basics of acid/base imbalances, including respiratory alkalosis, respiratory acidosis, metabolic alkalosis, and metabolic acidosis.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 16: Electrolytes and Electrolyte Imbalances
Get the key facts you need on basic considerations of electrolytes and electrolyte imbalances, including calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 15: Fluid Balance, Intake/Output, Fluid Volume Deficit and Excess
Get an overview of solution osmolarity, calculating intake and output, fluid volume deficit, and fluid volume excess.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 14: Wound Care and Diabetic Foot Care
Get the scoop on wound culture and irrigation, sterile dressing changes, suture and staple removal, care of drains, and diabetic foot care.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 13: Wound Healing
The phases of wound healing, healing by intention (primary, secondary, and tertiary), complications and barriers to healing, and wound drainage/appearance.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 12: Pressure Injuries - Risk Factors, Prevention, and Staging
Pressure injury risk factors, prevention, and staging.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 11: Fall Prevention and Restraints
Fall prevention in the acute care and home settings, along with everything you need to know about restraints.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 10: Canes, Walkers, and Crutches
Mobility devices including canes, walkers, and crutches.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 9: Immobility and Deep Vein Thrombosis
The physical and functional effects of immobility, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), and nursing care to combat the effects of immobility.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 8: Grief and Comfort Care
The stages of grief, types of grief, and the difference between palliative and hospice care.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 7: Sleep, Sleep Disorders, and General Adaptation Syndrome
Sleep basics, sleep disorders, and general adaptation syndrome (GAS).
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 6: Pain - Types, Etiology, and Treatments
Types of pain, pain etiology and location, pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management, and patient-controlled analgesia.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 5: Bed Baths, Bed Making, Oral/Denture Care, and Seizure Precautions
How to give a bed bath, make a bed, provide oral care and denture care, and what it means when your patient is on seizure precautions.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 4: Sterile Field - Indications, Best Practices, and Preparation
Everything you need to know about sterile fields, including the indications, sterility best practices, and how to set up a sterile field.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 3: Donning/Doffing PPE and Transmission Precautions
How to "don" and "doff" (put on and take off) personal protective equipment (PPE), along with the different types of isolation and transmission precautions (such as standard/universal, contact, droplet, airborne, and protective).
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 2: Hospital-Acquired Infections and Hand Hygiene
Types of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), how to prevent them, and how to perform thorough and proper hand hygiene.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 1: Nursing Process, Interdisciplinary Team, SBAR Report, and Continuity of Care
The nursing process (ADPIE), members of the interdisciplinary team, SBAR communication and report, and how to provide for continuity of care upon admission, transfer, and discharge.
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