Clinical Skills - Nursing Flashcards

Infection Control

• Hand Hygiene (Soap and Water)
• Donning and Doffing PPE
• Sterile Field: Best Practices
• Sterile Gloving
• Preparing a Sterile Field
• Adding Items to a Sterile Field: Best Practices

Basic Care & Comfort

• Vital Signs: Temperature (Oral, Temporal, Tympanic, Axillary, Rectal)
• Vital Signs: Pulse (Radial, Apical)
• Vital Signs: Respirations
• Vital Signs: Blood Pressure
• Vital Signs: Assessment of Orthostatics
• Occupied Bed Making
• Bed Bath
• Oral Care and Denture Care

Activity & Immobility

• Safe Patient Movement: Best Practices
• Controlled Patient Fall
• Moving Patient Up in Bed
• Lateral Transfer
• Standing Transfer: Bed to Chair/Wheelchair

Skin Integrity

• Sterile Wound Dressing Change
• Wound Irrigation
• Wound Culture
• Removing Sutures/Staples
• Emptying Closed Drain (JP Drain, Hemovac)
• Site Care of Closed Drain (JP Drain, Hemovac)

Nutrition & Metabolism

• Capillary Blood Glucose Sampling
• NG Tube Insertion
• NG Tube Care: Best Practices
• NG Tube Removal
• Enteral (Tube) Feedings: Best Practices
• Enteral (Tube) Feedings: Closed System/Feeding Pump
• Enteral (Tube) Feedings: Open System/Gravity Feed

Urinary Elimination

• Bladder Scanner
• Midstream Clean Catch
• External Catheters: Condom Cath
• Straight Catheter Insertion (Female)
• Straight Catheter Insertion (Male)
• Indwelling Urinary Catheter Insertion (Female)
• Indwelling Urinary Catheter Insertion (Male)
• Collecting Sterile Urine Specimen from an Indwelling Catheter
• Closed Continuous Catheter Irrigation
• Indwelling Urinary Catheter Care: Best Practices
• Indwelling Catheter Removal

Bowel Elimination

• Large Volume Cleansing Enema Administration
• Fecal Occult Blood (FOB) Test
• Emptying an Ostomy Bag
• Changing an Ostomy Appliance

Oxygenation

• Incentive Spirometer: Patient Education
• Respiratory Specimen Collection: Oropharyngeal, Nasopharyngeal, Sputum
• Inserting Adjunct Airways: Oropharyngeal, Nasopharyngeal
• Tracheal Suctioning
• Tracheostomy Care: Cleaning Reusable Inner Cannula
• Tracheostomy Care: Cleaning Tracheostomy Site
• 12 Lead EKG: Electrode Placement (with illustration)
• Defibrillation

Intravenous Therapy

• IV Start
• Peripheral IV Care: Best Practices
• Primary Line: IV Fluids/Bolus
• Peripheral IV Removal
• PICC Line: Blood Draw
• Central Line Dressing Change
• Central Line Removal
• Blood Transfusion
• Blood Transfusion: Best Practices

Medication Administration

• Safe Medication Administration: Best Practices
• Oral Route: Best Practices
• Sublingual/Buccal Route: Best Practices
• Optic Route
• Otic Route
• Nasal Route
• Inhalation Route: Metered-Dose Inhaler (MDI), Dry-Powder Inhaler (DPI)
• Transdermal Route
• NG/PEG Tube Route
• Glass Ampules and Multidose Vials
• Mixing Insulin
• Intradermal Injections
• Subcutaneous Injections
• Intramuscular Injections
• Landmarking Sites for Intramuscular Injections (with illustration)
• Needle Insertion Angles (with illustration)
• IV Push with Continuous IV Running
• IV Push through Saline Lock
• IV Piggyback