Clinical Skills - Nursing Flashcards
The Level Up RN Clinical Nursing Skills Flashcards provide step-by-step instructions along with best practices for key skills tested on in nursing school and used by practicing nurses.. This one-of-a-kind resource supplements the skills portion of nursing school, and provides chronological instructions using the most current evidence-based practice. We take out all the fluff, so you can focus on the most important steps and best practices to safely perform skills and pass your skills check-offs.. Our flashcards cover 10 topic areas:
- Infection Control
- Basic Care & Comfort
- Activity & Immobility
- Skin Integrity
- Nutrition & Metabolism
- Urinary Elimination
- Bowel Elimination
- Oxygenation
- Intravenous Therapy
- Medication Administration
What's included?
CLINICAL NURSING SKILLS FLASHCARDS TOPICS
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
Which Nursing Exams Do These Flashcards Help With?
- Skills check-offs
- NCLEX
- ATI and HESI exams
- Nursing class exams
Who will level up their learning using These Flashcards?
- Nursing Students
- Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs)
- Registered Nurses (RNs)
- Patient Care Assistants (PCAs)
- Respiratory Therapist (RTs)
- Lab Technicians
- Pharmacy Technicians
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