Clinical Skills: Respiratory Care Collection
Clinical Skills Online

Learn to master the most important nursing skills before you ever step foot in the clinical environment. Clinical Skills: Respiratory Collection is an engaging, web-based learning tool that guides users through more than 105 of the most important respiratory care nursing skills. Each skill in the collection uses the same seven-part framework to walk you through every aspect of the skill. From special patient and safety considerations to the equipment and techniques used in the skill, this assembly of animations, interactive learning tools, and in-depth explanations will leave you with a 360-degree understanding of how to safely and effectively perform each skill.
Duration for access to this product, which may be at the discretion of your institution, is up to 36 months. Elsevier reserves the right to restrict or remove access due to changes in product portfolio or other market conditions.
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- Convenient web-based program utilizes the same professional format that practicing nurses use to train.
- Consistent, competency-based format for learning skills offers a standardized way for you to learn and perform skills. Most skills feature the same types of skill learning tools to help you obtain a more holistic understanding of the skill and standard QSEN nursing competencies.
- Quick sheet provides a concise, step-by-step summary of the skill.
- Extended text offers an in-depth look at all aspects of the skill. Subjects addressed in the extended text section include:
- Safety alerts
- Supplies
- Patient and family education
- Procedures
- Delegation opportunities
- Monitoring and care
- Expected and unexpected outcomes
- Documentation guidelines
- Special gerontologic, pediatric, and home care considerations
- Evidence-based references
- Additional reading suggestions
- Equipment list familiarizes you with each piece of equipment needed to perform the skill.
- Demonstration animations visually guide you through every necessary step involved in the skill.
- Images and illustrations highlight crucial procedures, equipment, and documents involved in the skill.
- Competency tests with rationales help you review and evaluate your understanding of the skill.
- Printable evaluation checklists help you measure and track various skill competencies.
- Up-to-date, evidence-based content is reviewed and revised annually by clinical skills experts to reflect changes in practice as they arise.
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108 Respiratory Care Nursing Skills
6-Minute Walk Test
Apgar Score
Apnea Testing
Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation
Arterial Blood Gas Interpretation: Pediatric
Arterial Catheter Insertion
Arterial Catheter: Blood Sampling
Arterial Puncture
Arterial-Venous Oxygen Calculations
Assessment: Respiratory
Asthma Education
Autogenic Drainage
Auto-PEEP Calculation and Maneuver
Body Plethysmography
Bubble CPAP for Neonates
Chest Physiotherapy: Oscillatory Positive Expiratory Pressure Device
Chest Physiotherapy: Postural Drainage
Chest Tube: Closed Drainage Systems
Compliance and Resistance Measurement
Continuous Intravenous Oxygen Saturation Monitoring
Directed Cough
Endotracheal Tube and Tracheostomy Tube Cuff Care
Endotracheal Intubation: Neonates
Endotracheal Tube Extubation and Tracheostomy Tube Decannulation
Endotracheal Tube Intubation: Nasotracheal
Endotracheal Tube Intubation: Orotracheal
Endotracheal Tube Replacement with Tube Exchanger
End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitoring
Esophageal Tracheal Double-Lumen Airway: Removal or Replacement with an Endotracheal Tube
Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Neonates and Pediatric Patients
Flexible Bronchoscopy
Heliox Therapy
High-Flow Nasal Oxygen Therapy
High-Frequency Chest Wall Compression
Incentive Spirometry
Incentive Spirometry: Pediatric
Inhaled Nitric Oxide Therapy for Neonates
Intrafacility Transport of Critically Ill Patients
Intrapulmonary Shunt Calculation
Laryngeal Mask Airway
Laryngeal Mask Airway: Neonatal and Pediatric Patients
Liquid Oxygen System in the Home
Lung Volume: Helium Dilution
Lung Volume: Nitrogen Washout
Lung-Diffusing Capacity Measurement
Lung-Diffusing Capacity Measurement: Pediatric
Mechanical Ventilation Advanced Mode: High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation for Neonates
Mechanical Ventilation: Airway Pressure Release Ventilation
Mechanical Ventilation: Bi-level Ventilation Setup
Mechanical Ventilation: High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation
Mechanical Ventilation: Humidification
Mechanical Ventilation: Long-Term Invasive at Home
Mechanical Ventilation: Lung Mechanics of Resistance and Compliance Measurement
Mechanical Ventilation: Metabolic Measurement Using Indirect Calorimetry
Mechanical Ventilation: Neonatal Time-Triggered, Pressure-Limited, and Time-Cycled
Mechanical Ventilation: Neonate
Mechanical Ventilation: Pediatric Pressure Mode
Mechanical Ventilation: Pediatric Volume Mode
Mechanical Ventilation: Pressure Mode
Mechanical Ventilation: Pressure-Regulated Volume Control Setup
Mechanical Ventilation: Proportional Assist and Adaptive Support Ventilation Setup
Mechanical Ventilation: Standard Weaning Criteria
Mechanical Ventilation: Troubleshooting
Mechanical Ventilation: Volume Mode
Mechanical Ventilation: Waveform Interpretation
Mechanical Ventilation: Weaning Pediatric Patients
Mechanical Ventilation: Weaning Process
Medication Administration: Dry Powder Inhaler
Medication Administration: Metered-Dose Inhaler with Artificial Airway Medication Administration: Metered-Dose Inhalers
Medication Administration: Nebulized
Methacholine and Bronchial Challenge Testing
Nasal Cannula or Oxygen Mask Application
Nasopharyngeal Airway Insertion
Oral Airway Insertion
Oxygen Equipment: Home Management Education
Oxygen Indices
Oxygen Tank Regulators
Oxygen Therapy and Oxygen Delivery
Oxygen Therapy for Patients with an Artificial Airway
Peak Expiratory Flow Measurement
Polysomnography
Pulmonary Artery Catheter: Blood Sampling
Pulmonary Function Testing: Spirometry
Pulmonary Function Testing: Spirometry Testing for the Pediatric Patient
Pulmonary Mechanics
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Education
Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Exercise Training
Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Patient Assessment
Pulse Oximetry
Respiratory-Therapist Driven Protocols
Smoking Cessation: Patient Education
Speaking Valve Placement
Specimen Collection: Neonatal Capillary Blood Gases
Specimen Collection: Sputum By Suction
Suctioning in the Home
Suctioning: Artificial Airway
Suctioning: Artificial Airway During Mechanical Ventilation
Suctioning: Nasotracheal
Suctioning: Oropharyngeal
Surfactant Replacement Therapy for Neonates
T-Piece Adapter for Intubated Patients
Tracheostomy Care and Tube Change
Transcutaneous Blood Gas Monitoring for Neonates and Pediatric Patients
Ventilation: Noninvasive Assisted
Ventilation: Noninvasive Bi-level for Pediatric Patients
Ventilation: Noninvasive CPAP for Pediatric Patients
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