Clinical Skills: Critical Care Collection, 1st Edition
Clinical Skills Online
$119.00
Learn to master the most important nursing skills before you ever step foot in the clinical environment. Clinical Skills: Critical Care Collection is an engaging, web-based learning tool that guides users through more than 115 of the most important critical 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.
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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 helps familiarize you with each piece of equipment needed to perform the skill.
- Demonstration videos and 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.
- Continually updated, evidence-based content is reviewed and revised annually by clinical skills experts to reflect changes in practice as they arise.
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Examples of skills in this collection include:
• Arterial Catheter Insertion (Assisting), Care, and Removal
• Arterial Catheter Radial Insertion
• Arterial Pressure-Based Cardiac Output Monitoring
• Atrial Electrogram
• Autotransfusion
• Bispectral Index Monitoring
• Blood Specimen Collection: Arterial Catheter
• Blood Specimen Collection: Arterial Puncture: Arterial Blood Gas
• Blood Specimen Collection: Central Venous Catheter
• Blood Specimen Collection: Implanted Venous Port
• Blood Specimen Collection: Pulmonary Artery Catheter: Mixed Venous Oxygen Saturation
• Bone Marrow Biopsy and Aspiration: Assisting
• Brain Tissue Oxygen Monitoring
• Burn Wound Care
• Cardiac Monitor Setup and Lead Placement
• Cardiac Output Measurement: Closed Thermodilution Method
• Cardiac Output Measurement: Continuous Cardiac Output Method
• Cardiac Output Measurement: Open Thermodilution Method
• Cardiac Output: Esophageal Monitoring: Advanced Practice
• Cardiac Output: Esophageal Monitoring: Assisting
• Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis
• Central Venous Catheter Insertion: Advanced Practice
• Central Venous Catheter Insertion: Assisting
• Central Venous Catheter: Dressing Change
• Central Venous Catheter: Removal
• Cerebral Blood Flow Monitoring
• Cervical Tongs and Halo Ring Application
• Cervical Traction Maintenance
• Chest Tube Insertion: Advanced Practice
• Chest Tube Insertion: Assisting
• Chest Tube Removal
• Chest Tube: Closed Drainage System Management
• Chest Tube: Closed Drainage System Setup
• Chest Tube: Intrapleural Administration of Medications
• Continuous ST-Segment Monitoring
• Continuous Venous Oxygen Saturation Monitoring
• Donation After Cardiac Death
• Effluent Specimen Collection: Peritoneal Dialysis Catheter
• Electrocardiogram: 12 Lead
• Electrocardiogram: Right Precordial and Left Posterior Leads
• Emergent Sternotomy and Internal Defibrillation: Advanced Practice
• Emergent Sternotomy and Internal Defibrillation: Assisting
• End-Tidal Carbon Dioxide Monitoring
• Endoscopic Therapy
• Endotracheal Tube and Tracheostomy Tube Cuff Care
• Endotracheal Tube Extubation and Tracheostomy Tube Decannulation: Advanced Practice
• Endotracheal Tube Extubation and Tracheostomy Tube Decannulation: Assisting
• Endotracheal Tube Intubation: Assisting
• Endotracheal Tube Intubation: Nasotracheal
• Endotracheal Tube Intubation: Orotracheal (Direct Laryngoscopy)
• Endotracheal Tube Intubation: Video-Assisted Laryngoscopy
• Endotracheal Tube: Closed Suctioning
• Endotracheal Tube: Open Suctioning
• Endotracheal Tube: Skin and Oral Care
• Epidural Catheter Insertion, Management, and Removal
• Esophagogastric Tamponade Tube: Monitoring and Care
• Exchange Transfusion: Manual
• External Defibrillation
• Extracorporeal Life Support (ECLS)
• Fecal Containment Devices
• Feeding Tube: Gastrostomy
• Feeding Tube: Jejunostomy
• Feeding Tube: PEG
• Feeding Tube: Replacement or Removal of Long-Shaft Gastrostomy Tube
• Feeding Tube: Replacement or Removal of Low-Profile Gastrostomy Tube
• Feeding Tube: Small-Bore Care
• Feeding Tube: Small-Bore Insertion
• Feeding Tube: Small-Bore Removal
• Femoral Arterial and Venous Sheath Removal
• Halo Ring and Vest Care
• Hemodialysis
• Hypothermic and Hyperthermic External and Intravascular Devices
• Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator: Deactivation and Reactivation
• Implanted Venous Port: Access
• Implanted Venous Port: Deaccess
• Intraabdominal Pressure Monitoring
• Intraaortic Balloon Pump Management
• Intracranial Pressure Monitoring: External Ventricular Drain CSF Draining and Sampling
• Intracranial Pressure Monitoring: External Ventricular Drain System Setup and Monitoring
• Intracranial Pressure Monitoring: Intracranial Bolt and Fiberoptic Catheter
• Intracranial Pressure Monitoring: Intraventricular Catheter Insertion
• Intravenous Therapy: Dose and Flow Rate Calculation
• Jugular Bulb Oxygen Saturation Monitoring
• Life-Sustaining Therapy: Withholding and Withdrawing
• Lumbar Catheter Insertion, Care, and Removal
• Lumbar Puncture: Assisting
• Mechanical Ventilation: Volume and Pressure Modes
• Mechanical Ventilation: Weaning
• Medication Administration: Peripheral Nerve Block Infusions
• Nasopharyngeal Airway Insertion
• Needle Thoracostomy: Advanced Practice
• Needle Thoracostomy: Assisting
• Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy
• Organ Donation
• Pacing: Assessment of Permanent Pacemaker Function
• Pacing: Epicardial Wire Removal
• Pacing: Temporary Transvenous and Epicardial Pacemaker Management
• Pacing: Temporary Transvenous Pacing Lead Insertion: Advanced Practice
• Pacing: Temporary Transvenous Pacing Lead Insertion: Assisting
• Pacing: Temporary Transvenous Pacing Lead Removal
• Paracentesis: Advanced Practice
• Paracentesis: Assisting
• Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy
• Pericardial Catheter Management
• Pericardiocentesis: Advanced Practice
• Pericardiocentesis: Assisting
• Peripheral Nerve Stimulator
• Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter: Insertion
• Peritoneal Dialysis: Catheter Adapter Change
• Peritoneal Dialysis: Transfer Set Change
• Pronation Therapy
• Pulmonary Artery Catheter Insertion (Assisting) and Monitoring
• Pulmonary Artery Catheter Insertion: Advanced Practice
• Pulmonary Artery Catheter: Removal
• Pulmonary Artery Catheter: Troubleshooting
• Renal Replacement Therapy: Continuous
• Renal Replacement Therapy: Prolonged Intermittent
• Resuscitation Bag: Manual Self-Inflating in Mechanically Ventilated Patients
• Right Atrial and Central Venous Pressure Monitoring
• Skin Graft: Care of Donor Site
• Skin Graft: Care of Graft Site
• Targeted Temperature Management
• Therapeutic Apheresis
• Thoracentesis: Advanced Practice
• Thoracentesis: Assisting
• Tracheostomy Tube: Mechanical Ventilation: Closed Suctioning
• Tracheostomy Tube: Mechanical Ventilation: Open Suctioning
• Transducer System Setup and Zeroing
• Transesophageal Echocardiography
• Venous Catheter: Flushing and Locking
• Ventilation: CPAP, BIPAP, and HFNC
• Ventricular Assist Devices
• Wearable Cardioverter-Defibrillator
• Wound Debridement
• Wound Drain Removal
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