Clinical Skills: Skills for LPN/LVN Collection (Access Card), 1st Edition

by Elsevier Inc

Clinical Skills Online - Access Card

ISBN: 9780323529150

Publication Date: 10-07-2016

Imprint: Elsevier

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Learn to master the most important nursing skills before you ever step foot in the clinical environment. Clinical Skills: LPN/LVN Collection is an engaging, web-based learning tool that guides users through more than 140 of the most important nursing skills for fundamentals within a LPN/LVN program. 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 high-definition videos, 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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Key Features
- 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.
Contents
Examples of skills in this collection include:
- Active Listening: Connecting with Others
- Adding Items to a Sterile Field
- Administering a Cleansing Enema
- Administering Ear Medications
- Administering Eye Medications
- Administering Intradermal Injections
- Administering Intramuscular Injections
- Administering IV Medications by Mini-Infusion Pump
- Administering IV Medications by Piggyback
- Administering Medications by Intravenous Bolus
- Administering Nebulized Medications
- Administering Oral Medications
- Administering Parenteral Nutrition Through a Central Line (CPN)
- Administering PPN with Lipid Infusion
- Administering Subcutaneous Injections
- Applying External Male Catheters
- Applying a Nasal Cannula or Face Mask
- Applying an Estrogen Patch and Nitroglycerin Ointment
- Applying Compression Stockings
- Applying Restraints
- Applying Topical Medications
- Assessing Apical Pulse
- Assessing Apical-Radial Pulse
- Assessing Pain
- Assessing Radial Pulse
- Assessing Respiration: Rate, Rhythm and Effort
- Assessing Wounds
- Assessment for Postpartum Depression
- Assisting with a Bedpan
- Assisting with a Gown Change
- Assisting with a Tub bath or Shower
- Assisting with a Urinal
- Assisting with Ambulation Using a Gait Belt
- Assisting with Cast Application
- Assisting with Meals
- Assisting with Moving a Patient in Bed
- Assisting with Positioning a Patient in Bed
- Assisting with the Use of Canes Walkers and Crutches
- Care of a Patient with an Immobilization Device
- Care of the Patient during Cast Removal
- Caring for a Suprapubic Catheter
- Caring for Pressure Injuries
- Change of Shift: Hand-off
- Changing a Dressing
- Changing Intravenous Dressings
- Changing Intravenous Tubing and Fluids
- Cleaning Dentures
- Collecting a Midstream Urine Specimen
- Collecting a Specimen for Wound Culture
- Collecting a Sputum Specimen
- Communicating Effectively on the Job
- Dealing with Conflict
- Discontinuing Intravenous Therapy
- Disposable Bed Bath
- Documenting Medication Administration
- Drawing Blood and Administering Fluid
- Drawing up More than One Type of Insulin
- Dressing the Infusion Site
- Empathy: The Foundation of Caring
- Enhancing your Promotability
- Ensuring Oxygen Safety
- Ensuring the Seven Rights of Medication Administration
- Establishing and Maintaining a Sterile Field
- Fecal Occult Blood Testing
- Handling Medication Variations
- Initiating a Transfusion
- Inserting a Nasogastric Tube
- Inserting Rectal Medication
- Inserting an Indwelling Urinary Catheter in a Female Patient
- Inserting an Indwelling Urinary Catheter in a Male Patient
- Interview Skills
- Irrigating a Urinary Catheter
- Irrigating Wounds
- Maintaining an Airway
- Making a Surgical Bed
- Making an Occupied Bed
- Making an Unoccupied Bed
- Managing a Nasogastric Tube
- Managing Pain
- Measuring Height and Weight
- Measuring Intake and Output
- Measuring Oxygen Saturation with Pulse Oximetry
- Midline Catheter: Maintenance and Dressing Change
- Midline Catheter: Removal
- Monitoring for Adverse Reactions to a Transfusion
- Nursing Process: Assessment
- Nursing Process: Diagnosis
- Nursing Process: Evaluation
- Nursing Process: Implementation
- Nursing Process: Planning
- Obtaining a Specimen from an Indwelling Urinary Catheter
- Obtaining Blood Pressure by the One-Step Method
- Obtaining Blood Pressure by the Two-Step Method
- Obtaining Intracranial Pressure (ICP) Readings from a Patient with an External Ventricular Drain (EVD)
- Performing a Complete or Partial Bed Bath
- Performing Back Massage
- Performing Blood Glucose Testing
- Performing Dressing Care for a Central Venous Access Device (CVAD)
- Performing Gastric Occult Blood Testing
- Performing Hair Care and Shampooing in Bed
- Performing Hand Hygiene
- Performing Intermittent Straight Catheterization
- Performing Nail and Foot Care
- Performing Nasotracheal and Nasopharyngeal Suctioning
- Performing Oral Hygiene for an Unconscious Patient
- Performing Oropharyngeal Suctioning
- Performing Perineal Care for a Female Patient
- Performing Perineal Care for a Male Patient
- Performing Range-of-Motion Exercises
- Performing Sterile Gloving
- Performing Venipuncture
- Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter: Removal
- Pouching a Colostomy
- Pouching a Urostomy
- Pouring a Sterile Solution
- Preoperative Assessment
- Preparing a Patient for Surgery
- Preparing an Infusion Site
- Preparing and Administering Insulin
- Preparing for a Transfusion
- Preparing Injections from a Vial
- Preparing Injections from an Ampule
- Presenting Yourself to the Workplace
- Preventing Medication Errors
- Promoting Family Support and Participation
- Providing Catheter Care
- Providing Enteral Feedings
- Providing Postoperative Care
- Providing Tracheostomy Care
- Regulating an Intravenous Infusion
- Removing a Feeding Tube
- Removing an Indwelling Urinary Catheter
- Safe Handling of Hazardous Medications
- Screening Urine for Chemical Properties
- Setting Oxygen Flow Rates
- Shaving a Male Patient
- Solving Problems and Making Decisions
- Taking Aspiration Precautions
- Taking Temperatures
- Teaching Postoperative Exercises
- Transferring from a Bed to a Stretcher
- Transferring from a Bed to a Wheelchair Using a Transfer Belt
- Troubleshooting Intravenous Infusions
- Troubleshooting Vascular Access Devices
- Using a Dry Powder Inhaler
- Using a Hydraulic Lift
- Using a Metered-Dose Inhaler
- Using a Prepackaged Sterile Kit
- Using a Sequential Compression Device
- Using an Infusion Pump
- Using Automated Medication Dispensing Systems
- Using Personal Protect
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