Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 10th Edition

UNIT 1: SUPPORTING THE PATIENT THROUGH THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
1. Using Evidence in Nursing Practice
2. Communication and Collaboration
3. Admitting, Transfer, and Discharge
4. Documentation and Informatics

UNIT 2: VITAL SIGNS AND PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
5. Vital Signs
6. Health Assessment

UNIT 3: SPECIAL PROCEDURES
7. Specimen Collection
8. Diagnostic Procedures

UNIT 4: INFECTION CONTROL
9. Medical Asepsis
10. Sterile Technique

UNIT 5: ACTIVITY AND MOBILITY
11. Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM)
12. Exercise and Mobility
13. Support Surfaces and Special Beds

UNIT 6: SAFETY AND COMFORT
14. Patient Safety
15. Disaster Preparedness
16. Pain Management
17. End-of-Life Care
UNIT 7: HYGIENE

18. Personal Hygiene and Bed Making
19. Care of the Eye and Ear

UNIT 8: MEDICATIONS
20. Safe Medication Preparation
21. Nonparenteral Medications
22. Parenteral Medications

UNIT 9: OXYGENATION
23. Oxygen Therapy
24. Performing Chest Physiotherapy
25. Airway Management
26. Cardiac Care
27. Closed Chest Drainage Systems
28. Emergency Measures for Life Support

UNIT 10: FLUID BALANCE
29. Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy
30. Blood Therapy

UNIT 11: NUTRITION
31. Oral Nutrition
32. Enteral Nutrition
33. Parenteral Nutrition

UNIT 12: ELIMINATION
34. Urinary Elimination
35. Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation
36. Ostomy Care

UNIT 13: CARE OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT
37. Preoperative and Postoperative Care
38. Intraoperative Care

UNIT 14: DRESSINGS AND WOUND CARE
39. Wound Care and Irrigations
40. Impaired Skin Integrity Prevention and Care
41. Dressings, Bandages, and Binders
42. Warm and Cold Therapy

UNIT 15: HOME CARE
42. Home Care Safety
43. Home Care Teaching

Anne G. Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN, Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Southern Illinois University—Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Illinois, USA, Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN, Formerly, Director of Research, Patient Care Services, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Wendy R. Ostendorf, RN, MS, EdD, CNE, Contributing Faculty, Masters of Science in Nursing, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA and Nancy Laplante, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA