Canadian Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection (Access Card), 1st Edition
Clinical Skills Online - Access Card
Now there’s a standardized way to teach and evaluate skill performance across your entire Canadian nursing curriculum! Canadian Clinical Skills: Essentials Collection is an engaging, online training tool using videos to guide students through more than 160 procedures and health assessment skills. Designed for Canadian students of all learning styles, each video uses a seven-part framework to demonstrate skills step by step. Best of all, this remarkable training product includes checklists and competency tests for each skill to help you easily monitor your students’ progress. Whether used in the classroom or at home, these high-definition videos will leave students with a 360-degree understanding of how to perform each skill safely and effectively before entering the clinical environment.
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- Coverage of more than 160 nursing and health assessment skills reflects current, evidence-based Canadian clinical practice.
- Quick sheets provide a concise, step-by-step summary of each skill.
- Convenient, web-based program utilizes the same professional format that practising nurses use to train.
- Consistent, competency-based format for learning skills offers a standardized way for students to learn and perform skills, with useful tools to help them obtain a holistic understanding of the skill and nursing competencies.
- Extended text section offers an in-depth look at all aspects of each skill. Subjects include:
- Safety Alerts
- Overview
- Supplies
- Education
- Assessment and Planning
- Delegation opportunities
- Procedures
- Monitoring and Care
- Expected and Unexpected Outcomes
- Documentation guidelines with Sample Documentations
- Special Pediatric, Gerontological, and Home Care Considerations
- Evidence-informed references
- Additional reading suggestions
- Demonstration videos and animations visually guide students through each step involved in the skill.
- English and French closed captioning is provided for all videos and animations.
- Illustrations and images show important procedures, equipment, and documents involved in the skill.
- Supply lists familiarize students with each piece of equipment needed to perform skills.
- Instructor-assigned Competency Tests with rationales help students review and evaluate their understanding of each skill, and feed back to the instructor’s gradebook.
- Interactive, downloadable, and printable evaluation checklists enable students and instructors to measure and track various skill competencies.
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1. Active Listening: Connecting with Others
2. Adding Items to a Sterile Field
3. Administering an Enema
4. Administering Central Parenteral Nutrition (CPN)
5. Administering Ear Medications
6. Administering Enteral Nutrition
7. Administering Intradermal Injections
8. Administering Intramuscular Injections
9. Administering IV Medications by Mini-Infusion Pump
10. Administering IV Medications by Piggyback
11. Administering Medications by Intravenous Bolus
12. Administering Ophthalmic Medications
13. Administering Oral Medications
14. Administering Peripheral Parenteral Nutrition with Lipid (Fat) Emulsion
15. Administering Rectal Suppositories
16. Administering Subcutaneous Injections
17. Applying a Condom-type Catheter
18. Applying a Dry Dressing
19. Applying a Nasal Cannula or Face Mask
20. Applying a Transdermal Patch and Nitroglycerin Ointment
21. Applying Graduated Compression Stockings
22. Applying Physical Restraints
23. Applying Topical Medications
24. Assessing Apical Pulse
25. Assessing Apical-Radial Pulse
26. Assessing Pain
27. Assessing Radial Pulse
28. Assessing Respiration
29. Assessing the Abdomen
30. Assessing the Breasts and Axillae
31. Assessing the Ears
32. Assessing the Eyes
33. Assessing the Head, Neck, and Lymphatics
34. Assessing the Heart
35. Assessing the Musculoskeletal System
36. Assessing the Neurological System: Mental Status and Cranial Nerves
37. Assessing the Neurological System: Motor and Sensory Functions
38. Assessing the Nose, Mouth, and Pharynx (Throat)
39. Assessing the Patient with Female Genitalia and Their Rectum
40. Assessing the Patient with Male Genitalia and Their Rectum
41. Assessing the Peripheral Vascular System
42. Assessing the Skin, Hair, and Nails
43. Assessing the Thorax and Lungs
44. Assessment for Postpartum Depression
45. Assisting Adult Patients with Oral Nutrition
46. Assisting with a Tub Bath or Shower
47. Assisting with a Urinal
48. Assisting with Ambulation
49. Assisting with Cast Application
50. Assisting with Moving a Patient in Bed
51. Assisting with Positioning a Patient in Bed
52. Assisting with the Use of Canes, Walkers, and Crutches
53. Blood Glucose Monitoring
54. Care of the Patient with an Immobilization Device
55. Caring for Pressure Injuries
56. Change of Shift: Hand-off Report
57. Changing a Short-Peripheral Venous Access Device Dressing
58. Changing Administration Sets and Intravenous Solution Containers
59. Collecting a Midstream (Clean-Voided) Urine Specimen
60. Collecting a Sputum Specimen
61. Dealing with Conflict
62. Designing a Restraint-Free Environment
63. Removing a Short-Peripheral Venous Access Device
64. Documenting Medication Administration
65. Drawing Blood from a Central Vascular Access Device (CVAD)
66. Dressing the Infusion Site
67. Empathy: The Foundation of Caring
68. Ensuring Oxygen Safety
69. Ensuring the Ten Rights of Medication Administration
70. Establishing and Maintaining a Sterile Field
71. Head-to-Toe Assessment
72. Initiating a Transfusion
73. Inserting a Small-Bore Nasogastric Feeding Tube
74. Inserting an Indwelling Urinary Catheter in a Patient with Female Genitalia
75. Inserting an Indwelling Urinary Catheter in a Patient with Male Genitalia
76. Maintaining an Airway
77. Making a Surgical Bed
78. Making an Occupied Bed
79. Making an Unoccupied Bed
80. Managing a Feeding Tube
81. Managing Pain and Basic Comfort Measures
82. Managing Wound Drainage Evacuation
83. Measuring Body Temperature
84. Measuring Height and Weight
85. Measuring Occult Blood in Gastric Secretions (Gastroccult)
86. Measuring Occult Blood in Stool
87. Measuring Oxygen Saturation with Pulse Oximetry
88. Midline Catheter: Maintenance and Dressing Change
89. Midline Catheter: Removal
90. Monitoring for Adverse Reactions to a Transfusion
91. Monitoring Intake and Output
92. Nursing Process: Assessment
93. Nursing Process: Diagnosis
94. Nursing Process: Evaluation
95. Nursing Process: Implementation
96. Nursing Process: Planning
97. Obtaining a Specimen from an Indwelling Urinary Catheter
98. Obtaining Blood Pressure by the One-Step Method
99. Obtaining Blood Pressure by the Two-Step Method
100. Obtaining Intracranial Pressure (ICP) Readings from a Patient with an External Ventricular Drain (EVD)
101. Obtaining Wound Specimens for Culture
102. Performing a Complete or Partial Bed Bath
103. Performing a Disposable Bed Bath
104. Performing a Wound Assessment
105. Performing Back Massage
106. Performing Closed Urinary Catheter Irrigation
107. Performing Dressing Care for a Central Vascular Access Device (CVAD)
108. Performing Hand Hygiene
109. Performing Intermittent Straight Catheterization
110. Performing Mouth Care for an Unconscious or Debilitated Patient
111. Performing Nail and Foot Care
112. Performing Nasotracheal and Nasopharyngeal Suctioning
113. Performing Oropharyngeal Suctioning
114. Performing Perineal Care for a Patient with Female Genitalia
115. Performing Perineal Care for a Patient with Male Genitalia
116. Performing Range-of-Motion Exercises
117. Performing Sterile Gloving
118. Performing Venipuncture
119. Performing Wound Irrigation
120. Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC): Removal
121. Physical Preparation for Surgery
122. Pouching a Colostomy
123. Pouching a Urostomy
124. Pouring a Sterile Solution
125. Preoperative Assessment
126. Preparing and Administering Insulin
127. Preparing for a Transfusion
128. Preparing Injections from a Vial
129. Preparing Injections from an Ampoule
130. Preparing the Infusion Site and Initiating an Infusion
131. Preparing Two Medications in One Syringe
132. Presenting Yourself to the Workplace
133. Preventing Medication Errors
134. Promoting Caregiver Support and Participation
135. Providing a Bedpan
136. Providing Catheter Care
137. Providing Postoperative Care
138. Providing Tracheostomy Care
139. Regulating an Intravenous Infusion
140. Removing a Small-Bore Nasogastric Feeding Tube
141. Removing an Indwelling (Foley) Urinary Catheter
142. Safe Handling of Hazardous Medications
143. Setting Oxygen Flow Rates