Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 12th Edition

Unit 1: Supporting the Patient Through the Health Care System
1. Clinical Judgment 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
12. Exercise, Mobility, and Immobilization Devices
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. Airway Management
25. Cardiac Care
26. Closed Chest Drainage Systems
27. Emergency Measures for Life Support

Unit 10: Fluid Balance
28. Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy
29. Blood Therapy

Unit 11: Nutrition
30. Oral Nutrition
31. Enteral Nutrition
32. Parenteral Nutrition

Unit 12: Elimination
33. Urinary Elimination
34. Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation
35. Ostomy Care

Unit 13: Care of the Surgical Patient
36. Preoperative and Postoperative Care
37. Intraoperative Care

Unit 14: Dressings and Wound Care
38. Wound Care and Irrigation
39. Pressure Injury Prevention and Care
40. Dressings, Bandages, and Binders

Unit 15: Home Care
41. Home Care Safety
42. Home Care Teaching Appendix A: Terminology/Combining Forms: Prefixes and Suffixes

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