Skills:
Basic Care including: Complete Bed/Bath of Total care patients Vitals including: Temp, oral and axillary, Respirations, Pulses: Apical, Carotid, Brachial, Radial, Femoral, & Dorsalis Pedis, Blood Pressure, Height/Weight, Intake/Output, Physical Assessment Medication Administration including: PO, SubQ Heparin/Lovenox, Insulin, and Mixed Insulin, IM Z-track, Intradermal, Ear drops, Eye drops, Sublingual, rectal Suppository, NG Tube, & Narcotics IV Skills including: IV start, Converting IV to INT, Site observation, Site care, Calculation Rate, Change tubing, D/C IV, D/C INT, Flush INT, Prime Tubing, Hang Fluids, TPN, and IVPB IV Push including: via Primary IV, via INT, via Central Line, and Blood Administration IV Infusion including: Single Line, Multiple Lines, Pump, & Syringe. Central Lines including Draw Blood, Administer medications, Flush, Dressing Change, Removal, and Tubing Change. Portacath including: Access port, dressing change, Remove Access PICC including: Flush, Medication Administration, Draw blood Airway including: Nasopharynx suctioning, Oral suctioning, Tracheal suctioning, Tracheal site care, & Tracheal collar Oxygenation including Applying BNC, Mask, Pulse Oximiter, Flow Rate, and Incentive Spirometer Catheterization including: Male Indwelling, Male in and out, Catheter care, and External Catheter; Woman Indwelling, Catheter care; Irrigation syringe, D/C Catheter, and empty Foley Bag Drains including: Chest Tubes, Closed Chest drainage set up and monitoring, Jackson Pratt and Penrose Dressing Change including: Surgical Incision, Wet to dry, Packing, Occlusive dressing, Transparent Dressing, & Decubitus care Sterile Techniques including: Opening Sterile Supplies, Sterile Gloving, Adding supplies to a sterile field, Suture removal, and Incision Care Care of Surgical Patient including both Pre-op and Post-op care Specimen Collection including: Sputum, Stool, Nasopharyngeal, Urine from foley, urine from clean catch, Wound, and Throat Glucose Monitoring Competencies, contd page 2 Isolation including: Application and Removal of attire, Contact, Reverse, Respiratory, & Double bagging of linen and/or trash Infection Control including: standard precautions of hand washing and application of anti-bacterial agent Ostomy Care including: Changing bag, Irrigating, and Emptying Gastrostomy PEG Tube including: Checking residual, Bolus feeding, and Irrigation Nasogastric Tube including: Checking residual, Continuous feeding, Irrigation, Flush, Insertion, Verification of placement, and Removal OB Skills including: Measuring fundal height, Maternal TOCO, Fetal Monitoring, NB Care, NB Assessment, and Cord Care Patient Teaching including: admission, discharge, and disease processes