Nurse Training

Basic Skills

  • Basic Infection Control
  • Performing hand hygiene
  • Using Personal Protective Equipment
  • Bathing
  • Performing a complete and partial bed bath
  • Assisting with a tub bath or shower
  • Performing back massage
  • Performing perineal care for the female patient
  • Performing perineal care for the male patient
  • Bedmaking
  • Making the unoccupied bed
  • Making the occupied bed
  • NEW! Making the surgical bed
  • Safe Patient Handling
  • Assisting with moving a patient in bed
  • Assisting with positioning a patient in bed
  • Transferring from bed to wheelchair using a transfer belt
  • Transferring from bed to a stretcher
  • Performing passive range-of-motion exercises
  • Applying elastic stockings
  • Assisting with ambulation using a gait belt
  • Using a sequential compression device
  • Using a hydraulic lift
  • Assisting with Elimination
  • Assisting with a urinal
  • Assisting with a bedpan
  • Applying a condom catheter
  • Administering a cleansing enema
  • Providing catheter care
  • Nutrition & Fluids
  • Assisting with meals
  • Taking aspiration precautions
  • Measuring intake and output
  • Personal Hygiene & Grooming
  • Performing oral hygiene for an unconscious patient
  • Cleaning dentures
  • Performing hair care and shampooing in bed
  • Shaving a male patient
  • Performing nail and foot care
  • Assisting with gown change
  • Vital Signs
  • Taking a temperature
  • Assessing radial pulse
  • Assessing apical pulse
  • Assessing apical-radial pulse
  • Assessing respiration: rate, rhythm, and effort
  • Obtaining blood pressure by the one-step method
  • Obtaining blood pressure by the two-step method
  • Measuring oxygen saturation with pulse oximetry
  • Assessing pain
  • Measuring height and weight
  • Restraints and Alternatives
  • Using restraint alternatives
  • Applying restraints

Intermediate Skills

  • Infection Control
  • Establishing & maintaining sterile field
  • Adding items to a sterile field
  • Pouring a sterile solution
  • Using a pre-packaged sterile kit
  • Performing sterile gloving
  • Enteral Nutrition
  • Inserting a nasogastric tube
  • Providing enteral feedings
  • Removing a feeding tube
  • Ostomy Care
  • Pouching a colostomy
  • Pouching a ureterostomy
  • Respiratory Care and Suctioning
  • Ensuring oxygen safety
  • Setting oxygen flow rates
  • Applying a nasal cannula or face mask
  • Maintaining an airway
  • Providing tracheostomy care
  • Performing oropharyngeal suctioning
  • Performing nasotracheal suctioning
  • Suctioning an artificial airway
  • Preoperative Nursing Care
  • Performing a preoperative assessment
  • Promoting family support and participation
  • Teaching postoperative exercises and pain management
  • Preparing a patient for surgery
  • Postoperative Nursing Care
  • Providing postoperative care
  • Managing pain
  • Managing a nasogastric tube
  • Specimen Collection
  • Collecting a midstream urine specimen
  • Performing fecal occult blood testing
  • Performing gastroccult and gastric pH testing
  • Collecting a sputum specimen
  • Collecting a specimen for wound culture
  • Performing blood glucose testing
  • Screening urine for chemical properties
  • Urinary Catheter Management
  • Inserting an indwelling urinary catheter in a female patient
  • Inserting an indwelling urinary catheter in a male patients
  • Irrigating a urinary catheter
  • Performing intermittent straight catheterization
  • Obtaining a sterile urine specimens
  • Removing indwelling urinary catheter
  • Caring for suprapubic catheter
  • Wound and Pressure Ulcer Care
  • Assessing wounds
  • Irrigating wounds
  • Changing a dressing
  • Using wound drainage systems
  • Caring for pressure ulcers

Advanced Skills

  • Safe Medication Administration
  • The Six Rights of Medication Administration
  • Administering oral medication
  • Documenting medication administration
  • Handling variations in medication administration
  • Preventing medication errors
  • Use of specialty medication administration systems
  • Nonparenteral Medications
  • Applying topical medications
  • Applying an estrogen patch or nitroglycerin paste
  • Administering eye medications
  • Administering eardrops
  • Use of metered-dose inhaler (MDI)
  • Use of dry powder inhaler (DPI)
  • Insertion of rectal suppository
  • Injections
  • Preparing injections from an ampule
  • Preparing injections from a vial
  • Preparing insulin
  • Drawing up more than one type of insulin
  • Administering an intradermal injections
  • Administering a subcutaneous injections
  • Administering an intramuscular injections
  • Administering Intravenous Fluid Therapy
  • Preparing an infusion site
  • Performing venipuncture and initiating infusion
  • Dressing infusion site
  • Troubleshooting intravenous infusions
  • Discontinuing intravenous therapy
  • Managing Intravenous Fluid Therapy
  • Regulating intravenous infusions
  • Using an infusion pumps
  • Changing intravenous tubing and fluids
  • Changing intravenous dressings
  • Intravenous Medications
  • Administering medication by intravenous piggyback
  • Administering medications by mini-infusion pump
  • Administering medications by intravenous bolus