Main description:

Help students learn how to correctly perform advanced nursing procedures with these interactive, engaging videos. Clear, step-by-step demonstrations of over 35 key nursing procedures present the skills needed for confident performance in labs and clinicals. For each skill, students can also test their understanding with NCLEX® examination-style review questions with rationales.

Contents:

Safe Medication Administration

• Ensuring The Six Rights of Medication Administration
• Documenting medication administration
• Handling variations in medication administration
• Preventing medication errors
• Using specialty medication administration systems

• Administering topical medications
• Applying an estrogen patch or nitroglycerin paste
• Administering eye medications
• Administering eardrops
• Using a metered-dose inhaler (MDI)
• Using a dry powder inhaler (DPI)
• Inserting a rectal suppository
• Administering oral medication

• Preparing an infusion site
• Performing venipuncture and initiating infusion
• Dressing infusion site
• Troubleshooting intravenous infusions
• Discontinuing intravenous therapy

• Regulating intravenous infusions
• Using an infusion pump
• Changing intravenous tubing and fluids
• Changing intravenous dressings

• Adding medications to intravenous fluid container
• Administering medications by intravenous piggyback
• Administering medications by mini-infusion pump
• Administering medications by intravenous bolus

• Total parenteral nutrition therapy
• Providing a lipid infusion

• Preparing injections from an ampule
• Preparing injections from a vial
• Preparing insulin
• Drawing up more than one type of insulin
• Administering intradermal injections
• Administering subcutaneous injections
• Administering intramuscular injections

• Performing dressing care
• Drawing blood and administering fluid
• Troubleshooting vascular access devices