Main description:

Help students learn how to correctly perform intermediate nursing procedures with these interactive, engaging videos. Clear, step-by-step demonstrations of 45 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:

Pressure Ulcers and Wound Care

• Assessing wounds
• Irrigating wounds
• Changing dressings
• Managing wound drainage systems
• Caring for pressure ulcers

• Inserting a nasogastric feeding tube
• Providing enteral feedings
• Irrigating a feeding tube
• Removing a feeding tube

• Establishing & maintaining sterile field
• Adding items to a sterile field
• Pouring a sterile solution
• Using a pre-packaged sterile kit
• Performing sterile gloving

• Pouching a colostomy
• Pouching a ureterostomy

• Ensuring oxygen safety
• Setting oxygen flow rates
• Applying a nasal cannula or a face mask
• Maintaining an airway
• Providing tracheostomy care
• Performing oropharyngeal suctioning
• Performing nasotracheal suctioning
• Suctioning an artificial airway

• Providing postoperative care
• Managing pain
• Managing a nasogastric tube

• Performing a preoperative assessment
• Promoting family support and participation
• Teaching postoperative exercises and pain management
• Preparing a patient for surgery

• Collecting a midstream urine specimen
• Performing fecal occult blood testing
• Performing gastric occult blood and pH testing
• Collecting a sputum specimen
• Collecting a specimen for wound culture
• Performing blood glucose testing
• Screening urine for chemical properties

• Inserting an indwelling urinary catheter in a female patient
• Inserting an indwelling urinary catheter in a male patient
• Irrigating a urinary catheter
• Performing intermittent straight catheterization
• Obtaining a sterile urine specimen
• Removing indwelling urinary catheter
• Caring for suprapubic catheter