Skills performance checklists to accompany Elkin, Perry, and Potter's nursing interventions and clinical skills / Geralyn Ochs.

Contents;

Unit 1: Fundamental concepts
1. Nursing diagnosis and nursing interventions
2. Facilitating communication
3. Promoting infection control
4. Promoting a safe environment

Unit 2: Activities of daily living
5. Promoting activity and mobility
6. Promoting hygiene
7. Promoting nutrition
8. Assisting with elimination
9. Promoting comfort, sleep, and relaxation

Unit 3: Assessment skills
10. Vital signs
11. Shift assessment
12. Comprehensive health assessment
13. Laboratory and diagnostic tests.

Unit 4: Application of surgical asepsis
14. Basic sterile techniques
15. Providing wound care

Unit 5: Administration of medications
16. Administration of non-parenteral medications
17. Administration of injections

Unit 6: Perioperative nursing care
18. Preparing the client for surgery
19. Intraoperative techniques
20. Caring for the postoperative client
21. Pain management
22. Therapeutic use of heat and cold

Unit 7: Managing immobilized clients
23. Pressure ulcer care
24. Special mattresses and beds
25. Promoting range of motion
26. Traction
27. Cast care
28. Assistive devices for ambulation

Unit 8: Managing complex nursing interventions
29. Intravenous therapy
30. Promoting oxygenation
31. Gastric intubation
32. Enteral nutrition
33. Altered bowel elimination
34. Altered urinary elimination
35. Altered sensory perception
36. Monitoring fluid, electrolyte and acid-base balances
37. Emergency measures foe life support in the hospital setting
38. Facilitating grief work
39. Discharge teaching and home health management