Main description:

With these engaging, interactive videos, you'll be able to understand and master more than 140 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing procedures. Each video demonstrates how to perform a specific skill in step-by-step format, according to the most current nursing practice. For appropriate procedures, animations show what's happening inside the patient's body. NCLEX® examination-style review questions help you evaluate your understanding of each skill.

Contents:

Basic Infection Control

• Performing hand hygiene
• Using personal protective equipment

• Performing a complete or 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

• Making the unoccupied bed
• Making the occupied bed

• Assisting with moving and 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 a urinal
• Assisting with a bedpan
• Applying a condom catheter
• Administering a cleansing enema
• Providing catheter care

• Assisting with meals
• Taking aspiration precautions
• Measuring intake and output

• 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

• Measuring height and weight
• Assessing radial pulse
• Assessing apical pulse
• Assessing apical-radial pulse
• Assessing respiration
• Assessing pain
• Taking a temperature with electronic thermometers
• Taking a temperature with tympanic thermometers
• Obtaining blood pressure by the one-step method
• Obtaining blood pressure by the two-step method
• Measuring oxygen saturation with pulse oximetry

• Using restraint alternatives
• Applying restraints

• 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

• 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