
Nursing Skills By Year
YEAR ONE
NURS 1020: Clinical Practice Residential
- Basic Skills
- Vital Sign Assessment
- Cardiovascular system assessment
- Respiratory system assessment
- Genitourinary assessment
- Gastrointestinal assessment
- Cognitive assessment
- Integumentary assessment
- Comfort/pain assessment
- Assessing cranial nerves and sensory function
- Musculoskeletal system assessment
- Assessment of nutrition, food intake, and dysphagia
- Medication administration
- Lifts and transfers
NURS 1550: Intro. Life Sciences
- Specimen collection
- Personal protective equipment
YEAR TWO
NURS 2021: Family Focused Practice
- Birth process, post-partum and neonatal assessment
- Neonatal care and nutrition
- Pediatric assessment
- Safe medication administration
- Aseptic technique
YEAR THREE
NURS 3020: Clinical practice focused on Acute Care
- Perioperative nursing care and documentation
- Nursing interventions upon return from the post-anesthetic care unit
- Post-operative exercises and pain management
- Care for the Client with Acute Wounds-Stitches, Staple Removal, Burns and Post-Operative Ostomy Assessment
- IV medication administration
- IV medication administration: multiple infusions
- Care for the client with neurological issues
- Respiratory assessment, oxygen therapy and chest tubes
- Urinary catheterization and management
- Care for the client with cardiac issues
- Care for the client requiring blood-component therapy conservation
- Care for the client requiring TPN, CVAD, and nasogastric tubes
NURS 3021: Clinical Practice Focused on Chronic Disease
- Head to toe assessment
- Functional and musculoskeletal assessment
- Intravenous therapy Maintenance
- Teaching self-management techniques in complex illness
- Management of pressure ulcers and chronic wounds
- Urinary catheters
- Hospice palliative care
- Care for client requiring pulmonary care-suctioning, tracheostomy, and COPD
- Assessment of nutritional status, enteral feeding and swallowing/aspiration assessment
- Assessment of EENT, Breast and Testicular exams and promoting health Management
Documentation
- SBAR, MARs