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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

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