This document outlines various clinical skills and assessment skills required for critical care nursing. It includes monitoring vital signs and providing care for patients with issues like abnormal respiratory status, altered levels of consciousness, feeding tubes, dressings, and more. It also involves skills like interpreting tests, providing education to patients, inserting central lines, analyzing arrhythmias, titrating medications, and assessing patient mobility, nutrition, and response to treatment. The document covers a wide range of responsibilities from general nursing care to advanced skills in airway management, hemodynamic monitoring, and emergency interventions.
This document outlines various clinical skills and assessment skills required for critical care nursing. It includes monitoring vital signs and providing care for patients with issues like abnormal respiratory status, altered levels of consciousness, feeding tubes, dressings, and more. It also involves skills like interpreting tests, providing education to patients, inserting central lines, analyzing arrhythmias, titrating medications, and assessing patient mobility, nutrition, and response to treatment. The document covers a wide range of responsibilities from general nursing care to advanced skills in airway management, hemodynamic monitoring, and emergency interventions.
This document outlines various clinical skills and assessment skills required for critical care nursing. It includes monitoring vital signs and providing care for patients with issues like abnormal respiratory status, altered levels of consciousness, feeding tubes, dressings, and more. It also involves skills like interpreting tests, providing education to patients, inserting central lines, analyzing arrhythmias, titrating medications, and assessing patient mobility, nutrition, and response to treatment. The document covers a wide range of responsibilities from general nursing care to advanced skills in airway management, hemodynamic monitoring, and emergency interventions.
This document outlines various clinical skills and assessment skills required for critical care nursing. It includes monitoring vital signs and providing care for patients with issues like abnormal respiratory status, altered levels of consciousness, feeding tubes, dressings, and more. It also involves skills like interpreting tests, providing education to patients, inserting central lines, analyzing arrhythmias, titrating medications, and assessing patient mobility, nutrition, and response to treatment. The document covers a wide range of responsibilities from general nursing care to advanced skills in airway management, hemodynamic monitoring, and emergency interventions.
2. Monitoring vital signs, respiration, central and peripheral nerves and abnormal cases 3. Physical examination 4. Determination of the level of consciousness and Glasgow Coma Scale 5. Airway management, oxygenation, and intubation 6. Arterial blood gas sampling and interpretation 7. Tests interpretation 8. Planning, implementing, and evaluating the comprehensive skin care program 9. Observe the patients with physical and muscular disorders and diagnosing and preventing from immobility complications 10. Patient education about applying artificial devices and ancillary prosthesis 11. Decubitus ulcer dressing 12. Setting and applying medical equipment 13. Patient feeding process through gastric tube and total parenteral nutrition 14. Ventilator setting according to patient’s respiratory status 15. Care principles and co-operation in patient weaning, extubation, and oxygenation 16. Cardiac monitoring, detecting dysrhythmia, and taking immediate intervention 17. Setting and applying electroshock 18. Psychological support for patients and their families 19. Suctioning through orotracheal, tracheostomy, endotracheal tube, and nasotracheal 20. Determination of training and consulting needs of patients and their families and training on self-care 21. Evaluating the function of chest tubes, nasal gastric tube, urinary catheter, pacemaker, endotracheal tubes, and types of drains 22. CVP and establishing a flow rate of medicines with regard to physician’s prescription 23. Way to prevent the spread of infections in hospital 24. Adjusting sensory stimuli to patients sensory threshold 25. Special nursing care at the disorders of consciousness, hallucination, illusion, and physical restlessness 26. Positive inotrope administration (adrenalin, atropine, and dobutamine) 27. Detecting antidotes 28. Adults CPR
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Measuring body temperature Central line insertion Checking vital signs Arrhythmia analysis Taking blood pressure Care of patients with intra-aortic balloon Assessing pain levels and identifying pain pumps (IABP) signals in people who cannot communicate Titration and management of their pain medications that include heparin, Collecting specimens morphine, nitroglycerine, incocor and Determining tissue viability Cardizem Determining patient mobility Sheath removal Assessing patient nutrition and hydration SV02 monitoring conditions and needs Transducer set-up Analyzing patient response to treatment Administration of medications that include bicarbonate, epinephrine, dopamine, digoxin, atropine and lidocaine ICP monitoring Cardioversion and defibrillation Care of patients receiving TPA and Streptokinase