EKWENDENI COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES

FACULTY OF NURSING AND MIDWIFERY

CLINICAL DEPARTMENT
APPROVED NUMBER OF PROCEDURES PER DAY
General Nursing
SN PROCEDURE No. per day
1 Physical Examination 2
2 Tepid Sponging 3
3 Bed bath 2
4 IV Insertion 4
5 Suturing Cut Wounds 3
6 Wound Dressing 2
7 Screening Under Five Child 2
8 Family Planning Initiation 2
9 Care of a Bed Ridden Patient 1
10 Giving/Removing Bed Pans 2
11 Inserting/Removing Urinary Catheter 4
12 Inserting/Removing NasoGastric Tubes 2
13 Inserting/Removing Oral-gastric Tube 2
14 Checking Malaria with MRdT 5
15 Blood Transfusions 2

Midwifery Section
1 Initial Assessment of Antenatal Mother 3
2 Subsequent Assessment of Antenatal Mother 4
3 Vagina\Pelvielvic Assessment 4
4 Spontaneous Vertex Deliveries 2
5 % of Tears of Total Deliveries <10%
6 RepairingTears or Episiotoms 3
7 Placenta Examination 2
8 Postnatal mother \Neonate Assessment 4
9 1 Wk Postnatal Mother \Neonate check 2
10 6 Wk Mother \Neonate Assessment 2