List of Nursing Clinical skills

In my first year I have -

• Basic life support - adult, pregnancy, paediatric and infant
• Manual handling - basics plus using hoists, slide sheets, banana boards, walking aids and wheel chairs
• Fluid balance and elimination- fluid balance charts, emptying catheters, types of catheters,catheter care, night bags, stool charts (got to love the poo!)
• Aseptic technique- keeping everything free or micro organisms
• Wounds and dressings -types of wound, causes and what dressing to use, how to dress
• Subcutaneous injections- under the skin
• IV line care
• Drugs - administration, dispensing
• Basic obs - taking temperature, pulse, respirations and manual blood pressure
• Female catheterisation - putting one in and how to look after it
• Oxygen therapy- giving oxygen, types of masks used
• Emergency assessment
• Personal hygiene - bed bathing, shaving,
• Nutrition - feeding tubes and manual feeding

Thats all i think .....remembering that this is specific to my uni

Just thought of another one....bed making !!

It might not be 'medical' but it is essential , and watching how staff change a bed with someone still in it is extraordinary ! They make it look easy !

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Can student nurses take blood for blood test? xx

Yes we can in the second year at my uni

'Last offices' another skill for the 1st year student.

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........and suppositories and enemas LOL I think I am developing an unhelathy interest in body eliminations !
....and blood glucose monitoring.....not as easy as you think on an elderly patient with bad circulation.

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Without sounding very silly, and i know most of them, but is there a basic list of midwifery clincial skills. I got asked about this at interview so guess I said something right, but would like a lil read. Im going to get some more books for my bday so will ask for some clinical skills ones anyway.

this is very helpful thank you - it is nice to see what I could be learning soon, set out in a list! xx