Note: These skill performance checklists are to be used by students who have had Taylor as a textbook. If Harkreader was the assigned textbook, use the skills checklist associated with the online videos.
Nursing Skills
- Safety Measures for All Skill Performances
- Physical Assessment
- Wound Care
- Central Venous Line Dressing Change
- Wound - Cleaning, Irrigation and Applying a Dry or Moist Sterile Dressing
- Nasogastric/Enteral Tubes
- Enteral Tube - Insertion and Removal of Nasogastric (NG) & Dobhoff Tube
- Enteral - Administering Medications/Feeding/Irrigating via Dobhoff/NG/PEG Tube
- Intravenous Therapy
- Starting an Intravenous Line
- Preparing a Primary IV Container and Tubing
- Administration of Piggyback Medication Into an Existing Line
- Administration of Intravenous Push (IVP) Medication
- Inserting a Peripheral Venous Access Device
- Removing a Peripheral Venous Access Device
- Converting a Primary IV Line into a Saline Lock
- Phlebotomy
- Performing a Peripheral Lab Draw Using a Butterfly Needle and a Syringe
- Performing a Peripheral Lab Draw Using a Butterfly Needle and a Vacutainer Holder
- Performing a Peripheral Lab Draw when starting IV Using a Vacutainer Holder
- Urinary Catheterization
- Catherization - Insertion of an Indwelling Catheter
- Catherization - Removal of an Indwelling Catheter
- Catherization - Continuous Closed Bladder Irrigation
- Catherization - Straight Catheter Insertion and Removal
- Tracheostomy
- Medication Administration