Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques

1. Clinical judgment in nursing practice (no checklists in this chapter)<br>2. Communication and collaboration<br>3. Admitting, transfer, and discharge (no checklists in this chapter)<br>4. Documentation and informatics<br>5. Vital signs<br>6. Health assessment<br>7. Specimen collection<br>8. Diagnostic procedures<br>9. Medical asepsis<br>10. Sterile technique<br>11. Safe patient handling and mobility<br>12. Exercise, mobility, and immobilization devices<br>13. Support surfaces and special beds<br>14. Patient safety<br>15. Disaster preparedness<br>16. Pain management<br>17. End-of-life care<br>18. Personal hygiene and bed making<br>19. Care of the eye and ear<br>20. Safe medication preparation (no checklists in this chapter)<br>21. Non-parenteral medications<br>22. Parenteral medications<br>23. Oxygen therapy<br>24. Airway management<br>25. Cardiac care<br>26. Closed chest drainage systems<br>27. Emergency measures for life support<br>28. Intravenous and vascular access therapy<br>29. Blood therapy<br>30. Oral nutrition<br>31. Enteral nutrition<br>32. Parenteral nutrition<br>33. Urinary elimination<br>34. Bowel elimination and gastric intubation<br>35. Ostomy care<br>36. Preoperative and postoperative care<br>37. Intraoperative care<br>38. Wound care and irrigation<br>39. Pressure injury prevention and care<br>40. Dressings, bandages, and binders<br>41. Home care safety<br>42. Home care teaching