Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques

Anne Griffin Perry, RN, MSN, EdD, FAAN is a Professor Emerita, School of Nursing, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois. Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN is a Former Director of Research, Patient Care Services Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, Missouri. Wendy R. Ostendorf, Contributing Faculty, Masters of Science in Nursing, Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Nancy Laplante is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.

• 1. Clinical judgment in nursing practice (no checklists in this chapter)2. Communication and collaboration3. Admitting, transfer, and discharge (no checklists in this chapter)4. Documentation and informatics5. Vital signs6. Health assessment7. Specimen collection8. Diagnostic procedures9. Medical asepsis10. Sterile technique11. Safe patient handling and mobility12. Exercise, mobility, and immobilization devices13. Support surfaces and special beds14. Patient safety15. Disaster preparedness16. Pain management17. End-of-life care18. Personal hygiene and bed making19. Care of the eye and ear20. Safe medication preparation (no checklists in this chapter)21. Non-parenteral medications22. Parenteral medications23. Oxygen therapy24. Airway management25. Cardiac care26. Closed chest drainage systems27. Emergency measures for life support28. Intravenous and vascular access therapy29. Blood therapy30. Oral nutrition31. Enteral nutrition32. Parenteral nutrition33. Urinary elimination34. Bowel elimination and gastric intubation35. Ostomy care36. Preoperative and postoperative care37. Intraoperative care38. Wound care and irrigation39. Pressure injury prevention and care40. Dressings, bandages, and binders41. Home care safety42. Home care teaching