Nurse Key

Skill 61 Pulse Oximetry Pulse oximetry is the noninvasive measurement of arterial blood oxygen saturation, the percent to which hemoglobin is filled with oxygen. A pulse oximeter is a probe…

Skill 65 Restraint-Free Environment Patients at risk for falls or wandering present special safety challenges when trying to create a restraint-free environment. Wandering is the meandering, aimless, or repetitive locomotion…

Skill 23 Enemas An enema is the instillation of a solution into the rectum and sigmoid colon to promote defecation by stimulating peristalsis. Cleansing enemas promote complete evacuation of feces…

Skill 9 Blood Glucose Testing Blood glucose monitoring allows patients with diabetes mellitus to self-manage their disease. Obtaining capillary blood by skin puncture is less painful than venipuncture, and the…

Skill 38 Mechanical Lifts One of the major concerns during transfer is the safety of the patient and the nurse. The nurse prevents self-injury by using correct posture, minimal muscle…

Skill 72 Suctioning Closed (In-Line) Endotracheal tubes (ETs) and tracheostomy tubes (TTs) are artificial airways inserted to relieve airway obstruction, provide a route for mechanical ventilation, permit easy access for…

Skill 63 Respiration Assessment You assess ventilation by observing the rate, depth, and rhythm of respiratory movements. Accurate assessment of respiration depends on recognizing normal thoracic and abdominal movements. Normal…

Skill 29 Fall Prevention in a Health Care Facility Patient falls are the most common type of inpatient accident (Oliver, Healey, and Haines, 2010). Between 1% and 3% of these…

Skill 25 Enteral Nutrition via a Nasoenteric Feeding Tube Enteral nutrition, or tube feeding, is a method for providing nutrients to patients who are not able to meet their nutritional…

Skill 26 Epidural Analgesia Administration of analgesics into the epidural space is an efficient intervention to manage acute pain (D’Arcy, 2011). The epidural space is a potential space that contains…