ASN Skills Mapping

Healthcare Products

Basic Hygiene

• Bath: shaving, tepid sponge bath, sitz bath
• Bed making: underpads (chux)
• Bed positions
• Skin care, Nail & Foot care
• Oral/Denture care: conscious & unconscious
• Yankauer oral suction tube
• Back rubs
• Foley /Perineal care

Standard Precautions

• Handwashing
• Sterile technique

Wound Care: assessment, dressings

• Gowns/Masks
• Disposal

Air/Food/Water

• Feeding
• Body weight: bed scales, standing scale
• EPC/SCD’s cuffs
• Anti- embolism hose
• Oxygen: flow meters, cannula, masks, ambu
• Incentive Spirometer/Cough & Deep Breathe
• Pulse Oximeter
• Specimen Collection: sputum
• Air Mattress/Acrylon pads

Elimination

• Intake & Output
• Bed pan/Urinal/Foleys/Speci hats
• Specimen collection: urine, stool (hemoccult)
• Foley/Urinometer/Condom Catheter/Leg bag
• Enemas: large volume, small volume
• Elimination: history and assessment
• Urinary Catheterization: Male and Female
  
  

Safety/Activity/Rest

• Bed Mechanics
• Restraints/Protective devices: soft, mitts, vest
• Transfer activities & Techniques/Devices: slipp slide, hoyer (lifts), stretcher, wheelchair
• Mobility aides: canes, walkers, crutches
• Positioning/Turning: traction, abductor pillow
• Range of Motion (ROM)
• Bedcradles

Physical Observation/Changes

• Vital Signs with Pulse ox, Pain Assessment

Physical Assessment

• Nursing History
• Head to toe assessment

Drugs & Solutions

• Calculations/Conversions
• Testing: Po (oral), Parenteral, IV

Clinical Lab Simulation

Medication Administration: PO, IM, SQ, ID, insulin, heparin, D&S, injection sites

Peri -op (Pre and Post)

Discharge Planning

Casts: assessment and care of

Traction: assessment and care of, types

Principles of Venipuncture: IV starts

IV therapy: assessment, site care, Saline locks, cont infusions, IVP, IVPB, tubing changes,

Infusion Pumps

IV calculations

Clinical Lab Simulation

Tubes: NG/GT/FT etc, assessment care of, Insertion, Enteral Feedings

Oropharyngeal Suction: airways

Stoma Therapy: assessment, care of, equipment, products, pouching, colostomy irrigation

Fecal Management Systems

PCA/Pain Management pumps

Breast & Testicular assessments

Physical Assessment: History and Head to Toe (GI/GU)

Virtual IV (VIV)

Clinical Lab Simulation

Clinical Lab Simulation

Cardiac Monitoring: EKG interpretation (normal)

Central Lines/PICCs: assessment, site care, blood draws, dressing changes

Advanced Resp/Cardiac/Peripheral Vascular Assessments

Drugs and Solutions: advanced calculations- drips (Heparin, Aminophylline, Dopamine, Nitro)

Clinical Lab Simulation

Newborn assessment

Post-Partum assessment

Pediatric physical assessment

Pediatric calculations: safe dose, conversions

Tracheostomy: assessment, care of

Tracheal/Endo-tracheal/Naso- tracheal/Nasopharyngeal Suctioning

Cardiac Monitoring: EKG interpretation (VT,VF)

Drugs and Solutions: advanced calculations- drips Example: (Heparin, Dopamine, Nitro)

Clinical Lab Simulation