Fundamental nursing skills and concepts

Unit 1: Exploring contemporary nursing

Nursing foundations

Nursing process

Unit 2: Integrating basic concepts

Laws and ethics

Health and illness

Homeostasis, adaptation, and stress

Culture and ethnicity

Unit 3: Fostering communication

The nurse-client relationship

Client teaching

Recording and reporting

Unit 4: Performing basic client care

Asepsis

Admission, discharge, transfer, and referrals

Vital signs

Physical assessment

Special examination and tests

Unit 5: Assisting with basic needs

Nutrition

Fluid and chemical balance

Hygiene

Comfort, rest, and sleep

Safety

Pain management

Oxygenation

Infection control

Unit 6: Assisting the inactive client

Body mechanics, positioning, and moving

Fitness and therapeutic exercise

Mechanical immobilization

Ambulatory aids

Unit 7: The surgical client

Perioperative care

Wound care

Gastrointestinal intubation

Unit 8: Promoting elimination

Urinary elimination

Bowel elimination

Unit 9: Medication administration

Oral medications

Topical and inhalant medications

Parenteral medications

Intravenous medications

Unit 10: Intervening in emergency situations

Airway management

Resuscitation

Unit 11: Caring for the terminally III

End-of-life care.

Unit 1: Exploring contemporary nursing. Nursing foundations

Nursing process

unit 2: Integrating basic concepts. Laws and ethics

Health and illness

Homeostasis, adaptation, and stress

Culture and ethnicity

unit 3: Fostering communication. The nurse-client relationship

Client teaching

Recording and reporting

unit 4: Performing basic client care. Asepsis

Admission, discharge, transfer, and referrals

Vital signs

Physical assessment

Special examinations and tests

unit 5: Assisting with basic needs. Nutrition

Fluid and chemical balance

Hygiene

Comfort, rest, and sleep

Safety

Pain management

Oxygenation

Infection control

unit 6: Assisting the inactive client. Body mechanics, positioning, and moving

Therapeutic exercise

Mechanical immobilization

Ambulatory aids

unit 7: The surgical client. Perioperative care

Wound care

Gastrointestinal intubation

unit 8: Promoting elimination. Urinary elimination

Bowel elimination

unit 9: Medication administration. Oral medications

Topical and inhalant medications

Parenteral medications

Intravenous medications

unit 10: Intervening in emergency situations. Airway management

Resuscitation

unit 11: Caring for the terminally ill. End-of-life care.