Skills Performance Checklists for Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques

UNIT 1: SUPPORTING THE PATIENT THROUGH THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
1. Using Evidence in Nursing Practice
2. Communication and Collaboration
3. Admitting, Transfer, and Discharge
4. Documentation and Informatics
UNIT 2: VITAL SIGNS AND PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT
5. Vital Signs
6. Health Assessment
UNIT 3: SPECIAL PROCEDURES
7. Specimen Collection
8. Diagnostic Procedures
UNIT 4: INFECTION CONTROL
9. Medical Asepsis
10. Sterile Technique
UNIT 5: ACTIVITY AND MOBILITY
11. Safe Patient Handling and Mobility (SPHM)
12. Exercise and Mobility
13. Support Surfaces and Special Beds
UNIT 6: SAFETY AND COMFORT
14. Patient Safety
15. Disaster Preparedness
16. Pain Management
17. End-of-Life Care
UNIT 7: HYGIENE
18. Personal Hygiene and Bed Making
19. Care of the Eye and Ear
UNIT 8: MEDICATIONS
20. Safe Medication Preparation
21. Nonparenteral Medications
22. Parenteral Medications
UNIT 9: OXYGENATION
23. Oxygen Therapy
24. Performing Chest Physiotherapy
25. Airway Management
26. Cardiac Care
27. Closed Chest Drainage Systems
28. Emergency Measures for Life Support
UNIT 10: FLUID BALANCE
29. Intravenous and Vascular Access Therapy
30. Blood Therapy
UNIT 11:  NUTRITION
31. Oral Nutrition
32. Enteral Nutrition
33. Parenteral Nutrition
UNIT 12: ELIMINATION
34. Urinary Elimination
35. Bowel Elimination and Gastric Intubation
36. Ostomy Care
UNIT 13: CARE OF THE SURGICAL PATIENT
37. Preoperative and Postoperative Care
38. Intraoperative Care
UNIT 14: DRESSINGS AND WOUND CARE
39. Wound Care and Irrigations
40. Impaired Skin Integrity Prevention and Care
41. Dressings, Bandages, and Binders
42. Warm and Cold Therapy
UNIT 15: HOME CARE
42. Home Care Safety
43. Home Care Teaching

rack your performance of clinical nursing skills with convenient checklists! Skills Performance Checklists makes it easy to document and assess your proficiency in all of the more than 200 skills and procedures presented in Perry & Potter’s Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 10th Edition text. Follow these checklists step by step, and mark the completion of each step. Perforated pages make it easy to submit your work to instructors for evaluation. It’s an excellent tool for building and assessing essential nursing skills!

• More than 200 skills performance checklists are included, with step-by-step instructions for each of the basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills in the Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 10th Edition textbook.
• Thorough and convenient documentation of skill mastery makes it easier to evaluate your performance of each skill.
• Perforated pages make it easy to submit forms to instructors during clinical skills lab.

By Anne Griffin Perry, RN, EdD, FAAN, Professor and Associate Dean, School of Nursing, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL; Patricia A. Potter, RN, MSN, PhD, FAAN, Director of Research, Patient Care Services Barnes-Jewish Hospital St. Louis, MO ; Wendy Ostendorf, RN, MS, EdD, CNE, Neumann University, Aston, Pennsylvania and Nancy Laplante, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, Associate Professor of Nursing, Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania