Class notes Bsn 205 (Nursing skills l)

Nursing Skills I – Complete Nursing Notes | 28 Pages These 28 pages of detailed handwritten Nursing Skills I notes cover essential foundational nursing skills, patient safety, infection control, vital signs, pain assessment, mobility, elimination, and bedside nursing care. The notes are color-coded and highlighted, with diagrams, clinical examples, assessment tools, and important nursing interventions throughout. Nursing skills l Topics covered include: * Therapeutic nurse–patient relationships * Professional boundaries and client-centred care * Privacy and confidentiality: PHIPA & quality-of-care information * Confirming patient identity * Consent to treatment * Allergy checks and patient safety * Legal nursing documentation * IPASS handoff communication * ISBAR/SBAR communication * Infection prevention and control * Chain of infection * Healthcare-associated/nosocomial infections * Localized vs. systemic infection * Signs and symptoms of infection * Hand hygiene * C. difficile precautions * PPE principles, including glove-to-glove and skin-to-skin technique * Droplet vs. airborne transmission * Vital signs and normal ranges * Height, weight & BMI calculations * Body temperature and thermoregulation * Fever, hyperthermia & hypothermia * Heat stroke and frostbite * Pulse and heart-rate assessment * Pulse sites, rhythm, rate, strength & equality * Respiratory assessment * Ventilation, respiration & gas exchange * Respiratory rate, depth and abnormal breathing patterns * Oxygen saturation (SpO₂) * Blood pressure assessment * Systolic, diastolic, pulse pressure & mean arterial pressure * Hypertension, hypotension & orthostatic hypotension * Manual blood pressure measurement and Korotkoff sounds * Pain assessment and OPQRSTUV * Types of pain: nociceptive, neuropathic, acute, chronic, referred & phantom * Pain scales and assessment in non-verbal patients * FLACC, PAINAD and behavioural pain assessment * Pharmacological & non-pharmacological pain management * Activity, exercise and mobility assessment * Complications of immobility * Range of motion and mobilization * Safe patient transfers and body mechanics * Assistive devices: walkers, crutches & canes * Gait patterns and transfer belts * Fall-risk assessment * Morse Fall Scale & Berg Balance Scale * Fall-prevention nursing interventions * Urinary elimination * Micturition and factors affecting urination * Urinary incontinence and management * Urinary tract infections (UTIs) * Urine characteristics, output and assessment * Urinalysis and urine specimen collection * Fluid balance and intake/output * Bowel elimination and gastrointestinal assessment * Bristol Stool Chart * Constipation and diarrhea * Fecal impaction * Enemas and constipation management * Bowel diversions and ostomies * Colostomy, ileostomy and stoma care These notes include step-by-step nursing procedures, assessment tools, calculations, diagrams, clinical examples, safety considerations, and highlighted exam-focused information. Perfect for BScN, Practical Nursing, Nursing Fundamentals, Nursing Skills, clinical preparation, skills labs, and exam review. 28 pages of handwritten nursing notes