Class notes and Lab Scenarios Bsn205, Bsn305 Nursing Skills

The document mainly covers these areas: * IV therapy and IV medications: primary IV infusions, bolus infusions, saline locks, calculating mL/hr and gtt/min, priming IV tubing, assessing IV sites, piggyback/secondary IV medications, reconstitution, IV pumps, and IV push medications. Several scenarios use drugs such as piperacillin, ceftriaxone, clindamycin, vancomycin, and dimenhydrinate. Pages 1–9 and 13–19 focus heavily on these skills. * Urinary catheterization: Foley/indwelling versus straight/intermittent catheterization, indications, assessments, male vs. female insertion, sterile technique, catheter removal, drainage-bag positioning, and continuous bladder irrigation (CBI). There is also a detailed Seneca catheter insertion/removal checklist. * Wound care: sterile versus clean dressing changes, wound irrigation and packing, tunneling, wound assessment, sterile-field rules, surgical drains such as Jackson-Pratt, wound-healing stages, pressure injuries, Braden Scale, wound infection and complications such as dehiscence/evisceration. * NG tubes and enteral feeding: NG tube insertion for gastric decompression, checking placement, suction, NG tube care/removal, intermittent tube feeding, aspiration precautions, gastric residuals, PEG/PEJ tubes, medication administration through feeding tubes, and replacement of NG losses with IV fluids. Nursing skills lab * Respiratory/airway skills: airway management, humidification, nebulization, chest physiotherapy, suctioning, oral airways, incentive spirometry, positioning, oxygen-delivery devices, coughing/deep-breathing exercises, and chest tubes. Nursing skills lab * The last section contains handwritten review notes covering wound healing, nutrition, dysphagia/aspiration, tube feeding, hygiene, bathing, perineal care, nail/foot care, oral hygiene, dentures, and special considerations for patients with diabetes