Main description:

This innovative video series features the skills essential for practice in an engaging, fast-paced presentation that clearly demonstrates key nursing assistant procedures. Actual nurses and nursing assistants perform the skills to realistically depict the team approach to care delivery.

Contents:

Infection control and Safety Measures*Hand hygiene including hand washing and use of antiseptic hand gel NEW!*PPE for standard precautions including applying and removing in the correct sequence: gloves, gown, mask, eye protection NEW!*Using restraint alternatives, including proper use of side rails, bed alarms, and bed and wheelchair locks*Applying restraints, including vest restraint, extremity restraints, waist restraints and finger-control mittens Bathing and Bedmaking*The complete and partial bed bath*Use of bag bath NEW! *Tub Bath and Shower NEW! *Perineal care for the female *Perineal care for the male*Making the unoccupied bed--closed*Making the unoccupied bed-open*Making a surgical bed*Making the occupied bed Body Mechanics and Exercise*Assisting with moving and positioning clients in bed*Moving client up in bed*Transfer from bed to chair or wheelchair using a transfer belt*Transfer from bed to a stretcher*Passive range-of-motion exercises*Assisting with ambulation with a cane and walker*Transfer from Bed to a chair using a mechanical lift NEW! Assisting with Elimination*Assisting patient to commode*Assisting with a urinal*Assisting with a bedpan, including standard and fracture bedpans*Applying a condom catheter *Administering an enema*Providing indwelling catheter care*Emptying urinary drainage bag*Changing drainage bag*Inserting a rectal tube*Changing an ostomy bag/pouch Nutrition & Fluids*Preparing for meals*Serving meal trays, including the use of the "clock" technique for a visually impaired person*Assisting with eating*Intake and output Personal Hygiene & Grooming*Oral hygiene, including oral care for the unconscious person, denture cleaning, and precautions for the person at risk of aspiration*Hair care, including shampooing in bed*Giving a shampoo in tub or shower*Shaving a male with safety/disposable and electric razor*Nail and foot care*Dressing*Changing a hospital gown*Changing a hospital gown for patient with IV*Assisting with undressing and dressing Vital Signs*Height and weight*Taking a radial pulse *Taking an apical pulse*Counting respirations*Temperature: electronic thermometer (oral, rectal, axillary) *Temperature: tympanic thermometer*Blood pressure: one-step method*Pulse oximetry NEW! Skin and Wound Care*Giving pressure ulcer care to the patient with a Stage I pressure ulcer*Applying elastic stockings*Applying a dry non-sterile dressing*Back rub*Applying an elastic abdominal binder Heat and Cold Application*Performing hot or cold soak*Performing hot bath or sitz bath*Applying hot or cold compress*Applying hot or cold pack, ice bags, ice collars, and ice gloves*Using an aquamatic or aquathermia pad Specimen Collection and Testing and Surgical Care*Mid-stream urine specimen collection*Fecal occult blood testing using the Hemoccult test*Sputum specimen collection*Promoting postoperative recovery: breathing and coughing exercises*Surgical skin prep