Beginning competence as a professional nurse requires the acquisition of a number of technical skills in order to provide patient care. Although instruction and opportunities to further develop skills are provided, a significant amount of time may have elapsed since the performance for any single technical skill. Therefore, in order to prepare you for practice as a graduate nurse, a satisfactory performance on a skill examination must be achieve. The skill examination will consist of one skill to be drawn from a hat and completed in the campus laboratory.
The skill test must be completed by Friday, February 26, 1999. A student not successfully completing the skill will have until March 12, 1999 to complete the skill that was not performed correctly and until March 26, 1999 to perform a second skill drawn from a hat.
| Intramuscular injections:any site, withdrawal from an ampule or vial, mixing a powder, mixing two medications |
| Suctioning |
| Dressing change (with or without a drain) |
| Tracheostomy Care |
| Administration of medication via a feeding tube |
| Insertion of a nasogastric tube |
| Irrigation of a Foley catheter |
| Insertion of a Foley catheter |
| Priming an intravenous line |
| Converting an IV to a capped angiocath |
| Administering a piggyback medication
(you will be expected to select the correct
flow rate for a specific drug, using a handbook) |
| Donning and removing protective equipment for isolation |
| Mixing and administering 2 different types of insulin |
| Central line dressing change |
You may use the campus laboratory audiovisual media for review and practice. Individual instruction can be scheduled with the campus laboratory instructor. If you do not pass the performance test the first time, you must schedule practice time with the campus laboratory instructor before being allowed to schedule a second test.