Core Nursing Fundamentals

By the end of this lesson you will be able to: - Use the nursing process as a loop and explain how each step changes the next action, within RN scope and the authority of your province or territory. - Choose the right technique and equipment for a blood pressure measurement and state why standardized technique changes the number. - Compare adult and pediatric reference ranges for heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and temperature, and say why a single number is never read in isolation. - Apply routine practices: perform a point-of-care risk assessment, perform hand hygiene at the right times, select personal protective equipment (PPE), and put it on and take it off in the correct order. - Confirm client identity with at least two person-specific identifiers before every medication, procedure or specimen. - Prepare, check and administer a medication safely: verify an order is clear, complete and appropriate, avoid do-not-use abbreviations, and use an independent double check for high-alert medications. - Document so that another clinician, or a court, can reconstruct what you saw, decided and did....