STUDY GUIDE FOR BASIC SKILLS - EXMINATION I

1. Identify and compare signs of infection and inflammation, provide

examples.
2. Fire safety with nursing implications for teaching and
duties/responsibilities
3. Identify safety programs suitable to various stages of the lifespan
4. Nursing process in safety issues – wheel chairs, handrails.
5. Nursing process in asepsis.
6. Identify the chain of infection and give examples for each link.
7. Identify measures to prevent falls
8. Identify risk factors for falls throughout the lifespan
9. Identify legal implications of use of restraints
10. Identify types of restraints and indicated uses
11. List nursing care required of patients in various forms of restraints
12. Procedure for poisonings
13. Nursing implications in the care of seizure patients
14. Compare body defenses against infection (non-specific v/s specific
defenses)
15. Compare differences between medical and surgical asepsis
16. Identify standard precautions and nursing implications
17. Identify and Compare transmission-based isolation precautions
18. Preventions and interventions for specific hazards – poisoning,
choking, electrocution, firearms, carbon monoxide.
19. Biological Bioterrorism – Signs & symptoms of diseases;
immediate procedures
20. National Patient Safety guidelines – identify
21. Review all Skills and Procedures