S4: Skill Lab Manual

COMPETENCIES:
At the end of senior five, the student will be able to demonstrate:
– Professional behavior attitude and observe nursing code of ethics.
– Team work, by collaborating with other healthcare team members.
– Empathy and patience during care provision.

Competence in self-directed learning, by seeking more information on the internet
and other sources.

CLINICAL OBJECTIVES:
At the end of studying fundamentals of nursing in S5, Student will be able
to:
1. Apply the techniques of simple wound dressing
2. Perform different techniques of bandaging
3. Carryout simple laboratory investigations (RTDL, Glycemia, Glucose and
    albumin)
4. Collect and label different specimens
5. Interpret complete blood count laboratory results
6. Apply critical thinking skills in assessing and managing a client with medical
    and surgical health problems
7. Perform first aid care during asthma attack, hypertensive crisis, heart attack,
     stroke and epileptic seizures.
8. Apply theories of family in provision of healthcare to the family
9. Provide healthcare to the family and special population
10. Interact effectively with special groups in the community
11. Compare and contrast techniques that enhance communication to techniques
      that hinder communication
12. Communicate effectively with clients
13. Apply guidance and counselling techniques to assist individuals group, family
      and
14. Community
15. Participate in gender based violence prevention interventions in community
16. Provide the gender based violence prevention health education to community
17. Utilize the national gender based violence prevention guidelines in managing
       the cases of gender based violence
18. Provide first aid care for patients with burn

19. Perform wound cleaning
20. Perform wound dressing
21. Perform health assessment of respiratory system
22. Perform health assessment of cardiovascular
23. Perform health assessment of digestive system
24. Perform health assessment of urogenital system
25. Administer local anesthesia before wound suture
26. Perform simple wound suture
27. Provide bedsore care
28. Administer enema to a client
29. Administer bed pan or urinal to client in need
30. Provide grastrostomy care
31. Provide ileostomy care
32. Provide colostomy care
33. Apply guidance and counselling techniques to assist individuals, group, family
       and community
34. Apply correctly and appropriately ABCDE approach in emergency situations
35. Perform victim’s evacation techniques
36. Carryout rapid laboratory investigations.
37. Apply first aid techniques in, burns, drowning, Chocking, Cardio respiratory
       distress, Fractures, Hemorrhages, Loss of consciousness, Snake bites and
       Epilepsy

At the end of studying maternal and child health in S5, Student will be able
to:

– Perform the rapid initial assessment of a mother during postnatal period
– Provide care to a mother in postnatal the mother during postnatal period.
– Recognize the main danger signs for the mother during the post-natal period.
– Conduct a counselling related to prevention of mother to child transmission
– Conduct counselling to individuals/couples
– Identify the main danger signs for the mother during the post-natal period.
– Advocate against gender based violence.
– Perform postpartum breast assessment
– Perform postpartum uterus assessment
– Perform postpartum bladder and bowel assessment

– Assess the characteristics of lochia
– Assess the mother for episiotomy
– Assess the mother for emotional status
– Assess for signs and symptoms of postpartum haemorrhage
– Assess for any signs and symptoms of postpartum obstetrical emergency
– Ass for signs of postpartum Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
– Provide care to the mother during postnatal period
– Perform newborn assessment