PARAMEDIC TO ADN SKILLS

This course is associated with the following programs:

• Paramedic to Nursing Bridge

1. REVIEW: Apply principles of medical asepsis for client and personal safety
2. REVIEW: Obtain a health history
3. REVIEW: Perform a general survey assessment
4. REVIEW: Perform an integumentary assessment
5. REVIEW: Perform a musculoskeletal assessment
6. REVIEW: Perform a head/neck assessment
7. REVIEW: Perform a basic eye/ear assessment
8. REVIEW: Perform an abdominal assessment
9. Perform a breast/testicular assessment
10. Assist with bathing
11. Give complete bed bath
12. Provide for personal care and hygiene
13. Assist with personal grooming
14. Provide for personal skin care
15. Provide wound care
16. Assist with nutrition and fluid needs
17. Assist client with eating meals
18. Assist with eating difficulties
19. Measure intake and output
20. Assist client with bladder elimination
21. Assist client with bowel elimination
22. Facilitate alternative methods of elimination (urinary and bowel)
23. REVIEW: Demonstrate specimen collection specimen collection procedures
24. Assist with ambulation
25. Use client transfer techniques
26. REVIEW: Perform tracheostomy care and suctioning procedures (oral, nasal, pharyngeal, and tracheostomy)
27. REVIEW: Maintain enteral tubes (feeding, irrigation, suction)
28. REVIEW: Administer medications via the enteral route (oral/tube/rectal)
29. REVIEW: Administer medications via topical, transdermal, eye, ear, inhalation, and vaginal routes
30. Use restraining devices
31. Use restraining alternatives