AHE 793 - Nurse Refresher Skills Lab

.8 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to reorient the student to the procedures and equipment used in the acute care hospital setting. Topics to be covered include IV therapy, physical assessment, catherization, trach care, suctioning, dressing changes, medication injections and isolation techniques. Prerequisite: must be enrolled in Nurse Refresher course.

Course Objectives:

1. demonstrate proper techniques for sterile field and isolation;

2. perform a head to toe physical assessment; and

3. demonstrate proper use of hospital medical equipment used at the bedside including IV therapy, catherization, trach care and suctioning, dressing changes and medication injections.