Clinical Procedures III

Overview

Course description

Students will continue to develop and integrate foundational skills of psychiatric nursing practice and will be introduced to advanced practice skills relevant to the clinical practice setting.

Course content

Use and maintenance of intravenous infusion device
Calculating intravenous flow rates
Regulating, monitoring and maintaining intravenous therapy, and fluid balance
Changing an intravenous bag and tubing
Discontinuing an intravenous infusion device
Preparation and administration of intravenous medications via a secondary infusion set
Use and maintenance of intravenous saline locks
Preparation and administration of medication via the intravenous saline lock device
Converting an intravenous infusion to a saline intravenous lock device
Pre and post-operative care including ECT, surgical and diagnostic treatments
Neurovascular assessment (complex) and cast care
Surgical asepsis
Donning sterile gloves
Sterile dressing change (simple)
Removing sutures/staples
Maintaining and removing closed wound drainage devices
Documentation

Learning activities

Students will learn clinical procedure skills through a variety of means including lecture, observation, audio-visual aids, demonstration, simulations and case studies. Students will have an opportunity to practice skills in a laboratory setting.

Means of assessment

The course evaluation is consistent with Douglas College evaluation policy. An evaluation schedule is presented at the beginning of the course.

This is a graded course.

Learning outcomes

In this course the student will use the Douglas College Psychiatric Nursing Curricular threads (wellness-illness continuum, professional values, professional caring and health care delivery system) and domains (person, environment, health, psychiatric nursing) to integrate knowledge, skills and attributes related to clinical procedures when caring for the person experiencing an episodic health challenge.

Textbook materials

A list of required and optional textbooks and materials is provided for students at the beginning of each semester.

Requisites

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

January 2015 (Current)