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This open educational resource (OER) was developed to ensure best practice and quality care based on the latest evidence, and to address inconsistencies in how clinical health care skills are taught and practised in the clinical setting. The checklist approach, used in this textbook, aims to provide standardized processes for clinical skills and to help nursing schools and clinical practice partners keep procedural practice current. Each skill/procedure is covered in a chapter that has learning objectives, a brief overview of the relevant theory, checklists of steps for procedures with the rationale behind each step of the process, and a summary of key takeaways. Key terms are set in bold throughout the book and laid out again in a Glossary in the appendix. All 88 checklists are also summarized, and hyperlinked to the original checklist, in the appendix.

A linked ancillary resource: Health Case Studies provides 8 separate case studies with five over arching learning objectives:

1. Interprofessional collaboration
2. Patient centred care
3. Evidenced based practice
4. Quality improvement
5. Informatics

Open (Access) Textbook

Can be down loaded in multiple formats:

pdf, epub, mobi, xml, vanilla xml

 html & odt.

• Homework
• Individual learning
• Self-paced learning
• Competency Checklist use

Internet access with web browser

After active engagement with the OER textbook, the learners will

• Define infection prevention and control practices.
• List of the principles of infection prevention and control practices.
• Explain how to perform the major procedures of infection prevention and control practices.
• Explain the different types of patient assessment.
• Outlines the main purposes of patient assessment.
• Describe the various techniques of patient handling, positioning, and transferring.
• Define musculoskeletal injuries (MSI).
• List the ways of preventing an MSI. Explain the stages of wound healing.
• Describe how to perform comprehensive wound healing.
• Outline steps of wound care. Describe the management of hypoxia.
• Explain how to perform oxygen therapy. Outline procedures for administering medication safely via the major bodily routes.
• List steps for ensuring safe medication administration.
• Explain how to perform safely parenteral medication.
• Describe how to manage the adverse reaction to a parenteral medication. Define total parenteral nutrition (TPN).
• Explain how to perform TPN.
• Identify common types of central venous catheters and the benefits and complications associated with them.
• Demonstrate the safe use of a glucose machine.
• Describe how to perform a capillary blood glucose test.
• Discuss the management of hypoglycemia using a hypoglycemic protocol.
• Summarize the main types of tubes and drainage systems.
• Explain the purpose, potential complications, and intervention for the main types of tubes and attachment systems.

• Undergraduate nursing students
• Undergraduate health sciences students 
• Health College education class Continued Professional development class for existing health professional team members.

An understanding of medical terminology, human anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology is a required asset to use this book effectively. The development of technical skills is based on the knowledge of, practice to achieve proficiency in, and attitudes related to the skill, and an awareness of how our roles affect our patients and other health care professionals.