Jarvis Physical Examination & Health Assessment Series and the Mosby's Nursing Skills Video Series

The Jarvis Physical Examination and Health Assessment Series and the Mosby's Nursing Skills Video Series have been funded generously by the Dalhousie School of Nursing. Dalhousie ITS have provided the streaming service and the Dalhousie Libraries have provided on and off campus access.

For questions about the content contact the School of Nursing. For technical help viewing any of the 146 modules in these series contact the ITS Helpdesk 494-2376

Jarvis Physical Examination and Health Assessment Series - 2007

Mosby's Nursing Skills Video Series 2009

Jarvis Physical Examination and Health Assessment Series

• Head-To-Toe Examination of the Adult
• Head-To-Toe Examination of the Older Adult
• Head-To-Toe Examination of the Pregnant Woman
• Head-to-Toe Examination of the Normal Child
• Head-To-Toe Examination of the Neonate
• Bedside Assessment of the Hospitalized Adult

Mosby's Nursing Skills Video Series 2009

Basic Skills:

• Performing hand hygiene
• Using personal protective equipment

• Assisting with a tub bath or shower
• Performing back massage
• Performing a complete or partial bed bath
• Performing perineal care for the female patient
• Performing perineal care for the male patient

• Making the occupied bed
• Making the unoccupied bed

• Assisting with moving and positioning a patient in bed
• Transferring from bed to a stretcher
• Transferring from bed to wheelchair using a transfer belt
• Using a hydraulic lift
• Using a sequential compression device
• Assisting with ambulation using a gait belt
• Applying elastic stockings
• Performing passive range-of-motion exercises

• Administering a cleansing enema
• Applying a condom catheter
• Assisting with a bedpan
• Assisting with a urinal
• Providing catheter care

• Assisting with meals
• Measuring intake and output
• Taking aspiration precautions

• Assisting with gown change
• Cleaning dentures
• Performing hair care and shampooing in bed
• Performing nail and foot care
• Performing oral hygiene for an unconscious patient
• Shaving a male patient

• Assessing pain
• Assessing respiration
• Assessing apical pulse
• Assessing radial pulse
• Assessing apical-radial pulse
• Measuring height and weight
• Measuring oxygen saturation with pulse oximetry
• Obtaining blood pressure by the one-step method
• Obtaining blood pressure by the two-step method
• Taking a temperature with electronic thermometers
• Taking a temperature with tympanic thermometers

• Applying restraints
• Using restraint alternatives

Intermediate Skills:

• Adding items to a sterile field
• Using a pre-packaged sterile kit
• Pouring a sterile solution
• Establishing & maintaining sterile field
• Performing sterile gloving

• Assessing wounds
• Caring for pressure ulcers
• Changing dressings
• Irrigating wounds
• Managing wound drainage systems

• Applying a nasal cannula or a face mask
• Maintaining an airway
• Performing nasotracheal suctioning
• Performing oropharyngeal suctioning
• Setting oxygen flow rates
• Suctioning an artificial airway
• Providing tracheostomy care
• Ensuring oxygen safety

• Managing pain
• Managing a nasogastric tube
• Providing postoperative care

• Performing a preoperative assessment
• Preparing a patient for surgery
• Promoting family support and participation
• Teaching postoperative exercises and pain management

• Collecting a midstream urine specimen
• Collecting a specimen for wound culture
• Collecting a sputum specimen
• Performing blood glucose testing
• Performing fecal occult blood testing
• Screening urine for chemical properties
• Performing gastric occult blood and pH testing

• Inserting an indwelling urinary catheter in a female patient
• Inserting an indwelling urinary catheter in a male patient
• Caring for suprapubic catheter
• Irrigating a urinary catheter
• Obtaining a sterile urine specimen
• Performing intermittent straight catheterization
• Removing indwelling urinary catheter

• Inserting a nasogastric feeding tube
• Providing enteral feedings

" Irrigating a feeding tube ???
• Removing a feeding tube

• Pouching a colostomy
• Pouching a ureterostomy

Advanced Skills:

• Ensuring The Six Rights of Medication Administration
• Documenting medication administration
• Handling variations in medication administration
• Preventing medication errors
• Using specialty medication administration systems

• Administering topical medications
• Applying an estrogen patch or nitroglycerin paste
• Administering eye medications
• Administering eardrops
• Using a metered-dose inhaler (MDI)
• Using a dry powder inhaler (DPI)
• Inserting a rectal suppository
• Administering oral medication

• Preparing an infusion site
• Performing venipuncture and initiating infusion
• Dressing infusion site
• Troubleshooting intravenous infusions
• Discontinuing intravenous therapy

• Regulating intravenous infusions
• Using an infusion pump
• Changing intravenous tubing and fluids
• Changing intravenous dressings

• Adding medications to intravenous fluid container
• Administering medications by intravenous piggyback
• Administering medications by mini-infusion pump
• Administering medications by intravenous bolus

• Total parenteral nutrition therapy
• Providing a lipid infusion

• Preparing injections from an ampule
• Preparing injections from a vial
• Preparing insulin
• Drawing up more than one type of insulin
• Administering intradermal injections
• Administering subcutaneous injections
• Administering intramuscular injections

• Performing dressing care
• Drawing blood and administering fluid
• Troubleshooting vascular access devices