Basic Nursing Skills
03 Apr

Basic Nursing Skills eClass

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Our basic nursing skills training is designed to help people to get into Care Assistant/ Support worker jobs within NHS and private hospitals, Nursing/Care homes as well as GP surgeries. This training is recommended for people who wish to become hospital health care assistants but have no experience or have had a long career break.

Basic Nursing Skills Training Online Duration

This is an online training course with no time restriction. For clinical sessions and self-practice, we recommend purchasing basic clinical equipment such as a blood pressure machine, thermometer, finger oxygen saturation monitor and urinalysis strips.

Training content:

Essential Standards:

  • Understand Your Role
  • Your Personal Development
  • Duty of Care
  • Equality and Diversity
  • Work in a person-centred way
  • Communication
  • Privacy and Dignity
  • Fluids and Nutrition
  • Awareness of mental health, dementia, and learning disabilities
  • Safeguarding Adults
  • Safeguarding Children
  • Health and Safety
  • Handling Information
  • Basic First Aid Awareness

Clinical Skills:

  • Taking and recording Blood Pressure and Pulse
  • Taking and recording temperature
  • Urine/Stool collection and sampling
  • Respiratory rate
  • Glucose testing /finger stick
  • Taking weight and height and BMI calculation
  • Swab

Assessment

After completing all lessons you will need to complete 100 questions online assessment test. As soon as you will pass your assessment, you will receive your certificate.

Introduction to Care Certificate Standards

Lessons

Introduction to Care Certificate Standards Standard 1: Understanding your role Rights at work Reporting errors Whistleblowing Working in partnership Standard 2: Your personal development Standard 3: duty of care Comments and complaints Practice question Negative events Standard 4: equality & inclusion Standard 5: work in the person-centred way Standard 6: communication Communication barriers Passing on confidential information Standard 7: privacy and dignity Standard 8: fluids and nutritions Standard 9: mental health, dementia and learning disabilities Mental health conditions Standard 10: safeguarding adults Physical abuse Domestic violence Modern slavery Financial or material abuse Sexual abuse Neglect Psychological abuse Organisational abuse Discriminatory abuse Action to take Standard 11: safeguarding children Standard 12: basic life support Standard 13: health and safety Standard 14: handling information Standard 15: infection control

Taking and recording Blood Pressure and Pulse

Lessons

Definition & Units of Blood Pressure What is normal blood pressure in a healthy adult? How to measure blood pressure? Taking Blood Pressure Manually – Auscultatory Method Performance using automatic BP measuring method Pulse What is the normal Heart Rate (Pulse), Tachycardia and Bradycardia? Hypertension Blood pressure and pregnancy Pulse and pregnancy Video

Taking and recording temperature

Lessons

‘Normal’ Temperature Human body temperature ranges Thermoregulation Thermoregulation in hot conditions Thermoregulation in cold conditions Hypothermia Mild hypothermia Hyperthermia Pyrexia How to measure temperature Video

Urinalysis

Lessons

Urinalysis Urinalysis using test strips Procedure to correctly collect urine sample from your patient Urine collection from the catheter bag Urine Collection from the catheter bag: step-by-step procedure Urine collection from the catheter bag: step-by-step procedure – continued Do NOTs during urinalysis Filling-in patient chart What you will require for a urinalysis? How to perform a urinalysis test How to use strip kit correctly How to fill-in urinalysis chart: data What obtained results means? Video

Stool collection

Lessons

Human faeces Stool laboratory analysis Collecting sample Bristol stool chart

Respiration

This module of the essential clinical skills will cover respiration.

Lessons

Respiration Control centres How to count respiratory rate Bradypnoea Tachypnoea Apnoea Oxygen saturations

Swab

This module will cover the basics you require to know when taking a swab.

Lessons

Swab Diagnostic tests General guidelines

Assessment

Lessons

Basic Nursing Skills Assessment