Skilled Nursing Competency – Step 1
Step I counts 5 recorded lectures that cover important information from regulatory compliance documentation requirements to clinical assessment skills required for successful performance as a nurse in the home health industry.
Please listen to all recorded lectures (Part 1 – Part 5) prior to your scheduled live skilled nursing competency session (Step II of your skilled nursing competency).
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- Lippincott Procedures – Enteral tube feeding, duodenal and jejunal, home care
- Lippincott Procedures – Indwelling urinary catheter (Foley) care and management, home care
- Lippincott Procedures – Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) dressing change, home care
- Lippincott Procedures – Peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) drug administration
- Lippincott Procedures – Safe medication administration practices, general
- Lippincott Procedures – Venipuncture, home care
- Lippincott Procedures – Wound assessment, home care
- Lippincott Procedures – Wound debridement, autolytic and enzymatic, home care
- Lippincott Procedures – Wound dressing application, home care
- Lippincott Procedures – Wound irrigation, home care
Part 1 – The Role of the RN in Home Health
Part 2 – Regulatory Compliance and Documentation
Part 3 – Assessment and Clinical Skills (General, Pain, Safety, Integumentary, and Wounds)
Part 4 – Assessment and Clinical Skills (Respiratory, Cardiac, GU, GI, Neurological and Phychosocial)
Part 5 – Assessment and Clinical Skills (Musculoskeletal, Endocrine, Medication Management, Central Line Care, and Infection Control)
Handouts
Presented by: Lourdes Wiley, MSN, RN
Lourdes has over 20 years of experience as an RN. Her career began in adult and pediatric critical care and included experiences in surgical and medical ICU as well as hematology/oncology. She left the acute care environment in 2006 and has served as a clinician, leader, and educator in home health and hospice settings since that time. She holds a Master’s in Nursing and Healthcare Leadership from Regis University. Lourdes has served as faculty for Nursing programs in the Denver metro area at the LPN, BSN, and ADN levels. She is passionate about education and supporting nurses in delivering quality holistic care to their patients.
For questions or technical difficulties, please call 303-690-2749 or email eg@amityhealthcaregroup.com