Advanced Practice Nursing Procedures

SECTION ONE: DERMATOLOGIC PROCEDURES
Diagnostic Testing
1 Punch Biopsy
2 Skin Biopsy
3 Wood's Light Examination
Procedures
4 Abscesses--Incision and Drainage: Furuncle, Felon, Paronychia, Pilonidal Cyst, Perianal Cyst
5 Bites - Ants, Arthropods (spiders), Bees, and Wasps
6 Bites - Cats, Dogs, and Humans
7 Burns - Debridement
8 Digital Nerve Block
9 Fishhook Removal
10 Nail Removal
11 Ring Removal
12 Sebaceous Cyst Removal
13 Skin Closure - Dermabond Application
14 Skin Lesion Removal - Cautery and Cryosurgery
15 Skin Lesion Removal - Keloids, Moles, Corns, Calluses
16 Skin Tag (Acrochordon) Removal
17 Soft Tissue Aspiration
18 Staple Insertion
19 Staple Removal
20 Steri-Strip Application
21 Subungual Hematoma Excision
22 Suture Insertion
23 Suture Selection
24 Suture Removal
25 Tick Removal
26 Topical Hemostatic Agent Application
27 Ulcer Debridement
SECTION TWO: MUSCULOSKELETAL PROCEDURES
Diagnostic Testing
28 Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy
29 X-ray Interpretation - Bones
Procedures
30 Arthrocentesis
31 Compartment Syndrome Assessment
32 Clavicle Immobilization Techniques - Clavicle Strap, Figure Eight, Sling and Swath
33 Crutch Walking
34 Dislocation Reduction
35 Ganglion Cyst Aspiration and Injection
36 Intra-Articular and Bursa Corticosteroid Injection
37 Sling Application
38 Splinting and Taping
39 Trigger Point Injection
SECTION THREE: GENITOURINARY AND BREAST PROCEDURES
Diagnostic Testing
40 Breast Biopsy - Fine Needle Aspiration
41 Breast Examination
42 Colposcopy - Endocervical Curettage and Cervical Biopsy
43 Endometrial Biopsy
44 Specimen Collection - Gram's Stain, Wet Mount (Saline and KOH)
45 Specimen Collection - Papanicolaou (Pap) Smear
Procedures
46 Administration of Vaginal Medications and Condoms
47 Bartholin Cyst Abscess - Incision and Drainage
48 Cervical Cap Fitting, Insertion, and Removal
49 Cervical Lesions - Cryotherapy
50 Condyloma Acuminata Removal
51 Diaphragm Fitting, Insertion, and Removal
52 IUD Fitting, Insertion, and Removal
53 Nexplanon Insertion
54 Nexplanon Removal
55 Paracervical Nerve Block
56 Pessary Insertion
57 Vaginal Examination
SECTION FOUR: OBSTETRICAL PROCEDURES
58 At-Risk Fetal Assessment - Third Trimester Testing
59 Leopold’s Maneuver
60 Fundal Assessment
61 Obstetric Ultrasound
62 Emergency Delivery
63 Teaching Breastfeeding

SECTION FIVE: HEAD – EYES, EARS, NOSE, AND MOUTH
Diagnostic Testing
64 Audiometry Testing
65Tympanometry
66Visual Function Evaluation - Snellen, Illiterate E, Pictorial
Procedures-Eyes
67Corneal Abrasion and Foreign Body Removal - Eye
68Eye Drop Insertion
69Eye Irrigation
70Eye Trauma Stabilization
71 Eyebrow Laceration Repair
72 Eyelid Eversion
Procedures--Ears/Nose
73 Auricular Hematoma Evacuation
74 Cerumen Impaction Removal - Irrigation of the Ear and Curette Technique
75 Epistaxis Control
76 Laryngoscopy - Indirect and Direct Flexible
77 Nasal Lavage (Irrigation)
78 Removal of Foreign Body - Ear and nose
Procedures--Mouth
79 Frenotomy for Ankyloglossia
80 Lip Laceration Repair
81 Tongue Laceration Repair
82 Tooth Avulsion and Fracture
SECTION SIX: CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES
Diagnostic Testing
83 Doppler Technique
84 Electrocardiogram (EKG) Interpretation
85 Electrocardiogram (EKG) Lead Placement
86 Holter Monitor Application - Continuous 24-hr Ambulatory Cardiac Monitoring
87 Stress Testing (Stress EKG)
88 Type of Pacemakers
Procedures
89 Arterial Puncture
90 Blood Culture Specimen Collection
91 Central Venous Catheter Access (Portacath)
92 Defibrillation
93 Unna's Boot Application
94 Venipuncture
SECTION SEVEN: RESPIRATORY PROCEDURES

Diagnostic Testing
95 Aerosol/Inhalation Administration (Nebulizer)
96 Assessing Respiratory Distress
97 Peak Flowmeter
98 Pulmonary Function Testing (Spirometry)
99 Pulmonary Stress Test-Simple
100 X-ray Interpretation - Chest
Procedures
101 Chest Tubes for Emergency Transport
102 Flail Chest Stabilization - With or Without Open Chest Wound
103 Stab/Penetrating Wound Stabilization
SECTION EIGHT: GASTROINTESTINAL PROCEDURES
Diagnostic Testing
104 Anoscopy
105 Hemoccult
106 Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
107 Urea Breath Test
108 X-ray Interpretation - Abdominal
Procedures
109 Gastric Lavage
110 Inguinal Hernia Reduction
111 Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tube Reinsertion
112 Perianal Skin Tags/External Hemorrhoidal Skin Tags
113 Pilonidal Cyst/Abscess Incision and Drainage (I & D)
114 Prostate Massage
115 Rectal Prolapse Reduction
116 Thrombosed Hemorrhoid Removal
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