Skills in Clinical Nursing + Clinical Reasoning

Tracy Levett-Jones is a Distinguished Professor and Head of School in the School of Nursing & Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney. Her program of research focuses on patient safety, empathy, belongingness, clinical reasoning, and simulation. Audrey Berman PHD A San Francisco Bay Area native, Audrey Berman received her BSN from the University of California - San Francisco, and later returned to that campus to obtain her MS in physiological nursing and her PhD in nursing. Her dissertation was entitled Sailing a Course Through Chemotherapy: The Experience of Women with Breast Cancer. As a faculty member, she participated in the transition of that program into a baccalaureate degree and in the development of the Master of Science and Doctor of Nursing Practice programs. Over the years, she has taught a variety of medical-surgical nursing courses in the pre-licensure programs. She currently serves as the Dean of Nursing at Samuel Merritt University. She was the 2014-16 president of the California Association of Colleges of Nursing. Dr Berman authored the scripts for more than 35 nursing skills videotapes in the 1990s. She was a co-author of Fundamentals of Nursing and Skills in Clinical Nursing. Shirlee J. Snyder EDD, RN Dr Snyder moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1990 and taught in the ADN program at Portland Community College for 8 years. During this teaching experience, she presented locally and nationally on topics related to using multimedia in the classroom and promoting ethnic and minority student success. Another career opportunity in 1998 led her to the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Dr Snyder was the nursing program director with responsibilities for the associate degree and practical nursing programs for 5 years. During this time she co-authored Kozier & Erb's Techniques in Clinical Nursing with Audrey Berman. In 2003, Dr Snyder returned to baccalaureate nursing education. She embraced the opportunity to be one of the nursing faculty, teaching the first nursing class in the baccalaureate nursing program at the first state college in Nevada, which opened in 2002. From 2008 to 2012, she was Dean of the School of Nursing at Nevada State College in Henderson, Nevada. She is currently retired.  Dr Snyder enjoyed travelling to the Philippines (Manila and Cebu) in 2009 to present all-day seminars to approximately 5000 nursing students and 200 nursing faculty. She is a member of the American Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau. She has been a site visitor for the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission and the Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges. Trish Burton PhD, BAppSc (Nurse Education), BSc, DipAppSc (Nursing), RN Trish Burton is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing, in the College of Health and Biomedicine, at Victoria University. Her nursing background is in adult intensive care, infectious diseases and emergency nursing. In the nurse academic role, Trish has held many course coordination roles at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has an extensive curriculum development background, and teaches acute care, pharmacology and research.

Clinical Reasoning

Chapter 1 Clinical reasoning: What it is and why it matters
Chapter 2 Caring for a person experiencing an adverse drug reaction
Chapter 3 Caring for a person with fluid and electrolyte imbalance
Chapter 4 Caring for a person experiencing pain
Chapter 5 Caring for a child with type 1 diabetes
Chapter 6 Caring for a person experiencing respiratory distress and hypoxia
Chapter 7 Caring for a person with a cardiac condition
Chapter 8 Caring for a person with an acquired brain injury
Chapter 9 Caring for a person receiving blood component therapies
Chapter 10 Caring for a person with sepsis
Chapter 11 Caring for a person with substance dependence and complex post-traumatic distress syndrome
Chapter 12 Caring for a person with Parkinson's disease
Chapter 13 Caring for a person experiencing an acute psychotic episode
Chapter 14 Caring for an older person with altered cognition
Chapter 15 Caring for a young person with a disability
Chapter 16 Caring for a person requiring palliative care
Chapter 17 Caring for a person who is refusing treatment

Skills in Clinical Reasoning

Unit 1 Infection Control
Unit 2 Safe patient moving
Unit 3 Health Assessment
Unit 4 Hygiene Care
Unit 5 Skin and Wound Care
Unit 6 Medication administration
Unit 7 Pain Management
Unit 8 Perioperative nursing skills
Unit 9 Gastrointestinal nursing skills
Unit 10 Genitourinary nursing skill
Unit 11 Cardiovascular nursing skills
Unit 12 Respiratory nursing skills
Unit 13 Neurological nursing skills
Unit 14 Mental health nursing skills

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