Laboratory Practical Skills (Part 2)

This is the second of the practical skills courses which prepares the LPN student to give client care in clinical practice. With the emphasis on safe client care, this skills course includes communication techniques with babies and children and skills in dealing with women during pregnancy, labor and delivery and postpartum care. Additionally, the LPN will learn how to take and record vital signs in babies and children, take a urinary sample from a baby or child, demonstrate understanding of interactive play in children and how to manage a baby/child emergency. Further skills include how to administer IV medication, medication via an N/G or PEG tube, exhibit safety in blood transfusion administration and demonstrate how to insert a female urinary catheter. Medication administration of opioids is also addressed together with storage and checking of controlled substances.

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