Emergency Room Skills Checklist - HealthCare Staffing Network

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Emergency Room Skills Checklist

The purpose of the following checklist is to assist in matching your skills with available assignments in order to meet both your needs and the needs of our client facilities. Please select the appropriate number for each skill level, patient care situation, or type of equipment.

Level of Experience:

Theory, No Practice
Intermittent Experience
One/Two Year Consistent Experience
Able To Teach And Supervise

Name:

Date:

AGE SPECIFIC CARE
Please indicate the level of experience with which you provide care for each age group in this specialty area.

	A	B	C	D
Infant (Birth to 1 year)
Toddler (1-3 years)
Pre-School (3-6 years)
School Age (6-12 years)
Adolescent (12-18 years)
Young Adult (18-30 years)
Mature Adult (30-60 years)
Elderly (>60 years)

SKILLS	A	B	C	D
CARDIOVASCULAR
1. Assessment
Auscultation (rate, rhythm)
Doppler
Heart sounds/murmurs

2. Equipment & Procedures
Assist with insertion set up
Arterial line
Central venous line
PA catheter/Swan-Ganz
Pacemaker
Cardioversion
Interpretation of waveforms & values
A-Line
CVP
Monitoring
Femoral artery sheath removal
MAP
PA/Swan-Ganz
PCW pressure
PVR
Radial a-line
SVO 2/SVR
Intra aortic balloon pump
Monitoring
Basic 12 lead interpretation
Basic arrhythmia interpretation

3. Care of the patient with:
Acute MI
Aneurysm
Angina
Cardiac arrest
Congestive heart failure (CHF)
Myocarditis

4. Medications:
ACLS drugs
Atropine
Bretylium (Bretylol)
Epinephrine (Adrenalin)
Lidocaine (Xylocaine)
Procainamide (Pronestyl)
Sodium bicarbonate
Other
Adenosine (Adenocard)
Amiodarone (Cordarone)
Digoxin (Lanoxin)
Dobutamine (Dobutex)
Dopamine (Intropin)
Esmolol (Brevibloc)
Lasix (Furosemide)
Nitroglycerin (Nipride)
Thrombolytic therapy