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Telementry Skills Checklist

A Tribute To Nurses
 

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:

  1. Theory, No Practice
  2. Intermittent Experience
  3. One/Two Year Consistent Experience
  4. Very Experienced, Able to Perform Without Supervision
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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)
  Heart sounds/murmurs
  Pulses/circulation checks
2. Interpretation of lab results        
  Cardiac enzymes/isoenzymes
  Coagulation studies
3. Equipment & Procedures        
  Monitoring/telemetry
  Arrhythmia interpretation
  Basic 12 lead interpretation
  Lead placement: 5 electrode tele
  Lead placement: I, III, V- leads
  Lead placement: II and MCL
Pacemaker        
  Permanent
  Temporary epicardial wires
  Temporary external pacing
  Temporary transvenous
Assist with        
  Arterial line insertion
  Central line insertion
Hemodynamic monitoring        
  A-line (radial)
  CVP monitoring
  Femoral artery sheath removal
  Swan-Ganz
Perform        
  Controlled Cardioversion
  Emergency defibrillation
4. Care of patient with:        
  abdominal aortic bypass
  Aneurysm
  Angina
  Cardiac arrest 
  Cardiomyopathy
  Carotid endarterectomy
  Congestive heart failure (CHF)
  Femoral-popliteal bypass
  Post acute MI (24-48 hours)
  Post angioplasty
  Post arthrectomy (DCA)
  Post CABG (24 hours)
  Post cardiac cath
  Post stent placement
Medications        
  Atropine
  Bretylium (Bretylol)
  Cardizem (diltazem hydrochloride)
  Digoxin (Lanoxin)
  Dopamine (Intropin)
  Epinephrine (Adrenalin)
  Heparin
  Lidocaine (Xylocaine)
  Nipride ( Nitroprusside)
  Nitroglycerine (Tridil)
  Oral anticoagulants
  Oral & IVP antihypertensives
  Oral & topical nitrates
  Verapamil (Calan, Isoptin, Verelan)
 
PULMONARY        
1. Assessment        
  Breath sounds
  Breathing patterns
2. Interpretation of lab results        
  Arterial blood gases
  Blood chemistry
3. Equipment & Procedures        
  Assist with intubation
  Assist with thoracentesis
Care of airway management devises/suctioning        
  Endotracheal tube/suctioning
  Nasal airway suctioning
  Oropharyngeal/suctioning
  Oximetry
  Sputum specimen collections
  Tracheostomy/suctioning
Care of patient on ventilator        
  Extubation
  Weaning modes
Care of patient with test tube        
  Assist with set-up & insertion
  Mediastinal tube removal
  Pleural tube removal
  Use of Pleurevac or Thoraclex
  Use of water seal drainage system
  Chest Physiotherapy
  Establishing an airway
  Incentive spirometry
0˛ therapy & Medication delivery systems        
  Ambu bag and mask 
  ET tube
  External CPAP
  Face Masks
  Inhalers
  Nasal Cannula
  Portable 0˛ tank
  Tracheostomy
  Transtracheal Csnnulation
  Oral airway insertion
4. Care of patient with:        
  ARDS
  Bronchoscopy
  Fresh Tracheostomy
  Lobectomy
  Pneumonectomy
  Pneumonia
  Pulmonary edema
  Pulmonary embolism
  Status asthmaticus
  Thoracotomy
5. Medications        
  Alupent (Metaproterenol sulfate)
  Aminophylline (Theophylline)
  Bronkosol (Isoetharine hydrochloride)
  Corticosteroids
  Ventolin (Albuterol)
 
NEUROLOGICAL        
1. Assessment        
  Cerebellar function
  Cranial nerves
  Glasgow coma scale
  Level of consciousness
  Pathologic reflexes
2. Equipment and procedures        
  Assist with lumbar puncture
  Halo traction
  Nerve stimulator
  Rotation bed
  Seizure precautions
  Use of hyper/hypothermia blanket
3. Care of patients with:        
  Aneurysm precautions
  Basal skull fracture
  Closed head injury
  Coma
  CVA
  Encephalitis
  Externalized VP stunts
  Meningitis
  Multiple sclerosis
  Neuromuscular disease
  Post craniotomy
  Seizures
  Spinal cord injury
4. Medications         
  Carbamazepine
  Carbidopa-Levodopa (Sinemet)
  Clonazepam (Klonopin)
  Decadron (Dexamethasone)
  Dilantin (Phenytoin)
  Lorazepam (Ativan)
  Methylprednisolone (Solu-Medrol)
  Phenobarbital
  Valium (Diazepam)
 
GASTROINTESTINAL        
1. Assessment        
  Abdominal/bowel sounds
  Fluid balance
  Nutritional
2. Equipment & Procedures        
  Administration of tube feeding 
  Feeding pump
  Gravity feeding
  Flexible feeding tube (i.e.,Corpak,Dobhoff)
  Placement of nasogastric tube
  Salem sump to suction 
  Saline lavage
3. Management of         
  Gastrostomy tube
  Jejunostomy tube
  PPN (peripheral parenteral nutrition)
  TPN and lipids administration
  T-tube
4. Care of patient with:         
  Bowel obstruction
  Colostomy
  ERCP
  Esophageal bleeding
  GI Bleeding 
  GI surgery 
  Hepatitis
  Ileostomy
  Inflammatory bowel disease
  Liver Failure
  Liver transplant