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Clinical Skills
This page outlines things related to clinical skills you’ll want to know. Some (but not many) of these skills will only be taught in labs and tutorials but won’t be assessed or be able to perform during clinical placement until further in your degree where its more relevant and within your scope of practice. This page is split into different sections, “Practical Skills and Using Equipment,” “Measuring Vital Signs,” “Medication Administration” and “Checks and Certificates.”
Communication Skills
This page outlines the communication skills you’ll want to know. As much as being a nurse is about being clinical and knowledgable, nurses are the no.1 medical personal that spend the most amount of time with the patients. Its imperative that nurses must be great communicators for this reason, so as to make the patient feel more comfortable and to better diagnose their condition which otherwise could’ve been worsened by misinterpretation. There are of course many professionals that disregard and negelct the importance of having such qualities, deeming them to be less important, its this exact same attitude that leads to a toxic environment, patient abuse/disrespect, patient misdiagnosis and avoidable tragedies. This page is split into two different sections, “Techniques and Barriers” and “Things to Understand.”
Theoretical Knowledge
This page outlines the theoretical and text book knowledge/info you’ll want to know. Its less about the direct skills of being a nurse and more about the other your knowledge of key concepts. This page is split into two sections, “Nursing Profession” which is about professional qualities, as well as different standards and models that nurses must follow, and “Human Bioscience” which is about anatomy, physciology and microbiology required for nurses to know.
Charts and Documentation
This page outlines the writing, documentation, charting and assessements you will be doing. Although its a long list to remember and you will be introduced to every single one of them, some are used a lot more frequently than others, so don’t worry about trying to memorise them all off by heart.
Research and Resources
This page outlines the external and third party resources you’ll want to use and look back to or may find helpful. Its a compilation of wesbites, codes/standards, databases, and lists.
Nursing Study Companion 