Nursing Soft Skills Are:
Communication: Effective verbal and written communication with patients, families, and healthcare team members.
Empathy: Understanding and sharing the feelings of patients and their families, providing compassionate care.
Problem-Solving: Assessing situations, identifying problems, and implementing solutions in patient care.
Adaptability: Adjusting to changing patient needs, environments, and healthcare practices.
Patient Education: Teaching patients and families about health conditions, treatments, and care strategies.
Time Management: Prioritizing tasks and managing time effectively to provide timely care to patients.
Attention to Detail: Carefully observe patients, accurately document care, and notice changes in condition.
The nurse is here to provide you a high-quality, personalized care, addressing both the physical and emotional needs of their patients. To ensure patient safety, promote recovery, and enhance the quality of life for those under nurse care.
Nursing Clinical Skills Are:
Clinical Decision-Making: This involves the assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care, requiring clinical knowledge and technical proficiency.
Vital Signs Monitoring: Checking and interpreting blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and temperature.
Medication Administration: Safe administration of medications via various routes (oral, topical, intravenous, intramuscular, subcutaneous).
Post-surgical Care (monitoring recovery, managing surgical wounds)
Wound Care: Managing different types of wounds, including surgical incisions, pressure ulcers, and traumatic wounds, applying dressings, and preventing infections.
Gastrostomy (G Tube) Care: Managing feeding tubes for patients who cannot take food orally, ensuring the tube's patency, and preventing infections.
Nasogastric (NG) Tube Management: Inserting, maintaining, and removing NG tubes for feeding or medication administration.
Tracheostomy Care: Cleaning and maintaining a tracheostomy tube, assisting with breathing, and preventing infections.
Suctioning: Oral and tracheal suctioning to clear airway secretions.
Catheter Care: Inserting, maintaining, and removing urinary catheters and ensuring urinary hygiene.
Injections and IV Therapy: IV port dressing care, managing IV lines, and monitoring for complications.
Ostomy Care: Managing colostomies, ileostomies, and urostomies, changing bags, and skin care around the ostomy site.
Mobility Assistance: Techniques to safely move, transfer, and position patients to prevent bedsores and maintain mobility.
Blood Glucose Monitoring: Using glucometers to monitor blood sugar levels in diabetic patients and administering insulin as needed.
Oxygen Therapy: Administering oxygen and managing equipment like concentrators, cylinders, and CPAP/BiPAP machines.
Basic Life Support (BLS)/Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR): Providing emergency intervention to maintain breathing and circulation.
Clinical Documentation: involves accurately recording patient interactions, treatments, and health outcomes in their charts.