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APN Elsevier Skills

Below are links to Advanced Practice Nursing skills from Elsevier!

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Arterial Catheter Radial Insertion: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert a radial arterial line. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Arthrocentesis and Intraarticular Injection: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to perform arthrocentesis and intraarticular injection. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Artificial Rupture of Membranes: Advanced Practice (Maternal-Newborn)
This skill describes how to perform an amniotomy (artificial rupture of the amniotic membranes). This skill is performed by an APRN.
Bone Marrow Biopsy and Aspiration: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to perform a bone marrow biopsy and aspiration. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Cardiac Output: Esophageal Monitoring: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert, reposition, and remove an esophageal probe for monitoring cardiac output. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Central Venous Catheter Insertion: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert a central venous catheter. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Cervical Ripening and Labor Induction: Mechanical Methods: Advanced Practice (Maternal-Newborn)
This skill describes nonpharmacologic (mechanical) methods for cervical ripening and labor induction, including amniotomy, balloons, and hygroscopic dilators. These procedures are performed by an APRN.
Chest Tube Insertion: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert a large-bore chest tube in a neonate. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Chest Tube Insertion: Advanced Practice (Neonatal)
This skill describes how to insert a large-bore chest tube in a neonate. This procedure is performed by an APRN
Chest Tube Insertion Pigtail Catheter: Advanced Practice (Neonatal)
This skill describes using a modified Seldinger method to insert a chest tube in a neonate. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Determination of Death: Advanced Practice
This skill describes the process for determining death. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Emergent Sternotomy and Internal Defibrillation: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to perform an emergency sternotomy and internal defibrillation on a postoperative cardiac surgery patient with a medial sternotomy. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Endotracheal Tube Extubation and Tracheostomy Tube Decannulation: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to remove an endotracheal tube or a tracheostomy tube. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Endotracheal Tube Intubation: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to intubate a patient with an endotracheal tube via direct laryngoscopy. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Epistaxis: Anterior Packing: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert anterior packing for tamponade to control bleeding in the anterior nasal cavity. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Epistaxis: Electrical and Chemical Cautery: Advanced Practice
This skill describes methods to control anterior nosebleeds through the application of chemicals or electricity. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Epistaxis: Insertion of Balloon Catheters: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert and inflate a balloon catheter for tamponade to control bleeding in the anterior or posterior portion of the nasal passageway. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Epistaxis: Posterior Packing: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert posterior packing for tamponade to control bleeding from the sphenopalatine artery. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Escharotomy: Advanced Practice
This skill explains the steps the practitioner follows to perform an escharotomy in the emergency department. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Fluorescein Staining of Eyes: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to use fluorescein stain (with or without an illuminated biomicroscope) to detect epithelial defects of the eye. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST)
Incision and Drainage: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to perform an incision and drainage of skin and soft tissue abscesses. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Intracompartmental Pressure Measurement: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to measure intracompartmental pressure using a compartmental pressure monitoring system or an arterial pressure monitoring system. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Lumbar Puncture: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to perform a lumbar puncture, obtain a cerebrospinal fluid sample, and measure cerebrospinal fluid pressure. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Lumbar Puncture: Advanced Practice (Neonatal)
This skill describes how to perform a lumbar puncture on a neonatal patient. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Needle Thoracostomy
This skill describes how to perform a needle thoracostomy. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Ophthalmic Foreign Body Removal: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to remove a foreign body from the cornea or conjunctiva and how to prevent ocular damage or vision loss caused by a foreign body. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Pacing: Temporary Transvenous Pacing Lead Insertion: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert a temporary transvenous pacing lead for a transvenous pacemaker. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Paracentesis: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to perform abdominal paracentesis. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Pericardiocentesis: Advanced Practice
This skill describes the insertion of a peripheral arterial line in a neonatal patient. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Peripheral Arterial Line Placement: Advanced Practice (Neonatal)
This skill describes the insertion of a peripheral arterial line in a neonatal patient. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Peritoneal Lavage: Diagnostic: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to perform diagnostic peritoneal lavage. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Pulmonary Artery Catheter Insertion: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert a pulmonary artery catheter. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Specimen Collection from Urinary Bladder Aspiration: Advanced Practice (Neonatal)
This skill describes obtaining a urine specimen from a neonate using bladder aspiration. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Thoracentesis: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to perform thoracentesis. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Thoracentesis: Advanced Practice (Neonatal)
This skill describes how to perform a thoracentesis on a neonate. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Thoracic Vent Insertion and Removal: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert a thoracic vent, evacuate air, drain fluid, initiate continuous suction, check for an air leak, and remove a thoracic vent. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Tonometry: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to measure intraocular pressure with a tonometer. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Umbilical Vessel Catheter Insertion: Advanced Practice (Neonatal)
This skill describes how to place an umbilical catheter in a critically ill neonatal patient. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Urinary Catheter: Suprapubic Insertion: Advanced Practice
This skill describes how to insert a suprapubic catheter using either the Seldinger technique or the peel-away trocar technique. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Venous Cutdown: Advanced Practice
This skill discusses how to perform surgical venous cannulation for IV fluid administration. This procedure is performed by an APRN.
Wound Closure: Advanced Practice
This skill describes different techniques of wound closure. This procedure is performed by an APRN.