Procedures and skills

Surgery that reattaches the torn labrum and capsule to the front rim of the shoulder socket (glenoid) to stop repeated shoulder dislocations.

A newborn hip exam in which the examiner brings the bent hip inward and presses gently back to feel whether it slips out of its socket.

A starting measurement or the client's usual state, used to compare later findings against.

The first emergency care for someone whose heart or breathing has stopped or is failing: CPR, AED use and relief of choking.

An order that the client stays in bed, with any allowed activity spelled out by the provider.

IV regional anesthesia: local anesthetic injected into a vein of a limb that has been emptied of blood and closed off with a tourniquet.

A technique in which a person uses readings from sensors to learn to control body functions such as muscle tension or heart rate.

Taking a small sample of tissue from the body so it can be looked at under a microscope.

Bilevel positive airway pressure: breathing support through a mask that gives one pressure on breathing in and a lower one on breathing out.

A quick bedside ultrasound that measures how much urine is in the bladder.

The force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries, written as systolic over diastolic in mm Hg.

Any part of donated blood prepared for transfusion, such as red cells, plasma or platelets.

Giving blood, or a part of blood, from a donor into a person's vein.

An abbreviation for bone marrow transplant, which replaces damaged marrow with healthy blood-forming stem cells, or for bilateral myringotomy with tubes.

Messages sent without words, through posture, gestures, facial expression, eye contact and movement.

Using the body in a safe, efficient way when lifting, moving and carrying, to prevent injury.

The degree of heat of the body, measured with a thermometer as one of the vital signs.

A single amount of a drug or fluid given all at once or over a short time.

Surgery to remove a section of the small or large intestine.

A gurgling or clicking sound made by gas and fluid moving through the intestines, heard with a stethoscope.

Keeping every instrument and supply that touches open bowel apart from the clean setup, to stop bowel bacteria spreading to the wound.

Radiation treatment in which a radioactive source is placed inside the body, in or right next to a tumor.

A scoring tool that rates a client's risk of developing a pressure injury.

Surgery that enlarges or reshapes the breast with an implant placed under the breast tissue or the pectoralis muscle.

A practiced way of breathing used to expand the lungs, move air better or relax.

A lighted viewing instrument passed through the mouth or nose and down the trachea to look inside the airway, take samples or remove an object.

A procedure in which a thin, lighted tube with a camera is passed through the nose or mouth to look inside the airways.