Procedures and skills

A smooth-tipped rod that fits inside a tube, such as a tracheostomy tube or cannula, to guide it in and then is taken out.

Closing something off, or sealed so that air and water cannot pass through.

A dressing that seals a wound or site so air and water cannot pass through.

Surgical removal of a tooth.

A greasy, semisolid preparation, often containing a drug, that is spread on the skin, eyes or mucous membranes.

Surgery to remove one or both ovaries.

Putting on sterile gloves without a gown, with bare hands touching only the glove's folded-back inside cuff.

Putting the pieces of a broken bone back into line through a surgical incision, with the fracture exposed and seen directly.

A curved plastic device placed in the mouth over the tongue to keep the tongue from falling back and blocking the throat.

A drink with a set mix of water, salts and sugar, used to replace fluid lost through diarrhea or vomiting.

A needleless syringe used to measure and give liquid medicine by mouth.

Body temperature measured with a thermometer placed under the tongue.

Surgery that fixes a testis in place in the scrotum, most often to bring down a testis that has not descended.

The surgical recovery of organs from a donor for transplant, and the system that arranges it.

Planned surgery that cuts and moves the jaws so the teeth meet properly and the face works and looks better.

Relating to standing upright, or caused by changing to a standing position.

A newborn hip exam in which the examiner gently spreads the bent hips apart to feel whether a dislocated hip slips back into its socket.

A surgically made opening from an inside organ, such as the bowel or urinary tract, through the belly wall to the outside.

A lighted handheld instrument with a cone-shaped tip for looking into the ear canal at the eardrum.

An activity order allowing or telling the client to get up from bed, often written OOB.

Fluid that leaves the body, such as urine, vomit, liquid stool and drainage, which nurses measure and record.

A gas in the air that every cell needs, also given as a medicine at higher amounts than room air.

Giving a person extra oxygen to breathe, above the amount in room air.