Description
The following clinical nursing and patient care skills and competencies can be trained and evaluated:
Patient and personal care:
- Transfer skills: lifting, carrying, and moving a patient
- Bed care of a patient
- Position changing and alignment of a patient
- Bathing a patient (genital care)
- Hair care (washing, combing, drying)
- Care and cleaning of eyes, ears and nose
- Personal hygiene and mouth denture care (partially removable prosthesis)
- Bandaging (includes amputation stump)
- Wound treatment and care (surgical staple seam, laceration and abrasions)
- Communication skills, especially step by step explanation of care measures
Medical care:
- Prevention of bedsores (Decubitus)
- Decubitus evaluation (stages 2-4)
- Decubitus care
- Prevention of muscle cramps
- Prevention of pneumonia
- Prevention of blood clots (Thromboses)
- Prevention of healthcare associated infection (HAI) by measures of medical asepsis and clean techniques
- Inhalation therapy
- Oxygen inhalation
- Use of ventilation bag (mouth to mouth and mouth to nose)
- Artificial respiration, oxygen treatment
- Care of tracheostomy
- Care of Diabetic Foot Syndrome (DFS)
- Ostomy care (colostomy)
- Irrigation of eyes and ears
- Intramuscular injections (buttocks)
- Subcutaneous injections (upper arms and thighs)
- Subcutaneous infusionsThe Basic version does not include removable organs which the PRO does. PRO Removable organs has the additional patient care training features:
- Enema administration
- Male catheterization
- Female catheterization
- Gastric (stomach) lavage
- Intestinal irrigation
- Irrigation of the bladder
- Irrigation of the vagina
- Medical simulation training in healthcare:
- Training with the 3B Scientific® Patient Care Manikin PRO meets the OBRA requirements of Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Programs (NATCEP).
