Psychiatric Nursing Skills Checklist
Skills Checklist are available for registered candidates.
The following checklist is used to assess your
experience and skills and help your Nurse Advisor place you in the
proper assignment. Please provide a self-assessment of your skills using
the following guidelines.
1 No experience
2 Require training
3 Have performed this task and able to perform without supervision
4 Most experienced and able to perform independently
5 Able to teach and supervise
Psychiatric Care |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Admission of the Psychiatric Patient | |||||
| Adolescent Patients | |||||
| Assaultive Patient | |||||
| Behavioristic Charting | |||||
| Crisis Intervention | |||||
| Detoxification Therapy | |||||
| Discharge Planning | |||||
| Eating Disorders | |||||
| Electroconvulsive Therapy | |||||
| Group Psychotherapy | |||||
| Hallucinatory Patient | |||||
| Isolation | |||||
| Locked Ward | |||||
| Manic-Depressive Patient | |||||
| Milieu Therapy | |||||
| Multi-Disciplinary Staffing | |||||
| Nursing Assessment and Care Plan | |||||
| Open Ward | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Overdose Patient | |||||
| Rapid Tranquilization | |||||
| Schizophrenic Patient | |||||
| Seizure Disorders | |||||
| Seizure Precautions | |||||
| Substance Abuse | |||||
| Suicidal Patient |
General Nursing Care |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Insertion of a Foley Catheter | |||||
| NG Tube Feeding | |||||
| Neuro Signs | |||||
| Oxygen Administration | |||||
| CPR | |||||
| Starting IV Therapy | |||||
| Heparin Locks | |||||
| Hanging Blood and Blood Products | |||||
| Hyperalimentation/TPN | |||||
| Obtaining Venous Blood Sample | |||||
| Infusion Pumps | |||||
| TYPES: | |||||
| Diabetic Patient Care | |||||
| Oncology Patient | |||||
Specialized Nursing Care |
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| Pediatrics | |||||
| OB-GYN-L&D | |||||
| Medical/Surgical | |||||
| Neurosurgery | |||||
| ICU/CCU | |||||
| Telemetry | |||||
| OR | |||||
| ER | |||||
| Other (please specify below) | |||||
