LPN 103 — Lab Prac Skills/Inf Cont (P1)
The first of the practical skills courses which prepares the LPN student for client care in clinical practice. With the emphasis on safe client care, this skills course includes effective and ineffective communication techniques with relatives, patients and the multidisciplinary team, adults with special needs and mental health conditions daily hygiene care of an adult patient, assisting with nutrition and hydration, elimination. Basic life support and management of clients in an emergency is included in this skills course. Additionally, the LPN will learn how to monitor and document vital signs, blood sugar and collect urine and stool samples.