First-year nursing school practical skills:

• Conduct admission and care anamnesis consultation

• Enter and maintain electronic patient documentation

• Care for patient nail, skin, hair, body, and personal hygiene, as well as oral, dental, and denture hygiene

• Take vital signs, measurements, and body temperature

• Prepare and administer medication in various forms

• Inject medication into the subcutaneous and intramuscular layers of the patient’s body

• Bandage and compress body parts

• Prevent pressure sores

• Monitor breathing

• Prevent airway obstruction and pneumonia

• Conduct inhalation

• Collect blood

• Administer infusion

• Mobilize patient in a wheelchair, utilize patient lifter

• Provide appropriate walking aid

• Handle and care for infants

• Engage in age- and development-appropriate activities with patients

• Use ergonomic and back-friendly movement and kinesthetics concepts in daily work