Posted 25 March 2020 - 16:19
Posted 25 March 2020 - 16:19
Evidence and Practice
COVID-19 clinical resource for the temporary register
A free clinical resource for nurses and student nurses on the COVID-19 temporary register, including evidence-based and peer-reviewed learning modules and articles
Please note that these articles have been selected from our COVID-19 clinical resource for nurses, so some articles and learning modules appear in both resources
These evidence-based articles and learning modules address the care issues that we are seeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and recap upon the essential nursing skills required. Written by clinical experts, they will support anyone entering the COVID-19 temporary register such as colleagues in their final student placement or nurses volunteering to return to clinical practice.
Always practice in line with the NMC Code and other regulatory requirements, your scope of practice and level of competence.
Disclaimer: Please note that information provided by RCNi and RCNi Learning is not sufficient to ensure competence in the skill. Assessment of competence should take place in line with local practice. Practice should always align with local protocols and procedures, latest guidelines and any regulatory Code.
Clinical articles
- Use of personal protective equipment in nursing practice
- Effective infection prevention and control: the nurse's role
- Using the ABCDE approach to assess the deteriorating patient
- Overview of the incidence, early identification and management of sepsis
- Undertaking an accurate and comprehensive assessment of the acutely ill adult
- How to inform relatives and loved ones of a patient's death
- Understanding the principles and aims of intravenous fluid therapy
- How to undertake oral medicines calculations
- How to undertake venepuncture to obtain venous blood samples
- How to assist in emergency tracheal intubation
- How to record a 12-lead electrocardiogram (ECG)
- How to undertake intravenous infusion calculations
- Assessing and documenting fluid balance
RCNi Learning modules
- How to effectively wash your hands
- Reducing medication errors in nursing practice
- How to care for a patient after death in hospital
- An evidence-based approach to subcutaneous injection technique
- How to insert a peripheral cannula
- How to administer an enema
- How to administer suppositories
- How to insert a nasogastric tube and ensure safe positioning