Registered Nurse Refresher Program
Module 1: Nursing in Idaho Today
Legal aspects of nursing practice, accountability, and responsibility to clients and employers, professional standards, trends and issues in education, expanding roles and practice.
Module 2: Basic Skills Checklist A pre-work assessment of basic nursing skills to assist the nurse in determining learning needs.
Module 3: Patient Assessment Nursing examination and evaluation of patient’s physical and psychosocial status.
Module 4: Nursing Care Plans and Documentation Nursing histories, care plans, problem-oriented recording, nursing audits.
Module 5: Diagnostic Tests Update on laboratory testing techniques, patient preparation, and results.
Module 6: Intravenous Therapy Venipuncture techniques, fluid and electrolyte review, I.V. solutions and equipment, nursing care.
Module 7: Pharmacology Drug therapy, drug category review, preparation and administration, nursing role, legal aspects.
Licensed Practical Nurse Program
Module 1: Nursing in Idaho Today
Module 2: Anatomy and Physiology
Module 3: Skills for the LPN
Module 4: The Nursing Process
Module 5: Medication Administration
Module 6: Diagnostic Tests
Module 7: Geriatric Nursing
Module 8: Stress Management and Human Sexuality
Module 9: Patient Care Scenarios
Suggested Text for the RN Refresher Course
The RN Refresher course suggests the purchase of the latest version of the Lippincott Manual Of Nursing Practice by Sandra M. Nettina.
These books are available in bookstores or can be purchased online.
Purchase the Lippincott Manual of Nursing Practice online at Amazon
Please submit your questions about the Nurse Refresher Program to nurserefresher@nurseleaders.org