Nursing: P
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- Pain assessment scales: numeric, visual analogue, faces, behavioural (FLACC) and in dementiaVital signs and assessment · Assessment
- Pain in children: procedural and postoperative pain, sucrose, topical anaesthesia, distraction and reassessmentPaediatric nursing · Safe practice
- Pain relief in labour: support, non-drug methods and the nursing checks for neuraxial analgesiaMaternal and child nursing · Safe practice
- Palliative and end-of-life care for children and their familiesPaediatric nursing · Fundamental
- Parenteral nutrition: line care, glucose checks, refeeding risk and monitoringMedical–surgical nursing · Procedure
- Parkinson's disease: medicine timing, falls, swallowing and communicationMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
- Patient education and teach-backThe nursing process and documentation · Safe practice
- Patient positions: Fowler, supine, lateral, prone and othersMobility and comfort · Safe practice
- Patient safety in Colombia: the policy and its instructional packagesPatient safety · Fundamental
- Patient-controlled and epidural analgesia: the nursing checksMedications and dose calculation · Safe practice
- Patients on anticoagulants: bleeding watch, monitoring tests, interactions and teachingMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
- Patients with a pacemaker or ICD: care after implant, wound and arm care, device teachingMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
- People who live on the street (habitantes de calle): health risks and how to reach themFamily and community nursing · Safe practice
- Peptic ulcer and reflux: teaching, medicines and the warning signs of perforationMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
- Perinatal mental health: screening, baby blues, depression and psychosis, and when to callMaternal and child nursing · Assessment
- Peripheral artery disease and acute limb ischaemia: limb checks, positioning and foot careMedical–surgical nursing · Safe practice
- Peripheral IV therapy in children: sites, securement, pumps and fluid-overload riskPaediatric nursing · Procedure
- Peritoneal dialysis: exchanges, the exit site and the signs of peritonitisMedical–surgical nursing · Procedure
- Personality disorders: consistent limits, self-harm, splitting and team consistencyMental health and psychiatric nursing · Safe practice
- Pharmacovigilance and technovigilance: what nurses reportCare management · Safe practice
- Physical restraints: a last resort and their safe usePatient safety · Safe practice
- Planning a community health programme: needs, priorities, objectives and the logic modelFamily and community nursing · Safe practice
- Planning care: priorities, measurable goals and interventionsThe nursing process and documentation · Fundamental
- Planning, running and evaluating a health-education session or groupFamily and community nursing · Safe practice
- Pneumothorax, haemothorax and rib fractures on the ward: what to watch and when to callMedical–surgical nursing · Assessment
- Population-based nursing: caring for individuals, families, communities and systemsFamily and community nursing · Fundamental
- Post-intensive care syndrome: prevention, ICU diaries and follow-up for the patient and familyCritical care · Fundamental
- Postoperative care on the ward: the first 24–48 hoursPerioperative nursing · Safe practice
- Postoperative complications: recognising them and when to callPerioperative nursing · Assessment
- Postpartum discharge: self-care, warning signs, contraception and the follow-up visitMaternal and child nursing · Safe practice
- Postpartum haemorrhage: prevention in the third stage, estimating blood loss, fundal massage and Colombia's Código RojoMaternal and child nursing · Safe practice
- Preconception care: risk review, family history, supplements, vaccines and planning a pregnancyMaternal and child nursing · Safe practice
- Preeclampsia and eclampsia: monitoring, magnesium sulphate checks, care during a seizure and warning signsMaternal and child nursing · Safe practice
- Prenatal care: the nursing visit and warning signsMaternal and child nursing · Fundamental
- Prenatal education: nutrition and weight gain, common discomforts, healthy habits and the preparation course for birth and parenthoodMaternal and child nursing · Safe practice
- Prenatal risk assessment: obstetric and biopsychosocial risk, and when the nurse refersMaternal and child nursing · Assessment
- Preoperative care: assessment, teaching, fasting, skin preparation and the checklistPerioperative nursing · Safe practice
- Preparing a child for procedures and surgery: therapeutic play, comfort holding and consentPaediatric nursing · Safe practice
- Preparing parenteral medication: ampoules, vials and reconstitutionMedications and dose calculation · Procedure
- Pressure injury stagingPatient safety · Assessment
- Preventing falls: risk assessment and measuresPatient safety · Safe practice
- Preventing healthcare-associated infections: the care bundlesInfection prevention and control · Safe practice
- Preventing injuries by age, and safe sleep for infantsPaediatric nursing · Safe practice
- Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and Chagas (ETMI-plus): tests, timing and follow-upMaternal and child nursing · Safe practice
- Preventing pressure injuries: risk scales, repositioning and skin carePatient safety · Safe practice
- Primary health care (APS): Alma-Ata, Astana and Colombia's APS strategyFamily and community nursing · Fundamental
- Promoting sleep in hospitalAdult health and psychosocial care · Safe practice
- Prone positioning: the team, the turn, protecting tubes, eyes and pressure pointsCritical care · Procedure
- Psychiatric and mental-health nursing: roles, settings, levels of care and the nursing processMental health and psychiatric nursing · Fundamental
- Psychoeducation and nurse-led groups: families, relaxation, assertiveness and social skillsMental health and psychiatric nursing · Safe practice
- Psychological first aid after disasters, violence and crisesFamily and community nursing · Safe practice
- Psychosocial care for victims of Colombia's armed conflict (Ley 1448 de 2011, PAPSIVI)Mental health and psychiatric nursing · Fundamental
- Psychotropic medicines: what the nurse assesses, monitors and teaches (no doses)Mental health and psychiatric nursing · Safe practice
- Public health nursing interventions: surveillance, case finding, outreach, screening, referral, advocacy and moreFamily and community nursing · Fundamental
- Pulse oximetry at the bedside: placement and pitfallsVital signs and assessment · Assessment
- Putting on and taking off personal protective equipmentInfection prevention and control · Procedure
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