CON Student Use of Clinically Related Lab Supplies and Equipment: Difference between revisions

1. Consumable supplies are disposable, one-use devices, such as syringes, needles, glucose test strips, nasogastric tubes and urinary catheters.

2. Equipment is a durable, non-disposable device such as injection pad, blood glucose meter, sphygmomanometer, intravenous infusion pump, scale and feeding pump.

3. Invasive procedures/skills are such things as subcutaneous or intramuscular injections, intravenous needle insertions, nasogastric tube insertions, urinary catheter insertions.

4. Non-invasive procedures are such things as blood pressure measurement and assessment of lung sounds, bowel sounds, neurological status, eyes and ears.