Fundamentals of Nursing
The core nursing skills and concepts that form the foundation of everything you do as an LPN/LVN. Pick a topic and start reviewing.
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Each guide covers the most commonly tested Fundamentals content with full explanations, comparison tables, key protocols, and a quick-reference cheatsheet.
Infection Control & Safety
Standard precautions, transmission-based precautions, hand hygiene, sterile technique, PPE, restraints, fire safety (RACE/PASS), and falls prevention.
Medication Administration & Math
Rights of medication administration, routes, injection sites, IV therapy, dosage calculations, controlled substances, and medication errors.
Perioperative & Wound Care
Pre-op, intra-op, and post-op nursing, wound healing stages, pressure injuries (Braden scale), drains, dressings, and dehiscence vs evisceration.
Assessment & Core Skills
Vital signs, pain assessment, positioning, nutrition, tube feedings, documentation, delegation, scope of practice, and body mechanics.
Fluid & Electrolyte Imbalances
Sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, IV fluid types, dehydration vs fluid overload, acid-base balance, and ABG interpretation.
Acid-Base Balance & ABG Interpretation
ROME method, all 4 imbalances with causes and signs, compensation, worked practice scenarios, buffer systems, and clinical connections.
Death, Dying & End-of-Life Care
Kübler-Ross stages of grief, hospice vs palliative care, advance directives, signs of impending death, comfort measures, therapeutic communication, and ethical principles.
Legal & Ethical Nursing
Scope of practice, informed consent, patient rights, HIPAA, malpractice vs negligence, mandatory reporting, incident reports, AMA discharge, and key nursing laws.
Nutrition & Diet Therapy
Therapeutic diets, vitamins and deficiencies, food-drug interactions, dysphagia and aspiration precautions, tube feedings, and total parenteral nutrition (TPN).
Mobility, Immobility & Body Mechanics
Body mechanics, hazards of immobility, pressure injury staging, DVT prevention, positioning, assistive devices, range of motion, and falls prevention.
Oxygenation & Airway Basics
Oxygen delivery devices and flow rates, oxygen safety, suctioning, incentive spirometry, pulse oximetry, ABGs, tracheostomy care, and breath sounds.
Pain Management
Pain types, assessment scales, non-opioid and opioid analgesics, opioid safety and naloxone, adjuvants, non-drug methods, the WHO ladder, and PCA pumps.
Elimination (Bowel & Bladder)
Urine output, incontinence types, catheters and CAUTI prevention, constipation, diarrhea, impaction, enemas, ostomy care, and specimen collection.
Prioritization & Delegation
ABCs and Maslow, stable vs unstable, acute vs chronic, the 5 rights of delegation, RN vs LPN/LVN vs UAP scope of practice, and the test-taking strategy for "who do you see first" questions.
Immunizations
Active vs passive immunity, the childhood and adult vaccine schedules, live-vaccine rules, contraindications vs what's NOT a contraindication, injection sites by age, cold-chain storage, and nursing care with patient teaching.
Test Yourself
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