Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing
The Nurse's Toolkit
What You'll Learn
- Learn critical life-saving techniques for patient care
- Use patient case studies for assessment, evaluation, and treatment
- Use augmented reality to visualize and compare types of airway complications and fractures
6 Modules
18 Hours
3 hrs per module (approx.)
Rating
About The Nurse's Toolkit
The Nurse’s Toolkit will introduce learners to various life-saving nursing skills and interventions. Learn critical life-saving concepts and skills related to airway management, trauma, immobilization and splinting, sepsis management, wound care, and obstetrical emergencies. This course also integrates augmented reality into two modules: airways and immobilization, and splinting. The augmented reality will be powered through the learner’s mobile device via a web-based tool that will provide simulations and test learners’ knowledge of the material.
Skills You'll Gain
- Advanced Trauma Care For Nurses
- Healthcare Quality
- Nursing
What You'll Earn
- Certificate of Completion:
- Certificates of completion acknowledge knowledge acquired upon completion of a non-credit course or program.
Welcome Message
Welcome to The Nurse’s Toolkit, a six-week course designed to strengthen essential, life-saving nursing skills across a range of clinical scenarios. You will learn evidence-based interventions for airway management, trauma care, immobilization, sepsis, wound management, and obstetrical emergencies. Through interactive activities and augmented reality simulations, this course supports practical skill development for confident, responsive nursing practice.
This abbreviated syllabus description was created with the help of AI tools and reviewed by staff. The full syllabus is available to those who enroll in the course.
Course Schedule
Module 1: The ABCs of Airway Management
- Video: Welcome to the Nurse's Toolkit
- Reading: Meet Your Instructors
- Reading: Course Syllabus
- Reading: Augmented Reality in this Course
- Discussion Prompt: Meet Your Fellow Global Learners
- Reading: Help Us Learn About You
- Video: Airway Anatomy
- Video: Physical & Clinical Assessment
- Video: Oxygen Delivery Modalities
- Video: Airway Complications: Asthma
- Video: Airway Complications: Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
- Video: Airway Complications: Pneumonia
- Video: Airway Complications: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Video: Airway Complications: Pneumothorax
- Reading: Interactive Experience: Airway Complications
- App Item: Interactive Experience: Airway Complications
- Reading: Post-Experience Survey
- Video: Introduction to the Case Study
- App Item: Reflection Workbook
- Reading: Check Your Work
- Reading: H5P Instructions
- Ungraded Plugin: H5P: Practice Opportunity
- Reading: Week 1 Optional Resources
- Graded: Week 1 Quiz
Module 2: Bruised, Battered, and Broken—Trauma Treatment
- Video: A Guide to Trauma Treatment Objectives
- Video: A Guide to Trauma Treatment: Critical Concepts
- Video: The (A)BCDEF of Trauma
- Video: The A(B)CDEF of Trauma
- Video: The AB(C)DEF of Trauma
- Video: The ABC(D)EF of Trauma
- Video: The ABCD(E)F of Trauma
- Video: The ABCDE(F) of Trauma
- Video: Introduction to the Case Study
- App Item: Reflection Workbook
- Reading: Check Your Work
- Reading: H5P Instructions
- Ungraded Plugin: H5P: Practice Opportunity
- Reading: Week 2 Optional Resources
- Graded: Week 2 Quiz
Module 3: Immobilization and Splinting
- Video: Immobilization and Splinting Objective
- Video: Assessing Injuries
- Reading: Interactive Experience: Fracture Types
- App Item:Interactive Experience: Fracture Types
- Reading: Post-Experience Survey Opportunity
- Video: Immobilization
- Video: Splinting
- Video: Monitoring, Follow Up, and Patient Education
- Video: Introduction to the Case Study
- App Item: Reflection Workbook
- Reading: Check Your Work
- Reading: H5P Instructions
- Ungraded Plugin: H5P: Practice Opportunity
- Reading: Week 3 Optional Resources
- Graded: Week 3 Quiz
Module 4: The Severe Infection Connection—Sepsis and Fluid Resuscitation
- Video: Sepsis Management
- Video: Sepsis Significance
- Video: Sepsis Pathophysiology
- Video: Sepsis Risk Factors
- Video: Sepsis Signs and Symptoms
- Video: Interventions & Assessment
- Video: Evaluation and Re-assessment
- Video: Introduction to the Case Study
- App Item: Reflection Workbook
- Reading: Check Your Work
- Reading: H5P Instructions
- Ungraded Plugin: H5P: Practice Opportunity
- Reading: Week 4 Optional Resources
- Graded: Week 4 Quiz
Module 5: Wounds and Burns—A Hot Topic
- Video: Wounds: Objective
- Video: Healing and Dressings
- Video: Wound Characterization
- Video: Wound Complications
- Video: Wound Management Considerations
- Video: Introduction to the Case Study
- App Item: Reflection Workbook
- Reading: Check Your Work
- Reading: H5P Instructions
- Ungraded Plugin: H5P: Practice Opportunity
- Reading: Week 5 Optional Resources
- Graded: Week 5 Quiz
Module 6: Pushing It to the Limit—Obstetrical Emergencies
- Video: Obstetrical Emergencies: Objective
- Video: Post Partum Hemorrhage (PPH) Continued
- Video: Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy
- Video: Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy Continued
- Video: Perinatal Mental Health
- Video: Introduction to the Case Study
- App Item: Reflection Workbook
- Reading: Check Your Work
- Reading: Week 6 Optional Resources
- Reading: Post-Course Survey
- Graded: Week 6 Quiz
Grading Policy
Learners are assessed through graded quizzes and supported by ungraded reflection and interactive activities. To pass the course, learners must earn an overall score of 80% or higher. There are six quizzes, which range from 15% to 20% of your final grade.
Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing
Adjunct Clinical Instructor in Nursing, School of Nursing
Clinical Assistant Professor of Nursing, School of Nursing
Beginner Level
Some related experience required
