Clinical Portion

Students have 31-40 minutes to complete the clinical exam, depending on the assigned skills. There are six clinical tests with 3 or 4 skills in each test.

Clinical skills students may be asked to perform include:

1. Ambulate the resident using a transfer/gait belt
2. Assist resident needing to use a bedpan
3. Change bed linen while the resident remains in bed
4. Change resident's position to a supported side-lying postion
5. Dress a resident who has a weak arm
6. Empty contents of resident's urinary drainage bag, and measure and record urine output on an Intake and Output (I&O) form
7. Feed a resident who is sitting in a chair
8. Measure and record a resident's radial pulse
9. Measure and record a resident's respirations
10. Provide catheter care to a female resident who has an indwelling urinary catheter