Lippincott Procedures Team

The AAACN has partnered with Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Solutions to develop a new ambulatory care nursing category for Lippincott Procedures, the most widely deployed, web-based, point-of-care nursing application for the latest evidence-based practice information used in hospitals and other healthcare institutions.

Clinicians receive accurate, step-by-step guidance for more than 1,700 evidence-based procedures and is available as a group subscription to hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

These procedures cover the following topics:

1. Bladder ultrasonography, ambulatory care
2. Blood pressure assessment, ambulatory care
3. Blood pressure assessment, pediatric, ambulatory care
4.  Breast examination (Advanced practice), ambulatory care
5. Disinfection, noncritical patient care equipment, ambulatory care
6. Disinfection, semicritical patient care equipment, ambulatory care
7. Foreign body removal, ear (Advanced practice), ambulatory care
8. Foreign body removal, skin and soft tissue (Advanced practice), ambulatory care
9. Hand hygiene, ambulatory care
10. Immunization (vaccine) guidelines, ambulatory care
11. Immunization (vaccine) guidelines, pediatric ambulatory care
12. Intradermal injection, ambulatory care
13. Peak flow meter use, ambulatory care
14. Physical examination for sports, school, or summer camp, pediatric (Advanced practice), ambulatory care
15. Point-of-care testing, blood glucose, ambulatory care
16. Pulse assessment, pediatric, ambulatory care
17. Subcutaneous injection, ambulatory care
18. Suicide risk assessment, ambulatory care
19. Suspected child abuse, recognizing and reporting, ambulatory care
20. Temperature assessment, ambulatory care
21. Traumatic abrasion wound care, ambulatory care
22. Vision screening, child, ambulatory care
23. Weight measurement, ambulatory care
24. Weight measurement, child ambulatory care
25. Weight measurement, infant, ambulatory care

The collaboration continues to review the 100 current ambulatory care nursing procedures, using experts culled from our membership.

These new procedures will help expand use of Lippincott Procedures in the growing area of outpatient healthcare and will make it more useful to nurses who practice in settings such as hospitals with outpatient services, ambulatory care centers, community-based settings, urgent care clinics, schools and workplaces.