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Administering Medications: Injections

Series Overview:

FDA studies show that medication errors injure about 1.3 million people in the United States each year and cause the death of 7,000. Safe medication administration is essential to nursing practice, and nurses need to have knowledge and skill in the techniques of administering all pharmaceutical agents because the nurse is the last line of defense to protect a patient against a medication error.

This 3-part basic skills series demonstrates and describes the safe administration of oral, topical, suppository, inhalant and injectable medications.

The programs in this series are:

Administering Medications: Medication Safety and Oral Medications
Administering Medications: Topical, Suppository and Inhalant Medications
Administering Medications: Injections

Overview:

This program describes the safe administration of medication by injection: subcutaneous, intradermal, intramuscular and into an intravenous injection port (parenteral medication administration).

Included in this program is discussion of the mandatory use of safer needle devices to prevent needlestick injuries.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Differentiate between subcutaneous, intradermal and intramuscular injections and when each would be used
Identify the landmarks used for subcutaneous, intradermal and intramuscular injections
Describe the use of the
Z-track
injection technique
Describe the need for the use of safer needle devices

Administering Medications: Medication Safety and Oral Medications

Series Overview:

This 3-part basic skills series demonstrates and describes the safe administration of oral, topical, suppository, inhalant and injectable medications.

The programs in this series are:

Administering Medications: Medication Safety and Oral Medications
Administering Medications: Topical, Suppository and Inhalant Medications
Administering Medications: Injections

Overview:

This first program will describe the safe administration of oral medications and will demonstrate practices that are required in order to help prevent medication errors.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Describe the scope of medication errors
List the "5 Rights of Medication Administration"
List additional safety practices often considered to be medication rights.
Describe safe medication administration practices that are part of the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals

Administering Medications: Topical, Suppository and Inhalant Medications

Series Overview:

This 3-part basic skills series demonstrates and describes the safe administration of oral, topical, suppository, inhalant and injectable medications.

The programs in this series are:

Administering Medications: Medication Safety and Oral Medications
Administering Medications: Topical, Suppository and Inhalant Medications
Administering Medications: Injections

Overview:
This program will present techniques for the administration of topical medications, suppositories and inhalants.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Apply a topical medication
Administer a suppository medication
Administer eye and ear drops
Describe the process for administering an inhalant medication

Airway Care: Tracheostomy Care, Tube Change, and Artificial Airway Cuff Management

Overview:

Maintaining airway patency and preventing infection are two primary concerns when providing care to the patient with a tracheostomy tube. Other needs are caring for the stoma, providing some form of effective communication, and providing emotional support. With fresh new graphics and updated information, this new edition of Medcom’s classic course on tracheostomy care continues to provide a strong foundation on the essentials of direct airway care.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Describe the function of a tracheostomy tube
Explain the procedure for cleaning and changing the inner cannula
Describe care for the stoma
Describe the procedure for changing a tracheostomy tube
Identify complications associated with over-inflation of a soft cuff
Describe the preferred procedure for maintaining adequate cuff pressure

Intravenous Therapy: Basics and Venipuncture

Series Overview:

Over 90% of hospital patients receive IV therapy, including medication, nutrition, electrolytes, and blood. These life-giving fluids are administered through an I.V. and can mean the difference between life and death for a patient. This series covers the basics of intravenous therapy, including its uses, venipuncture, routine care, complications, and I.V. therapy for pediatric patients. The programs in this series are:

Intravenous Therapy: Basics and Venipuncture
Intravenous Therapy: Routine Care and Discontinuation
Intravenous Therapy: Recognizing and Treating Complications
Intravenous Therapy: Pediatrics

Overview:

This program describes the basics of intravenous therapy and demonstrates the correct technique for performing a venipuncture to initiate intravenous therapy. After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Describe the uses of I.V. therapy
Identify appropriate sites for venipuncture
Identify equipment used to provide I.V. therapy
Perform a venipuncture

Intravenous Therapy: Pediatrics

Series Overview:

Over 90% of hospital patients receive intravenous therapy, including medication, nutrition, electrolytes, and blood. These life-giving fluids are administered through an I.V. and can mean the difference between life and death for a patient. This series covers the basics of intravenous therapy, including its uses, venipuncture, routine care, complications, and I.V. therapy for pediatric patients. The programs in this series are:

Intravenous Therapy: Basics and Venipuncture
Intravenous Therapy: Routine Care and Discontinuation
Intravenous Therapy: Recognizing and Treating Complications
Intravenous Therapy: Pediatrics

Overview:

Providing intravenous therapy for infants and children offers unique challenges and may have a different rationale for the I.V. therapy than with an adult. This program demonstrates and describes I.V. therapy for pediatric patients.

Intravenous Therapy: Recognizing and Treating Complications

Series Overview:

Intravenous Therapy: Basics and Venipuncture
Intravenous Therapy: Routine Care and Discontinuation
Intravenous Therapy: Recognizing and Treating Complications
Intravenous Therapy: Pediatrics

Overview:

This program will demonstrate procedures for identifying complications of I.V. therapy and making appropriate interventions.

Intravenous Therapy: Routine Care and Discontinuation

Series Overview:

Over 90% of hospital patients receive IV therapy, including medication, nutrition, electrolytes, and blood. These life-giving fluids are administered through an I.V. and can mean the difference between life and death for a patient.This series covers the basics of intravenous therapy, including its uses, venipuncture, routine care, complications, and I.V. therapy for pediatric patients. The programs in this series are:

Intravenous Therapy: Basics and Venipuncture
Intravenous Therapy: Routine Care and Discontinuation
Intravenous Therapy: Recognizing and Treating Complications
Intravenous Therapy: Pediatrics

Overview:

This program demonstrates the procedures for the routine care and the discontinuation of intravenous therapy. After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

List items to note during a routine I.V. assessment
Describe changing a peripheral catheter dressing
Change an infusion container
Change an administration set
Describe the process and considerations for administering medications through an I.V.
Change the dressing on a central venous catheter
Describe the process for discontinuing a peripheral I.V. site

Professionalism in Healthcare: Patient Interactions, Communication and Personal Development

Series Overview:

Nurses continue to outrank other professions in Gallup's annual Honesty and Ethics Ratings of Professions since they were added to the list in 1999. What gives nurses such respect is their professionalism and dedication to their patients.

This two-part series explains why and how the nursing profession has earned the high level of esteem it is granted by our society. Through a combination of vignettes and narrative description, it demonstrates and describes the actions, attitudes, behaviors and interpersonal skills that must be appreciated and developed by new nurses to maintain and build upon the high degree of respect given to this most trusted profession.

Overview:

This program discusses ways you can exhibit professionalism while caring for patients. It focuses on improving communications with patients and colleagues and how to improve professionalism through personal development.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Describe elements of teamwork including providing assistance to and cooperating with colleagues and accepting and soliciting constructive criticism
Define and explain the need for “cultural competence” when providing patient care
Describe strategies for conflict resolution
List five strategies for achieving professional growth and advancement

Professionalism in Healthcare: Professional Behavior, Attitude and Attire

Series Overview:

Overview:

This program will discuss the elements of professionalism focusing on personal behavior, attitude and professional attire and how these approaches and behaviors can ensure you are a responsible, accountable and self-directed member of the nursing profession.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

List characteristics of professional behavior
Describe the importance of maintaining confidentiality
Give examples of legal and professional standards of behavior
Describe how responses to everyday situations affect the care you give and your professional relationships
Describe steps to take to present a professional image

Respiratory Distress in the Pediatric Patient: Anatomy, Physiology, and Breath Sounds

Series Overview:

Respiratory pathologies are one of the major problems affecting the health and well being of children. These issues can be due to infection, allergy, trauma, or congenital anomalies. Whatever the cause, if distress is not promptly identified and treated, respiratory failure and even cardiopulmonary arrest can follow. Nurses and other healthcare providers need to understand anatomic and physiologic factors unique to pediatric patients that put them at risk for developing respiratory distress, signs of distress, and potential nursing interventions.

Overview:

The immature respiratory system is very different from that of an adult. Respiratory pathologies are one of the major problems affecting the health and well being of children. These issues can be due to infection, allergy, trauma, or congenital anomalies. Whatever the cause, if distress is not promptly identified and treated, respiratory failure and even cardiopulmonary arrest can follow.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Describe the differences between an immature respiratory system and an adult's
Identify normal pediatric breath sounds
Identify adventitious pediatric breath sounds and their possible causes

Respiratory Distress in the Pediatric Patient: Assessment and Intervention

Series Overview:

Overview:

Respiratory pathologies due to infection, allergy, trauma, or congenital anomalies are one of the major problems affecting the health and well being of children. Signs of distress must be recognized and assessed promptly. If distress is not promptly identified and interventions begun, respiratory failure and even cardiopulmonary arrest can follow.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

List important signs of pediatric respiratory distress
List the components of a pediatric respiratory assessment
Identify the differences in signs between mild respiratory distress and moderate to acute respiratory distress
Identify red flags that can indicate acute pediatric distress

Suctioning: Nasotracheal Suctioning and Monitoring Complications

Series Overview:

This update of Medcom's classic suctioning course provides healthcare professionals with demonstrations of the fundamentals of airway suctioning. Now in a more convenient two-part format, this series demonstrates current practices and techniques to provide nurses with an understanding of nasotracheal, oropharyngeal and both open and closed in-line endotracheal suctioning, and the indications for the use of each.

Overview:

This program describes the anatomy of the airway, demonstrates methods designed to mobilize respiratory secretions, demonstrates nasotracheal suctioning techniques used to remove accumulated secretions, and describes potential complications to monitor.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

List the physiological effects of accumulated respiratory secretions.
Describe the technique for nasotracheal suctioning and indications for its use.
Identify assessment findings used to establish the need for suctioning.
Name potential complications of the suctioning procedures.

Suctioning: Oropharyngeal and Endotracheal Techniques

Series Overview:

Overview:

This program describes the anatomy of the airway, demonstrates oropharyngeal suctioning techniques, and both open and closed in-line endotracheal suctioning techniques used to remove accumulated secretions.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

List the physiological effects of accumulated respiratory secretions.
Describe the technique for nasotracheal suctioning and indications for its use.
Identify assessment findings used to establish the need for suctioning.
Name potential complications of the suctioning procedures.

The New Nursing Assistant Student Workbook and Skills Checklists, 8th Edition

Overview:

This new edition of the student workbook and skills checklists has been updated to match the new text, CNA530V The Nursing Assistant Textbook. This includes exercises for new chapters on: Abuse and Neglect, Disasters and Evacuation, The Fifth Vital Sign - Pain and The Environment of Care: Resident Safety.

In addition, exercises regarding the CDC's new hand hygiene guideline and HIPAA have been included.

The New Nursing Assistant Textbook (8th Edition)

Overview:

The Eighth Edition of Medcom's The New Nursing Assistant Textbook has been revised and updated with the most current information, yet maintains the familiarity and ease of use appreciated by both nursing assistant instructors and nursing assistant students.

Throughout the book, revisions have been made to update:

Statistics
Measurements
Practice techniques
Regulations
Professional guidelines
Terminology
New technologies, such as advances in computers and internet use.

This new information continues to be presented in a clear and concise style, using simple language that is easy for students at all levels to comprehend.

Printable PDF files of the "Abbreviations", "Glossary" and "Understanding Medical Terms" sections of The New Nursing Assistant Textbook, 8th Edition are included.

Violence In Healthcare Part 1: Empowering You to Be Prepared

Series Overview:

Healthcare facilities must often deal with the results of violence outside their walls, but sometimes the violence seeps into the healthcare environment itself, as with instances of domestic or gang violence that continue into a facility. In recent years violent crime in hospitals has increased 200% and the rate of non-fatal assaults on healthcare workers is much higher than the rate of non-fatal assaults for all private-sector industries combined. Clearly, healthcare workers must empower themselves to be prepared against possible violence.

This two-part series provides healthcare workers with the education needed to identify potential sources of violence and effective strategies to prevent and reduce violence in the healthcare setting. In this way learners will be better equipped to ensure their own safety, as well as that of their coworkers and patients.

Overview:

This program focuses on identifying potential sources of violence and conditions that can predispose to violence to reduce the risk of assault and empower the learner to be prepared.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Identify the three primary sources of violence in healthcare
List OSHA’s three categories of risk for violence in healthcare
Describe conditions in the healthcare environment that can be potential reasons for aggressive behavior
Identify patient conditions that may predispose to violence

Violence In Healthcare Part 2: What to Do When Violence Occurs

Series Overview:

Overview:

This program demonstrates and describes the “four R’s” of dealing with violence through recognizing the signals, resolving conflicts, responding quickly and reporting and documenting after an event.

Objectives:

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:

Recognizing the signals for escalating agitation and assaultive behavior or criminal intent
Resolving conflicts by appropriately interacting with a hostile individual
Responding quickly if the situation is out of your control
Describe proper reporting and documenting after an event