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A History of Care: Nursing in America

Product code: M248

This upbeat program celebrates the long-neglected patriotic role of nurses in healing not just individuals, but America as a whole, in tending its wounded from the Revolutionary War through great strides in the Civil War to the present. We celebrate the coming of the Army and Navy Nurse Corps, and the American Red Cross, with new generations of nurses going wherever the soldiers went, putting themselves at risk for disease, attack and capture. We also celebrate the tireless peacetime work and volunteer spirit of nurses who have contributed so much to the betterment of American healthcare.

Age-specific Care: Adults

Caregiving techniques successful with 22-year-olds may be inappropriate for 12-year-olds and confusing to some 72-year-olds. Knowing how to provide care in an age-specific manner is an important part of meeting patient needs, and is a requirement for meeting Joint Commission standards.The three-part series, Age-specific Care promotes providing age-specific care by describing the stages of human growth and demonstrating successful strategies for providing care at each stage.

Age-specific Care: Neonates and Infants

Age-specific Care: Toddlers Through Teens

Age-Specific Competencies

Product code: M189 Reviewed for accuracy: 2006

Overview:

People come in every age, shape and size. Providing age-specific care is an important part of meeting patient needs. For this reason, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has developed standards for age-specific competencies that are essential for gaining accreditation. This video promotes age-specific competencies by describing the stages of human growth and demonstrating successful strategies for providing care at each stage. You will also learn how to assess every patient for possible physical impairments, learning abilities, cultural differences, emotional stress and language barriers.

Before Help Arrives

Product code: M205

Overview:

This program is designed to teach those without health care training how best to respond to an emergency before Emergency Medical Services arrives, and demonstrates how to provide first aid for common, minor conditions.

The program:

Demonstrates checking an accident victim for open airway, breathing and circulation

Demonstrates using gloves and other barriers to prevent disease transmission

Emphasizes value of learning and using CPR

Describes the importance of knowing where first aid materials are in the workplace

The Program also demonstartes the following first aid procedures:

Clearing an obstructed airway

Controlling bleeding

Identifying broken bones

Dealing with spinal injuries

Treating burns

Identifying and managing shock

Treating eye injuries

Treating insect stings and bites

Identifying poisonings

Treating heat and cold injuries

Responding to a heart attack

Responding to seizures

Treating diabetic emergencies

Responding to asthma attacks

Caring for Patients with Special Needs: Cognitive Impairment

Product code: 78799A

Series Overview: Caregivers will often face the challenge of providing care to patients that have additional physical and/or cognitive conditions that must be considered and accommodated. This series demonstrates how to provide patient care to those with commonly encountered impairments: vision loss, hearing loss, and cognitive impairment. The programs in this series are: ..Caring for Patients With Special Needs: Cognitive Impairment ..Caring for Patients With Special Needs: Visual Impairment ..Caring for Patients With Special Needs: Hearing Impairment Overview: Cognitive impairment can be caused by a variety of conditions, commonly Alzheimer's Disease, multi-infarct dementia, and post-traumatic brain injury. This program describes how symptomatic conditions such as impaired awareness, memory, mood, and judgment affect providing care. Specific strategies for providing care to patients with dementia are demonstrated in an acute care setting, and the assessment of critical areas is discussed including: •communication •patient comfort •daily caregiving issues •discharge planning and follow up

Caring for Patients with Special Needs: Hearing Impairment

Product code: 78799C

Series Overview: Caregivers will often face the challenge of providing care to patients that have additional physical and/or cognitive conditions that must be considered and accommodated. This series demonstrates how to provide patient care to those with commonly encountered impairments: vision loss, hearing loss, and cognitive impairment. The programs in this series are: ..Caring for Patients With Special Needs: Cognitive Impairment ..Caring for Patients With Special Needs: Visual Impairment ..Caring for Patients With Special Needs: Hearing Impairment Overview: The common causes and symptoms of hearing loss are identified in this program and strategies for communicating with those with hearing impairment are demonstrated. In addition, methods for understanding those whose speech may be affected are also shown, and the legal requirements for providing interpreters and other communication services to deaf individuals and their families is discussed.

Caring for Patients with Special Needs: Visual Impairment

Product code: 78799B

Help Peritoneal Dialysis

Product code: 50152

Overview:

The advent of patient-friendly equipment has made peritoneal dialysis a viable treatment modality for end-stage renal disease. This well-paced, concise video helps the nurse viewer understand the difference between peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis, the chemical principles involved in a dialysis exchange, and how to perform the three types of bag exchanges, i.e. spike connection, manual disconnection and mechanical disconnection. Four patient care focuses are addressed: prevention of infection, fluid and sodium balance, nutrition, patient education and support.

How to Recognize and Classify Seizures and Epilepsy

Product code: 78272

Overview:

Discusses the classification of seizure and epileptic syndromes. Presents actual footage depicting the following seizure types: complex partial, tonic-clonic, absence, tonic, atonic, and myoclonic.

Introduction to Botany, Part 1

Product code: 78730

This program introduces the student to the science of botany. The subject is examined from adaptation to life on land, through modern plants and human dependency and interaction with the plant kingdom. Fulluse is made of time-lapse photography and computer animation to demonstrate plant movement and growth. Lab experiments that can easily be duplicated in the classroom illustrate plant structure and transport. Thousands of feet of video shot in the field bring the world of botany directly into the classroom.Students are introduced to the plant kingdom via the organizing principles of plant classification and the development of modern land plants. Plant families, growth and development, soil and nutrition, transport and movement, natural cycles relating to plant life - all are examined in a colorful, informative and logical style. Students are encouraged to examine the plant kingdom scientifically - that is, with an awareness of plant development and the relationship between plants and their environment.Because of the lenght and amount of material covered, Introduction to Botany has been designed for viewing in segments or chapters in parallel with the student's course work and is being released in two parts. Chapters include Adaptations to Land, Non-Vascular Plants, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms, Structure and Growth of Vascular Plants, Movement and Response, Nutrition, and Plants and the Future.

Introduction to Botany, Part II

Product code: 78731

Medical Illustrations

Product code: ART100

Ove 400, Full Color, royalty-free medical-related illustrations on CD, similar in style to ones used on our promotional pieces. Perfect for: newsletters, in-house posters and publications, visual aids, patient education and overhead presentations. Illustrations are divided into 3 categories: Anatomy, Equipment, and People.

Photosynthesis

Product code: 78732

Photosynthesis leads the student to an understanding of one of the marvels of the natural world - the photosynthetic process in plants and algae. This difficult but fascinating subject is rendered intelligible to the student by carefully and logically examining each element in the complex interaction that is photosynthesis. Students are led briefly but lucidly through the world of atoms, molecules, cells and energy illustrated with computer animation, examples and experiments.Subjects covered include the nature of energy, atoms molecules and cells, glusode and ATP, the requirements for photosynthesis, the mechanics of photosynthesis, and respiration. The role and importance of photosynthesis in the food chain and in the production of oxygen is established.

Plant Reproduction

Product code: 78733

Plant Reproduction examines probably the most fascinating aspect of plant behavior. From Carl Linnaeus to the alternation of generatiions, this program examines plant reproduction from a scientific, developmental point of view. The evolving complexity of plant reproduction is illustrated with concise drawings and animation's that lead the student through the complexities of sexual and non-sexual plant reproduction, alternation of generations, pollination, fertilization and germination.The program starts with brief explanations and illustrations of cell division, mitosis and meiosis, haploid and diploid number of chromosomes, gametes, zygotes and spores. The evolution of plant reproduction is examined beginning with green algae and progressing through mosses, ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms. Insect pollination, seed disperal, and flower parts are dramatically illustrated by video shot in the field.

Portrait of Abuse: An American Epidemic

Portrait of Abuse: An American Epidemic is a compelling and revealing story that not only raises our social awareness of the far reaching effects and cycles of domestic violence, but it digs into the psyche of both victim and the abuser. We all play a role in recognizing the signs and speaking out to stop this tragic epidemic. Through interviews with actual victims and abusers, this hopeful film offers practical advice from survivors, doctors, nurses, shelter advocates, social workers and prosecutors.

Providing Patient Education to Meet JCAHO Standards

Product code: M191

Overview:

Since education is often the key for patients to fully benefit from their care, JCAHO has developed standards to promote patient understandings of healthy behavior. This program discusses meeting the JCAHO standards by focusing on patient assessment, teaching patient-specific healthcare and documenting the education provided.

Reservoirs of Strength

Product code: 78304

Overview:

Subjects include burn rehabilitation, psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation, and counseling intervention. Looks at burn rehabilitation through the eyes of the patients, and the specialists who contribute to this miracle of recovery.

Shock

Shock presents the realities of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) through the engaging personal stories of 12 people treated with ECT for severe depression and bipolar disorder, including former Massachusetts First Lady Kitty Dukakis. Candid, intimate interviews with patients and physicians, and footage of actual ECT procedures provide both the clinical and personal understanding of this controversial treatment which has been both criticized as barbaric and praised as miraculous. Based on the book Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy by Larry Tye and Kitty Dukakis.

When Someone You Love Has Alzheimer's Disease

Product code: M161

Overview:

Features personal interviews with caregivers of people with Alzheimer's. Provides emotional support and useful information on how to deal with this difficult disease.

Award Winner: 1995 Columbus International Film Festival

When Someone You Love has Schizophrenia

Product code: M178

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