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Allied health personnel Vocational guidance Biotechnology Vocational guidance Communication in organizations Diagnostic Services Vocational guidance Diseases Diagnosis Diseases Prevention Heart Diseases Human communication Medical science Vocational guidance Therapeutics Vocational guidanceSummary: Effective communication with elderly people living in residential care is key to the delivery of high-quality treatment that not only meets the physical needs of patients, but also their mental, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. This program examines the basic elements of communication and how they can be adapted to older people who are living with hearing, vision, speech, and cognitive...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: To support the crucial work of pharmacists, special technicians are often employed to assist patients and customers. This video shows students what it's like to be a pharmacy technician-a specialization in high demand at many medical facilities and drugstores. The core duties of a pharmacy tech are outlined, including stocking, retrieving, counting, pouring, weighing, mixing, packaging, and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Effective employee communication is vitally important in every area of health service delivery and care. This program, filmed with a focus on the aged-care environment, covers verbal and nonverbal communication, formal and informal communication, conflict resolution and negotiation, and staff-to-staff and staff-to-management communication. A valuable training and professional development resource.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This video provides a comprehensive look at the field of health technicians and technologists. These jobs deal with diagnosing and treating illnesses using computers, machinery, and other tools. Viewers learn about a typical day on the job, the type of training and certification needed, and how to earn these qualifications. We see dental technicians and hygienists, dental laboratory...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Although bed linens are usually changed following a patient's bath, they may be replaced efficiently and considerately anytime it becomes necessary. This program demonstrates step-by-step the procedures for making an occupied and an unoccupied patient bed in a clinical setting. Related issues regarding patient safety and comfort, control of potentially infectious matter, and documentation of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Dementing illnesses, whether functional or organic, involve mental and behavioral changes that can be difficult for a caregiver to make sense of-and to cope with. This program addresses the causes of cognitive impairment and presents approaches to caring for adult clients that preserve their dignity. Depression and delirium are given special attention, as well as behaviors common to senile...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Summary: When searching for blockages or damaged areas of the body's many organs and systems, radioactive tracer drugs are extremely helpful. This program travels to the Moffitt/Long Hospital to find out how technicians use radiopharmaceuticals to conduct examinations. A thallium study is performed to highlight some of the proficiencies necessary for a career in this field. Avenues for career growth...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Although it requires far less time and training, the job of Physician Assistant brings with it many of the challenges and rewards of being a doctor. This program explores the responsibilities of the Physician Assistant, the skills and personality traits needed to become one, and the financial and personal advantages that most people in the position enjoy. Including interviews with both young...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The lungs may be subject to internal medicine, but in a very real sense they are also exposed to the environment. Consequently, the body has developed elaborate immunological defenses to protect its respiratory and pulmonary systems-defenses that become increasingly fragile as we age. Knowing how the lungs function and their important role in overall health will help nurses and assistants...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2000
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Summary: After an overview of skin anatomy and physiology, this program describes the techniques necessary for making accurate assessments of elderly patients with new or ongoing skin conditions. The video also defines specialized terminology and suggests post-assessment courses of action. An intelligent and accessible look at the fundamentals of skin care for senior citizens.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Filmed in a clinical setting, this program demonstrates how to operate a bedside cardiac monitor, a central station monitor, and a portable heart monitor. The video begins with a step-by-step walk-through of bedside monitor setup and troubleshooting-attaching the electrodes to the patient, obtaining a clear waveform, setting the alarm, recording a baseline rhythm strip, waveform problems such...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The mark of a professional health care worker is a caring attitude and a desire to be of service. This program offers a combination of tips on how to enhance caregiver/patient interactions and thought-provoking questions to help caregivers develop or improve their patient-centric behaviors. An informative staff-development tool for nursing home, hospital, and even homecare settings-anywhere...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2002
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Summary: Once a feared and fatal disease, diabetes is today a serious but largely manageable condition?if quality care is available. This program presents key knowledge and strategies that will help nurses administer diabetes medications effectively and support their patients in managing their condition. Viewers learn to distinguish between type 1 and type 2 diabetes, identify its signs and symptoms,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Nurses must help patients find meaning at the end of life, focusing on living [while] acknowledging death... What we as professionals do during this end-of-life period matters greatly to those whom we touch. Focusing primarily on the supportive and spiritual aspects of terminal care rather than on the physical aspects, this program discusses advance directives (living will, health care...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: With the majority of nurses getting uncomfortably close to retirement, it is urgent that a new generation enter the ranks of the profession. This program looks at how nurses and other members of the healthcare industry are trying to attract more young women and men to the field, as well as at initiatives to restore respect for nursing as a career choice. Turning the nursing profession around...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Balancing practical know-how with medical theory, this program examines the needs of patients with dementia and explores a range of fulfilling activities that foster self-worth and belonging. After an insightful look at dementia and its symptoms, the video illustrates both one-on-one and group activities and identifies which recreational pursuits are best suited to a particular level of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Nurses are exiting the healthcare profession in record numbers, and are showing no signs of returning to the work they once loved. Is it the low pay? Is it the strain of attending to more and more acutely ill patients? Is it the overwhelming paperwork required by most insurance companies? This program examines the numerous contributing causes of the staffing crisis in the nursing profession-a...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about half of the 20 fastest-growing jobs in America are in the healthcare, medicine, and science areas of the health industry! This program spotlights a dialysis technician, an LPN, and a physical therapist-people who help fight illness and repair injury-and a dental hygienist and a dispensing optician-people who help improve the quality of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: After explaining how to evaluate a patient experiencing a dysrhythmia, this program provides an in-depth examination of cardiac dysrhythmias of the atrioventricular node and the ventricles. Normal sinus rhythm and its associated waveform are correlated and then compared to the waveforms of junctional arrhythmias, first-degree AV block, second-degree AV block (Mobitz Types I and II),...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Whether prescribed to prepare the bowel for surgery or a diagnostic test or simply to relieve constipation, enemas are a common but important part of patient health care. Filmed in an in-patient setting, this program provides step-by-step instruction on pre-enema patient preparation, enema solution preparation, enema administration, and post-enema patient care. For the purpose of this...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The job of the dental hygienist is just as hands-on as any dentist's-and it offers an outstanding springboard for a career in the healthcare and dental fields. This program shows what a dental hygienist can expect as far as training, duties, and compensation, while outlining the personal qualities and people skills that any successful D.H. should possess. Featuring interviews with experienced...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: The aging of the baby boomer generation will dramatically increase the need for home care, opening up opportunities in a frequently overlooked field. This program explores the challenging and deeply satisfying work of the home health aide and the personal care assistant—revealing the skills and special personality traits these jobs require and the personal rewards that come from helping people...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: This program explains what it means to "eat right," examines the special nutritional requirements of older adults, and considers food-related health concerns that can affect nutritional status later in life. In addition to detailed food and fluid guidelines for healthy living, the following are addressed: nutrient deficiencies common to the aging adult; malnutrition-related conditions such as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Preparing meals that meet the individual requirements of elderly people is a challenge, especially when patients or clients can no longer look after themselves. This program provides senior-care trainees and specialists with helpful diet information and strategies for getting older people to eat properly. Topics include basic and specific nutritional needs, portion sizes, appropriate meal...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009