Patient Assessment

Classroom Productions, Inc

This program discusses both visual and numerical pain assessment scales and presents examples of how personal beliefs about pain held by both the healthcare professional and the patient can affect pain assessment. The program also considers the purpose of and guidelines for establishing a pain management program.

Physical and Cognitive Treatment

Classroom Productions, Inc

Focusing on non-pharmacological approaches to pain management, this program presents an overview of complementary medicine. It discusses the differences between invasive and non-invasive modalities; presents specific techniques, such as hot and cold, TENS, massage, and vibration; and reviews cognitive-behavioral therapies related to pain management.

Reading an EKG

Classroom Productions, Inc

This video examines the electrophysiologic properties of the heart. It shows how to interpret an EKG rhythm strip to get the P wave, PR interval, QRS wave, ST segment, T wave, and QT interval. It also teaches how to calculate heart rate from an EKG rhythm strip and how to assess normal sinus rhythm using the 7-step method.

Sinus Dysrhythmias

Classroom Productions, Inc

This video shows how to interpret a normal sinus rhythm and discusses dysrhythmia, bradycardia, tachycardia, escape beat, ectopic beat, compensatory pause, non-compensatory pause, asystole, re-entry phenomena, cardioversion, defibrillation, and supraventricular dysrhythmias.

Atrial and Junctional Dysrhythmias and Heart Block

Classroom Productions, Inc

This video describes the pathology of atrial and junctional dysrhythmias, , lists their EKG characteristics, cites possible causes, looks at signs and symptoms, and considers methods of treament.

Patient Assessment

Classroom Productions, Inc

Sedation is a drug-induced depression of consciousness along a continuum that ranges from minimal to general anesthesia. Procedural or moderate sedation is used for individuals of all ages undergoing invasive therapeutic or diagnostic procedures. This program covers the assessment protocols necessary before the procedure begins.

Sedation in Children

Classroom Productions, Inc

This program demonstrates use of procedural sedation in pediatric patients, focusing on the special needs of children in terms of patient preparation, medication dosing and administration, and discharge criteria. It presents the guidelines for the use of moderate sedation established by The Joint Commission, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The Pain Process

Classroom Productions, Inc

This program provides a comprehensive overview of pain, including the value of the pain sensation, nociceptive and neuropathic pain, and the role of neurotransmitters in pain management.

Dysphagia and Medication Management – A Hard Pill to Swallow

PESI, Inc

Sometimes it’s hard to determine what’s causing swallowing difficulty in individuals with dysphagia. Does the swallowing difficulty make it harder to take medication or are the medications impacting their ability to swallow safely? Unfortunately, this confusion leads to frequent medication errors in these clients. In this video seminar, Angela Mansolillo, Board-Certified Specialist in Swallowing Disorders, teaches key elements of medication management in individuals with swallowing disorders. She explains how pill swallowing impacts normal swallow physiology and identifies alterations and neurological changes, that occur in individuals with dysphagia. She reviews medication formulations as well as the legal implications of practices to facilitate administration, including crushing or thickening. She also offers tips for reducing medication errors for individuals with dysphagia.

Wound Care Conference – With Clinical Demonstration Lab

PESI, Inc

In this video seminar, nationally recognized wound care expert, Heidi Cross walks viewers step-by-step through wound assessment techniques and best practice wound products and treatments, including infection prevention without antibiotics. She presents wound assessment strategies, discussing types of wounds and phases of wound healing; looks at top-down wounds such as those cause by medical adhesives, moisture-associated skin, incontinence-associated damage, dermatitis and intertrigo, and skin tears; examines pressure injuries; examines types of lower extremity wounds; and discusses ostomy solutions. With actual demonstrations of product application, Cross presents strategies for selecting different types of topical dressings.

The Circumcision Movie

Filmhub

The documentary explores infant male circumcision from many angles: culture, religion, history, sexuality, and medical recommendations. Produced by two nurse-midwives, it is a thoughtful examination of the many layers of this controversial topic.

Ventricular Dysrhythmias and Patient Care

Classroom Productions, Inc

Describing the characteristics and causes of ventricular dysrhythmias, This video looks at EKG characteristics, signs and symptoms, and treatments for these disorders. It discusses medications and necessary equipment for the code cart.

Adapting Pediatric Feeding Therapy for the Clinic, Home, School, and Online – Not Just the Kitchen Table

PESI, Inc

In this video seminar, pediatric feeding expert Angela Mansolillo demonstrates concrete strategies to customize interventions for home, school, the sitter’s, and other settings. She teaches how to manage medical issues related to respiration, airway, and aspiration in non-medical environments; expand food repertoire wherever your client eats; design effective individual and group feeding environments in school settings; and conduct tele-visits that really work.

Preventing and Managing Complications

Classroom Productions, Inc

Even though nurses may have the skills to work with patients receiving procedural sedation, they need to anticipate complications that may arise with the administration of the medications used, as well as manage any symptoms the patient may develop. This program describes the potential sequelae and actions to be taken to avoid poor patient outcome, including the use of oxygen, fluid boluses, and reversal agents.

Pharmacological Treatment and Classification of Pain

Classroom Productions, Inc

This program examines pharmacological modalities in the treatment of pain, including NSAIDs, opioids, and adjuvant medications. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the types of drugs used for analgesia, differentiating between acute and chronic pain. The program considers break-through pain and its management and discusses the World Health Organization’s 3-step approach to cancer pain management.

Postpartum Depression: Which Moms Are Most at Risk?

Ivanhoe Broadcast News

Every year in the United States 900,000 women suffer from postpartum depression. PPD is the most common pregnancy complication even higher than gestational diabetes and preeclampsia which is serious high blood pressure. Now researchers have identified moms at highest risk for developing PPD.

Diaphragm Rehabilitation for Cardiopulmonary Patients: After Mechanical Ventilation

PESI, Inc

In the COVID pandemic era, many patients who have recovered experience lingering shortness of breath, weaknesms and musculoskeletal pain. This video seminar with Dr. Rina Pandya teaches skills to appropriately address diaphragmatic rehabilitation, presenting new techniques and protocols for successfully helping this growing patient population. Dr. Pandya teaches how to help patients improve posture and function, strengthen the diaphragm while on bedrest or reduced mobility, and minimize complications from immobilization, helping to ensure a faster recovery. She discusses mechanical ventillation, differential diagnoses, and respiratory distress, as well as exercises beyond the vent.

POST-COVID-19 'Long Haulers' Acute and Chronic Effects: Evaluation and Treatment

PESI, Inc

Defining post-COVID symptoms and explaining what long haulers are, this video seminar reviews symptoms and early warning signs, the hyper-immune response, the inflammatory response, and the cytokine storm that can cause so many issues. It addresses long term symptoms, including profound fatigue, SOBOE, brain fog, myalgias, neuropathies, gait issues, pain, anxiety, brain fog, headaches, memory loss, and tremors. It discusses ways to retrain the ANS and presents targeted interventions for nasal breathing, sleeping, fatigue, and fall risk.

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Covid-19 Rehab Management

PESI, Inc

This video seminar with Theresa Schmidt examines the current guidelines of the APTA, PM&R, Mayo Clinic, and CDC with emphasis on early inpatient rehab and post-acute considerations. It presents information on the clinical manifestations of COVID-19, systems-based impairments, and ways to reduce or prevent complications. Schmidt offers guidelines for rehabilitation of COVID patients, discussing frailty and resilience, techniques for conscious and unconscious patients, active mobilization, and respiratory support. She also discusses aspects of care for the post-acute phase, including respiratory training, abdominal and diaphragm breathing, and exercise and resistance training. She also considers ongoing support for COVID patients.

Patient Monitoring

Classroom Productions, Inc

Procedural sedation not only decreases a patient's anxiety and fear, diminishes any discomfort, and provides perioperative amnesia; but also enables the patient to respond to the nurse's verbal commands, either alone or with gentle tactile stimulation, helping in the maintenance of the airway, respiratory status, and cardiac function. This program teaches how to monitor patients through procedure sedation, following the guidelines for the use of moderate sedation established by The Joint Commission and the American Nurses' Association.

Treatment for Special Populations

Classroom Productions, Inc

This program teaches how to meet the pain management needs of individuals outside the standard adult model. It begins with the role of patient education in developing effective pain management strategies and emphasizes the special needs of the unconscious patient, the cognitively impaired adult, and children from infancy through adolescence. The program looks at specialized pain techniques, such as the use of topical anesthesia, and examines the need to adjust dosages for some patients, including children and the elderly.

Miracle Babies: Uterus Transplants

Java Films

One in every 4,500 women is born without a uterus. Until recently, it was impossible for these women to carry their own children but breakthroughs in science have made womb transplants possible. In this exclusive report, filmed over nearly three years, we follow the first transplant in France. Over 250 couples volunteered to participate in this experiment. Doctors selected Deborah, 33, and her mother, 59, who will donate her uterus, because of their compatibility and perfect health. The first stage is for Deborah to undergo IVF. The resulting embryos are then frozen, to be implanted after the transplant. Weeks later, Deborah and her mother return to hospital for the transplant. The operations are extremely complex and take more than 16 hours. Then Deborah has to remain in hospital for two weeks to make sure her body does not reject the organ. Finally, in July 2020, the embryos are implanted. Nine months later, her miracle baby is born.

Placenta Accreta: Saving Moms and Babies

Ivanhoe Broadcast News

Experts say a sharp increase in c-sections over the past decade may be the top reason for spikes in pregnancy complications called placenta accreta spectrum which can cause excessive bleeding and be lethal for both mom and baby.