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Medicine and Health Sciences
Today TB is under control in the U.S., but it remains a series threat worldwide with approximately 9 million new cases reported each year. This program describes the three primary control measures developed by the CDC as part of its recommendations for controlling the spread of TB.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
Describe the past and current incidence of tuberculosis in the U.S. and worldwide
Identify three key components of administrative controls used to prevent TB infection
Distinguish between primary and secondary environmental controls
Identify the primary component of respiratory protection controls
DVD / 2014 / 16 minutes
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In the last hundred years, tuberculosis in America came full circle from being a serious threat, to being a forgotten disease of the past, to returning as a serious threat in the 1980s and 90s. Today, TB is under control again in the U.S., but it remains a serious threat worldwide with approximately 9 million new cases reported each year. This program presents the recommendations for controlling the spread of TB developed by the CDC so that nurses and other healthcare workers can protect their patients - and themselves - from this serious disease.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
Explain what causes tuberculosis
Explain the difference between tuberculosis infection and tuberculosis disease
List four body systems that can be infected with TB
List common symptoms of TB
Identify six population groups at high risk for TB infection
Describe multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and list ways a person can acquire it
DVD / 2014 / 16 minutes
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The Ebola virus. No-one knows exactly where it comes from but one thing is certain - it's one of the most virulent infections known to science.
This special episode of Horizon meets the scientists and doctors from all around the world looking for the cure and hears first-hand accounts of what it's actually like to catch - and survive - this terrible disease.
Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.
DVD / 2014 / 50 minutes
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Confronting this deadly battle firsthand
This powerful documentary confronts the key issues in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus, giving a firsthand view of its physical and emotional impact on whole families and on the medical staff treating them. With specially adapted cameras attached to their goggles, volunteers from Medecins Sans Frontieres - Doctors Without Borders' (MSF) working in the high risk zone of an Ebola Case Management Centre in Sierra Leone give viewers a very real sense of what it's like on the frontline.
Their pain and despair is all too clear when they have to separate parents from a sick child and then when that child loses their fight for life. But even in these desperately difficult circumstances there are moments of euphoria as patients who have been cured leave the centre. Exclusive footage also reveals the medical staff's frustrations at the lack of support from the international community and pharmaceutical companies in fighting the Ebola virus, which has been responsible for more than 5,000 deaths since the outbreak began.
Note: This BBC production not available in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, USA, Canada.
DVD / 2014 / 45 minutes
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Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) are primarily the result of unnecessary and excessive antibiotic use and are associated with increased patient morbidity and mortality, increased length of hospital stays and rising costs of care. Therefore, it is prudent that the spread of these microorganisms be prevented. This course, the last in the five part Infection Control in Healthcare series, is designed to provide healthcare professionals with essential information about the causes of MDROs, the main types of MDROs and their characteristics.
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
Describe the main reasons for the upsurge in multidrug-resistant organisms
Identify and understand the key characteristics of different MDROs
Implement strategies to prevent the spread of MDROs
DVD / 2014 / 16 minutes
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Precautions have been developed by OSHA and the CDC to help prevent and control the spread of infectious diseases. It is essential that all healthcare professionals be aware of and abide by these precautions. This course is designed to introduce and discuss these infection control policies.
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
Describe OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard.
Describe the CDC's Standard Precautions.
Explain the elements of the CDC's Transmission-based Precautions.
Describe the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act.
Implement infection prevention practice strategies, including handling sharps, linen and trash, contaminated spills and addressing lab issues.
DVD / 2013 / 16 minutes
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Since the advent of penicillin in the 1940s, medications have played an important role in the treatment of infectious diseases. Initially focused on the development and use of antibiotics to treat bacterial infections, in recent decades, the focus has broadened to include antifungal and antiviral agents. Because nurses are frequently called upon to administer anti-infective agents, this series was developed to provide the information they need to recognize the signs and symptoms of infection, the medications typically used in treatment, and the associated precautions and side effects.
This program covers an overview of pathogens, the general signs and symptoms of infection, and the cultures and tests used to identify them.
DVD / 2010 / 16 minutes
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Infection control in a health care setting is a fundamental responsibility shared by all staff. This video resource will ensure that infection control is front of mind for every worker. It starts by outlining the four principles of infection control, followed by a detailed examination of standard precautions that must be undertaken at all times, including a step-by-step demonstration of correct hand washing technique. Transmission-based precautions are explained, grouped into three broad groups: contact, droplet, and airborne. Finally, organisational support is described, including the importance of the infection control committee and regular health screenings for all staff.
DVD / 2010 / 24 minutes
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A flu pandemic: severe illness, even death, widespread throughout the country. something not seen in decades - in generations - but it could happen again. If a flu pandemic happened, what will healthcare workers need to do? The three-part series, Pandemic Influenza: The Role of The Healthcare Workers, gives healthcare professionals an understanding of the threat of pandemic flu around the world, in the U.S. and in the community, and steps they will have to take to meet the challenge of a flu pandemic.
The three programs in this series are:
Part 1: Pandemic Influenza: The Role of Healthcare Workers: History and Etiology of Pandemic Influenza
Part 2: Recognizing Influenza, Treatments and Patient Education
Part 3: Infection Control and Public Health Measures
After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
Describe the difference between seasonal flu and a flu pandemic
Describe how new flu viruses develop
Explain how flu viruses are spread
DVD / 2006 / 11 minutes
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Karl Buetner, MD; Richard Whitley, MD; Robert Dworkin, MD; John F. Flahery, PharmD; John Wolf, MD
The Pain Benefit for Anti-Herpetic Therapy in the Elderly; Therapeutic Advances in H. Zoster; Pharmacokinetics and Differentiation of Anti-Viral Therapy; Herpes Zoster: Pain Analysis.
DVD / 120 minutes
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Karl Buetner, MD; Richard Whitley, MD; Robert Dworkin, MD; John F. Flahery, PharmD; John Wolf, MD
The Pain Benefit for Anti-Herpetic Therapy in the Elderly; Therapeutic Advances in H. Zoster; Pharmacokinetics and Differentiation of Anti-Viral Therapy; Herpes Zoster: Pain Analysis.
DVD / 120 minutes
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Stephen Nightingale, MD; Kathleen Squires, MD
Advances in the management of HIV infection, including new strides in delaying the onset of full-blown AIDS. Studies involving drugs utilized in both a prophylactic and therapeutic capacity are discussed.
DVD / 60 minutes
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Mark Jacobson, MD; Vincent R. Bonagura, MD; William L. Holzemer, RN, PhD, FAAN; Daniel Kuritzkes, MD
Program will cover how HIV infected patients are diagnosed and monitored during therapy; learn the principles for delaying the onset of full-blown AIDS; Understand the adverse effects of the four groups of drugs: BPC, AZT, DDI, and DDC.
DVD / 60 minutes
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Michelle L. Robertson, RN, BSN, CIC; Earl Matthew, MD; Ellen Epstein, MS, MT(ASCP); Betty Edmond, Edward J. Septimus, MD
Discussing airborne pathogens in relation to healthcare facilities. Review airborne pathogens common to healthcare facilities and measures used to control them & enforcement of guidelines for preventing transmission of airborne pathogens.
DVD / 60 minutes
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Earl Matthew, MD; Ellen Epstein, MS, MT(ATCP); Michelle L. Robertson, RN, BSN, CIC
This program describes the OSHA and state recognized definition of medical wastes and proper disposal, discusses measures utilized to control bloodborne pathogens in healthcare facilities and employee exposure needs, and identifies implications for nurses for control of bloodborne pathogens.
DVD / 60 minutes
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Anthony Fauci, MD; John G. Bartlett, MD; Julio S. G. Montaner, MD, FRCPC, FCCP; Roy Gulick, MD; Margaret Fischl, MD
Related implications for enhancing quality of life during combination therapy; approved drugs in the next six months by the FDA; be able to discuss major issues in antiretroviral therapy; define expectations for managing & treating HIV/AIDS; Describe differences in virologic responses using strategies of imultaneous/sequential initiation of three drug antiretrovial therapy; demonstrate reasons for differences in virologic responses using those therapies.
DVD / 60 minutes
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Edward Septimus, MD; Michelle Robertson, BSN, CIC
Scope of nosocomial infections, cost of nosocomial infections, mortality associated with these infections, major sites for infection to occur and intervention and treatment.
DVD / 60 minutes
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Infectious diseases pose significant hazards to staff and residents in long-term care. Controlling the spread of infection is like fighting an invisible enemy. When staff members take the appropriate precautions, caregivers and residents should never see the results. Only when infection control breaks down do the hazardous effects become obvious.
The consequences of infectious diseases can be painful. Residents are at increased risk of infection. Many of them are sick, while others are elderly and more vulnerable. Many just cannot handle any further insult to their frail condition. Prevention is where staff and caregivers in long-term care can have the greatest impact on safety and good health. In this educational video, we will:
Define the risk imposed by infectious diseases
Explain infection control procedures
Describe procedures your staff and caregivers must take to ensure safety for themselves and their residents
DVD
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Tom Betz, MD; Austin Health and Human Services
Information on STD's including syphillis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, genital herpes, genital warts, trichomonasis and AIDS. Discuss treatment individuals with STD's.
DVD / 60 minutes
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Marijane Barbone, RN; Virginia Strootman, BSN, RN, CAN; Sue Masoorli, RN
Program discusses the four types of plebitis; the nursing management of phlebitis; and the CDC vascular access device blood culture protocol.
DVD / 60 minutes
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Norman Guzick, MD; Phoebe Rich, MD - John Wolf, MD; H. Irving Katz, MD
Psychosocial Ramifications and Epidemiology; Diagnosis and Differential; Current Treatment Strategies for Onychomycosis; Safety Concerns Regarding Drug Interaction Potential and Liver Metabolism
DVD / 90 minutes
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Ann McCloud Sneath, RN, MSN,CRNP; Amy Levi, CNM, MSN; Monica Choi, PhD, CRNP
Identify various types of STDs in women by taking sexual histories; Educate adolescents on healthy behaviours; Recognize the types of STDs that require and/or treatment; Recognize that patients may have coexisting STD's; Identify resources for recommended treatments; Identify high risk behaviours through history and a physical; Counsel sexually active women in choosing contraceptives methods that will reduce their risks of STD's; Educate women on gender-related risk factors for acquiring STD's.
DVD / 60 minutes
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Richard P. Wenzel, MD, MSc; Robert C. Moellering, Jr., MD; Issam Raad, MD, FACP; W. Michael Scheld, MD; Jerome J. Schentag, PharmD
Nationally renowned faculty of medical experts giving presentations on gram positive aerobic infections and resistance to treatment. Special emphasis is given to advanced studies in treating various infections.
DVD / 90 minutes
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