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Nursing Practice

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE: WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT IS NOT

What is evidence-based practice, and where does evidence-based practice fit into the professional practice of nursing?

This program - now updated with a new look and feel - presents the learner with important concepts about the relationship between nursing practice and nursing research, and how evidence-based practice influences decisions, interventions and evaluation of nursing care.

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

Define evidence-based practice

Explain the process for using research to improve patient care

Describe the development of a nursing plan of care using evidence-based practice

DVD / 2017 / 20 minutes

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NURSING THEORY: APPLICATION TO NURSING PRACTICE

Nursing theory is the foundation of knowledge for the direction and delivery of nursing care and is used to describe, explain, predict and develop a plan of nursing care. This program presents the learner with important concepts about how nursing theory is applied to the care of patients.

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

Define nursing theory and gain an understanding of its importance and application

Define and distinguish between "grand theories" and mid-range theories

Implement an expanded nursing assessment

Perform appropriate nursing interventions and evaluations

DVD / 2017 / 20 minutes

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"BOB, I'M REALLY BUSY": THE IMPACT OF IMPERSONAL CARE ON THE WELL-BEING OF PERSONS LIVING WITH DEMENTIA

Through five short trigger scenarios involving assistance for a person living with dementia, this DVD presents care situations that will open up discussion on how best to provide resident-specific support and assistance. Each brief scenario is designed to demonstrate the impact of a caregiver's tone, actions, and level of sensitivity to the resident's needs. This up-close-and-personal look at caregiving will give caregivers a chance to dissect and analyze how they provide care, and foster a deeper understanding of how to interact positively with persons living with dementia.

DVD / 2015 / 12 minutes

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MEDICAL ERRORS: PREVENTING MEDICATION ERRORS

Errors that occur when providing medication is one of the most common and most avoidable types of medical errors. Medical Errors: Preventing Medication Errors, the final program in the three-part series on preventing Medical Errors, provides an overview of the different kinds of medication errors that can occur, and offers specific guidance on how nursing staff can prevent these errors. This includes implementation of safety recommendations from the Joint Commission, FDA, Institute of Safe Medication Practices, and other organizations described in this program.

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

Identify the different types of medication errors that can occur

Explain the steps that must be taken in daily practice to successfully prevent medication errors

Describe the National Patient Safety Goals that specifically address medication errors

Identify key precautions that can be incorporated into daily nursing practice to help protect patients from the possibility of medication errors

DVD / 2015 / 16 minutes

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FEED HER WHILE SHE WALKS

When a resident won't sit long enough to eat, or insists on leaving, or wanders into potentially unsafe areas - what do you do?

This 20-minute DVD will help. Using real people and real situations, it offers thought-provoking insights into wandering behavior, and shows effective examples of providing person-centered care to residents who wander or insist on leaving. It also shows how an interdisciplinary approach to understanding and adjusting care to each resident's specific needs can promote independence and safety, and identifies environmental cues that can help deter wandering into unsafe or private areas (such as, another resident's room).

Includes strategies for:

Working with residents who wander at night

Working with residents who keep leaving the building

Working with residents who move items or get into things

Caregivers will be inspired to find creative, flexible ways to redirect and engage persons who wander or want to leave.

DVD / 2014 / 20 minutes

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"I'LL BE THERE FOR YOU" - PROVIDING PERSON-CENTERED DEMENTIA CARE

By Jett Jousma

Learn how person-centered care can positiviely impact each day for persons with dementia...

This DVD shows how to make a hands-on shift to person-centered dementia care that engages the whole person and creates a support system based on each resident's needs and preferences.

From natural wake-ups to music therapy, the DVD looks at the benefits of involving residents in their care as much as possible, finding ways to help them to "continue" living life the way they prefer, and engaging them in personalized activities that boost self-esteem and interaction. It also empowers nursing assistants to act upon (and communicate to other team members) their first-hand knowledge of each resident to ensure a better understanding of their care needs.

DVD / 2013 / 28 minutes

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SPIRITUAL CARE IN NURSING PRACTICE

This program explores the place of spirituality in nursing practice, presents guidelines for incorporating spiritual care into nursing, and teaches specific skills for effective spiritual care. This program also considers the relationship between healthcare and pastoral care professionals.

DVD / 2013 / 27 minutes

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COMMON FEEDING TUBES: NASOGASTRIC INTUBATION

Placing a nasogastric tube is a critical skill for nurses providing care in many different care settings. Their use is often indicated for both diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of patients, including to assess and treat upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding, withdraw gastric contents for analysis, allow gastric lavage, to provide long- and short-term feeding, to administer medications, and for gastric decompression.

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

Describe the different types of nasogastric tubes

List indications and contraindications for the use of nasogastric tubes

Describe the process of placing a nasogastric tube

Identify signs of respiratory distress indicating the tube has passed into the trachea

Describe three methods of verifying placement of the tube in the stomach

Explain the procedure for removing a nasogastric tube

List key items that must be documented when placing and removing a nasogastric tube

DVD / 2012 / 19 minutes

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COMMON FEEDING TUBES: REPLACEMENT BALLOON GASTROSTOMY TUBES

The increased use of gastrostomy tubes for long-term feeding and other treatments has made the replacement of balloon gastrostomy tubes an increasingly common nursing procedure. Nurses need to know the basic techniques for the care and replacement of balloon gastrostomy tubes to assist and ensure positive patient outcomes. The purpose of this course is to teach nurses and other qualified caregivers the basic techniques for the care and replacement of a balloon gastrostomy tube.

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

List health conditions that commonly require use of a gastrostomy tube

Identify the key features of replacement balloon gastrostomy tubes

List steps required for proper care of all components of a balloon gastrostomy tube

Describe the use of a daily maintenance checklist for the gastrostomy tube, including checking the patient for pain, discomfort or pressure around the tube exit site

List supplies needed for replacement of a balloon gastrostomy tube

Describe the steps required for proper replacement of a balloon gastrostomy tube

DVD / 2012 / 17 minutes

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MORE THAN WORDS: A NEW CULTURE OF CARE AND COMMUNICATION WITH PERSONS WHO HAVE DEMENTIA

This culture-changing DVD demonstrates (though real interactions) how person-centered care and knowledge of the resident can reduce dementia-related episodes, such as, sundowning and aggressive-protective reactions when bathing, and wanting to leave.

As it pinpoints the crucial role of the CAN as caregiver and friend, it also shows the importance of communicating directly, and creating a true "relationship" with persons with dementia. Caregivers will learn valuable tips to redirect and lessen anxieties for persons with dementia while preserving their personal autonomy and dignity.

The DVD covers:

Building and maintaining a relationship

Dealing with difficult situations

Communicating to show respect

Accepting their reality

Respecting the person's preferences

Encouraging use of remaining abilities

DVD / 2011 / 25 minutes

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NEVER EVENTS AND HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED CONDITIONS: PREVENTION PRACTICES

This program will discuss nursing practices that can prevent Never Events - many of which are already in place in healthcare institutions.

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

Define a "Never Event"

Identify the 11 hospital-acquired events that currently incur payment implications

Implement the practices and measures that should be taken to prevent the occurrence of the 11 Never Events

DVD / 2011 / 17 minutes

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NUTRITION IN CRITICAL CARE PATIENTS

Melissa Cordell, RN, BSN; Caroline Ghanbari, RD, LD, CNSD; Terry M. Lea, RN, BSN

Identify essential data utilized in determining a patient's nutritional status; discuss the appropriateness of oral, tube, or IV feedings for the critically ill patient; State 4 common parental nutrition additives; Identify the benefits of enteral nutrition vs. parental nutrition; Recognize the potential complication in tube-fed patients; Describe the 4 methods of formula administration.

DVD / 2008 / 60 minutes

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STRESS MANAGEMENT FOR NURSES

Donna Poole, RN, MSN, CS

This program will train the nurse in some of the latest techniques to mitigate or alleviate stress induced by the caregiver's workplace. Several options are highlighted that can be implemented in the workplace to reduce the impact of stress causing events.

DVD / 2008 / 30 minutes

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CASE STUDIES IN MEDICATION ERROR PREVENTION

Caring for patients is challenging and fulfilling, but often stressful and harried as well. But frequent interruptions and constantly changing patient needs can lead to error. Since nurses do most of the actual medication administration in a facility, they provide the last opportunity to prevent a medication error.This program presents 12 scenarios that result in medication errors, then discuss how they could have been avoided. The goal is to help the viewer identify ways errors can creep in to nursing practice and develop strategies that can be used to prevent them.

DVD / 2007 / 29 minutes

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DETECTING DEPRESSION AND NURSING STRATEGIES

Gail Stuart, PhD, RN, CS, FAAN; Michele Laria, MSN, RN; Linda Beeber, PhD, RN; Carol Glod, MS, RN

Prominent physicians and nurses discuss the fundamentals of depression and its detection as well as treatment options for the disease. Specific topics include: definition, epidemiology, consequences and diagnosis of depression/patient education and compliance counseling; etiology of depression; treatment options - psychotherapy; treatment options - medications.

DVD / 2006 / 120 minutes

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ENHANCING COMMUNICATION AND COUNSELLING SKILLS IN TODAYS NURSING PRACTICE

Caregiver. Educator. Counselor. These are just some of the many roles today's nurses assume within their day-to-day practice. The video programs in this DVD were created specifically to educate nursing students and nurses in the role of counselor by highlighting and focusing on the following communication/counseling skills:

Listening and Attending

Empathy

Probing

Confronting

Self-Disclosure

Immediacy

Reflecting Content/Information Giving

Each program contains detailed information about the skill featured. To demonstrate how the skill is practised, scenarios realistic in today's nursing practice are featured. These programs are of interest not only to nursing students but also to practicing nursing professionals who are interested in enhancing their communication and counselling skills.

DVD / 2006 / 95 minutes

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INTRODUCTION: CONCEPTS, VALUES AND DECISION MAKING

Ethics are at the core of professional nursing practice. This program provides a solid introduction to the fundamental ethical terms and concepts that students and nurses need to know. Through scenarios and expert interviews, it clearly defines justice, fidelity, autonomy, moral distress, and other important concepts in ethical practice. This program also explores the vital role that personal values play in ethical situations and how to best understand and address value conflicts. Program discusses the importance of nurse self-regard and some of the key steps to sound thical decision making.

DVD / 2006 / 22 minutes

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ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE

Kelly Scherbenske, RN; Laura A. Martin, RN; Maryann Kelly, CRNA, PhD

Discuss what identifies acute respiratory failure; List ten signs and symptoms a patient with acute respiratory failure might exhibit; identify five causes of acute respiratory failure that commonly confront emergency room personnel; explain the factors that predispose a patient to the development of acute respiratory distress syndrome in the ICU; identify persons at high risk for developing acute respiratory failure in the immediate postoperative period; discuss the criteria used in the diagnosis of acute respiratory failure; describe the impact that drugs have had on the treatment of acute respiratory failure; list the major indications for the use of mechanical ventilation for those patients with acute respiratory failure.

DVD / 60 minutes

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CANCER PAIN MANAGEMENT: IDENTIFYING APPROPRIATE NURSING ROLES & INTERVENTIONS

Leta Truett, RN, MN, CCRN; Deborah M. Thorpe, PhD, RN, CS; Mary Cunningham, RN, MS; Talulah Ruger, RN, BSN

This program features physicians and doctors discussing various appropriate nursing rules and interventions in pain management. The major areas of discussion are as follows: acute or post-operative pain management - current techniques and therapies, barriers to effective management; chronic non-malignant pain management or behavioral/cognitive pain management- classifications of chronic non-malignant pain characteristics, data collection, and treatment, cancer pain management - dosing regimens; nursing assessment for acute, chronic non-malignant or cancer pain - current therapies and techniques, point controlled analgesia (PCA), epidural analgesia.

DVD / 120 minutes

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HEALTHCARE REFORM: IMPACT ON NURSING

Hillary Rodham Clinton; panel: Michael Evans, PhD, RN, FACHE; Kathleen Smith, BS, RN, CNN; Virginia Trotter Betts, JD, MSN, RN; Carol Alexander, RN, MS; Patricia L. Starck, DSN, RN, FAAN; Diana Mason; Judith Kline Leavitt

This program addresses the effects of healthcare reform on nursing. Speakers will present an overview of the reform issues and ways in which individuals can become involved in the process. Featured are exerpts from "New Directions in Healthcare" presented by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chairperson, President's National Health Reform Task Force, prerecorded at the American Nurses Assoc, Convention in San Antonio, TX, June 11, 1994.

DVD / 120 minutes

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IV THERAPY: CENTRAL VASCULAR CATHETER - INDICATIONS AND NURSING MANAGEMENT

Virginia Strootman, RN - Marijane Barbone, RN - Sue Masoorli, RN

The objectives of this program are to distinguish the three types of central vascular access devices, explain implementation of the appropriate nursing management of central vascular access devices, and articulate the rationale for central vascular access device nursing procedures. Specific topics include: Non-Tunneled Catheters; Tunneled Catheters; Implanted Ports .

DVD / 60 minutes

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NURSING PERSPECTIVES: SUPPORTIVE CARE FOR THE ONCOLOGY PATIENT

Richard Payne, MD; Lillian M. Nail, PhD, RN, FAAN; Carol P. Curtis, RN, MSN, OCN; Faith Ottery, MD, PhD, FACN; Deborah M. Thorpe, PhD, RN, CS

Discuss pain initiative and its impact on our country; understand the challenges in managing cancer pain; describe principles of pain management; recognize fatigue as a side-effect of cancer treatment and understand nutritional oncology as an approach to cost/complication prevention.

DVD / 90 minutes

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ORGAN DONATIONS: IDENTIFICATION, REFERRAL AND CONSENT PROCESS

Suzanne Oppermann, RN, BSN, CPTC; Hermione Sullivan, RN, MS, CNS; Michael N. Diringer, MD; Valerie Russas

This program is designed to educate nurses and medical professionals on how donor potential is measured, how to identify and refer potential organ donors, and the many factors which should be considered in the consent process. Nurses and medical professionals will have a better understanding of their role in the organ donation process, as well as the role of the organ procurement organization.

DVD / 60 minutes

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RESOLVING NURSE / PHYSICIAN CONFLICTS

Regina A. Domenici, RN; Joyce Delaney, RN; Hinda G. Sack, MD; William T. Riley, MD

Principles of successful conflict resolution

DVD / 60 minutes

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UNDERSTANDING ADVANCE DIRECTIVES FOR HEALTH CARE AND THE NURSES ROLE

Margaret W. Berrio, RN, MS; Donna DeMartino, RN; Maureen Levesque, RN; Norma Fortin; Lisa Walker

Define the patient's right to self determination; Describe the historical perspective surrounding the PDSA; Identify approaches that may be used to communicate choices for medical care at the end of life; Identify factors that influence decision-making for healthcare at the end of life; Identify approaches to resolving conflict among health care agents caring for a patient with an ADHC; Describe the role of the nurse regarding Advance Directives; Discuss strategies to facilitate the Advance Directives process; Define the implications for decision-making as a Health Care Proxy Agent; Describe a family's experience with the Advance Directive process.

DVD / 60 minutes

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