Airway care: tracheostomy care, tube change, and artificial airway cuff management
A patient with a tracheostomy tube has many care needs. Most important is the maintenance of airway patency. Other needs are preventing infection of either the airway or the stoma, providing some form of effective communication, and providing emotio...
Basic clinical skills: urethral catheterization
This program demonstrates and describes the process for performing a urethral catheterization. Both intermittent straight catheters and indwelling retention catheters are shown and discussed. The need for patient education and patient support during...
Fluids and electrolytes balance: basics
Provides nursing students, new nurses and others with a foundation for understanding the role fluids and electrolytes play in the health of the human body. Describes the basics of fluid and electrolyte balance, the main electrolytes in the body, and...
Fluids and electrolytes balance: fluid volume imbalances
Provides nursing students, new nurses, and others with the fundamental information they need to begin building their understanding of the role fluid volume and electrolytes play in the health of a body.
Fluids and electrolytes balance: electrolyte imbalances
Third program in a three-part series that provides nursing students, new nurses, and others with the fundamental information they need to begin building their understanding of the role fluid volume and electrolytes play in the health of a body.
The human immune system: the immune response
This program describes and illustrates the human immune system's response to bacteria and viruses. Part 2 of a 3-part series.
Evidence-based practice: what it is and what it is not
This program 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.