Emergency Management Planning
Mass casualty emergencies can take many forms, from natural disasters to terrorist attacks. These events affect entire communities and bring about a surge of victims, overwhelming the capacities of first responders (police, fire, and EMS) and hospit...
Cloud Technology and Teaching: Helping Students Understand, Use and Maximize Cloud Technology in Courses
Students today use cloud technology for many personal applications. Students need to understand how this technology works in order to be prepared for the global workplace. Instructors can enhance their courses with cloud technology so students can e...
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.
Bedmaking: The Right Way
This program demonstrates and describes the procedures for making a patient bed in a clinical setting. Making the occupied and the unoccupied patient bed are shown.
Basic Clinical Skills: The Bed Bath
The bed bath is an important part of the individualized care many patients receive while hospitalized, and is one of the basic skills all nurses must know. The bed bath not only helps keep the patient clean but also maintains healthy skin by providi...
Suctioning: Nasotracheal Suctioning and Monitoring Complications
This program describes the anatomy of the airway, demonstrates methods designed to mobilize respiratory secretions, demonstrates nasotracheal suctioning techniques used to remove accumulated secretions, and describes potential complications to monit...
Suctioning: Oropharyngeal and Endotracheal Techniques
This program describes the anatomy of the airway, demonstrates oropharyngeal suctioning techniques, and both open and closed in-line endotracheal suctioning techniques used to remove accumulated secretions.