Competent Care in a Culturally Diverse Nation
Culturally competent care adapts care interventions to the cultural needs and preferences (ethnic and religious beliefs, values, and practices) of diverse clients. This program provides practical and effective methods for recognizing and dealing wit...
Assessment Challenges in a Multicultural Environment: Cultural Competence
About the title: This video addresses and provides specific methods for assessing cyanosis in people of color and checking for accidental and non-accidental injury versus normal variations in skin tone. Cognitive and sensory impairments are also dis...
Building the Perfect Bug: Virology, Rogue Science, and Bioterrorism
Why did Dutch virologist Ron Fouchier and his team of researchers purposely engineer a lethal, airborne bird flu virus? That’s the first of many questions raised in this timely, eye-opening investigation. Why did Fouchier, in an uncanny parallel w...
Peter Singer: A Dangerous Mind
Dr. Peter Singer has been called the most influential living philosopher. He has also been called a monster. In this thought-provoking program, he faces his critics and discusses his ideas on euthanasia, abortion, and infanticide. The program follow...
Who Plays God? Medicine, Money, and Ethics in American Health Care
This program explores a variety of life-and-death situations to illustrate the spectrum of highly controversial ethical decisions made on a daily basis in modern American medicine. Hosted by ABC News medical correspondent George Strait, and featurin...
Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
This multi-award-winning program documents four actual situations where nurses confront difficult ethical decisions, as they balance the often contradictory views of patients, family members, and other staff about what is best for their patients. Co...