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the reasoning process used to ensure safe
nursing practice and quality care. Critical
thinking when developed in the
practitioner includes adherence to
intellectual standards, proficiency in using
reasoning, a commitment to develop and
maintain intellectual traits of the mind and
habits of thought and the competent use of
thinking skills and abilities for sound
clinical judgments and safe
decision-making. This video covers the
relationships among the nursing process,
critical thinking, the problem-solving
process, and the decision-making process
while exploring ways of demonstrating
critical thinking.
Item no. : LU27340126
Format : DVD
Price : USD 156.00
FUNDAME
FUNDAMENTALS FUNDAME NTALS OF
NURSING: NURSING: CULTURE CULTURE AND
AND
HERITAGE
HERITAGE
This topic gives are outlook of the
rationale for the National Standards for
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate
Services in Health Care. It discusses the
components of Cultural Care nursing,
heritage consistency, and HEALTH
traditions and methods of heritage
assessment. It is in this video lecture
where folk healing is contrasted and
differentiated from biomedical care.
Factors related to communication with
culturally diverse patients and colleagues
are highlighted and examples of the
different health views of culturally diverse
people. Viewers are taken into the
processing of planning culturally sensitive,
appropriate, and competent nursing
interventions.
Item no. : NJ27340127
Format : DVD
Price : USD 156.00
FUNDAMENTALS FUNDAMENTALS OF
OF
NURSING: NURSING: DELEGATING,
DELEGATING,
MANAGING MANAGING AND AND LEADING
LEADING
The nurse retains accountability for
delegation i.e., the transfer of
responsibility for the performance of an
activity from individual to another while
accountability for the outcome. As nurse it
is important to understand the
characteristics of tasks appropriate to
delegate to unlicensed and licensed
assistive personnel. This video lecture
covers the five rights of delegation,
differentiates leadership from
management and formal from informal
leaders. The lecture highlights different
leadership styles, and lists the
characteristics of an effective leader.
Nurse as Manager is a new concept that
has been adopted by many facilities so
levels of management are covered in this
lecture together with four functions of
management, roles and functions of nurse
managers. The skills and competencies
needed by a nurse manager, the role of
the leader/manager in planning for and
implementing change are imperative in
this topic.
Item no. : WZ27340128
Format : DVD
Price : USD 156.00
FUNDAMENTALS FUNDAMENTALS OF
OF
NURSING: NURSING: DIAGNOSTIC
DIAGNOSTIC
TESTING TESTING
TESTING
A diagnostic test is any kind of medical
test performed to aid in the diagnosis or
detection of disease; to diagnose diseases,
and preferably sub-classify it regarding, for
example, severity and treatability or to
confirm that a person is free from disease.
In this video students learn the nurse's role
for each of the phases involved in
diagnostic testing, list common blood tests,
and accurately how to measure blood
glucose from a capillary blood specimen
using a blood glucose meter. It is the
nursing responsibilities for specimen
collection thus students learn the rationale
for the collection and testing of each type
of specimen such as stool, urine, sputum,
and throat specimens. Furthermore,
visualization procedures that may be used
for the client with gastrointestinal, urinary,
and cardiopulmonary alterations are
discussed, this may include CT, MRI, and
nuclear imaging studies and the nurse's
role in caring for clients undergoing
aspiration/biopsy procedures are
emphasized.
Item no. : EN27340129
Format : DVD
Price : USD 156.00
FUNDAMENTALS FUNDAMENTALS OF
OF
NURSING:
NURSING:
DOCUMENTATION DOCUMENTATION AND
AND
REPORTING
REPORTING
REPORTING
Documentation is the written or printed
record of a clients care; it is an essential
nursing responsibility and it is the nurse's
responsibility that the record remains
CONFIDENTIAL .Documentation allows
continuity of care, gives a way to let other
healthcare workers know what we have
done, and is a legal documentation on the
client. Purposes for documentation and
reporting will include communication,
Legal documentation, Financial
billing/reimbursement, Education,
Research, and Audit-monitoring/quality
assurance. This lecture covers the
measures used to maintain the
confidentiality of client records and
contrast different documentation methods:
source-oriented and problem-oriented
medical records, PIE, focus charting,
charting by exception, computerized
records, and the case management model.
Various forms in the client record (e.g.,
flow sheets, progress notes, care plans,
critical pathways, Kardexes,
discharge/transfer forms) are used to
document steps of the nursing process
(assessment, diagnosis, planning,
implementation, and evaluation). It is the
nurse's role in reporting, conferring, and
making referrals. Documentation needed
for clients in acute care, home health care,
and long-term care settings are discussed;
guidelines for effective recording that
meets legal and ethical standards and
reporting client data.
Item no. : GC27340130
Format : DVD
Price : USD 156.00
FUNDAMENTALS FUNDAMENTALS OF OF
OF
NURSING: NURSING: FECAL
FECAL
ELIMINATION
ELIMINATION
Defecation (bowel movement) is the
process of expulsion of feces from the
anus and rectum. This topic discusses
factors that influence fecal elimination,
patterns of defecation and various
characteristics and constituents of feces
distinguishing normal from abnormal. The
lecture describes methods used to assess
the intestinal tract, common causes and
effects of selected fecal elimination
problems and examples of nursing
diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions
for clients with elimination problems.
Students learn measures that maintain
normal fecal elimination patterns and
essentials of fecal stoma care for clients
with ostomies.
Item no. : NV27340131
Format : DVD
Price : USD 156.00
FUNDAMENTALS FUNDAMENTALS OF OF
NURSING: NURSING: FLUID,
FLUID,
ELECTROLYTE, ELECTROLYTE, ACID ACID-BASE
ACID BASE
BALANCE
BALANCE
BALANCE
Electrolytes play a vital role in maintaining
homeostasis within the body; they help to
regulate myocardial and neurological
function, fluid balance, oxygen delivery,
acid-base balance and much more. This
lecture discusses the function, distribution,
movement, and regulation of fluids and
electrolytes in the body while looking at
the regulation of acid-base balance in the
body, including the roles of buffers, the
lungs, and the kidneys. Factors affecting
normal body fluid, electrolyte, and
acid-base balance and the risk factors for,
and the causes and effects of, fluid,
electrolyte, and acid-base imbalances are
discussed in this lecture. Students will
learn to collect assessment data related to
the client's fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base
balances and examples of nursing
diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions
for clients with altered fluid, electrolyte, or
acid-base balance. Emphasis is placed on
teaching clients measures to maintain
fluid-electrolyte balance and also how to
correct imbalances of fluids, electrolytes or
acids and bases such as enteral or
parenteral replacements and blood
transfusions.
Item no. : NV27340132
Format : DVD
Price : USD 156.00
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