Online Video Courses
Administering Intramuscular, Intradermal and Subcutaneous Injections
Age-Specific Care: Adults
This series of programs will cover age-specific considerations for every stage of life, from neonates, immediately after birth, to those over the age of 80. This first program in the series will cover a number of general cultural and communications considerations that apply across many age ranges, plus it will look more closely at the age-specific considerations for neonates and infants up to 1-year of age. Later programs in the series will cover the later age ranges.
Age-Specific Care: Neonates and Infants
This series of programs will cover age-specific considerations for every stage of life, from neonates, immediately after birth, to those over the age of 80. This first program in the series will cover a number of general cultural and communications considerations that apply across many age ranges, plus it will look more closely at the age-specific considerations for neonates and infants up to 1-year of age. Later programs in the series will cover the later age ranges.
Age-Specific Care: Toddlers Through Teens
This program is the second in a series of programs that will cover age specific considerations for every stage of life, from neonates, immediately after birth, to those over the age of 80. This second program in the series covers Age-specific care for toddlers through teens.
Aging: The Natural Process
Each individual has unique abilities and needs. This is as true of the elderly as it is of the young. However, despite our individuality, as we age we can all expect changes to occur in the systems that make up the human body. Although exactly what kinds of changes will take place and when, vary greatly with each individual, aging is inescapable—a part of the continuum of life. This program will cover the natural process of aging and the changes we can expect to see physically, mentally and emotionally.
Airway Care: Tracheostomy Care, Tube Change, and Artificial Cuff Management
The patient with a tracheostomy tube has many care needs. Most important is the maintenance of airway patency. This program focuses on the essentials of direct airway care.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Cardiovascular System
The cardiovascular system is both simple in function and amazing in performance. It consists of four components: the heart, blood vessels, and blood and lymph vessels. These four components work together to accomplish a simple task: take oxygen and nutrients to every cell in the body, and take away waste products from them.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Digestive System
This program will introduce the basic anatomy of the alimentary canal and present beginning concepts of how the digestive system functions to provide nutrients for maintaining a healthy body.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Endocrine System
When we accidentally touch something hot, the heat sensation travels instantly along sensory nerves and the impulse to jerk our hand away travels instantly back along motor nerves. The nervous system coordinates these kinds of quick response actions. However, another type of coordination is required to regulate our metabolic activities, such as causing our heart to beat faster when we are afraid, which prepares us for quick action if necessary, or maintaining proper glucose levels in our blood, which requires monitoring 24 hours a day, day after day. This type of coordination is performed by the endocrine system.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Integumentary System
Skin tissue grows faster than any other organ tissue and is constantly renewing itself by growing new skin cells and sloughing off old ones. This includes our hair, finger and toenails, which are composed of the same type of cells as our skin and, along with our skin and glands, make up the integumentary system.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Muscular System
Found everywhere throughout the body, muscles are tough, elastic tissues that contract to make our body parts move. We use muscles to walk, jump, throw a ball or even blink an eyelid. Muscles in our chest make breathing possible, muscles in our heart pump our blood throughout our circulatory system, and muscles in our stomach and intestines move food through our digestive tract. Muscles are responsible for maintaining our posture and, during physical activities, produce heat. About 40-50% of our body weight is made up of muscle tissue, a little more in men, a little less in women. These structures are responsible for every movement we make.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Nervous System
Each organ system is crucial to maintaining our lives and completing even the simplest daily activities. The mere wiggle of a finger involves the integumentary, muscular, skeletal, and circulatory systems. One system however, coordinates all the activities of these other systems and without it, we would not be able to function at all: the nervous system.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Reproductive System
Each of us begins our individual life as a fertilized egg or zygote. Via the reproductive organs, the female produces an egg cell—also called an ovum or gamete, and the male produces the fertilizing seed cell—also called a spermatozoon or sporophyte. When they fuse into one cell—the zygote—all of the necessary means and information required for the growth of a mature man or woman are present, and with the proper nutrition and care, we are the result. In this program, we will examine the male and female reproductive systems, fertilization, pregnancy and lactation.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Respiratory System
Every cell in our body needs oxygen: without it, we would die within minutes. Every cell in our body must also rid itself of carbon dioxide. As we breathe- or respire - we obtain oxygen by inhaling. When we exhale, we release carbon dioxide.
Like other bodily functions such as heartbeat and blood pressure, breathing goes on without our conscious attention - for example, when we are asleep. However, we can also control our breathing if we wish: during exercise or when swimming, and of course, when we talk or sing. The organs that make breathing possible form the respiration system.
Like other bodily functions such as heartbeat and blood pressure, breathing goes on without our conscious attention - for example, when we are asleep. However, we can also control our breathing if we wish: during exercise or when swimming, and of course, when we talk or sing. The organs that make breathing possible form the respiration system.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Skeletal System
The skeletal system includes all the bones of the body plus the joints where they attach to each other. Our skeleton protects our internal organs, provides a framework or scaffolding that allows us to stand upright and move, stores minerals that our body needs to function properly, and produces blood cells.
Our muscles, pulling this way or that way on our bones, produce movement, and without the protection of our skeleton, even a simple bump on the head or chest could injure vital internal organs. Pound-for-pound the bones of the skeletal system are stronger than steel.
Our muscles, pulling this way or that way on our bones, produce movement, and without the protection of our skeleton, even a simple bump on the head or chest could injure vital internal organs. Pound-for-pound the bones of the skeletal system are stronger than steel.
Anatomy and Physiology: The Urinary System
Every cell in our body is like an engine. In addition, like the engine in a car for example, each cell requires fuel to run and produces waste by-products that must be eliminated. The circulatory system delivers the fuel that cells require, including oxygen provided by the respiratory system and nutrients provided by the digestive system. The circulatory system also removes cellular waste by-products, including carbon dioxide, which is expelled from the body by the respiratory system, and waste by-products dissolved in water, which are filtered and eliminated by the urinary system.
Antianxiety Agents
This program will introduce anxiety disorders, and will give an overview of the current medications and nursing interventions for treating them.
Antidepressant Agents
This course will discuss the condition known as depression, and will give an overview of the current medications and nursing interventions for treating item.
Antipsychotic Agents
This program will discuss the condition known as schizophrenia, and will give an overview of the current medications and nursing interventions for treating it.
Assessment of Respiratory Distress in the Pediatric Patient
This course addresses the issue of how to accurately identify and assess respiratory distress in the pediatric patient. Pediatric respiratory anatomy and physiology is discussed. Detailed information is also provided to guide nurses through the process of performing a physical assessment, evaluating the severity of the condition, and making appropriate interventions.
Assisted Delivery and Cesarean Section
Some women experience no problem giving birth to their babies. Others have difficulty and need assistance. Common procedures used to assist a baby's birth include forceps delivery, vacuum extraction and cesarean section. This course provides an overview of these procedures and details the Labor and Delivery nurse's responsibilities concerning forceps delivery, vacuum extraction and C-section. The course also discusses the nurse's role in patient education regarding these procedures.
Bedmaking: The Right Way
A clean, well-made bed not only feels good, but is an important component to an individual's comfort and safety. A well-made bed helps to avoid problems such as pressure sores and the spread of infection, and provides a sense of well-being and self-worth. This program demonstrates the proper techniques for changing the bed linens on both an occupied and unoccupied bed.
