Nursing and Allied Health Video Collection

Overview: The nurse often serves as the eyes and ears of the patient’s healthcare team, as he or she has the most frequent direct and prolonged patient contact. This frequent contact is a primary reason it is important for a nurse to be highly adept at patient assessment. A detailed assessment is part of every initial contact and is often referred to as the intake or admission assessment. This program demonstrates and describes the characteristic approach and “tools” used in a system-based assessment of a patient.

Objectives: After completing this course, the learner should be able to: Explain the clinical importance of the nursing assessment. List the “tools” used for making an objective assessment of a patient. Explain the value of reports from the patient, family members and friends. List other sources of information which allow for a more complete assessment. Describe processes involved with documenting and reporting an assessment.

Overview: This program demonstrates and describes a step-by-step approach to an initial head-to-toe assessment that would be used for screening when providing either inpatient or outpatient care. This includes collecting both subjective and objective data of key body systems for use in an assessment. This program provides a foundational understanding of this process.

Objectives: After completing this course, the learner should be able to: List key questions to ask when taking the patient’s history. Describe subjective and objective data to obtain in the assessment of the head and neck. Describe subjective and objective data to obtain in the assessment of the upper extremities. Describe subjective and objective data to obtain in the assessment of the chest and abdomen. Describe subjective and objective data to obtain in the assessment of the lower extremities. Describe subjective and objective data to obtain in a brief neurological assessment.

A thorough physical assessment is necessary for all clients whether in long term care, acute care or home health. Our focus is to take the professional through a comprehensive physical assessment, divided into upper body and lower body components.

This instructional video, from the Nursing Assessment series produced by Medcom, Inc., is about examination of the ears.

This instructional video, from the Nursing Assessment series produced by Medcom, Inc., is about examination of the eyes.

This instructional video, from the Nursing Assessment series produced by Medcom, Inc., is about examination of the torso.

This instructional video, from the Nursing Assessment series produced by Medcom, Inc., is about examination of the mouth.

This instructional video, from the Nursing Assessment series produced by Medcom, Inc., is about examination of the hands and head.

This instructional video, from the Nursing Assessment series produced by Medcom, Inc., is about measuring a patient's height, weight, and waist circumference.

This instructional video, from the Nursing Assessment series produced by Medcom, Inc., is about normal and abnormal breath sounds.