Nursing and Allied Health Video Collection

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020, infection control in the workplace has become more important than ever. Successful infection control is based on good hygiene around a range of practices that arise from identifying hazards and implementing risk management for those hazards. This involves understanding: • the infectious agents • the work practices that prevent the transmission of infection in different settings • management systems that support effective work practices

A complete review and demonstration of the procedure for bladder catheterization, including equipment setup, catheter insertion for male and female patients, and urine collection.

This short video is about preparing the patient and catheter prior to female urethral catheterization.

This video teaches how to insert an indwelling urinary catheter in a female patient.

This video teaches how to insert an indwelling urinary catheter in a male patient.

This video demonstrates how to perform an intermittent straight catheterization.

Placing a nasogastric tube is a critical skill for nurses providing care in many different care settings. Their use is often indicated for both diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of patients, including to assess and treat upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding, withdraw gastric contents for analysis, allow gastric lavage, to provide long- and short-term feeding, to administer medications, and for gastric decompression. This program describes types of nasogastric tubes, looks at indications and contraindications for their use, demonstrates how to properly insert a tube, identifies signs of respiratory distress that indicate the tube has entered the trachea, and describes how to verify placement of the tube in the stomach. It also reviews the procedure for removing a tube and explains what to document.

This program presents stethoscope use for lung auscultation, the physiology of normal breath sounds, selected landmarks used for auscultation, and the basic procedures for a pulmonary auscultation assessment. It differentiates tracheal breath sounds, bronchial breath sounds, bronchovesicular breath sounds, and vesicular breath sounds and identifies anterior and posterior landmarks for breath sounds.

This video teaches how to perform a head-to-toe physical assessment using palpation and visualization. It explains how to develop a plan for an admission assessment, create a supportive environment for a patient, and ensure patient privacy.

This instructional video, from the Nursing Assistant series produced by Medcom, Inc., is about the importance of infection control practices.

Preventing the transmission of infective organisms is an important aspect of healthcare and a major concern for all nurses. This series looks at ways in which this transmission takes place and actions the nurse must perform to prevent this from occurring.

Because of frail health and a declining immune system, many elderly residents are more susceptible to infections – for example, urinary tract infections or respiratory infections such as colds or pneumonia. Infection control practices as simple as handwashing can help prevent the spread of illnesses such as these. A disease or infection acquired by a resident may result in discomfort, pain or even death. If you are exposed to germs at the facility, you could also become ill, and in some cases, you could spread that illness to your family and friends.This program reviews two basic but very important infection control practices: handwashing and glove usage. Frontline caregivers will learn how these practices can reduce the spread of disease and infection. After completing this course, the learner should be able to:• Describe the three links in the chain of infection• List three ways in which disease can be spread• Describe how to perform routine handwashing• Give three examples of when to wash hands• Give three examples of when to use gloves

This program, the first in a two-part series, provides nurses and others with an understanding of the importance of preventing healthcare-associated infections in acute care facilities, starting with a review of infection control guidelines and procedures recommended by government agencies and professional organizations. After viewing this program, the learner should be able to:• List the six links in the Chain of Infection.• Identify the most effective means of preventing the transmission of pathogens.• Describe the key components of both Standard Precautions and Transmission-based Precautions.• Explain Safe Injection Practices.

Because they are in direct and constant contact with those they care for, techniques for infection control are critical skills for nursing assistants to master. Learning and practicing effective infection control skills will help the nursing assistant prevent the spread of microorganisms that can cause infectious diseases, and protect the health and safety of all those they care for, as well as co-workers and themselves. This program teaches new nursing assistants the important skills necessary for controlling the spread of infectious disease. After watching this program viewers should be able to describe the use of, and demonstrate basic infection control practices, including:• Standard precautions• Transmission-based precautions• Hand hygiene practices• Use of protective gloves• Use of a protective gown• Handling infectious waste• Handling linen• Cleaning a blood spill