Multicultural Health Series: Walking in Beauty. Navaho beliefs about illness & curing.
The case focuses on a Navaho man with cancer. It emphasizes both aspects of communication and of world view. His understanding of the cause of his disease and how it should be treated are very different from those of biomedicine.

Multicultural Health Series: Voice inside the Phone. Using the Interpreter Line
Vignette illustrates the use of the language line service for interpreting in a medical setting. The physician is skeptical at first, but finds it very easy and helpful in treating the young son of an Armenian woman.

Multicultural Health Series: Changes. An older, Anglo American man comes into the clinic for a check-up. He's not happy to find that a young, female, East Indian physician with a rather heavy accent has replaced his regular doctor of 20 years. It is a good example for foreign-born physicians of how to deal with prejudice on the part of patients.

Multicultural Health Series: Day of Rest. An orthodox Jewish man brings his wife into the hospital to deliver a baby on the Sabbath. The segment focuses on the conflicts he has with the nurses due to his religious beliefs.

Multicultural Health Series: Rebirth. End of Life. Dr. Jerry Mitchell empathically assists an ethnic Chinese family as they come to terms with the unexpected death of their 22 year-old daughter. He benefits from a “cultural consult” with a Buddhist colleague.

Multicultural Health Series: Proof. Domestic Violence. Nurse Singh brings suspicions of domestic violence in a South Asian family to the attention of Physician Assistant, Eliza Polanco. Suspicions are confirmed when the patient finally whispers a request for help.

Multicultural Health Series: Pocket Full of Miracles. Alternative Medicine/Literacy Issues.
Dr. Funaki is surprised to learn that his patient from Colombia is using alternative medicines along with her prescribed medication and also finds out that she can't read her prescription labels even though they are in Spanish.

Multicultural Health Series: Lupe's Dilemma. Sexually Transmitted Disease. Lupe Pena is pregnant and infected for the second time with chlamydia. Physician Assistant Ernie Walker helps her come up with a safe, family-supported way to get her partner to come in for treatment.

Multicultural Health Series: Lost Opportunities. Mistrust and Denial. Roy Turner, an African American patient who came to the emergency room with a heart attack, is finally coming in for a follow-up visit in cardiology. Dr. Ryan provides appropriate clinical information and education, but cultural and economic barriers are ignored; trust and rapport are never achieved.

Multicultural Health Series: Between Two Worlds. Refugees Confronting the American Medical System. A care team comes to understand the unique concerns and sacrifices made by the Rhamatis in fleeing their native Afghanistan. The couple leaves this visit reassured that they will receive ongoing care in a safe, confidential, and welcoming environment.

Administering Oral, Topical, Suppository and Inhalant Medication. (26min). Reviews the knowledge and skills needed for oral, topical, suppository and inhalant medication administration. Guidelines for preparing oral medication are demonstrated including nasogastric tube and sublingual administration. Different forms of topical medications and techniques for application of topical discs, sterile ophthalmic ointments and drops, and nasal agents are shown. Devices used to administer prescribed inhalant medication are introduced and skills for their use are demonstrated.

Bedmaking: The Right Way. (18 min). This program demonstrates and describes the procedures for making a patient bed in a clinical setting. Making the occupied patient bed and the unoccupied patient bed are shown. Related issues regarding patient safety and comfort, infection control, and documentation are discussed.

Bloodborne Safety: Universal Precaution, Standard Precautions, and Needlestick Prevention in Acute Care. ( 41min). This video covers Standard Precautions as a means to prevent bloodborne pathogens such as HIV, and hepatitis B. It discusses the differences between universal precautions and standard precautions. This video also reviews personal protective equipment, safety medical devices, and post exposure steps.

Care of the Patient with an Indwelling Urethral Catheter. (15min). This video reviews the urinary tract and describes appropriate nursing interventions to maintain proper catheter functioning. Presents potential patient complications and nursing care required to prevent such complications. The importance of patient teaching is noted.

Deep Vein Thrombosis. (28 min). This program examines how DVT develops, including the genetic and acquired risk factors that make an occurrence likely. It also examines the life-threatening problems of pulmonary embolisms. Along with medical procedure used for early detection and treatment of DVT, the video includes case studies, personal experiences of patients, and descriptions of simple strategies for preventing and coping with blood clots.

Diabetes: Hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, and monitoring . (26 min). This video describes 3 acute, metabolic complications of diabetes: hypoglycemia, diabetic ketoacidosis, and hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state. It describes the risk factors, physiological changes, signs and symptoms, and treatment of the previous mentioned conditions. Presents the importance of blood and urine monitoring to prevent and detect these complications.

Lovenox self-injections : This video describes the steps of self- injection.

Medication Administration and Error Prevention: The Six Rights of Medication Administration: Part 1-1 and 1-2. (29min). An overview of the six rights of medication administration is covered. Also shows errors happen and demonstrates the steps than can prevent them.

Helping Interview: Basic Components . (19 min). The video illustrates effective attending skills. It discusses warmth, genuineness, openness, and empathy as necessary interviewing qualities. It presents the need for the client respect and autonomy.

Helping Interview: Opening, Questioning, and Use of Silence. (20min). Video demonstrates techniques for handling the client-initiated interview and the professional-initiated interview. Illustrates common pitfalls in questioning and gives examples of helpful questions. Discusses causes of silence and presents therapeutic ways of handling it.

Helping Interview: Responding and Closing. (20min). This video discusses the concepts of selective responding and focusing. It illustrates specific skills such as minimal encouraging, paraphrasing, reflecting feelings, and summarizing. The video also, examines the problems caused by distortion.

How to Follow Transmission-Based Precautions. (19min). Defines transmission-based precautions, explains how to implement them in healthcare facilities, and how they are integrated with standard precautions. Reviews how infections are spread, and give an overview of standard precautions. The video describes airborne, contact, and droplet precautions.

Infection Prevention: Basic Sterile Technique. (22mim). This video describes situations in which sterile technique is necessary. It focuses on basic concepts of asepsis including correct technique while preparing a sterile procedure, opening sterile packages, donning and removing sterile gloves, and for maintaining the sterile field.

Infection Prevention: Hand Hygiene and Gloving. (23min). The first part of this video emphasizes the use of alcohol-based handrub. Also discusses hand washing with plain soap and antiseptic soap. Indications for use of both alcohol-based handrub and hand washing are presented. The second portion of the program presents the rationale for gloving, indications for the use of gloves, and the guidelines for changing them.

IV Therapy: Access and Medication Administration. (28min). Using a variety of equipment, including needleless and needle-protected connection systems, this video illustrates in detail the use of secondary lines to provide medication and fluids to the patient. It describes how to convert a conventional IV to a saline lock, and it demonstrates the correct use and maintenance of the lock. Also demonstrates bolus medication administration.

IV Therapy: Equipment Preparation and Patient Assessment . (30min). This video presents a comprehensive introduction to IV therapy equipment in common use. It describes tubing and its parts, types of solution containers, and other required materials. It guides the learner through calculations to determine the correct drop rate. Additionally, it illustrates techniques for adding medication to an IV. Assessment guidelines are presented.

IV Therapy: Complications and Discontinuing the IV. (23min). This video demonstrates how to change the patient's gown without interrupting the continuity of the IV. It presents the more commonly occurring complications and appropriate nursing interventions.

Measuring Vital Signs Part 1: Temperature, Pulse, and Respiration. (19min). This program demonstrates the techniques to accurately measure temperature using a variety of thermometers. Techniques and sites used for measuring the pulse are shown and assessment of rate, rhythm, and quality of respiration are demonstrated.

Measuring Vital Signs Part 2: Blood Pressure and Pain. (15min). This program demonstrates the procedure for measuring blood pressure and assessing pain. Pain is also discussed as it provides important information on the health status and is considered by to be the fifth vital sign.

Medication Administration and Error Prevention: Error Prevention: Part 2-1 and Part 2-2. (41min). Provides a series of teaching scenarios illustrating various errors and their prevention. Information and demonstration on how the error could have been prevented follows each scenario.

Perioperative Assessment. (27 min). This video reviews the role of the perioperative nurse. The nurse must assess patients, balance the risks with the benefits, based upon the patient's overall condition, and achieve the patient's goals.

Perioperative Environment . (27 min). This video discusses the history of perioperative nursing, and nursing roles and responsibilities. It gives an overview of the perioperative suite and responsibilities of team members.

Personal Protective Equipment. (2004). This video provides information on the selection and use of appropriate PPE in the healthcare setting. It demonstrates how to safely put on and remove PPE. It also demonstrates hand hygiene.

Range of Motion. (23 min). This video demonstrates performing range of motion for head, neck, upper spine, shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers, pelvis, hips, knees, ankles, and toes.

Safer Infusion Therapy . (29min). This program demonstrates techniques for performing safer peripheral venipuncture in an adult. The procedure is demonstrated step-by-step, following the nursing process. The program also discusses the dangers of needle stick injuries and the incorporation of safer procedures and products in I. V. therapy practice.

Techniques in Bathing. (26 min). This program demonstrates: giving a bath, perineal care, tub bath, and assisting with a shower and shampoo.

Tuberculin Skin Testing. (30min). The Mantoux tuberculin skin test is the standard method for detectying latent TB infection in the United States. This video covers administration the mantoux tuberculin skin test and reading the skin test.

Urethral Catheterization. (24 min). This program demonstrates urethral catheterization. Both intermittent straight catheters and indwelling retention catheters are shown and discussed. The need for patient education and patient support during catheterization is emphasized. The techniques for performing catheter care and removal of a catheter are also shown and discussed.

Wound Care: Interventions. (13min). This video describes nursing interventions that are available to aid in wound healing. It also describes dressings and the importance of documentation.

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