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Videos make excellent training tools
Many focus on psychiatric and geriatric issues
Fanlight Productions recently released several new videos, which make excellent training films for both health care professionals and caregivers. To order any of the videos described here, contact Fanlight Productions, 4196 Washington St., Boston, MA 02131. Telephone: (800) 937-4113. Web site: www.fanlight.com.
• "Wandering: Is It a Problem?"
In this 14-minute video, experienced caregivers demonstrate compassionate techniques for intervening with adult dementia patients who wander. Through viewing actual provider-patient interactions, staff learn effective methods of redirecting the wanderer, providing a safe and secure place for residents, and avoiding escalation to an agitated state.
Request # DD-283. Cost: $165, or rent for $50/day.
• "Resisting Care: Putting Yourself in Their Shoes."
This 14-minute video outlines best practices for avoiding and reducing the number of situations that lead to resistance in patients with adult dementia. Experts demonstrate the importance of patience and compassion in the care of resistant patients.
Request DD-284. Cost: $165, or rent for $50/day.
• "Agitation: It's a Sign."
By using real-life patient encounters, this 14-minute film shows appropriate and compassionate techniques that can prevent or defuse anxiety, agitation, and aggression in patients with adult dementia.
Request #DD-285. Cost: $165, or rent for $50/day. The three films on adult dementia, DD-283, 284 and 285, may be purchased together at a 10% discount.
• "Choice and Challenge: Caring for Aggressive Older Adults Across Levels of Care."
This 22-minute film is designed as a training program and includes supportive print materials and continuing education units for nurses. The film presents a series of real-life situations in which health care providers and caregivers must cope with behaviorally impaired and aggressive older adults. It offers practical solutions to a variety of common problems.
Request #DD-281. Cost: $139, or rent for $50/day.
• "Psychiatric Nursing: Profiles in Compassion."
This 30-minute documentary reveals the complexities of psychiatric/mental health nursing and demonstrates the impact psychiatric nurses can have on the quality of their patients' lives.
The film includes profiles of several psychiatric nurses and shows the work they do in community mental health care, home health, private practice, and the hospital inpatient setting. The film shows how psychiatric nurses attend to the emotional as well as physical needs of patients. The film also shows the role of the psychiatric nurses as patient educators, advocates, and caregivers, and it shows their role in coordinating other aspects of care for their patients. In addition, the film emphasizes the importance of psychiatric nursing training for all nurses, not only those in advanced practice situations.
Request # DD-279. Cost: $195, or rent for $50/day.
• "Pain Management."
This 28-minute film is the latest in "The Doctor Is In" series. The film offers a comprehensive overview of the causes of pain and ways in which it can be managed effectively when it can't be cured.
It examines all types of pain typical of surgery and cancer, as well as chronic pain resulting from nerve and back injuries. The program explores medical, surgical, and mind-body techniques for pain management in both hospital and outpatient settings.
The film profiles pain management experts from several of the nation's best medical centers, including Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Request # DD-282. Cost: $149, or rent for $50/day.
• "The Freedom Program: Reducing the Use of Physical Restraint."
This 13-minute film advocates a new and cooperative approach between health care professionals, patients, and families to maximize personal autonomy by identifying potential restraint situations, minimizing the use of restraints, and creating simple alternatives to restraints that may prove more effective and less physically and psychologically damaging to patients. The film and its companion study guide offer step-by step guidelines on evaluating the need for restraints, educating family and friends, developing creative alternatives to restraint, and monitoring and reevaluating patients.
Request #DD-289. Cost: $125, or rent for $50/day.
• "The Center of Her Storms: The Physical and Emotional Effects of Brain Surgery in Treating Epilepsy."
This 55-minute film has won several international film awards, including best science documentary at the Gemini Awards held in Toronto. It relates the story of a 24-year-old day care worker and special education teacher with epilepsy. The young woman suffered as many as 10 seizures daily before making the decision to admit herself to the hospital for brain surgery.
Viewers follow the young woman as she returns to her daily routine and waits to see if the surgery successfully cut out her brain's epileptic centers while preserving her memory and language centers. The film includes information about the normal workings of the human brain and the ways in which it can malfunction.
Request #DD-287. Cost: $245, or rent for $50/day.
• "Before Their Time."
This 48-minute film tells the story of two patients suffering from rare aging diseases. The filmmaker follows a 6-year-old girl in the Rocky Mountains with Hutchinson-Gilford syndrome, also known as progeria, and a 45-year-old woman in Amiens, France, with Werner's syndrome, the adult equivalent of progeria. Although these conditions are rare, scientists hope to gain new insights into the process of ordinary aging.
Request #DD-288. Cost: $195, or rent for $50/day.
Web site helps fight war against infectious disease
An Internet medical information and decision support company, ican, based in Eden Prairie, MN, recently launched icanPREVENT, a Web site designed to help health care professionals control the transmission of infectious diseases in health care settings.
The Web site provides in-depth clinical information and breaking news on:
• infectious diseases and infection control measures;
• infection control-related medical products;
• text books not previously available on-line.
Additional content, including training tools and interactive forums, will be available on the site by midsummer.
Content for icanPREVENT is developed by infection control professionals and reviewed by an editorial board led by Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist. The site is available to health care professionals by subscription for $19.95 a month. For further information or to register for a free 30-day trial subscription, visit www.icanprevent.com.
Self-care manual now on-line
The Merck Manual of Medical Information — Home Edition is now available free on-line as a public service at www.merckhomeedition.com. The material is written in everyday language and provides concise, physician-reviewed medical information. The new site was launched by Merck & Co., a pharmaceutical company based in Whitehouse Station, NJ.
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