Assessment of the newborn: study guide & script -- The first ten minutes -- Head to toe assessment -- Assessment and cardiac anomalies -- Anomalies and neurologic issues -- Gestational age and newborn reflexes
A series of streaming videos demonstrating techniques used to perform patient assessment. Outlines the approaches to assessment used for a specific body system and provides a visual demonstration of appropriate assessment technique.
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Provides a large "online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counselling: 400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion.
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Vol. 1: Facing the facts; Vol. 2: Changing the culture; Vol. 3: Why things go wrong ; Vol. 4: Building resistance to error; Vol. 5: A safer system; Vol. 6: Leading and learning
"Professionally filmed videos with actual patients and therapists in real-life treatment settings including acute care, skilled nursing, outpatient, home health and ICU."
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This series consists of three documentary-style videos demonstrating nursing care of children and families. Each video covers five age groups -- infant, toddler, pre-school, school age and adolescent. Nurse, patient and family interviews are included
Obstetrical nursing: study guide & script -- Caring for the antepartum patient -- Complications of pregnancy -- Electronic fetal monitoring -- Pain control -- Assisted delivery and cesarean section -- Labor and delivery -- Caring for the postpartum patient -- Newborn stabilization and care
Part 1: Introduction; General Considerations; General Appearance & Skin; Head & Neck
Part 2: Introduction; General Considerations; Chest and Lungs; The Heart; The Abdomen; Musculoskelatal System; Neurological System
Collection of videos of interviews on topics relating to aboriginal health issues. On disk one, Maria Linklater discusses midwifery; Irene Fraser discusses her role as an adjudicator for Indian residential school claims; Shirley Nelson describes her work as a nurse with the Lac LaRonge Indian Band Community Health service; and Shirley Woods discusses her career as an advanced practice nurse in Saskatchewan and her work with the Northern Intertribal Health Authority. On disk two, Clare McNab discusses the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge and Gaye Hanson talks about aboriginal nursing education and aboriginal health concerns
A comprehensive video-based training curriculum, including 6 streaming videos, for healthcare professionals committed to strengthening their skills in delivering difficult news to patients and families.
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Covers physiology of glucose regulation; pathophysiology of diabetes; nutrition therapy, exercise, and sick day management; insulin and oral antidiabetic agents; hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia and monitoring; neuropathology, nephropathy and retinopathy; cardiovascular disease, and the diabetic foot. *Requires Adobe Flash Player (free download)*
A set of 11 streaming videos covering strategies and approaches for dealing with anger and other emotions when communicating about adverse medical events or medical errors in clinical practice. Includes unscripted scenarios and patient, family, and professional perspectives.
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Pediatric Gait, Arms, Legs, Spine (pGALS) Streaming video of a screening examination of the musculoskeletal system in school-aged children, covering: gait, arms, and legs, and how to record findings.
Over 480 videos, including hours of tutorials, interviews, video case studies and mini-documentaries covering the entire research process
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Access Note: The Adobe Shockwave plug-in is required to view these videos. To download the plug-in go toget.adobe.com/shockwave. Follow the written instructions on downloading Shockwave on to Firefox at http://tinyurl.com/3ept58v or watch a YouTube video describing it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_X7dmuofSc . This video must be viewed in Firefox or Chrome.
VisualDx is a web-based system that assists in the identification of dermatologic, infectious, genetic, metabolic, nutritional and occupational diseases, benign and malignant growths, drug-induced conditions, and other injuries.
License Information: This license was negotiated by the Health Knowledge Network. There are no restrictions to the numbers of simultaneous users. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content, including the downloading of a full issue, is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
USask Nursing students and faculty have access to a large number of videos through the Virtual Lab. These videos cover topics including: dosage calculation modules, medical ethics, Taylor's Video Guide to Clinical Nursing, reading EKGs, and physical assessments.
Provides support and personalized information about palliative and end-of-life care to patients, family members, health care providers, researchers and educators.
A digital library of multimedia teaching resources for the health sciences. Provides access to tens of thousands of images, videoclips, animations, presentations, and audio files that support healthcare education.