This new five-program series is a compilation of basic nursing procedures offered in an interactive CD-ROM format. Video clips and narration help to demonstrate basic nursing skills, making the program invaluable to both nursing students and healthcare professionals. The series also offers documentation which can be viewed onscreen or printed for later reference. Developed by Brigham Young University, this new and updated series can best be described as an interactive procedure manual for students and practicing nurses who need to master or review specific nursing techniques and procedures. Instructional video clips with narration and pertinent text on a variety of procedures can be easily and rapidly accessed by topic, alphabetical listing, or key word. CLOSED CAPTIONED
Users have many options when navigating through the material. They can view a skill on video and see the accompanying text. Or, they can reinforce their learning or answer specific questions about a technique by reviewing that same video and choosing a single step or all steps of the particular procedure. The text describing the entire process can also be printed if desired from the program.
This series is composed on 5 CD-ROMs, each of which has a specific focus:
Volume 1: TECHNIQUES OF DRUG ADMINISTRATION
This CD-ROM provides video clips and accompanying text on the skills needed to administer medications safely and effectively. Subject areas include: Oral medications; Topical medications; Parenteral medications; Venipuncture technique; IV medication administration techniques.
Volume 2: VITAL SIGNS, ASSESSMENT, AND HEALTH SCREENING
This program provides video clips and accompanying text on the skills needed to perform safe and effective nursing care. Topics include: Vital Signs: pulse, respirations, blood pressure, temperature, and oxygen saturation measurement; Assessment: skin/mucous membranes, cardiovascular and respiratory; systems, activity/exercise, hydration and nutrition, gastrointestinal system and elimination, wound/dressings, level of awareness, and scoring pain/comfort; Health Screening: glucometer checks, drawing blood.
Volume 3: STERILE TECHNIQUES
This CD-ROM demonstrates the skills needed to perform safe and effective sterile procedures such as: Incision Care: changing and applying a dry dressing, placing a split
dressing, cleansing a wound, pin care, and removing sutures and staples; Wound Care: applying a wet-to-moist dressing, wound irrigation, and care of patients with wound suction devices; Urinary Care: male and female catheterization, catheter irrigation, collecting a specimen from catheter tubing, suprapubic catheter care, and retention catheter removal; Surgical Skills: setting up a sterile field; adding heat seal peel packs and four corner wrapped items to a sterile field; working in and around a sterile field; and scrubbing, gowning, and gloving using the closed method.
Volume 4: HYGIENE AND MOBILITY
This CD-ROM covers procedures on two topics: hygiene and mobility. Specific topics include: Hygiene: bed bath, towel bath, perineal care, oral care, denture care, hair washing, nail and foot care, shaving a patient, and performing a backrub; Additional Hygiene related Concepts: oxygen administration, measuring and recording I and O, enema administration, assisting with elimination, and bed making; Mobility: body mechanics and lifting for staff, the safety principles needed for both the nurse and patient during positioning, ambulating, transferring, moving the patient up in bed, and during log rolling; Additional Mobility Concepts: range of motion (ROM) and prevention of deep vein thrombosis and pressure ulcers.
Volume 5: TUBES MANAGEMENT
This program describes the management and care of various types of tubes. They include:
Nasogastric Tubes: placement check, care of the patient, tube feedings; Chest Tubes: assisting with insertion and removal, patient care and monitoring, and prevention of complications; Central Lines such as Hickman, Port-a-cath and PICC: patient care and precautions, accessing and flushing lines, drawing blood, and giving bolus medications.