Emphasizing the role of common sense in culturally aware practice, this video describes how language differences can impact healthcare, explains why it is a bad idea to use a patient's friends or family as translators, and delineates appropriate sources of cultural information.
Decisions can be conscious or unconscious, they can be trivial or life-altering, but nurses must make these vital choices every day. In this program, we explore the nursing process as a framework for decision making; from assessment and planning, to implementation and evaluation.
Using expert interviews and illustrative scenarios, this program provides a solid introduction to the fundamental ethical terms and concepts that nursing trainees need to know. It clearly defines justice, fidelity, autonomy, moral distress, and other touchstones of ethical practice.
A story of medical arrogance and triumph, race, poverty, and deep friendship between the unlikeliest of people. Henrietta Lacks, an African- American woman whose cells were used to create the first immortal human cell line, known as HeLa.
Clinical psychologist Professor Tanya Byron teams up with former England footballer Alex Scott, who has suffered from depression, to discover how the latest science can help us gain greater control over our state of mind and improve our mental health and wellbeing.
Learn some symptoms and causes of depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues, and the many ways in which people cope with these challenges. The concept of stigma is also examined, including a look at how negative attitudes toward those with mental illness may be changed.
Playlists
These are set up to be used in individual sections or as a whole.
This 3 part series discusses elements of confidentiality in health care settings, looking at special considerations for electronic data and HIPAA regulations.
This 10 part series provides an overview of human anatomy. Each focuses on one body system and includes descriptions of how on each system interacts with or impacts others.
This 5 part series addresses the physiology of pain, explaining the differences between nociceptive and neuropathic pain and their clinical manifestations.