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Nursing Information: Media

Selected Nursing Videos

Over one hundred videos, of interest to the nursing community, are available at Milner's Learning Resource Center located on floor 6. Several of the titles are listed below. These videos may be viewed in the Learning Resource Center or checked out by faculty members or graduate students.


10 Essential Tools for Caregivers (2003).  VHS 1789 

Acid/Base Balance (1989).  VC 99 3154

Acute and Chronic Renal Failure (2000).  VHS 2161

Addressing the Threat of Food and Agricultural Terrorism.  Center for Public Health Preparedness  (2004).  VHS 2033

Addressing the Threat of Water Contamination (2004).  VHS 1983

Adult Psychiatric Diagnosis Using the DSM-IV-TR with Dr. Tom Rochat (200?).  DVD 1422

Advance Directives and the Elderly: Making Decisions about Treatment Limitations (1992).  VHS 1893

Aging Game (2003).  VHS 1790
     Participants are assigned various physical disabilities and then play separate roles to  
     experience the world from the perspective of the aged.

Alternative Medicine (1997).  VHS 1364

Alzheimer's Long Good-bye (1996).  VC 99 3038

American Holistic Nurses' Association: A New Beginning (1997). VC 99 3089

Anit-infective Medication Therapy:  Nursing Implications: Antibiotics (1998). VHS 0163 

Anthrax: What Every Clinician Should Know (2001).  VHS 1312

Anxiety Related Disorders (1997).  VHS 1353

Applied Phlebotomy Training: Basic Venipuncture (2004).  VHS 1993

Arrhythmias (2000).  VHS 2159

Aseptic Technique: An Essential Strategy (2004).  VHS 1997

Assertive Behavior Training for Nurses (1981).  VC 99 3059

Assessment of Respiratory Distress in the Pediatric Patient (2006).  DVD 1609

Assessing the Elderly (1992).  VHS 01430

Assessing the Mental Status of the Older Person (1991).  VHS 1894

Asthma, emphysema, and chronic bronchitis (2000).  VHS 2160

Autopsy (2000).  VHS 1352

Basic Mental Status Examination (1997).  VHS 0210

The Battle Within:  Current Concepts in the Pathogenesis of HIV Disease (1997).  VC 99 3116 

Beloved Strangers: Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease (2003).  VHS 1791

Beyond Stress: Focusing the Mind (1992).  VHS 1355

Bioterror (2002).  VHS 1492

Bioterrorism, the Truth (2001?).  VHS 1418

Bloodborne Pathogens: The Final Standard (2003).  VHS 1734

The Brain.  (20040.  DVD 0952
Brain structure and function, localization of brain activity, motor and sensory neurons and simple reflex arcs.

Breaking the Habit: When your Colleague is Chemically Dependent (2001).  VHS 1603

Broken Bond.  (Munchausen Syndrome)  (Forensic Science)  (1999)  VHS 1614

BroMenn Health Care History (1992).  VC 99 3105

Cameo: Outstanding Nurse Researchers and Their Work (1991).  VC 99 3072 

Cardiac Medications and Nursing:  Antiarrhythmics (1999).  VHS 0684 

Cardiac Medications and Nursing:  Antilipemics, Anticoagulants and Antihypertensives (1999).  VHS 0164

Caring for Individuals with Cognitive and Sensory Challenges (2003).  VHS 1865

     1.  Hearing Impairment

     2.  Visual impairment

     3.  Cognitive Impairment

Caring for the Caregiver (2003).  VHS 1797

Caring for the Postpartum Patient (2004).  VHS 2050

Caught in the Speed Trap (2000).  VHS 1354

CDC Responds: Bioterrorism and the Healthcare Epidemiology/Infection Control Team (2001).  VHS 1343

CDC Responds: Clinical Diagnosis and Management of Anthrax, Lessons Learned (2001).  VHS 1342

Celebrating a Tradition of Excellence:  Mennonite College of Nursing (1993?).   VC 99 3124 

Child Abuse:  Prevention, Detection and Management VHS 0556 

Choices in Childbirth:  Epidural Anesthesia (2000).  VHS 0332

City of Refuge: A Community of Support for People Living with AIDS and Their Loved Ones (2003).  VHS 1792

Cleaning Up Our Act:  The Hand Hygiene Guideline (2002?).  VHS 2077

Combative Residents: Mirror Their Reality (1997).  VHS 1869

Communicating with Compassion (1997).  VC 99 0309

Complementary Therapies in Pain Management (2001).  VHS 1420

Components of the Home Health Visit (1987).   VC 99 3159 

Confused Resident:  Strategies for Quality Care (1998).  DVD 1853

Controlling Cancer Pain:  A Video for Patients and Families.  (2000).  VHS 2117

COPD/ Breathing Techniques (1989).  VHS 0030

Coronary Artery Disease and Angina Pectoris (2000).  VHS 2155

Crossing the Line: When Professional Boundaries are Violated (1998).  VHS 1605

Crisis OB:  Hypertension in Pregnancy (1995).  VHS 0577

Critical Thinking in Nursing (1993).  VC 99 3162

Cultural Assessment (1989).  VHS 0027

Cynthia's Story: Between Mother and Child (Postpartum Depression) (2002).  VHS 1613

Delegating Effectively: Working Through and with Assistive Personnel (2002).  VHS 1604

Depression:  Fighting the Dragon  (2002).  VHS 1665
Follows patients who have fought depression and shows what happens in the brain during depression.

Depression: Old Problem New Therapy (2001).  VHS 1358

Desperate Act: Suicide and the Elderly (2001).  VHS 1359

Diabetes.  Nutrition Therapy, Exercise, and Sick Day Management (2004).  DVD 1582 

Diabetes Melitus (2000).  VHS 2158

Difficult Behavior: Breaking Through (Hospital-Patient Relations) (2000).  VHS 1873

Documenting Nursing Practice  VHS 0557

Documentation: Sharpening Your Skills (2003).  DVD 1132

Down Syndrome (1989).  VC 99 3009

Emergent Care of Burns (2005).  DVD 1497

Energy Healing (2005).  DVD 1265

Enhancing Self and Sense of Home.  Environmental Sensitivity Training Video.  (1998).  VHS 2127
Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings.

Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (date ?).  VHS 0261

Every American's Guide to Long Term Care Insurance (2003).  VHS 1793

Fear (2001).  VHS 1351

Fighting Respiratory Diseases with Infection Control:  Our Best Defense (2004?).  VHS 2087

Fluid & Electrolytes (1994).  VC 99 3137 

A Fresh Look at How We Got Where We Are by Marie Manthey (1990).  VC 99 3049

From Beginner to Expert:  Clinical Knowledge in Critical Care Nursing (1992).   VHS 0819 

Going Places; Plan for Success, an Educator's guide to Students with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (2005?).  DVD 1621 

Green House Project: Building More Humane Living Centers (Long Term Care) (2003).  VHS 1794

A Guide to Applying the Art and Science of Human Caring Pt. 1 & 2 (1993).  VC 99 3120

Hand Hygiene:  Cleaning Up Our Act.  (2002).  VHS 2077

Handmaidens: A Documentary (1995).  VC 99 3115

Head-To-Toe Examination of the Adult  (1999).  VHS 0006

Head-To-Toe Examination of Child (1999).  VHS 0007

Head-To-Toe Examination of the Neonate (1999).  VHS 0008

Head-To-Toe Examination of the Geriatric Client (1999).  VHS 0009

Head-To-Toe Examination of the Pregnant Woman (1999).  VHS 0010

Head-To-Toe Pediatric Assessment (before 1999).  VC 99 2005

Health and the Environment:  Exploring Critical Connections (1999).  VHS 0142  
     1.  The Environment, Human Health and the Epidemiology of Cancer
     2.  Ecology, Human Health, and Emerging Infections
      3.  Health Effects of Air Pollution:  Asthma/Bronchitis
     4.  Living Downstream:  Water Pollution and Environmental Justice

Healthcare for the Homeless: You Can Never Give Up (1991).  VC 91 0587

Heart Failure and Pulmonary Edema (2000).  VHS 2154

Herbal Remedies: A Matter of Safety (1998).  VHS 1365

History of Bioterrorism: Biological Warfare and Terrorism (2003).  VHS 1982

The Home Visit - Mosby's Community Health Nursing Video Series (1995).   VHS 0797

How Illnesses Present in the Elderly (2005).  DVD 1560

How to Recognize and Classify Seizures and Epilepsy (1991, 2003).  VHS 2176

Human Genes Decoded (2000).  VHS 1363

Hypertension (2000).  VHS 0050 

Improving Pain Management in Nursing Homes.  (2003).  VHS 2131

In and Out of Control: Emotional, Physical and Sexual Violence (1997).  VHS 0968

In Sickness and in Health (Caregivers) (2003).  VHS 1795

Infants, the Fight for Life: Last Chance, Best Hope (2001)  VHS 1361

Infection Control:  The Epidemiological Process  (1995).  VC 99 3121

Infection Control:  What You Need to Know (2007).  DVD 1900
(Includes CDC's 2007 new isolation guidelines)

Infant Gavage Feeding (2000).  VHS 1721

Inside Information:  The Brain and How it Works.  (2005).  DVD 1860

Introduction to Energy Medicine (2005).  DVD 1264

Isolation Procedures (1990).  VC 99 3034

The Josie King Story (Prevention of medical errors)  (2005).  DVD 1481

Keys To Caregiving (Nursing Child Assessment Satellite Training Programs)  (1990).  VC 99 3070 
     1.  Infant States
     2.  Infant Behaviors
     3.  Infant Cues
     4.  State Modulation
     5.  The Feeding Interaction
     6.  Nurse-Patient Communication

Killer Disease on Campus:  Meningitis (2002).  VHS 2007

Lead in Your Child's Environment:  Methods of Reducing Lead Exposure (1995?).  VC 99 3114

Legal & Ethical Issues in Nursing Series (1995).  VHS 0109-0113 
     1.  Ethical Dilemmas & Decision Making
     2.  Legal Aspects of Nursing Documentation
     3.  Introduction to Legal Issues & Terminology
     4.  Minimizing Legal Liability
     5.  Patient Self-Determination
     6.  The Nurse's Rights as an Employee

Life's Greatest Miracle (NOVA)  (2001).  DVD 1354
Cameras are taken into the world of how an undifferentiated clump of cells becomes a baby.

Looking For Yesterday: Dementia (1978).   VC 99 3030 

Make Nursing Your Business (1989).   VC 99 3004 

Mastering 12-Lead ECG (2001).  VHS 1346

Mastering the Art of Observation.  (2005).  DVD 1296
Scientific findings relating to the quantum world, mind, spontaneous healing and the biology of change.  Includes the science behind the permise that thoughts do matter.

Maximizing Functional Abilities:  Environmental Sensitivity Training Video.
Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings.  (1998).  VHS 2125

McCaffery: Contemporary Issues in Pain Management (1994).   VC 99 3014

Meet NIC: The Interventions Classification (1994).   VC 99 3131 

Minimizing Disruptive Behaviors:  Environmental Sensitivity Traning Video.  Creating Successful Dementia Care Settings (1998).  VHS 2126


The Miracle of Birth  (1997).  VHS 0333 

Moderate or Conscious Sedation: Patient Assessment and Monitoring (2001).  VHS 1808

Mosby's Basic Nursing Skills: Basic (2003).  Program available on computers on floor 6

Mosby's Basic Nursing Skills: Intermediate (2003).  Program available on computers on floor 6

Mosby's Basic Nursing Skills: Advanced (2003).  Program available on computers on floor 6

Mosby's Communication in Nursing Series (1995).  VHS 0824  
    1.  Basic Principles for Communicating Effectively
     2.  Communicating With Clients & Colleagues
     3.  Communicating With Clients & Colleagues From Different Cultures
     4.  Communicating With Difficult Clients and Colleagues
     5.  Communicating With Clients With Mental Disorders or Emotional Problems
     6.  Communicating Across the Life Span

Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination Series:  Neurologic System:  Motor & Sensory Functions & Reflexes (2006).  VHS 2141

Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination Series:  Neurological System:  Mental Status & Cranial Nerves (2006).  VHS 2139

Mosby's Guide to Physical Examination Series:  Skin, Hair & Nails (2006).  VHS 2140

Mosby's Nursing Leadership & Management:  Dealing With Difficult People (1995).  VHS 0576 

Mosby's Physical Examination Series (1994-1995).  VC 99 3097

Myocardial Infarction (2000).  VHS 2157

Mystery of the Senses.  (NOVA)  (1995).  VHS 2072
     1.  Hearing
     2.  Smell
     3.  Taste
     4.  Touch
     5.  Vision

A New Era in Nursing & Health Care (1996).  VC 99 3025

New Look at the Old:  Functional Decline:  Risk, Prevention and Education (2006).  DVD 1877

New Medicine (2006).  DVD 2029
Documentary exploring the connection between one's emotional state and one's health.

Nightingale's Legacy: The Nursing Profession and Caregiving (2003).  VHS 1796

Nurse Patient Interaction  (1990).  VC 99 3069

Nurse Theorists: Portraits of Excellence (16 videos in the series)  (1987-1990).  VC 99 3096

1.  Myra Levine
2.  Ida Orlando
3.  Dorothy Johnson
4.  Callista Roy
5.  Florence Nightingale
6.  Jean Watson
7.  Betty Neuman
8.  Madeleine Leininger
9.  Hildegard Peplau
10. Rosemarie Parse
11. Virginia Henderson
12. Imogene King
13. Margaret Newman
14. Dorothea Orem
15. Reva Rubin
16. Martha E. Rogers

Nurses - Series from the Discovery Health Channel (200?).  VHS 0804  
     1.  Pediatrics
     2.  Critical Care
     3.  Battling for Babies
     4.  Touch of Mercy
     5.  Nursing the Mind

Nursing Assessment of the Newborn (2007).  DVD 1883
     1.  Physical Examination of the Neonate
     2.  Gestational Age Assessment of the Neonate

Nursing in American: A History of Social Reform (1990).  VC 99 3112 

Nursing in the 1990's:  Exercising the Power for Change (1990).  VC 99 3013 

Nursing Research: A Comprehensive Approach  (1994).   VC 99 3130

Nursing Theory (1987).  VC 99 3125

Nutrition of the Infant (2003).  VHS 1722

     1.  Diet During Pregnancy

     2.  Benefits of Breastfeeding

     3.  Techniques for Successful Breastfeeding

     4.  Formula Feeding

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Tyranny of Rituals (2002).  VHS 1612

One Is One Too Many:  Preventing Client Abuse (1999).   VHS 0691 

Opening Doors:  Public Health Nursing in its 100th Year.  (1993).  VHS 1369 

Ostomy Care (1993).  VHS 0028

Pain Assessment and Management (1996).  VHS 0011

Pathological Gambling: A Costly Addiction (2002).  VHS 1610

Patient and Caregiver Education in the Home (1991).  VC 99 3145 

Patient Education Takes Center Stage (1999).  VHS 0799

Pediatric Assessment (1996).   VC 99 3068 

Pediatric Medication Administration (2007).  DVD 1885
     1.  Principles and Calculations
     2.  Oral Meds
     3.  Parenteral Meds

Perspectives:  Rehabilitation Today - Wound Dressing (2001).  VHS 2073

Physical Assessment of a Child (1984).  VC 99 3032 

Physical Assessment of the Normal Newborn (1991).  VC 99 3054

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: When the Memories Won't Go Away (2002).  VHS 1611

Postpartum Depression and the Yates Killings (2002).  VHS 1635

Preemies, the Fight for Life:  Last Chance, Best Hope (2001).  VHS 1362

Preoperative and Postoperative Care (1988).  VHS 0029

Preventing Disease Transmission in the Perioperative Setting (2000).  VHS 2074

Preventing the Spread of SARS (2003).  VHS 1687

Prevention of Medication Errors (1986).  VC 99 3126

Privacy and Confidentiality: New HIPAA Regulations (2002).  VHS 1802

Promoting Normal Growth and Development in a Hospitalized Child (1986).  VC 99 3136

Public Health Community Preparedness for Acute Respiratory Syndrome (2003).  VHS 1691

Public Health Law Related to Terrorism (2003).  VHS 1973

Quantitative Ressearch: Methods in the Social Sciences (2006).  DVD 1611

Rapid Assessment of the Ill or Injured Child (2004). 
     1.
  Airway
     2.  Breathing and Cirulation
     3.  Disability, Exposure, and Family

Reading ECG Rhythm Strips (2001).  VHS 1086

Recognizing Elder Abuse (2002).  VHS 1809

Recognizing the DSM-IV-TR:  Personality Disorders with Dr. Tom Rochat (200?).  DVD 1423

Reflections on Nursing (1995).  VC 99 3123 

Reye Syndrome and its Mimickers (2002).  DVD 1576

Reye's Syndrome:  A Real and Present Danger (1995).  VHS 2178

RN=Real News:  ANA Media Relations & You (1999).   VHS 0649 

Role of Nursing and Public Health During Times of War and Terrorism (2002).  VHS 1980

Rose By Any Other Name (1976).  VC 99 3147 

Safer Infusion Therapy: The Basics  (1999).  VHS 0165

Safer Infusion Therapy:  Initiating Venipuncture (1999).  VHS 0166 

Safer Infusion Therapy:  Reducing Complications and Improving Outcomes (1999).  VHS 0167

Saunders Physical Examination and Health Assessment Series (1998).  VHS 0062 

Scrubbing, Gowning & Gloving (1998).  VHS 2045

Separated by Time and Distance: Long Distance Caregiving (2003).  (Parent-Child Relations - Aged) VHS 1798

Shamanism: An Ancient Tradition (1999).  VHS 1366

Skin Deep - Understanding Self-Injury (2001).  VHS 1331

Smallpox: What Every Clinician Should Know (2001).  VHS 1437

Spiritual Assessment:  Meeting the Spiritual Needs of Your Patients (200?),  DVD 1496

Spiritual Caregiving (2003).  VHS 1799

The Stages of Labor:  A Visual Guide (1998).  VHS 0331

Sterilization in the 21st Century:  Principles and Practice in the Perioperative Setting  (2003).  VHS 2047

Stressed Out:  Stress Management (2003).  VHS 2044

Suicide (2001).  VHS 1360

Suicide Risk Assessment (1993).  VC 95 0256

Terrorism Preparedness: Effecting Local Response From a National Plan (2003).  VHS 1981

To Advance We Must Unite! 100 Years of the American Nurses Association (1996).   VC 99 3017 

Therapeutic Touch: Healing Through Human Energy Fields (1992-1993).   VC 99 3094  
   -Produced by the National league for Nursing

The Toughest Break:  Christopher Reeve on Spinal Cord Injuries (2005).  DVD 1352

Tuberculosis:  New Strategies for the Healthcare Worker (2000).  VHS 0185

Unchaining the Mind:  Advances in Schizophrenia (2005).  DVD 1370

Understanding Childhood Trauma.  (2002).  DVD 1277
     1.  What is Childhood Trauma?
     2.  Significant Event Childhood Trauma
     3.  The Brain:  Effects of Childhood Trauma
     4.  Identifying and Responding to Trauma in Ages 0 to 5 Years Old
     5.  Identifying and Responding to Trauma in Ages 6 to Adolescence
     6.  Domestic Violence and Childhood Trauma
     7.  Trauma and Healing

Understanding Death and Dying (200?).  VHS 1960

Understanding Complex-Partial Seizures (1990).  VHS 2175

Universal Precautions: AIDS and Hepatitis B Prevention (1997).  VC 99 3144

A Visual Guide to Physical Examination (The Bate's series) (1995).   VC 99 3095 

Violence in Healthcare (1995).  VHS 1803

Voices From the Trenches: The World of the Certified Nursing Assistant (2003).  VHS 1800

Whaley & Wong's Pediatric Nursing Video Series:  Pain Assessment and Management  (1996).  VHS 0011   

Who Gets to know?  Genetics and Privacy (2003).  DVD 1876

With Liberty and Health Care for All  (1992).   VC 99 3012

Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media:  Health Care's Invisible Partner (1997).  VHS 1460

Why Do I Have to Cry?:  Assessment of Pain in Children (1989).  VC 99 3008 

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