Break the Chain 2008
 Provides the latest infection control updates and safety precautions that all levels of staff should know about, including information on VRE, C-Difficile, Norovirus, MRSA, Scabies, HIV and Hepatitis C & B. Explains the chain of infection, how bloodborne, airborne, droplet, and contact infections spread.

It directly guides you on preventing the spread of infection, and demonstrates proper hand washing, looks at the benefits of alcohol gels, identifies the safe nail length for caregiver staff, and shows the proper use and disposal of personal protective equipment.

What Others Are Saying:

“Clear. Concise. Comprehensive.” Barbara Gonderzick Mission Home Health-LSS, Eau Claire, WI

“An excellent job of covering everything.” Kathy Jakubek Illinois Veteran’s Home, LaSalle, IL

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Learning To Speak Alzheimer's:
An Introduction To The Habilitation Approach To Care
 This must have….multiple award winning video takes a common sense, meet the person where they are approach that minimizes stress, optimizes function, and makes Alzheimer’s care easier for the care-receiver and care-giver.

Applying the basic concepts of habilitation (which is simply care giving that embraces the remaining abilities of the person with dementia), the video shows how to create a suitable environment in which the person can lead a quality life through proactive adjustments. The practical information in this video will enhance the physical, psycho-social, and sensory world of the person with Alzheimer's.

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Missing Voices
 What is good customer service? How can you improve staff interactions with both residents and family members?

This timely, new training package will help you and your staff to evaluate facility-wide behaviors, attitudes, and standards of care toward residents and family members. As it documents stories of families deeply affected by caregiver actions and interactions, the video sensitizes staff to the potential impact of the things they so or do while providing care to residents and dealing with family members.

The Teaching Guide is designed to help management and staff develop and implement:

  • An effective continuum of care that incorporates the family into the care team.
  • Teaching strategies for the staff educator
  • Exercises to examine facility culture for administrative staff
  • Tools for quality assurance and improvement

    Everyone should see this important video on resident and family communication skills.

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Oral Hygiene Care Giver Training
Elder Loving Care
 This new video will equip home, hospital, and long-term care staff with basic oral care skills to assess, assist with, and perform daily oral hygiene needs for older adults.

The video demonstrates wet gauze cleansing, as well as, the proper techniques to clean teeth, dentures, the tongue, and inside cheeks. It identifies examples of good oral care, examples that need improved care, and specifies sign to watch for and report, such as, bleeding, ulcers, cracked lips or mouth, and redness. Caregivers will also learn how to assist those with special needs, such as, stroke survivors, persons with dementia, or unconscious/unresponsive patients.

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Understanding Dementia:
The Caregiver's Notebook
 This new resource orients professional and family caregivers to the world of the person with dementia. This video helps caregivers understand the causes of many dementia-related behaviors. It gives simple strategies to prevent or redirect these behaviors while providing emotional and physical care to the person. The video will also enable caregivers to:
  • provide dignity while bathing and helping with other personal care needs.
  • validate the person's emotions and feelings, and redirect toward familiar memories and actions
  • reduce stress and agitation by adjusting sound levels and other potential environment triggers
  • boost emotional comfort through body language and tone of voice.

    The video also stresses the benefits as adjusting care to accommodate the person's preferences as much as possible, and creating positive interactions that encourage use of the person's remaining skills to build self-esteem and increase personal autonomy.

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What Every Caregiver Needs To Know About Alzheimer's Disease
 For professional and family caregivers, this training package provides an informative explanation of Alzheimer's, how it affects different parts of the brain, and the specific changes that take place as a result. It also explains the three stages of Alzheimer's (Early Stage, Moderate Stage, and Late Stage), identifies the most common symptoms, and shows how to simplify and adapt care for each stage. Interspersed with real family profiles, scenarios of dementia-related behaviors, feedback from caregivers, and comments from dementia care experts the video will:
  • give caregivers a broader understanding of Alzheimer's and its potential effects, and
  • equip caregivers to provide dignified care to persons in various stages of dementia.

    The Training Manual offers further information on the most common dementias, assessment tools, and caregiver tips and resources.

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End of Life Care in Dementia
 Up to half of all long-term care residents suffer from some form of dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease. In addition, up to 67% of dementia-related deaths occur in long-term care facilities. Those who die in hospitals often receive poor palliative care and inadequate pain management. The majority of those who suffer from dementia-related deaths never discuss advanced directives with their physicians.

During this program you'll learn how to:

  • Utilize a person-centered approach to provide care that meets resident needs regarding end-of-life care
  • Develop flexible care plans that can adapt to changes in a resident's needs and wishes
  • Minimize resident physical, emotional and spiritual distress
  • Ensure open communication between the resident, proxy decision maker, family and care team
  • Provide support to families, other residents and staff members when an individual is dying and after death has occurred
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Preventing Medication Errors in Long Term Care
 Medication errors cause a high number of deaths each year in long term care facilities. This video training provides a unique and interactive learning experience. After viewing this program you will be able to:
  • Reduce the likelihood of Survey Deficiencies related to medication errors
  • Recognize medication errors in long term care settings
  • Understand the risk factors and effects of medication errors on residents
  • Recognize common causes of medication errors
  • Implement strategies to prevent medication errors
  • Utilize techniques for proper medication administration

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Finding Cognitive Impairment in Seniors:
How to administer and interpret the Mini Mental Status Exam (MMSE)
Finding Cognitive Impairment in Seniors:Many seniors with cognitive impairment may be overlooked if a screening test such as the MMSE is not administered on admission to nursing homes, assisted living facilities and hospitals as well as to other community dwelling seniors. In addition, the Medicare Part D program, which provides prescription drug coverage for seniors, frequently requires prior authorization for medications necessary to treat Alzheimer's disease. Many times the MMSE score and the diagnosis satisfy this requirement for prior authorization.

After viewing this video program, the viewer (nurse, nursing student, social worker, medical student or physician) will be able to: - Reliably administer the MMSE in about 10 minutes - Understand how to score each section of the exam under different clinical circumstances - Use the MMSE to track change in cognition over time - Use the MMSE to assist in making treatment decisions - Use the MMSE to track the response to drug therapy
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A Commitment to Safety
 Directly guides staff to recognize safety as an important job requirement, identify safety practices that help to prevent accidents, learn to detect accidents waiting to happen, and how to respond when an accident occurs. The perfect introduction to safety during orientation or used as a safety-training refresher.

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A Member of the Team
 This companion video to the Interdisciplinary Team is designed to educate residents and their family members about the Interdisciplinary Team Process. The video emphasizes the important role that the resident plays in care planning and helps prepare the resident for what will happen at the Interdisciplinary Team Meeting.

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Anemia of Chronic Kidney Disease in the Long Term Care Setting:
Improving the Process of Care
 Anemia remains under diagnosed and under treated in the elderly, often looked at as simply an innocent bystander in residents in spite of our knowledge of its association with significant negative clinical outcomes such as an increased risk of falls, stroke, cognitive impairment, mortality, hospitalizations and cardiovascular disease, as well as declines in activities of daily living and quality of life. In a 100 bed facility, it is likely that there are 40 residents with CKD and 16 with an anemia due to it.

This program directly guides you in:

  • Developing a process to identify residents with chronic kidney disease and low hemoglobin levels
  • Ensuring compliance with the State Operations Manual recent changes
  • Ensuring appropriate workup of the anemia through a process
  • Ensuring diagnosis, safe treatment and regular follow-up.

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Dementia in Long Term Care:
How Dementia Affects Care Planning
 It is imperative that everyone recognizes the signs and stages of dementia, understands the effects it can have on caregiving, and identifies measures to provide the best possible care through individualized care planning and structured programs.Understanding dementia and the tools used for tracking the progression of the disease will help you to be proactive in planning and providing for the unique needs of residents with dementia.

After viewing this program you will be able to:

  • Recognize common types of dementia and associated complications
  • Track the progress of a resident's dementia and refine their individual care plan,
  • Recognize the effects that dementia can have on care giving, and
  • Develop structured programs of dementia care in your facility
  • Developed for RN's & LPN's

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Freedom of Sexual Expression:
Dementia and Resident Rights in Long-Term Care Facilities
 This program looks at sexuality and intimacy as basic human rights that should not be denied simply because the person has a level of decreased cognizance and lives in a nursing home. Tastefully shows various sexual expressions, the effect of those expressions on the residents and those around them, and methods to allow freedom of sexual expression while maintaining a comfortable environment for other residents and staff. This program... - gives staff members effective strategies to deal with inappropriate sexual behaviors - encourages family members to understand and respect their loved one's continued need for intimacy. - provides sample policies and procedures on residents' rights regarding sexual expression and physical protection.
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Preventing & Managing Workplace Violence
 Created with nationally recognized safety experts, this program discusses risk factors for violence in health care settings. Using role playing vignettes it provides proven methods to protect you from and prevent violence in any health care setting.

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The Communication Connection
Reduce the negative clinical outcomes and medical legal risks that are associated with poor communication between healthcare workers.
The Communication ConnectionThis program will directly guide you in improving communication between nurses and physicians in your nursing facility. Showing common scenarios in nursing homes, it will give you the tools to reduce the negative clinical outcomes and medical legal risks that are associated with poor communication between healthcare workers.

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The Interdisciplinary Team:
A Collaborative Approach
 Watch actual team members and residents develop interdisciplinary care plans in this firsthand look at a team in action. This video focuses on the roles of the various team members, group dynamics, care planning and techniques for resolving team conflict.

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Understanding Dementia:
How Dementia Affects Your Care Giving Decisions
 It is imperative that CNA's recognizes the signs and stages of dementia and understand the effects it can have on caregiving needs. This program will directly guide them in providing for the unique needs of residents with dementia.

After viewing this program CNA's will be able to:

    Be better able to participate in resident specific care plans for dementia
  • Recognize the effects that dementia can have on caregiving needs, and
  • Deliver structured programs of dementia care in your facility

    Developed for CNA's

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How to Prevent Falls and Fall Related Injury in your Institution
 Residents in long-term care and hospital patients fall three times more often than independently living older adults. In fact the numbers are staggering:
  • 10% to 25% of falls in long-term care facilities result in hip fractures or hospital admissions.
  • More than 1800 long-term care residents die every year from fall-related injuries.

Falls result in significant negative complications and can greatly impact the effectiveness of an individual's care plan. This program directly guides you in developing a program that works based on the most recent research in geriatric nursing and medicine.

After viewing this program you will be able to:

  • Recognize the risk factors associated with falling
  • Implement specific research proven interventions to help prevent falls and fall-related injuries
  • Utilize specific tools to prevent falls in the least restrictive way possible,
  • Design an effective fall prevention program that involves the entire interdisciplinary team to reduce the number and severity of falls.

Appropriate for any institutional setting (nursing home, hospital, assisted living)

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