Nursing

Nursing videos with a clinical focus as well as theoretical are featured in this database.

This collection of videos provides insight into the lives of the women who are widely regarded as nursing's premier scholars. Each video features a modern theorist and includes video interviews in which the theorist discusses her life, the evolution of her work, and her work's impact on nursing practice and education.

Videos of DNP project presentations. You will need to be logged into your Augsburg Gmail account to see them.

Effective wound care extends far beyond disinfection and dressing. In fact, wound management is a cornerstone of proper hospitalization, and nurses and nursing assistants may be required to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate the care of wounds.

This program outlines risk factors contributing to pressure ulcers and skin breakdown, highlights preventative measures for maintaining skin integrity, and suggests strategies for early intervention and treatment.

This program explores several types of surgical drains, focusing on the Jackson Pratt, Hemovac, Penrose, and wound vacuum.

This program describes the causes of and prevention strategies for healthcare-associated infections in hospitals and other medical facilities.

This video explores the various disorders that can arise from the use of psychotropic medications including neuroleptic malignant syndrome, lithium toxicity, atropinic overload, and extrapyramidal side effects.

This program examines non-prescription pharmaceutical drugs and their capacity for misuse and abuse.

This program explains how anesthetics modulate and inhibit the conduction of neural stimuli.

Viewers of this video will learn about the physiology of pain transmission, the differences between nociceptive and neuropathic pain, the basics of assessing and analyzing pain in various forms, three major approaches to managing pain, and the World Health Organization’s three-step ladder for cancer pain relief.

This program addresses therapies for cancer pain, enabling nurses to provide their patients with optimal pain relief. A part of the series Traditional Pain Management in Oncology Treatment. (22 minutes)

This program offers comprehensive guidance in classifying and responding to athletic injuries.

This video identifies the key components and investigates the methods used to evaluate, modify, and improve training programs.

This video identifies the key components and investigates the methods used to evaluate, modify, and improve training programs.

This program visits the training facilities of eight sports figures from around the world to highlight their expertise and personal experiences in improving performance.

This program describes the nurse's responsibility in Apgar scoring and in performing both an initial and brief assessment soon after birth, followed by a comprehensive physical examination.

This program explores some of the most common complications of pregnancy, including spontaneous abortion (miscarriage), ectopic pregnancy, Rh incompatibility, gestational diabetes, placenta previa, placental abruption, pregnancy-induced hypertension/pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, HELLP syndrome, and preterm delivery.

This program shows how nurses examine term, pre-term, and post-term infants to determine their gestational age. A part of the series Pregnancy, Labor, and Delivery.

This program focuses on vaginal birth, describing and showing women going through the stages of labor and delivery. Both the physiologic and emotional aspects of this period are covered.

This program covers cesarean delivery, focusing on the rationale for this type of delivery as well as its physical and psychological aspects.

This program explores physiologic and psychosocial causes of pain during labor and delivery and describes the discomfort associated with each stage of labor. Non-pharmacologic methods of pain management, including traditional and non-traditional methods, are also discussed.

Topics include breastfeeding, hormonal changes, and physiologic healing of the birth process, whether vaginal or cesarean delivery.

This program explores the three trimesters of the antepartum period, describing the maternal physiologic alterations that occur as well as fetal development.