Follow along with this next set of programs as the advanced techniques for ASL are augmented to include: the use of facial expressions to express Affect in ASL; the Transition Markers required to guide the flow of discourse in ASL; the importance of a signer’s entire signing space to identify Grammatical Structure; and the identification of the topic(s) of Discourse.
Producers: Alberta Advanced Education
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Subjects and Objects in ASL / Fingerspelling in ASL / Numbers in ASL
The last set of programs in this advanced series covers the following integral facets of ASL: identifying the Subject and Object of a sentence and the inclusion of spatial referencing; clarifying the context of a discourse using Fingerspelling; and the elements to consider when signing Numbers in ASL.
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Advanced American Sign Language Workbook
This workbook which accompanies the series is designed to assist learners in developing ASL skills through self-paced modules augmented by formal ASL classes. The combination of self-study and classroom instruction facilitates self-assessment and supports the skills essential to language learning.
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Practical Nursing Skills
As the need for licensed practical nurses grows each year, so does the necessity for quality nursing educational material. The following series of video clips provides nursing students with the opportunity to gain the required knowledge and complex skill sets of a licensed practical nurse. Follow along as each of the 16 modules and 2 case studies show the specific steps involved in common nursing procedures.
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Mental Health Nursing – Complete Series
The following programs take you through the most common scenarios a mental health nurse may encounter when dealing with patients who suffer from one of these five main mental health illnesses. To point out to students where the common error and small mistakes of a nursing student may be made, each program demonstrates how a novice nurse handles a situation. The second vignette is each series shows us how a more experienced and proficient nurse takes care of a client using advanced skills and knowledge. Includes: Depressed/Suicidal Client; Verbally & Physically Aggressive Client/Delusions; Mental Status Assessment/Client Diagnosed with Borderline Personality; Client with Dementia & Agitation/Anxiety; The Client Experiencing Mania.
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Depressed / Suicidal Client
Most of us can relate to being “down” or “blue” at various points in our lives, but occasionally mental health nurses are called upon to care for persons with severe depression. In these two vignettes you’ll see how to avoid some of the common mistakes made by novice nurses, and how an expert nurse is able to help a depressed and suicidal client.
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Verbally and Physically Aggressive Client / Delusions
Unfortunately, mental health nurses may have to care for persons who, for a variety of reasons, may be physically threatening or aggressive. With a variety of special intervention skills and knowledge the expert mental health nurse demonstrates how to care safely and effectively for these patients. The situation example also demonstrates how a nurse can build trust and rapport with a client experiencing bizarre thoughts or beliefs – known as delusion.
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Mental Status Assessment
One of the things that mental health nurses must do on a continuous basis with their clients is monitoring their mental status. In this pair of vignettes, you will see a novice and expert nurse conducting a mental status assessment with a client who is difficult to engage.
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Client With Dementia and Agitation / Anxiety
It can be very challenging for mental health nurses to care for persons with dementias like Alzheimer’s disease. In this pair of vignettes, a novice tries to comfort and re-orient an older man with dementia in a nursing home. Then we witness how a more experienced nurse is able to help the older man feel much less anxious about his current situation. A second set of vignettes demonstrates some of the skills and techniques needed when caring for a person with severe anxiety.
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Client Experiencing Mania
Our next example demonstrates a nurses who is finding it quite challenging to care for a client who is suffering from a condition called manic depression. The novice nurse is really struggling as she tries to maintain control over a home visit she is making to her client. In the second scenario the expert nurse also finds it difficult to maintain control over the visit, but manages to do so in a much more skillful and confident manner. The expert nurse also makes an important follow-up telephone call after her visit.