Providing an in-depth technical exploration of hearing loss, hearing aids, and the technology used to dispense them, this interactive CD-ROM supports many of the hands-on skills that are required of hearing aid practitioners on a daily basis. Tips on completing hearing tests and evaluating hearing aids are detailed along with a background on the physics of sound and the physiology of the ear. Virtual hearing aids, interactive oscilloscopes, and a fully functional audiometer simulator contribute to the interactivity of this CD-ROM. Thirty different client scenarios are also presented, providing client data and test results for interpretation and recommendations. Related resources and a glossary of terms used throughout the CD-ROM are provided.
Subjects: General Health
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This Thing Called Hope – Viewer’s Guide
A comprehensive viewer’s guide provides suggested activities and discussions based on segments of the video program This Thing Called Hope. The guide is free with purchase of the complete series.
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What is Hope?
Part I, defines hope and examines the mind-body connections that make hope a valuable tool in dealing with life’s difficulties. You will meet five individuals who have learned to “practice hope and make it intentional in their lives” as they face their particular challenges – chronic pain, mental illness, terminal cancer, cerebral palsy and heart disease.
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Experiencing Hope
Part II, illustrates a variety of techniques people use to make hope visible and effective in their lives. It profiles a woman recovering from a brain injury, and features women dealing with breast cancer as they share their zest for life and explain how enhancing their hope has improved their health.
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Health in the Developing World: The Impact of Landmines, Water and Microfinance
Across the world 1.3 billion people suffer from extreme poverty. They don’t have enough to eat, they don’t have proper shelter, they don’t have safe drinking water and they don’t have access to life saving medicines. This program explores three aspects of development that can have a positive impact on the health and lives of people in developing countries. We look at how the provision of safe drinking water, the clearing of landmines and the introduction of micro-finance systems to create employment can help improve the quality of life for individuals and society.
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All Systems Go Again!
Bringing the classic All Systems Go bang up to date with great explanatory graphics and modern examples, the program covers the three major energy systems of the body: ATP-PC, Lactic and Aerobic.
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Battle Scars: An Overview of our Defense Against Disease
This program explores the human immune system and the body’s defenses against disease.
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Beating Bacteria: A User’s Guide
This humorous cross-curricula program shows students how harmful bacteria can hide – and grow – in even the most clean-looking of environments.
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Not Fatal Butt….: The Effect of Just One Cigarette
With the aid of brilliant graphics, the program shows the increase in body tension, the effect of nicotine, rise in blood pressure, slowing of circulation and the decrease in lung capacity.
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Mental Health Nursing
Follow along with this series of vignettes where nurses interact with clients experiencing a wide range of mental health challenges. In each situation there are two scenarios, the novice scenario helps students to see and anticipate some of the more common errors that a student nurse may make when first dealing with these clients. In contrast the expert scenario shows students how a mental health nurse with more advanced skills and knowledge would handle these situations. This series of examples is a valuable learning tool for nurses preparing to enter the mental health field. (5 x 30:00)