This programme starts with F for friends, it moves on to look at heroin and injecting, then explores making choices and needing to fit in.
Subjects: Health
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The A-Z of Drugs – P to Z
Includes a look at treatment and some of the reasons why people take drugs.
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A-Z of your Head
A-Z of Your Head looks at the variety of mental health issues that affect young people. It tries to de-stigmatise mental health problems and encourage young people to talk openly about their feelings. The programme races through the alphabet, covering a range of questions and issues. Covering anorexia, schizophrenia, exam-stress and depression, A-Z of Your Head is rich with personal stories that challenge the stereotypes about mental conditions.
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Effective Wound Management
Safe skilled practice is central to the principles of nursing. With increasing demands for health professionals to strive for higher standards of care, many nurses are returning to the basics which underpin expert clinical practice in order to review and update their current knowledge and skills. Maintaining asepsis in acute wound management is just one of many basic skills which together create a solid foundation on which to build and support excellence in patient care delivery. This program has been developed with the purpose of marrying the principles of infection control with an aseptic – no touch technique thus promoting the optimum environment for wound healing. Chapters include: A basic overview of the physiology of wound healing; Preparing to dress an acute wound; Setting out the basic dressing pack; Performing an Aseptic No touch dressing technique
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Electromagnetic Radiation: Wave and Particle Modes of Light
This program looks at the various properties of light and scientists’ attempts to explain them. In centuries past both wave and particle models have been used to understand, explain and predict the behaviour of light. Neither model on its own able is totally adequate to explain all known phenomena. However, in the early part of the 20th century, the work of scientists including Planck, Einstein, Compton, de Broglie, Davisson and Germer, proved that light demonstrates characteristics of both a wave and a particle – meaning both models are legitimate and that wave particle duality is a valid way of understanding this natural phenomenon.
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Hearing Health
A fun and informative video presenting complex ideas on the nature of sound and hearing, reasons for hearing loss, and ways to prevent damaging our ears. This drama based production uses short captivating segments with zany characters to illustrate and inform important facts about: the nature of sound; our hearing and how it works; how to protect it, and the consequences of not protecting our ears. It’s contents relate to many subject areas such as health and personal development, science, and information on the body and one of its very important senses – hearing. Produced with full support and co-operation of Australian Hearing, the national body looking after our hearing needs.
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Doctors’ Diaries
Over the past 21 years, NOVA has followed a group of seven doctors from their first day at Harvard Medical School in 1987. All young, bright and accomplished, none of them could have predicted what it would take, personally and professionally, to become a member of the medical tribe. In this special two-part program, NOVA returns one last time to get an update on the kind of doctors, and people, they have become.
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Tackling Bullying Behaviors: Non-Punitive Approaches
Bullying is an age-old problem that has been addressed in various ways over the years. This program considers non-punitive approaches. It is divided into four main sections: No Blame Approach; Shared Concern Method; Restorative Justice; Parents;Tackling Bullying Behaviors will stimulate discussion as to how your school is currently addressing bullying issues.
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The Physical
In this program family planning professionals describe the physical changes experienced during puberty and students describe their battles with the physical side of puberty.