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Case management is becoming a prominent and successful tool of modern health care. Putting the client firmly at the center of a collaborative process, it can be mediated by doctors, social workers, nurses, and a range of vocationally qualified staff. This program investigates case management in detail, making the point that its benefits and best practices can help bring about optimal outcomes in highly complex environments.

Exploring the third provision in the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics, this program looks at confidentiality standards mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as well as the role of ethics in medical research. The video also addresses the proper methods for reporting unethical, illegal, or impaired practices. With help from illustrative scenarios and expert interviews, viewers learn about the importance...

Using expert interviews and illustrative scenarios, this program provides a solid introduction to the fundamental ethical terms and concepts that nursing trainees need to know. It clearly defines justice, fidelity, autonomy, moral distress, and other touchstones of ethical practice. The video also explores the vital role that personal values play in ethical situations, how to best understand and address value conflicts, the importance of a nurse's...

Addressing a variety of methods for working with preschool-age patients, this program discusses the characteristics of the post-toddler developmental stage, including physiological characteristics and appropriate forms of nursing care. Viewers learn about psychosocial and cultural differences while discovering ways of working with the patient's family members on difficult issues. The video also focuses on methods of non-traumatic physical assessment...

Medical care focused on adults must take into account a wide variety of cultural, physiological, and administrative challenges. The good news is that a patient who has matured and become self-reliant is now ready to act as a partner in his or her own health care decisions. This program explores the requirements of adult care, from the college-level years to retirement and the final phases of life. Reminding viewers that the focus now shifts away from...

When a loved one's fate lies in another's hands, the decisions can be overwhelming. This program, hosted by NewsHour's Ray Suarez, follows two families as they grapple with life-and-death decisions inside an ICU. A doctor, an ethicist, and others help these families through the process of making decisions on behalf of those who are no longer able to communicate their wishes. La Vera Crawley, of Stanford University's bioethics department, helps the...

Entering kindergarten signals a particularly challenging phase of childhood, in which social development becomes a growing focus alongside physical health and parental bonding. This program offers pediatric nursing trainees a view into the emotional and physiological characteristics of school-age children as a means of enhancing quality care. Addressing ways to incorporate the needs and concerns of a patient's family and deal with psychosocial and...

More and more drug-resistant strains of Haemophilus influenzae type b bacteria (Hib) have emerged in recent years, and the consequences of late or no treatment are devastating. The microbe is estimated to cause at least 3 million cases of serious disease-often meningitis-and up to 700,000 deaths each year among young children. This program examines the tragic problem in Bangladesh, where the Dhaka Shishu Hospital is nearly overrun with young Hib patients,...

Lurking in stagnant pools and muddy watering holes, the guinea worm easily gets into the food chain-and, because it is frighteningly invulnerable to stomach acids and the human immune system, it is next to impossible to remove from the body. But now, scientists are on the verge of eradicating the parasite, humanity's oldest and largest nematode enemy. This program journeys to Sudan, the country most affected by the Guinea worm, where its impact, along...

Virtually every child in the world, rich or poor, is infected early in life by a vicious bug called rotavirus. The lucky ones show no symptoms-they simply become immune. Others develop severe diarrhea. Given the best medicine, the victims recover. However, in developing countries, where even simple rehydration therapy may be hard to come by, rotavirus is lethal, killing around 400,000 children every year. At least three vaccines against rotavirus...