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| #1 |
Caring
for Older Adults with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1335/P |
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This
program provides healthcare professionals with an
overview of MS, epidemiology, etiology, and pathophysiology
of this disabling disease. The program focuses on
the cognitive, emotional, and family problems due
to MS, and it discusses challenges healthcare providers
face in meeting the needs of affected persons.
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| #3 |
Arthritis an Older Adults
10 CE - BENHA #1197-010-1337/P |
| This program is designed
to explore common types of arthritis and how it affects
the quality of life of older adults. Treatments, management,
nursing interventions, and patient education designed
to promote and maintain independence are explored. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #5 |
Long-term
Care Risk Management to Ensure Quality of Life
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1338 |
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This
program is designed to identify dynamics of risk management,
Safety Codes, disaster planning, hazards of healthcare,
worker compensation, patient rights and responsibilities.
Steps of the risk management process, ways to assess
a need for a risk management program, and necessary
medical, nursing, medical record documentation and
patient care services are covered.
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Longer Available |
| #7 |
Cultural
Diversity and Care of the Elderly
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1317/P
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| This
program explores the nature of cultural and social differences
among the elderly, and how socio-cultural factors affect
health-promoting and health-seeking behavior of aged
individuals when residing in long-term care facilities.
The care of culturally diverse elderly persons as related
to health and social care, approaches to health and
illness, dealing with pain, and death and dying is discussed.
The importance of communication to bridge differing
expectations, expressions, and responses to health care
are stressed throughout the program. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #9 |
Diabetes
Mellitus and Older Adult
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1316/P
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| This
program is designed to explore the diabetic disease
process in older adults and the relationships among
the impaired homeostasis of aging, impaired glucose
tolerance, and the psycho-social impact of diabetes
on the elderly. The importance of individualized diabetes
care, prevention of complications, and educational programs
for aged persons with diabetes is included. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #11 |
Abuse,
Neglect, and Exploitation of Older Adults
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1314/P
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| This
program is presented to explore the different forms
of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Factors that
put the elderly at risk for abuse and neglect, ways
to identify possible abuse, and appropriate interventions
will be explored. A discussion of the nursing process
and elder abuse, documentation, and abuse prevention
training in nursing homes is included |
| $40.00
Each |
| #13 |
Mental
Health and the Aged
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1330/P
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| This
program focuses on a variety of mental health problems
of aged persons in their homes and long-term care facilities.
The need for a total assessment ¾ physical, functional,
social, mental, and emotional environmental ¾ is stressed,
and specific practical nursing interventions to use
when caring for persons with behavioral and mental problems
are explored. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #15 |
Preserving
Skin Integrity of the Aged
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1328/P |
| This
program reviews the anatomy and physiology of normal
skin, age-related changes, contributing factors to impaired
skin integrity ¾ such as dry skin, excessive exposure
to moisture, and external pressure. Normal wound healing
and factors affecting the healing process and general
interventions for preventing and treating pressure ulcers
are included. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #17 |
Alzheimer's
Disease: A Challenge for Care
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1329/P
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| This
program is designed to review the pathophysiology and
progress of AD and its impact on the patient and family.
Interventions to provide a supportive and caring environment
and measures to help caregivers meet the challenge of
caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease are explored. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #19 |
Urinary
Incontinence and the Aged
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1331/P
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| It
is the goal of this program to dispel the myth of the
inevitability of urinary incontinence and old age, and
to provide the incontinent aging adult psychological
and physical support to regain and/or maintain independence.
The program includes a discussion about causes and contributing
factors of urinary incontinence. Management, treatment,
and techniques to regain continence are explored. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #21 |
Sexuality
and the Aged
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1322/P
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| This
program focuses on aged persons' problems and concerns
regarding their sexuality. It explores fears, myths,
and reality of their sexuality. A discussion of normal
age-related physiological changes, effects of medication
and sexual dysfunction are included. Social, cultural,
and religious influences are reviewed. Nursing implications
and counseling guidelines to help nurses deal with aged
person's sexual problems and concerns are included. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #23 |
Infection
Control in L.T.C. Facilities
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1326/P
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| This
program covers nosocomial infections in LTCFs, effects
of age on the host defense system, and common infections,
including MRSA, TB, viral hepatitis, and specific prevention
and control measures. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #25 |
Caring
for HIV-Infected Adults
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1324/P
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| This
program is designed to provide a brief overview of HIV
infection, how it affects older adults, S/S, the effects
on the immune system, testing, issues of confidentiality,
psychological issues, infection control, and nursing
measures. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #27 |
Ethical
Issues in Health Services Management
6
CE - BENHA#1197-006-1339/P |
| This
program is designed to review personal ethics and administrative
ethical issues. Ethical philosophies, principles, and
codes of ethics are reviewed, and ways of identifying
and solving some ethical issues are explored. A brief
discussion about developing a personal ethic, organizational
and mission statements, and some administrative issues
is included. |
| $24.00
Each |
| #29 |
The Supervision Cycle (Part 2)
6
NHAP#1197-050-5440
BRN Pending Approval |
| Continue to boost your people power with this course. Promote your
supervisors to the top by studying performance reviews, discipline
strategies, closing the supervisory cycle with a hard hitting summary. "The
course that keeps on giving" because you can share it directly with your
managers when you are through. Workbook, cassette tapes, pre and post exam
included. A program that instructs multiple times - if need be. |
| $35.00
Each |
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| #2 |
Pulmonary
Problems in Older Adults
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1334/P |
| This
program explores age-related changes of the respiratory
system and common disorders, and how these affect older
adults. Factors contributing to the problems, ways of
preventing problems, and health care professionals'
role in promoting respiratory health in the elderly
population through patient education, nutrition, etc.
are discussed. A discussion of pulmonary rehabilitation,
prevention of infection, and pharmacological management
is included. |
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| #4 |
Challenges of Adapting to LTC
10 CE - BENHA #1197-010-1333/P
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| This
program is designed to explore the challenges aged adults
face in adapting to chronic illness and long-term care.
The history of LTC facilities and how admission to it
affects individuals is explored. Psychological adaptation
to long-term care and chronic illness, physiological
challenges of aging and chronic illness, and strategies
to help the aged adapt to long-term care are explored.
OBRA'87 regulations as they relate to quality of care
and some special resident care issues are discussed. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #6 |
Hydration,
Dehydration, and the Aged
5 CE - BENHA#1197-005-1336/P |
| Dehydration
in the aged is a serious and common problem in LTC facilities,
yet it can usually be prevented. This program is presented
to discuss the importance of water balance and homeostasis,
age-related and other factors that contribute to water
balance and hydration, and how early recognition and
effective interventions will serve to reduce the negative
impact of dehydration on morbidity and mortality in
older persons. Measures that should be taken to prevent
dehydration are explored. |
| $20.00
Each |
| #8 |
Understanding
and Meeting the Needs of the Elderly with Problem Behavior
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1315/P |
| This
program offers a brief overview of age-related changes
in the brain as they relate to behaviors, and of delirium
and depression, which may be a symptom associated with
cognitive loss or a separate and treatable condition.
Difficult behaviors resulting from cognitive impairment
and common personality disorders and appropriate nursing
interventions are explored. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #10 |
Grief,
Death, and Dying
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1313/P |
| This
program is designed to explore attitudes about death
and bereavement in our society, ways persons cope with
death and loss, how to support patients in the dying
process, how the terminally ill and their families experience
the grieving process, and how to ensure that patients
will die with dignity. Cultural perspectives on death
and grief will be discussed in addition to effective
communication with the dying and bereaved. An overview
of pain management in the care of dying persons is included. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #12 |
Gerontological
Nursing: A Challenge
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1319/P |
| This
program presents a brief overview of theories of aging,
normal structure and function and age-related changes
of all body systems. Common health deviations and general
nursing implications for residents in LTCFs are discussed,
in addition to the nursing process as it relates to
providing individualized care. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #14 |
Understanding
and Assessing Pain in the Elderly
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1318/P
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| This
program is designed to provide nurses and NHAs with
information that will assist them to build a broader
understanding of pain as a clinical problem, an overview
of key concepts of pain types, etiology and theories
of pain. Various strategies for evaluation, assessment
and intervention of pain are explored, and the subject
of patient teaching related to pain control is discussed. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #16 |
Mobility,
Activity and the Elderly
5 CE - BENHA#1197-005-1321/P |
| This
program emphasizes the importance and benefits of mobility/activity
for elderly persons. Normal structure and function,
age-related changes and common disorders of the musculoskeletal
system are discussed. The prevention of immobility/activity
intolerance, ways to motivate elderly to become more
mobile/active, and the nursing process as related to
impaired mobility is explored. |
| $25.00
Each |
| #18 |
Geriatric
Nutrition
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1330/P
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| This
program addresses the interrelations among physical
aging, nutrition, and disease, in addition to drug effects
on the nutritional status. Nursing considerations and
interventions to promote optimal nutrition of elders
are included. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #20 |
Falling
And Older Adults
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1332/P
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| This
program is designed to review how physical and mental
changes related to aging, and disorders and their treatments
increase the aged person's risk for falling. Complications
of falling, safety measures and nursing interventions
to decrease the incidence of falls are examined. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #22 |
Rehabilitation
of Persons with Stroke
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1327/P
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| This
program presents pathological manifestations, the physiological
basis of CVAs, and common deficits following stroke.
Guidelines for assessment and initiation of specific
preventive and therapeutic measures necessary for successful
rehabilitation are included. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #24 |
Caring
for Residents with Parkinson's Disease
10 CE - BENHA#1197-010-1325/P
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| This
program includes relevant information about Parkinson's
disease, the impact on the affected individual and significant
others, possible causes, treatment and interventions
to prevent complications and promote and maintain independence. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #26 |
To
Restrain or Not to Restrain
10 CE - BENHA #1197-010-1323/P
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| This
course is developed to explore OBRA regulations regarding
physical and chemical restraints, and the complex problems
and issues involved related to these regulations. The
right for quality of life is stressed and alternatives
to restraints are explored. |
| $40.00
Each |
| #28 |
The Supervision Cycle (Part 1)
NHAP#1197-010-5430
BRN Pending Approval
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| Invigorate your people power by using dramatized, real life cases drawn from
thirty-five years of experience in healthcare. Cassette tapes, along with a
clear, concise, no-fluff text, will lift your supervisors to maturity.
Study the right to supervise, the organization's mission, bolstering
supervisor's growth, pre-and post exam included.
You keep the tapes to play for your supervisors' edification!
Must be purchases with program #29. A Bargain! |
| $40.00
Each |
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