Community Health
Chronic Disease is Not Just All About Older People - Questions
FREE Download. Questions: Many children develop chronic disease early in life. Patients and their families need assistance to make a smooth health care management transition as they move from childhood to adulthood.
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Coping with Anger
Within the health care setting, it is important that patients and health professionals are sufficiently assisted in identifying, understanding and resolving situations involving anger so that the environment is as beneficial and productive as possible.
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Nursing Assessment of the Seriously Sick Child - Part One
This enlightening session describes the key indicators of illness in children about which health care staff need to be aware.
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Ageing at Home - Sustaining Supportive Networks
People with intellectual disabilities are a very diverse group. They embark on the ageing process from many different starting points; depending on residence, employment history, family and health status. This chapter explores the effects these have
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Legal & Ethical Issues & Impact on the Care of the Ageing
The law and ethics have a critical impact on how those working with the elderly provide community care. This chapter provides readers with a deeper understanding of these sometimes complex issues ...
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Organising a New Volunteer Program
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Transferring Care from Hospital to Home - Gastrostomy
This chapter discusses the transition of care to another institution or to home. It refers to the passing on of information and documentation, education, the practicalities of gastrostomy feeding at home, supplying formula and equipment and monitoring..
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Understanding Childhood Obesity- Session 1
This first session explains the fundamentals of childhood obesity, including: definitions of ‘obesity’ & ‘overweight’; understanding and practically utilizing the BMI; explanation of current obesity rates in Australia; and much more...
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Maintaining Volunteer Commitment
A snapshot of various aspects of the job requirements for effectively managing volunteers in a vibrant health service.
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Loss in a Mulitple Pregnancy
This chapter explains the circumstances of a/many losses in a multiple pregnancy and the support midwives can offer to the grieving parents. It guides midwives on how to help the parents handle the loss of one child, yet the acceptance and celebration of
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Understanding Childhood Obesity - Session 6
This informative and comprehensive session presents practical advice when interacting with parents and children/adolescents in the context of childhood obesity...
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Writing What We Do in the Community
This chapter will examine the documentation Australian community nurses are currently using, the trend towards combining documentation and client coding systems and some legal issues associated with community nursing documentation....
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Cleansing and Skin Care
Effective wound management requires removal of debris and foreign bodies
from wound tissue. Until the wound is clean, inflammation persists and
optimum wound healing cannot occur. In this chapter learn about general
wound cleansing and skin care…
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Evaluating the Volunteers and the Program
This session will discuss some aspects required for evaluating the contributions of a volunteer program and how to measure the volunteer program goals.
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Drug Induced Psychosis
Summary of the types of mental instability that can result when adolescents ingest alcohol or take illicit drugs.
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How Medicines Work: Drug Actions 2 - Drug Absorption, Elimination ...
In this lecture you will review methods of drug absorption, distribution and elimination. You will learn about the various ways in which drugs are absorbed and factors that affect absorption. Bioavailability is clearly defined and its implication for drug
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Nutrition For Menopause
Nutrients
not also protect the skeleton and cardiovascular system, but also help improve brain function and reduce
menopausal symptoms.
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How a Diagnosis of Drug Abuse & Alcohol Addiction is Made
This session discusses how a diagnosis of drug abuse or alcohol addiction is made. The Diagnostic Systems Manual IV (DSM IV), a tool for outlining the criteria for diagnosis, is considered.
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How Medicines Work: Drug Problems 4: Polypharmacy
In this lecture, Professor Roller reviews the action of enzymes on drug metabolism, singling out Cytochrome P450 and particularly P34A. He defines the two types of drug interaction--drug inhibition and induction—and explains their impact on a drug’s effe
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Teenage Boys and Risk
Teenage Boys and Risk
Reflections of a teenage boy, on the positive and negative aspects of some risky behaviours of adolescence.
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