Hospital Care

Be Involved

Be Involved in Your Healthcare: Family and Friends can Help
Be Involved in Your Healthcare: Taking Medications
Be Involved in Your Healthcare: When You’re Having Surgery
Preparing for a Visit with Your Healthcare Provider
Talking to Your Healthcare Provider: Play an Active Role
Talking to Your Healthcare Provider: What to Ask, What to Tell

Blood Management

Neutropenia
Thrombocytopenia
Understanding Blood and Blood Components

End of Life

Advance Medical Directive
An Agent's Role for Durable Power of Attorney
Being a Healthcare Proxy
Caring for End-Stage Dementia
Choosing an Agent
Deciding About Artificial Feeding
Deciding About Artificial Hydration
Deciding About Resuscitation
Hospice: As Death Nears
Hospice: The Importance of Managing Pain
Hospice: Understanding and Caring for Delirium
Hospice: Understanding and Caring for Dyspnea
Life Support (Treatment Choices)
Removing Life Support
Starting Hospice
Stopping Life-Sustaining Treatments
Understanding Advance Care Planning
Understanding DNR Orders
What Is Hospice?
What is Palliative Care?

General Information

Discharge Instructions: Giving a Subcutaneous (Sub-Q) Injection
Handwashing: Tips for Patients, Family, and Friends
Preventing Falls: Are You At Risk of Falling?
Preventing Falls: Exercises to Improve Balance, Flexibility, Strength, and Staying Power
Preventing Falls: How to Prepare and What to Do
Preventing Falls: In the Hospital
Preventing Falls: Make Your Health a Priority
Preventing Falls: Making Changes in Your Living Space
Preventing Falls: Moving Safely Out of a Chair and Bed
Preventing Falls: Moving Safely Outside
Preventing Falls: Moving Safely Using a Cane or Walker
Preventing Falls: Staying Active
Understanding Health Care Facilities
Understanding Restraints
When to Use the Emergency Room (ER)
When You Need a Blood Transfusion

ICU

Inside the ICU (Intensive Care Unit)
Intensive Care Guidelines
Intensive Care Unit (ICU): What You Can Do for Your Loved One
Understanding Restraints
Understanding Ventilators
What Is Intensive Care?
When You Need a Blood Transfusion

Incision & Wound Care

Central Line Infections
Incision Care
Incision Care After an Episiotomy
Incision Care: Abdomen
Incision Care: Chest
Preventing Surgical Site Infections
Recognizing and Treating Wound Infection
Suture Care
Wound Care

Infection Control & Prevention

Bloodborne Pathogens: After an Accident
Bloodborne Pathogens: OSHA Regulations
Bloodborne Pathogens: Understanding Controls
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
Clostridium difficile Infection
Extended-Spectrum Beta-lactamase (ESBL) – Producing Bacteria
Handwashing: Tips for Patients, Family, and Friends
Health Care Workers: Preventing HIV Infection
Healthcare Workers: Preventing Hepatitis B and C
Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Infection
Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDROs)
Preventing the Spread of Infection
Preventing the Spread of Infection: Understanding Isolation Procedures
Standard Precautions: Cleaning Up Contamination
Standard Precautions: Gloves and Other PPE
Standard Precautions: Handwashing
Standard Precautions: Needles and Other Sharps
Standard Precautions: Removing Gloves Safely
Staph Infection (non-MRSA)
Transmission-Based Precautions: Airborne
Transmission-Based Precautions: Contact
Tuberculosis (TB)
Understanding Bloodborne Pathogens
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
VRE Infection
What Is Pneumonia?

IV Therapy

Caring for Your PD Catheter and Exit Site
Central Line (Central Venous Access Device)
Central Line Infections
Discharge Instructions: Administering IV Antibiotics
Flushing an IV Catheter
IV Care: Clean Setup
IV Care: Using IV Antibiotics
IV Catheter Site Care
PD Catheter Access: Placing the Catheter
Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC)
Receiving IV Chemotherapy

Ostomy Care

Colostomy: Changing Your Pouch
Ostomy Care: Emptying Your Pouch
Urostomy: Caring for Your Stoma
Urostomy: Changing Your Pouch
Urostomy: Emptying Your Pouch
Urostomy: Maintaining Your Health
Urostomy: Managing Skin Problems
Urostomy: Selecting Your Pouch
Urostomy: Using a Night Drainage System
What Is a Urostomy?

Pain Management

Anesthesia: After Your Surgery
Anesthesia: Before You Receive Anesthesia
Anesthesia: General Anesthesia
Anesthesia: Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC)
Anesthesia: Regional Anesthesia
Communicating About Pain
Complementary Care for Pain
Delivering Pain Medication
Hospice: The Importance of Managing Pain
Managing Post-Op Pain at Home: Medications
Managing Post-Op Pain at Home: Non-Medication Relief
Measuring Your Pain
Medication for Pain
Pain Management
Understanding the Pain Response
Using a PCA Pump

Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition

Post Surgery

Adjusting to Your Tracheostomy Tube
Adult Circumcision
Bathroom Safety After Surgery
Caring for a Drainage Tube
Central Line Infections
Chest Tubes
Colostomy: Changing Your Pouch
Emptying and Cleaning Your Urinary Catheter Bag
Flushing an IV Catheter
Foley Catheter Removal
Handwashing: Tips for Patients, Family, and Friends
Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia
IV Catheter Site Care
Nutrition After Surgery
Ostomy Care: Emptying Your Pouch
Postsurgery Checklist
Postsurgical Coughing
Postsurgical Deep Breathing
Preventing Deep Vein Thrombosis After Surgery
Preventing Surgical Site Infections
Self-Catheterization for Men
Self-Catheterization for Women
Using an Incentive Spirometer
Vascular Access Port Implantation
Your Tracheostomy Tube: Answers to Common Questions
Your Tracheostomy Tube: Learning How to Communicate
Your Tracheostomy Tube: Tips for Eating

Preparing for Surgery

Anesthesia: After Your Surgery
Anesthesia: Before You Receive Anesthesia
Anesthesia: General Anesthesia
Anesthesia: Monitored Anesthesia Care (MAC)
Anesthesia: Regional Anesthesia
Avoiding Surgical Mistakes
Before Surgery: Preparing Your Home
Preparing for Outpatient Surgery
Presurgery Checklist
Self Blood Donation
Types of Anesthesia
Understanding Blood Donation Before Surgery
When You Need a Blood Transfusion

Tube Feeding

Bolus Tube Feeding
Continuous Tube Feeding
Deciding About Artificial Feeding
Deciding About Artificial Hydration
PEG Feeding Tube Care: Flushing
Tube Feeding: Skin and Mouth Care
Understanding PEG Tube Feeding
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