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Medical Ethics
Health Literacy

Ethical and Legal Behavior
This program teaches care providers about the importance of ethics and integrity in home care and provides instruction on liability issues. (9:06 min.)
Ethical Issues in Nursing Legal and ethical policies are becoming more and more complicated in the medical field, and their impact on today’s health care provider is an essential topic in nurse training. This four-part series serves as a guide to standardized codes of ethics in the nursing profession. Following a helpful introductory program, each subsequent episode examines a specific provision in the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics. Eye-opening scenarios and detailed expert commentary are included throughout. 4-part series, 16-22 minutes each.
Ethics, Logic, and Truth: Part 3—History of Psychology
This program covers experimental, behavioral, Gestalt, social, personality, humanistic, and cognitive psychologies; neuroscience; and psychopharmacology. (35:04)
Ethics and Legal Concepts in Nursing: Consent Informed consent protects patients and health care professionals from potential legal ramifications of health care procedures. This video, depicting two case studies, highlights the five core principles of informed consent; the criteria necessary for valid informed consent; and the ethical, legal, and professional issues nurses may encounter. (23;59 min.)
Human Experiment Does finding a cure justify putting test subjects at risk? C. Everett Koop is joined by Dr. Arnold Relman, editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, and other distinguished panelists in a discussion of the medical research field. (56:59)
Moral Decisions: The Value of Life This video resource discusses the moral, ethical and emotional issues of Euthanasia using well known case studies to prompt discussion and debate. Tony Bland (Hillsborough disaster) was left in a permanent vegetative state and his parents wanted him to be allowed to die but this involved stopping feeding him. Diane Petty (a lady with advanced motor neurone disease) wanted her husband to be allowed to help her die without facing criminal prosecution. This informative resource discusses and opens debates on the issues of moral decisions around a right to life. (13:47 min.)
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NewsHour Medical Ethics and Issues Anthology A respected source of balanced, first-rate journalism, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer raises urgent and challenging questions whenever it covers the health care field. This anthology of NewsHour segments confronts ethical dilemmas and complex issues in medicine today. Through in-depth reporting and interviews with doctors, nurses, patients, and other experts, the anthology examines case studies, scientific breakthroughs, and connections between corporate and public policy. (3:02:56)
Patient Safety Research shows that patients who take a proactive attitude toward even the simplest of medical procedures can greatly reduce the risks of a hospital stay. This program explores that idea in detail, illustrating ways for hospitalized individuals—regardless of their background or education level—to monitor what is happening to them and make sure all appropriate safety measures have been taken. Viewers will learn how to maintain basic awareness when facing surgery, anesthesia, IV’s, medication, and more. Commentary from Dr. William Hendee of the National Patient Safety Foundation and Dr. Lucian Leape of the Harvard School of Public Health is included. (28 minutes)
Practical Ethics: Addressing the Real-Life Challenges Confronting Healthcare Professionals — A Lecture Highlighting different types of ethical dilemmas that can arise in healthcare, this video seminar presents ethical decision-making tools and explains how to apply them in practical situations. It reviews key cases and codes in the development of healthcare ethics, discusses the role of ethics committees, considers key theories of ethics and ethical principles, and examines the four-quadrant approach and the Bennett-Woods Eight Step Model of ethical decision making. It also looks at precedent-setting and controversial cases and discusses ethical leadership. (5:39:54)
Protection: Privacy, Safety, and Standards-Ethical Issues in Nursing 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 of patient privacy and confidentiality and various ways that nurses can successfully advocate for their patients, including those who might participate in research. Also covered: review mechanisms and the role of an ethics committee. A part of the series Ethical Issues in Nursing. (21 minutes)
The Quality Gap: Medicine's Secret Killer What is the most costly element of America’s trillion-dollar healthcare system? Surprisingly, experts believe it is the medical quality gap and medical errors, which they estimate take more than 90,000 lives each year. In this program, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith examines New York’s tough performance reports on doctors and hospitals doing open-heart surgery; profiles a pioneering effort by a VA hospital in Kentucky to confront medical errors; and shows breakthrough quality improvement drives in northern New England and Utah. Each case study is an eye-opener for an American public that rates high-quality care as its number one health priority. (49 minutes)
Tele-Mental Health Documentation and Medical Necessity In this video seminar, psychotherapist Beth Rontal explains how the requirements for clinical documentation and establishing medical necessity via telehealth differ from those for face-to-face services. She presents six clinical documentation requirements specific to telehealth/tele-mental health, explains how to obtain informed consent virtually, reviews four questions to ask insurance companies, and considers how to establish medical necessity remotely. She also emphasizes planning ahead for emergencies and mental health crises.(1:06:31)

CLAS Act The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (the National CLAS Standards) are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate healthcare disparities. This two-part program will provide a blueprint for individuals and health and healthcare organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services. Adoption of these Standards will help advance better health and health care in the United States.
Health Literacy: Overcoming Patient Misunderstanding in Pharmaceutical Care Filling the gap between doctor and patient, pharmacists are in an ideal position to positively influence health literacy. After a concise examination of health literacy—what it is, how it impacts health care, and how it may present during patient/pharmacist interactions—this program employs four scenarios to illustrate how to read the signs of low health literacy and then tailor information and instructions to ensure that the patient understands. (15 minutes)
The New Food Pyramid Updated to include a bonus chapter on the USDA’s transition from MyPyramid to MyPlate! When it comes to nutrition today, one size doesn’t fit all. That’s why the USDA created MyPyramid, a food guidance system that emphasizes a more individualized approach to improving diet and overall physical fitness. After watching this video your students will have a clear understanding of the food pyramid’s history, the six themes incorporated into the MyPyramid system, the main components of MyPyramid, and how people like themselves can make this updated food pyramid a part of their life. Solid information delivered by nutrition experts from Princeton University and elsewhere and supported by onscreen diagrams, lists, and fun facts make The New Food Pyramid an indispensable part of any health-related video collection. A viewable/printable instructor’s guide is available online. Correlates to National Health Education Standards for Achieving Health Literacy. A Meridian Production. (21 minutes + bonus material) (23:32)
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Patient Assessment This program discusses both visual and numerical pain assessment scales and presents examples of how personal beliefs about pain held by both the healthcare professional and the patient can affect pain assessment. The program also considers the purpose of and guidelines for establishing a pain management program. (15:50 min.)
Practical Approach to the Physical Assessment: The Clinician's Roadmap — A Lecture This video seminar reviews interviewing and examination techniques and teaches fun mnemonics to aid in the recall of many clinical conditions. It discusses history-taking and documentation; shows techniques for performing a physical exam, including inspection, palpation, auscultation, and percussion; and teaches creitical thinking skills. The video consider examination of the integumentary system, thorax and lungs, cardiac and vascular system, the abdomen, musculoskeletal system, and nervous system. (6:03:20)
Skills Every Nurse Needs to Manage Patient Emergencies — A Lecture This video seminar teaches basic triage skills essential to nurses, emphasizing critical thinking skills and identification of red flags and reviewing rapid assessment techniques. It examines a variety of neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, endocrine, and circulatory emergencies, explaining how to ask the right questions and highlighting critical clues by system. (6:24:44)

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Infobase Films on Demand Series

Each video series covers a range of topics within the subject theme they can vary in number of Film Titles, Film length and copyright currency. Search Options include Subject Search, by Popular Categories, by Featured Producers or by Calendar.

Aged Care As more and more people live into old age, the need for geriatric care is rising as never before. Parts one through four of this six-part series explain how to manage common and serious health problems among elderly populations, while parts five and six provide insights into effective communication among health care professionals and their patients. Viewable/printable educational resources are available online. 6-part series, 25-28 minutes each.
Drugs and the Brain “This is your brain on drugs,” may be an effective sound bite, but the reality of drug use and abuse is more complicated. As this five-part series shows, the brain can be affected by drugs and alcohol in many different ways, depending on the substance consumed. The effects of stimulants, painkillers, tobacco and alcohol, cannabis, and hallucinogens are analyzed in detail, using the latest research and computer graphics. Each program demonstrates the elaborate and frequently dangerous ways in which various drugs alter brain chemistry. Scientific histories and case studies are clearly illustrated in each program. 5-part series, 51 minutes each.
Madness: A Social History of Mental Illness Attitudes toward psychotic behavior have evolved with time, reflecting change in social philosophies as much as medical knowledge over the past several centuries. In this five-part classic series, award-winning author and director Jonathan Miller takes a cultural approach to the study of mental illness as he examines attempts to explain, cure, or at least control its manifestations. Each episode gives a historical overview along with current thought on topics ranging from treatment methods to the very ways in which “insanity” is defined. With expert commentary and patients’ feedback, the series shows how far society has come in its understanding of psychiatric disorders and how far it has yet to go. Original broadcast title: Madness. A BBC Production. 5-part series, 59–60 minutes each.
Medical Ethics: Real-World Applications While the field of medical ethics often deals in abstractions—including historical currents, sociological findings, theological perspectives, and complex philosophical arguments—it comes alive when applied in real-world settings, whether they’re clinical, spiritual, political, or personal. This three-part series balances all of those ethical arenas as it examines genetic engineering, in vitro fertilization, and euthanasia in the 21st century. Viewable/printable educational resources are available online. 3-part series, 19-25 minutes each.