Fundamentals of Nursing
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Fundamentals - Community Health, part 9: Disasters and Triage
Different actions that should occur before, during, and after disasters. These include mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. the classification system used to triage during mass casualty events.
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Fundamentals - Community Health, part 8: Epidemiology
Epidemiology including the epidemiologic triangle. This triangle consists of the agent, host, and environment. Ellis then discusses other important terms in epidemiology like incidence, prevalence, attack rate, endemic, epidemic, and pandemic.
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Fundamentals - Community Health, part 7: Community Health Plan and Assessments
The nursing process steps as they relate to developing a community health plan, including specific data collection methods used in the assessment of a community like informal interviews, direct observation, windshield surveys, secondary analysis, and surveys.
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Fundamentals - Community Health, part 6: Health Risks and Family Nursing
Health risks across the lifespan by discussing health risks specific to infants, children, adolescents, and adults, including any related family or patient teaching. Family nursing is also discussed by reviewing the family systems theory and family assessment tools. These tools include the genogram and ecomaps.
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Fundamentals - Community Health, part 4: Vulnerable Populations and Violence
Vulnerable populations including examples of what unique health risks different groups face. We then transition into violence in the community covering risk factors for violence, specific violent acts, and the impact violence has on an individual.
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Fundamentals - Community Health, part 5: Subsidized Health Insurance
The differences between Medicare and Medicaid, including the four parts of Medicare and what each of them covers.
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Fundamentals - Community Health, part 3: Environmental Hazards
A review of community health content with environmental hazards. These include air pollution, occupational hazards, water contamination, and food deserts. Ellis further explores lead poisoning and carbon monoxide poisoning covering their risk factors and critical patient teaching.
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Fundamentals - Community Health, part 2: Prevention Levels and Determinants of Health
A review of community health content with prevention levels and determinants of health. Prevention levels include primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Determinants of health have been broken into environmental and social factors. These are critical parts of determining risk factors and impact an individual's health outcomes.
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Fundamentals - Community Health, part 1: Terminology and Roles
Community health terminology including the differences between community-oriented nursing and community-based nursing. They then describe different nurse roles within the field of community health.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 12: Elder Mistreatment
Elder mistreatment, including risk factors, types of abuse, signs/symptoms, and nursing care.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 11: Polypharmacy and Beer's List
Polypharmacy, including risk factors, prevention, patient teaching, and a selection of medication categories and classes that are included on the Beer's List.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 10: The 3 D's
Dementia, delirium, and depression, including the differences in onset, reversibility, causes, changes to the level of consciousness, and behavior-related changes.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 9: Alzheimer's / Parkinson's Disease
Alzheimer's disease, including the signs/symptoms, diagnosis, and nursing care.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 8: Communication Practice for Aging Adults
The best practices in communication techniques for engaging with older adults.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 7: Sensory Changes in Aging Adults
The common changes that occur with aging as it relates to eye health, vision, hearing, balance, and other sensory changes.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 6: Immune and Integumentary Changes in Aging Adults
The common changes that occur with aging as it relates to the immune and integumentary systems.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 5: Renal and Reproductive Changes in Aging Adults
The common changes that occur with aging as it relates to the renal and reproductive systems.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 4: Endocrine and Gastrointestinal Changes in Aging Adults
The common changes that occur with aging as it relates to the endocrine and gastrointestinal systems.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 3: Neurological and Musculoskeletal Changes in Aging Adults
The common changes that occur with aging as it relates to the nervous and musculoskeletal systems.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 2: Respiratory and Cardiac Changes in Aging Adults
The common changes that occur with aging as it relates to the respiratory and cardiac systems.
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Fundamentals - Gerontology, part 1: Psychosocial Changes in Aging Adults
The psychosocial changes an older adult may experience.
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Fundamentals - Leadership, part 7: Quality Improvement, Patient Safety Events, Incident Reporting
The quality improvement (QI) process and best practices along with different types of patient safety events (e.g., near miss, adverse event, sentinel event).
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Fundamentals - Leadership, part 6: Employee Performance Appraisal, Disciplinary Action
Best practices for employee performance appraisal and disciplinary action (e.g., for the chemically-impaired employee and the progressive approach to discipline).
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Fundamentals - Leadership, part 5: Conflict Management
The types and stages of conflict, and conflict management strategies (e.g., avoiding, smoothing, competing, accommodating, compromising, collaborating).
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Fundamentals - Leadership, part 4: Efficient Nursing Practice, Critical Paths
Best practices for efficiency in nursing practice and critical pathways.
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Fundamentals - Leadership, part 3: Delegation
Delegation of tasks to unlicensed assistive personnel (UAPs) and practical nurses (LVNs/LPNs).
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Fundamentals - Leadership, part 2: Patient Prioritization
Patient prioritization models, including the nursing process, Maslow's hierarchy, ABCs, acute vs. Chronic, unexpected vs. Expected, restrictive/invasive procedures, and survivability potential.
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Fundamentals - Leadership, part 1: Leadership Styles
Types of leadership styles, including authoritarian, autocratic, laissez-faire, democratic, transactional, transformational.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 29: Perioperative Nursing Care
The essential points of perioperative (preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative) nursing care.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 28: Chest Tubes, Artificial Airways, Tracheostomy Care, Home Oxygen Safety
The basics of chest tubes, artificial airways, tracheostomy care, and home oxygen safety.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 27: Oxygen Delivery Devices, Oxygenation Interventions, and Suctioning
Oxygen delivery devices (nasal cannula, non-rebreather, venturi device), therapeutic oxygenation interventions (chest physiotherapy and positive airway pressure), and suctioning.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 26: Hypoxemia, Hypoxia, Techniques to Improve Oxygenation
Ventilation, diffusion, and perfusion, along with hypoxemia, hypoxia, and techniques to improve oxygenation.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 25: Laxatives, Enemas, and Fecal Occult Blood Testing
Learn the key facts on laxatives, enemas, and fecal occult blood testing (FOBT).
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 24: Constipation, Diarrhea, and Ostomies
Constipation, diarrhea, and important content about ostomies (ileostomy and colostomy). Meris's personal experience with a temporary ostomy.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 23: Bladder Scanner Use and Urinary Catheters
The use of bladder scanners and key points of urinary catheters (indwelling, straight, suprapubic, and external).
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 22: Urinary Specimen Collection, Incontinence, and Urinary Tract Infections
The basics of urinary elimination and specimen collection, urinary incontinence, and urinary tract infections (UTIs).
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 21: Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
Learn the most important facts on enteral and parenteral nutrition.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 20: Nasogastric Tubes
Considerations for the indication, insertion, placement confirmation and removal of nasogastric (NG) tubes.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 19: Dysphagia, Diet Types, Foodborne Illnesses, Blood Glucose Measurement
Dysphagia, therapeutic diet types (NPO, clear liquid, full liquid, soft, dysphagia, and regular), prevention of foodborne illnesses, and capillary blood glucose measurement.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 18: Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and BMI
The key points you need to know on macronutrients, micronutrients, and body mass index (BMI).
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 17: Acid/Base Imbalances
Learn all about the basics of acid/base imbalances, including respiratory alkalosis, respiratory acidosis, metabolic alkalosis, and metabolic acidosis.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 16: Electrolytes and Electrolyte Imbalances
Get the key facts you need on basic considerations of electrolytes and electrolyte imbalances, including calcium, magnesium, potassium, and sodium.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 15: Fluid Balance, Intake/Output, Fluid Volume Deficit and Excess
Get an overview of solution osmolarity, calculating intake and output, fluid volume deficit, and fluid volume excess.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 14: Wound Care and Diabetic Foot Care
Get the scoop on wound culture and irrigation, sterile dressing changes, suture and staple removal, care of drains, and diabetic foot care.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 13: Wound Healing
The phases of wound healing, healing by intention (primary, secondary, and tertiary), complications and barriers to healing, and wound drainage/appearance.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 12: Pressure Injuries - Risk Factors, Prevention, and Staging
Pressure injury risk factors, prevention, and staging.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 11: Fall Prevention and Restraints
Fall prevention in the acute care and home settings, along with everything you need to know about restraints.
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Fundamentals - Practice & Skills, part 10: Canes, Walkers, and Crutches
Mobility devices including canes, walkers, and crutches.
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