Health Care Aide Guide

"This program will demonstrate: serving a meal to a person who eats independently and serving a meal to a person who cannot eat independently."

"This program will demonstrate: serving a meal to a person who eats independently and serving a meal to a person who cannot eat independently."

This video describes the Silver Spoons Dysphagia Management Program at Riverview Health Centre. It highlights information to help caregivers recognize and manage swallowing difficulties in long-term care clients. The video will address swallowing function, assessment, standards for feeding, and management of coughing and choking.

This video discusses techniques in the following areas: assisting with using the toilet, offering the bedpan or urinal, using a portable bedside commode, changing incontinent briefs, and bowel and bladder training.

This video discusses techniques in the following areas: assisting with using the toilet, offering the bedpan or urinal, using a portable bedside commode, changing incontinent briefs, and bowel and bladder training.

The 2009 version of this video is no longer available. "Medcom's Nursing Assistant program on elimination, specimen collection and urinary care has been revised to be more concise and easier to understand by clearly identifying each of the three stages of a procedure: preparation, the procedure itself, and completing care. In addition, this program has been updated to demonstrate the performance of nursing assistant skills as described by the National Nurse Aide Assessment Program (NNAAP)"

"Covers the purpose, equipment, preparation, and safety steps involved in assisting patients with urination and bowel eliminations. Then goes on to a demonstration of the various steps involved and concludes with follow-up activities and review questions."

Video presents the following : routine urinary care, indwelling catheter care, disonnect the catheter, empty a urinary drainage unit, connect a leg bag, apply a male external urinary collecting system, measure and record intake and output, collect clean catch (mid-stream) urine specimen, collect stool specimen, insert rectal suppository and administer enemas.

"Nursing assistants need to master the special considerations and skills needed to provide care and assistance with urinary catheters and ostomies to maintain health hygiene, and prevent infection. Medcom's New nursing assistant program on ostomy and urinary catheter care provides new nursing assistants with the information they need to completely provide care in these areas."

"Nursing assistants need to master the special considerations and skills needed to provide care and assistance with urinary catheters and ostomies to maintain health hygiene, and prevent infection. Medcom's New nursing assistant program on ostomy and urinary catheter care provides new nursing assistants with the information they need to completely provide care in these areas."

"This program teaches nursing assistants how to make objective and subjective observations of the residents they care for in key clinical areas to promote and maintain their overall health."

"This program teaches nuring assistants how to make objective and subjective observations of the residents they care for in key clinical areas to promtoe and maintain their overall health."

"Covers the purpose, equipment, preparation, and safety steps involved in collecting specimens for diagnostic testing, surgical skin preparation, and postoperative recovery using breathing and coughing exercises. Then goes onto a demonstration of the various steps involved and concludes with follow-up activities and review questions."