As the baby-boomer generation grew up and the X and Y generation entered the scene, the American work culture changed. No longer did new graduates seek out service jobs as they did in the ’60s. Now those graduating from colleges and high schools wanted the excitement of technology—independence, self-scheduling, free-thinking, big money, high-tech, and out-of-the-box thinking—all of which were incapable with most healthcare jobs. As a result, healthcare faced a staffing crisis.
So how did they propose to resolve their dilemma? Discharge patients home sooner and show family members how to provide care. They moved forward with their plan; however, they did not develop the infrastructure to support families. The Procedural Skills service line helps fill in some missing information with instructions, videos, and links demonstrating some of the more common healthcare procedures and “need-to-know” preventive care guidelines necessary for safe and effective care at home.
Recognizing Skin Breakdown When Something Doesn’t Look Right, What Does It Mean? When the Skin Changes Color, What’s Happening? When skin first starts to break down, one of the first things you see is a change in skin color due to a decrease in blood flow to the area. The pink skin makes […]
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Daily Insulin Use Insulin use in the United States is very common. Since diabetes may affect any age group, children and adults use insulin. Administered in the fat layer of skin (often in the abdomen, thigh, hip, or forearm), injections are easy to learn to give. Some pharmacies provide them pre-packaged. With sharp, short needles, injections
Videos Demonstrating Emergency Response Techniques The following videos provide visual demonstrations of emergency response techniques. You can see and hear how to correctly perform rescue breathing, chest compressions, and the Heimlich Maneuver by reviewing them. I obtained the videos from PROTrainings’ collection of YouTube presentations related to emergency responses. ProTrainings conducts a wide variety
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Normal Respiratory Function To recognize when something isn’t working right, you need to know what it looks like when working perfectly. Therefore, let’s do a lesson on normal respiratory function. Don’t worry; it won’t be painful. Overview of the Normal Respiratory Function The purpose of the normal respiratory function is to breathe oxygen from the
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Caregiver Training Videos – Links to YouTube People learn in many different ways, but viewing the performance of a task multiple times promotes the recall of steps through repetition. Therefore, I searched YouTube for caregiver training videos that demonstrated professional caregivers performing tasks that home caregivers might need to perform. Some procedures have multiple
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Oxygen Therapy It may surprise you to know that oxygen is a regulated drug. Like all other medications, it has a therapeutic dose, known side effects, and risks associated with misuse; therefore, using it requires a doctor’s prescription. Although you can buy small bottles of oxygen in pharmacies to support climbers or runners, and anyone
Helpful Ostomy Training Videos from YouTube Blockages and Obstructions If you have an ileostomy or colostomy, you’ll likely be told to avoid blockages and bowel obstructions. This video explains a few of the things that writer, Vegan Ostomy, does to prevent blockages and some tips she has found helpful if she does end up with
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Medication Administration Administering medications occurs through multiple routes of entry. A list of some of the routes of entry include: by way of the mouth (swallowed, through a tube into the stomach, under the tongue, held in the cheek), through injection into the muscle (intramuscularly), into the fat layer (subcutaneously), rectally (suppository, enema), into the
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Managing Venous Catheters Managing Venous Catheters at Home Caregivers frequently receive responsibility for managing venous catheters (IVs) at home a few days prior to patient discharge from the hospital. Whether the catheter enters the bloodstream from outside the body or internally using a long catheter that ends close to the heart, family caregivers receive training
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Healing Skin Breakdown Healing Skin Breakdown Quickly Before It Gets Worse Is Essential Healing skin breakdown quickly and successfully is essential to prevent serious consequences to your family member’s health. Skin breakdown often leads to full-body infection (sepsis), which can lead to death. therefore, as we have previously reviewed, (1) we want to keep it
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