Mosby's Nursing VideoSkills: Care of Infants and Children by Mosby

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Mosby's Nursing Skills Video: Care of Infants and Children presents the most commonly performed pediatric procedures in a compelling, easy-to-use visual format that helps you maximize your understanding. This DVD set features video clips that walk you through essential skills such as taking vital signs and measurement of an infant, positioning and restraining, and administering injections, plus detailed 3-D animations that show you key principles of pediatric anatomy and physiology.

• Video procedures guide you through every facet of each skill, providing visual and auditory reinforcement of essential concepts.
• Printable, illustrated step-by-step checklists provide portable quick-reference guides.
• 3-D animation clips help you visualize the inner functions of the body for enhanced understanding.
• NCLEX™ review questions related to the video content test your mastery of these clinical skills.
• Overviews and preparation/follow-up guidelines provide quick access to information on equipment and patient instructions.
• Documentation forms and examples identify standards and protocols for accuracy, safety, and legality of each procedure.

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Reviewer:Julie A Warren, RN, MSN, CCRN, NE-BC (Presbyterian Healthcare Services)
Description:This DVD provides step-by-step information on a variety of pediatric nursing procedures including ostomy care, physical assessment, tracheostomy care, and IV access. For each procedure, the DVD provides a skills checklist, documentation information, and a video with a narrative of the procedure. NCLEX examination questions are also included.
Purpose:All learning styles are accommodated because the DVD provides the information in both written and visual form. With the addition of documentation, it takes users through all of the steps in performing a nursing procedure. The test questions help with the learning process as well. This is needed because nursing students and new nurses aren't exposed to all of these procedures while in nursing school. It meets its objectives well.
Audience:The intended audience includes nursing students as well as anyone new to pediatric nursing. Many of the procedures are not commonly done in every pediatric setting, so the information is invaluable to the novice.
Features:The procedures covered include pediatric physical assessment, positioning and restraint, specimen collection, medication administration, IV access, tracheostomy suctioning/care, oxygen therapy, endotracheal tube suctioning and care, nutrition, elimination, and ostomy care. It is a little difficult to navigate the system at first, especially if a user wants to go straight to the video of the procedure and skip the introductory information. Tracheostomy suctioning and care and ostomy care are covered well. Some areas, such asendotracheal tube suctioning, need to be updated. Perhaps, in this case, it would be better to use actual patients rather than demonstrating an intermittent suction technique on an adolescent model.
Assessment:As a pediatric CNS responsible for the orientation of new staff to pediatric intensive care units and pediatrics, I found this DVD helpful in my classes and skills labs. Watching these procedures is much more realistic than teaching with a manikin. I have not found any other resources that provide some of the procedures shown here. The NCLEX questions are helpful in testing knowledge and retention of information.

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