This unit describes the meanings of medical words.
This presentation discusses the psychosocial needs of patients experiencing cancer. In also includes information about resources that are available to family members during the cancer journey.
Lecture Objectives:
-Describe the spectrum of psychosocial needs for individuals experiencing cancer during diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship or end-of-life care.
-Define the role that mental health professionals play in meeting the psychosocial needs of cancer patients.
-Discuss professional services that are available to patients and their families during a cancer experience.
-Discuss the importance of collaboration and teamwork in meeting the psychosocial needs of cancer patients.
Three-part unfolding case of a hospitalized older adult demonstrating impact of unrecognized cognitive disturbances and use of standardized assessment instruments to guide recognition.
Instruments featured include the AD-8, the Geriatric Depression Scale and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. The role of interprofessional collaboration to reduce care fragmentation is also featured.
This unit describes the urinary system.
Now that you know what CPT is, it's time to learn how to use it. This course dives deeper into the principles and organization of these procedure codes. However, this course is merely an introduction to the practice, and some of the examples that we'll use are simplified for ease of understanding.
Using ICD-10-CM is a lot like using ICD-9-CM, with a few significant differences. Using our guide to ICD-9-CM as a base, this video will show you how to use ICD-10-CM code set accurately and efficiently.
The purpose of this textbook is to provide an introductory, yet comprehensive, source of information on epidemiology for veterinary students, researchers, and practitioners. There has not been a textbook that presents analytic epidemiology as a science, basic to veterinary medicine's efforts in health management (herd health) as well as in clinical medicine.
Vital is an interactive guide to the effects of vitamins and minerals in the body systems
The purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Using a multi-media approach, it will provide opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement.
The purpose of this textbook is to help learners develop best practices in vital sign measurement. Using a multi-media and interactive approach, it will provide opportunities to read about, observe, practice, and test vital sign measurement.
Provides a study of fitness and wellness and their relationship to a healthy lifestyle. Defines fitness and wellness, evaluates the student's level of fitness and wellness, and motivates the student to incorporate physical fitness and wellness into daily living.
This unit describes health information management and technology.
The AAPC's Certified Professional Coder (CPC) exam is currently the gold standard of coding certifications. Let's take a look at this certification exam now.
If you could decide today... how long do you want to live? The video "Why Age? Should We End Aging Forever?" is a resource included in the Aging topic made available from the Kurzgesagt open educational resource series.
The war against drugs has been a terrible disaster for everybody involved. Why? And can we do something differently? The video "Why The War on Drugs Is a Huge Failure" is a resource included in the Aging topic made available from the Kurzgesagt open educational resource series.
In this interactive object, learners review case studies and identify complex arterial blood gases.
Learners read an introduction to arterial blood gasses and then identify uncompensated ABGs.
Students read about how acid/base balance affects a person's health. This activity includes animation.
Students read and test themselves on the conditions that cause specific acid/base imbalances.
In this interactive object, the learner matches various disorders to the acid-base disturbances they cause.