Video Press creates video programs integrating health issues with the worlds of real people.
Video Press presents a new video clip: Preventing Abuse: Safety Measures
Safety should be the top concern of any facility working with the elderly, but too often we do things that increase the risk of injury like rushing a patient or not performing prompt evaulations. This video discusses specific risks elderly patients face and suggests measures to improve safety. So be sure to check out this program featuring nursing home staff and presented by Debra Wertheimer, MD; Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP; and Donna Senft, JD.
Our offices will be closed December 23, 2010 - January 3, 2011 for the holidays and orders placed online during this time WILL NOT be shipped before January 4, 2011. So be sure to get a head start on the new year by ordering before the holidays!
Wishing you a happy holiday season from all of us at Video Press!
For workshops, classes and training sessions we understand that time is an important issue, so Video Press is presenting recuts of three educational eldercare documentaries previously aired on Maryland Public Television. Each recut is a focused distillation of 56 minutes of footage down to 16 minutes (or less) to make the most of each second of your training session. Check them out:
- Maintaining Independence - Documents the journey of two elderly bilateral amputees as they strive to recover their independence. Based on Dominick and Margaret - Independent Living for the Elderly Disabled.
- Recovering from Stroke: The Patient and Family Perspective - Documents the emotional perspectives of both Glenn and his son as each takes on a new role while Glenn recovers from a recent stroke. Based on The Wilson Crisis.
- End of Life Care: The Patient and Family Perspective - Documents the demands on the family caregiver, particularly during end of life care and demonstrates to health professionals areas of required support. Based on Marge and Walter.
Announcing two new videos available for purchase on the Video Press website:
- Recovering from Stroke: The Patient and Family Perspective - Documents the emotional perspectives of both Glenn and his son as each takes on a new role while Glenn recovers from a recent stroke. Based on the documentary, The Wilson Crisis.
- End of Life Care: The Patient and Family Perspective - Documents the demands on the family caregiver, particularly during end of life care and demonstrates to health professionals areas of required support. Based on the documentary Marge and Walter.
- Discovering Appropriate Activities for the Younger Resident - Staff working with younger residents quickly realize their special needs and concerns. In this program, they talk about some basic activities which appeal to nearly all younger generation residents.
Video Press has long acknowledged the need for disability awareness, not just in October but all year long, which is why we are continuing our Stars of Inclusion special featuring six documentaries on children and teens with special needs who want to be included and given a chance to meet the challenges of life in the mainstream like the rest of their peers.
| Beginning with Bong (PERCH1005) Bong & Donnell (PERCH1004) Shakissha and Friends (PERCH1012) |
Rachael, Being Five (PERCH1010) Rachael, In Middle School (PERCH1011) Sarah's Graduation (PERCH1009) |
Six award-winning documentaries, a $900 value for only $375!
6-DVD Series Price: $375
Each title is true-to-life with a message of real understanding you'll have to see for yourself. Click on a title below to see a short video clip and learn more about that program.
- Beginning with Bong: Meet six kids with different special needs as they talk about their lives and friends and go about a 'normal' school day. "Life's not always a bowl of cherries for me, but I try to live as normal a life as I can. I mean, I am a normal person."
- Bong & Donnell: As seen on HBO, this documentary tracks the life of Bong, who never lets his wheelchair define him, and his best friend Donnell through their turbulent lives from elementary school to high school.
- Sarah's Graduation: Recognized as a class leader and eagerly preparing for college, Sarah accepts her CP but doesn't let it isolate her. "I've grown up a lot. I'm able to deal with society. I don't get upset when someone stares," says Sarah. "High school is...you get treated like an adult, it's a nice feeling. It's a grown-up feeling."
- Rachael, Being Five: This documentary follows a year in the life of five year-old Rachael, who has cerebral palsy and attends a mainstream school. While this sweet little girl may need a wheelchair to get around, it's Rachael's charming smile that makes her special.
- Rachael, In Middle School: In this follow-up program, Rachael juggles her school work, homework and curious classmates while navigating these difficult early teen years. Though she admits to sometimes feeling overwhelmed like every other teenager, Rachael charges through with her winning smile.
- Shakissha and Friends: In this program, Shakissha moves from a school for children with special needs to a mainstream 4th grade class. Her new class gets ready to welcome her by doing exercises that help them understand she is mostly the same as them. "I want the them to think I was a regular kid, because I don't like when they think I'm a handicapped kid because I really don't like being handicapped."
Any of the individual programs included in the Stars of Inclusion series may be purchased separately for $150 each.
Video Press DVDs for staff education address many areas prioritized in MDS 3.0, the newest version of the Minimum Data Set scheduled to be implemented nationwide on October 1st. As a vanguard in recognizing the importance of the resident’s voice, we offer many titles where residents speak about pain, their rights, their independence and dignity as well as other aspects of their care. These DVDs can serve as a model for interviewing residents and to show the importance of hearing the resident’s voice. Perspectives of the Elderly Titles »
Many of the competency areas in our 2010 catalog directly relate to MDS 3.0 including titles on pain, skin care, feeding, ADLs, function and infections. Many of our titles include demonstrations and patient vignettes. These videos not only impart vital information in an easy to understand interactive discussion format, they also are a great baseline for subsequent training sessions. Care Competencies Titles »
DVD Video training has many advantages over workshops. Our videos are based on reality; filmed in long-term care facilities with long-term care staff. We are able to provide discussions lead by national leaders and experts and present real long-term care residents which have been selected for their ability to speak not only for themselves but also for their fellow residents. Also by professionally editing hours of footage, we are able to condense day-long training sessions into a concise 20 minute format--excellent for presentation to staff groups.
We encourage you to browse our online catalog and view our video clips. You’ll find many of our programs relate specifically to your MDS 3.0 training needs. Elder Care Titles »
We are please to offer the following special discount to all our clients:
Large Order Discount
Purchase $2,000 or more from Video Press and automatically receive a 25% discount on your entire order!
Announcing six new video clips available now on the Video Press website:
- The Nursing Assistant’s Role as a Cheerleader and "Personal Trainer" - Dr. Resnick teaches nursing assistants easy to remember motivational skills to get older individuals involved in exercise. Also includes interviews of residents talking about the benefits of exercise in their lives and the challenges they face in being and staying motivated.
- Function – A Quality Indicator: The GNA’s Role - This program introduces GNAs to function as a quality indicator used in the MDS (minimum data set) survey process. Through demonstrations and resident vignettes, the viewer sees the GNA’s role in using simple exercise to maintain resident function and independence.
- Restorative Care: An Informal Functional Assessment - Dr. Resnick shows staff how to perform an informal functional assessment of joint mobility and muscle strength.
- Preventing Abuse: Pressure Sores - Discussion includes the GNA’s vital role in reporting pressure sore information, providing appropriate care and the devastating consequences of improper care.
- Understanding Flashpoints: Regaining Control - Nursing staff member share their personal strategies for preventing loss of control and how they quickly regain professional composure when tempers flare.
- Advance Directives and the Elderly: Making Decisions About Treatment Limitations - Three nursing home residents talk with their physician about their wishes to limit treatment. Topics specifically addressed are artificial feeding, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and use of antibiotics.
Announcing seven new video clips available now on the Video Press website:
- Caring for the Younger Resident - Young, impatient, often frustrated or angry, younger residents may take out their emotions on the care provider or on other residents. Nursing assistants present specific strategies for developing a different kind of caregiving relationship with these residents.
- Management of Urinary Incontinence in Long-Term Care - Greater than 75% of long-term care residents are affected by incontinence. The impact of this problem profoundly affects residents as well as staff. The Johns Hopkins team presents specific management programs which can minimize incontinence.
- Dealing with Sexually Inappropriate Behavior: Physical Touching and Disrobing - With the loss of inhibitions, some residents no longer realize that provocative touching and disrobing is inappropriate social behavior. Dr. Stevens help staff work through these sensitive issues and develop ways to be prepared and positively manage such situations.
- Dealing with Sexually Inappropriate Behavior: Masturbation and Sexually Provocative Behavior - Staff describe particular situations involving masturbation and sexually provocative behavior that have been very disturbing not only to themselves but also to residents. Dr. Stevens leads a discussion how to get past feelings of embarrassment and violation and suggests ways to develop appropriate management plans.
- Latina GNA: The Challenges and the Rewards - Three recent graduates from a nursing assistant program relate their personal dreams, and the personal rewards of caring for older people. They describe their professional responsibilities, the importance of speaking English, and why they want to work in a medical field.
- Advanced Directives and the Elderly: CPR in Nursing Homes - In this program, a physician, a nursing home resident and the resident's daughter discuss CPR. In answering posed questions, the physician responds to their emotional concerns as well as to their need for information.
- Comfort Measures at the End of Life - Terminally ill patients who elect not to pursue curative treatment deserve the best possible care. This programs stresses pain control and symptom management for physical comfort and the physiological ramifications and basic ethical principles of withholding artificial nutrition and hydration.
More video clips are coming soon, so check back often.
Embracing the new academic year, Video Press has updated its website and catalog with a fresh look! Our beautiful new 2010-2011 Video Press catalog is currently winging its way to universities and long-term care facilities across the nation, so expect your copy soon!
Can't wait? Download your copy now!
» 2010-2011 Video Press Elder Care Catalog (.pdf)
We have made several organizational changes to the catalog this year including a new section titled Elder Care Skill Competencies which focuses on specific skills required by nursing staff such as feeding a patient or taking vital signs. Challenges in Long-Term Care is another new section that addresses specific issues faced in many care facilities. Videos in this new section help nursing staff with issue such as dealing with disordered behavior, resident sexuality and team conflicts.
Also don't forget to check out the new releases featured in our catalog this year:- Alzheimer's: Facilitating ADLs
- Alzheimer's Patients: Providing Person-Centered Care
- The Rabins Response to the Challenging Behaviors of Alzheimer's Disease
- Resident Rights: The Resident's Perspective
- Respecting Resident Rights: Individuality and Dignity
- Vital Signs: Vital Technique
Video Press is proud to announce four new releases for 2010-2011:
- Vital Signs: Vital Technique - a nursing instructor demonstrates how to take the vital signs of an elderly individual and discusses normal and abnormal values.
- Alzheimer's Patients: Providing Person-Centered Care - Dr. Rabins talks with nursing staff on how they provide person-centered care by accepting individual preferences, providing thorough reports to new staff and recognizing an Alzheimer's patient's changing care needs.
- The Rabins Response to the Challenging Behaviors of Alzheimer's Disease - presents a simple and effective response system for minimizing disordered behaviors related to Alzheimer's disease developed by Dr. Peter Rabins.
- Respecting Resident Rights: Individuality and Dignity - Long-term care residents talk about what they need to be resilient and successful in their new home and high on their list is caring staff and activities that suit them as an individuals.
Announcing eight new video clips available now on the Video Press website:
- Abusive Physical Interactions - Care providers discuss unacceptable physical interactions including: use of force when an older person cannot or will not cooperate; grabbing, hitting or pushing a resident; and rough manner.
- Alzheimer's Disease: Positive Solutions to Minimize Fearful Behaviors - Dr. Rabins and nursing staff talk about the importance of realizing some challenging behaviors may be fear-based and suggest positive solutions.
- Behavioral Neglect: Triggering Aggression - This video identifies areas of behavioral neglect, why it happens and the devastating consequences not only for the resident, but also for staff and the facility.
- Care Means Caring - Meet nursing assistants who understand the physical, emotional and social losses associated with the aging process and how to minimize these losses whenever possible.
- Conflict: The Disruptive, Chaos Creating Resident - Nursing assistants share their experiences of handling residents with disruptive and destructive behaviors.
- Hidden Neglect Abuse - Dr. Stevens talks with nursing assistants to identify de-humanizing situations that neglect resident's individuality.
- Recognizing and Preventing Emergencies - Dr. Wertheimer discusses signs and symptoms of heart attacks, strokes, choking and hypoglycemia and what actions should be taken immediately.
- Strategies for Nurturing Emotional Well-Being of the Alzheimer’s Patient - Dr. Rabins and nursing assistants identify strategies to incorporate emotional well-being into care for a patient.
Announcing two new video clips available now on the Video Press website:
- The Unopened Milk Carton: Eating with Assistance - Demonstrations and discussions on feeding provide essential guidance for nursing assistants, home health aides, and family caregivers.
- Family Neglect: Precipitating Outrage - Identifies situations which can precipitate family outrage and provides staff effective tools to respond to even the most difficult family members.
Additional video clips will be announced as they are posted in the next few months, so check back often!
The SOMVideoPress channel on YouTube has an new video titled Nursing Home Resident Appreciation. Don't miss this short video where elderly residents in long-term care talking about their nursing assistants who show them kindness and appreciation.
Residents want us all to know that they truly appreciate nursing assistants who appreciate them. Please share this video with your co-workers and staff so everyone can hear this important message!
Note: This video includes clips from the following Video Press programs: Nursing Home Heroes, The Challenge of Life's Journey, Care Includes Our Emotional Well-Being, A Good Day in Long-Term Care, Appreciating Us, Our Need For Caring Relationships, Forever Beautiful, Great Nursing Assistants, and Resident's Rights.
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