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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Impish and twinkle-eyed, Sh'mal Ellenberg can joke about his chaotic work: helping mentally-ill drug addicts reclaim their lives. His clients are people like Kat, a hot-blooded women with insight into her mental illness, and Dale, a charismatic man with an unending drug addiction. Sh'mal can relate to his clients and their life on the fringes of society and never loses his cool when they throw tantrums or get evicted from their apartments. Yet, when...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Through the comments of a woman with arthritis, the place of spirituality in the management of arthritis is explored in this video. Spiritual needs are also addressed, such as the need for meaning and purpose, hope, and love and relatedness. How clinicians can integrate spirituality into their work with arthritic clients is described, including assessing clients' spiritual and religious beliefs and practices, and assisting them to meet their spiritual...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Stroke patients suffer a variety of complications and these can pose challenging problems for health care professionals and caregivers. This program will provide you with basic knowledge of a stroke and how to care for a patient who has suffered one. Learn how a stroke effects the mind and body, and the practical approaches you can take to care for language, perceptual and emotional complications associated with it.
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Liberty explores the deep connections in a circle of lesbian friends as they face death and celebrate life and love. Viewers say Liberty has documented the meaning of community with rare grace and wit. It is not a wimpy, weepy tale by a mile, but a keen celebration of family values. Liberty demystifies death, dispels misinformation about age and sexual orientation, and reminds us how rich life is, even in the shadow of death. Part One: Death to Life...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Whether in the acute care setting, long term care or the home, a good cardiovascular assessment will direct the client's outcome. This program will provide your staff with a comprehensive review of the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system and major cardiovascular diseases.
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Describes in detail the medications commonly prescribed to heart attack victims and necessary life style adjustments that may accompany them. This program is part of our cardiovascular series designed to comply with the Joint Commission standards for education of patients and family.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
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Through the voices of two people with Parkinson's disease, the place of spirituality in Parkinson's is explored in this video. The meaning of Parkinson's in the person's life is also explored, including the impact of the person's spirituality in managing and coping. How spirituality can be a resource for those living with Parkinson's disease is examined, for example, in developing meaning and purpose, and in engaging in spiritual or religious practices...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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This disease takes away the beauty of your face. It eats up your hands and feet and makes us ugly. Other diseases eat up your insides, but they leave you looking beautiful outside." "People in the villages think it is caused by Naga spirits. So they sacrifice chickens and goats and do prayer pujas. That's what they did for me too. My parents didn't know." Since antiquity, leprosy has struck fear into human beings. Seen as contagious, mutilating and...
13) A closer walk
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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A closer walk is the first film to depict humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. The film's director and producer, Robert Bilheimer, is an Academy Award nominee for his film Cry of reason, a profile of the South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude. A closer walk was conceived with the late Jonathan Mann, architect of the World Health Organization's response to global AIDS. For the film, more than 50 women, men, and young people...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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You're Looking At Me Like I Live Here And I Don't is the first documentary to be filmed entirely in an Alzheimer's care unit, and also the first told entirely from the perspective of a woman living with Alzheimer's disease. The film received its national television broadcast on PBS' Emmy Award-winning Independent Lens series, and has garnered acclaim from both medical professionals and film critics. In Danville, California, Lee Gorewitz wanders on...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Bowel and bladder problems for the elderly are a leading cause of frustration at home and in nursing homes. Nursing assistants spend a great deal of their time and energy assisting patients with the changing of soiled clothing and coping with the embarrassment and loss of dignity that accompanies incontinence. In this program we will teach you the steps in developing a toileting regimen, as well as valuable Kegel exercises for the patient.
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Through the comments of a professional who works with people afflicted with HIV/AIDS, as well as a woman who is HIV-positive, this video focuses on the place of spirituality in HIV/AIDS. How a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS impacts the whole person is described, including the spiritual dimension of the person. How HIV/AIDS impacts the spiritual need for meaning and purpose, the spiritual need for forgiveness, and the spiritual need for love and relatedness...
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Kanopy Streaming
Language
Deutsch
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Two roommates in a private sanatorium in early-1950s East Germany are extremely different from one another. Josef is a communist policeman, while Hubertus is a Lutheran vicar. While Josef reads The Communist manifesto, Hubertus prepares his sermon. Above their beds hang Stalin and Christ. The film offers both suspense and comedy, as the two begrudgingly develop tolerance and respect for one another. Orginally East German officials had not been open...
19) Graduating Peter
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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Graduating Peter is the sequel to the Academy Award®-winning film Educating Peter. This inspiring and thought-provoking follow-up to the 1992 Academy Award-winning documentary Educating Peter highlights the experiences of Peter Gwasdauskis, a child with Down syndrome, in sixth grade, eighth grade, and high school as he adds speech therapy and life skills classes and on-the-job training to his academic coursework. Interviews with Peters parents,...
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Kanopy Streaming
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English
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A brief clinical interview honors the notion that illness is a family affair and demonstrates skills for how to assess the impact of chronic illness on one's life and relationships (work, family, marriage, and children). Interventions of commendations and rituals are also illustrated. Intended for practicing nurses, educators, undergraduate and graduate nursing students, these programs will assist nurses to more effectively involve families in healthcare....
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