Patient Care Skills:

"The Patient Care Skills courseware training is the closest thing my students can get to working in the hospital before I send them to clinical." Vangie Deleon, Delmar College, Texas.
PatientCare Skills on CD-ROM is a fully interactive courseware training program, designed for any educational curriculum, which includes patient care training. Idealfor nursing, home health, or multi-skill patient care. Students can learn and be evaluated on the basics of patient care including personal care skills, vital signs, toileting, intake and output, transfers, and much more. This stimulating and entertaining format maintains interest along with developing critical thinking and problem solving skills. The program, which includes OBRA requirements for nursing assistants, can be used for skill training, laboratory review, and validation of skills. A complete course management system allows the instructor to maintain records and documentation of program scores and completion. Student and Instructor’s Versions available through Total Care Programming. Pricing Info.

Why should you use Patient Care Skills Courseware Program?

  • To stimulate student interest and promote comprehension by providing multimedia interactive training rich with video, animation, and questions for self-paced study, remediation, or reference.
  • To increase your effectiveness by adapting multimedia and technology to your current curriculum using our media, PowerPoint presentation, or clipart.
  • To easily administer courseware training according to your instructional design and preference using our course management system.
Click the "Play" to the left to see a streaming tutorial of Patient Care Skills. This animation will take approximately 2:45 minutes. Naturally, the screen size is reduced and the sound is not the quality of the CD-ROM but it should give you an idea of the features of the program. As you will see, the program can be used as a critical thinking exam, and/or as a reference guide by using the contents menu to access rich multimedia content.

Patient Care Skills CD-ROM includes questions and content on all the following:

Main Topic

Sub Topics
Care Responsibilities

Patient Rights, Organizing Care,Setting Priorities,Abbreviations,Restraints

Safety and Infection Control Hand Washing, Body Mechanics, Safety Rules. Practicing Safety. Airborne Precautions. Contact Precautions. Transporting Patients
Bathing Types of Baths, Bed Bath, Shower and Tub, Partial Bath, Completing the Bath
Oral Hygiene Assisting, Dentures, Unconscious Mouth Care
Personal Care AM and PM Care, Dressing/Undressing, Male Perineal Care, Perineal/Catheter Care, Back Rub, Back Rub Procedure, Hair Care, Shaving, Bed Shampoo, Nails, Foot Care, Eyeglasses, Hearing, Hearing Aid, Elastic Stockings
Post-mortem Dying Patient, Family, Procedure
Bed Making Types of Beds, Closed Bed, Open Bed, Occupied Bed
Measurements Vital Signs, Vital Signs Normal, Weight, Height
Intake and Output Why Measure, What to Measure, Intake, Output, Reading a Graduate
Admission and Discharge Preparation, Procedure, Patient Teaching
Feeding Stimulating Appetite, Assisting with Meals Procedure
Toileting Urinal, Bedpan, Assisting with Bedpan
Emergencies Falling Patient, Heimlich Maneuver, Unconscious Airway Obstruction, Clearing an Obstruction
Lifting and Moving Immobility, Range of Motion, Turning, Transfer Guidelines, Wheelchair, Stretcher

Instructor's Resource Guide "Patient Care Skills"

Designed to be used with the CD-ROM software program "Patient Care Skills". This instructor's resource guide is a complete notebook with everything you will need to teach Patient Care Skills. Materials can be used as handouts, transparency masters, or slides for your classroom presentations. The guide contains: instructor's tips for use, reproducible masters of screen captured information, additional charts and transparency masters, printed text and charts from the entire CD, complete glossary with printed definitions, hard copies of the examination and interactive questions, PowerPoint slide presentation, and clipart (.bmp) files for use in any presentation program or printed materials. The Instructor's Resource Guide comes with the purchase of a PCS CD-ROM.

System requirements:

586/133 MHz or faster, 32 meg of ram and NT 4.0/Win 98/95. 4x CD-ROM or faster. Display of 16 thousand colors (16 bit) or more. Sound system for 8 bit audio.