Palliative Care Video List - Pain Resource Center

including pain-killing chemicals and new electric stimulation techniques. Films for the HumanitiesAPW5531 Video $89.95CONTROLLING PAIN SERIES 3-tape series Reporting Symptoms of Pain 20 minutes Dr. Wertheimerand nursing assistants assess several residents to demonstrate how to recognize and report symptoms ofpain. Dr. Wertheimer emphasizes that staff need to get exact descriptions from residents who are able tospeak. With non-verbal residents, nursing assistants must be on the look out for changes in eating,sleeping and behavior as well as for grimacing, changes in calling out and changes in positioning.Assessing and Re-assessing Response to Pain Management 17 minutes With input from residents andnursing staff, Dr. Wertheimer guides viewers to both assess and re-assess responses to painmanagement. Both verbal and non-verbal residents are considered as well as residents with dementia.Nonpharmacologic Approaches to Pain Management 19 minutes Medication management is not alwaysthe answer to pain problems. And sometimes, medications need to be used with other interventions.Residents and staff share with Dr. Wertheimer nonpharm-acologic pain management that should beincorporated in all care. Video Press Video $400Conversations with Glorianne 15 minutes In realistic, touching ways, this enlightening film showswhat an integral role hospice plays in easing the death experience for a family. This video is about amiddle-aged woman who lost both her adult son and husband to cancer within months of each other.This film also reveals how important hospice care became to Glorianne and her loved ones. AquariusProductions, Inc. Video $150Cops on the Edge 50 minutes More police officers take their own lives every year than die in the lineof duty. Investigative Reports asks, “Has the stress of enforcing the law in the 1990s simply become toomuch for today’s officers?” In this stark and disturbing exposé, real-life police officers to right to theheart of the matter by talking candidly about the realities of life on the streets. Their stories are graphic,gritty, and impossible to ignore, as they reveal why suicide seems to be the only answer to the pain theyendure. Find out the shocking statistics and the possible solutions to this overwhelming nationalepidemic. http://library.plymouth.edu/read/269362Correcting Our Elders: The Graying of Our Nation’s Prisons 27 minutes This video explores themanagement and program service dilemmas that professionals face as the prison inmate populationages. Featured are the difficulties correctional institutions face in finding increased medical staff,providing for inmates’ daily needs, and resocializing parolees. The work uses face-to-face interviewswith inmates and prison personnel to illustrate the problems associated with serving the men andwomen of this special population. Terra Nova FilmsDax’s Case: Who Should Decide? 58 minutes This gripping documentary struggles with a profoundlytroubling bioethical problem. Under what circumstances does a severely injured patient have the rightto refuse treatment? Taking the painful case of Dax Cowart, who in his twenties was critically burned ina propane gas explosion, the film examines the issue from all perspectives. The accident left Daxsightless, helpless, disfigured and in constant pain. From the beginning he insisted that he did not wantto live, for it was clear that he would always be severely handicapped. During his long hospitalizationhe was subjected to excruciatingly painful treatments which he demanded to have terminated. But hewas denied the right to make the decision. The film is particularly unique in that it spans a ten-yearperiod, allowing one the perspective of time. Dax made a great deal of progress over the years. Heeventually moved into his own house, started a business and married. Yet he never changed his mindthat he should have been allowed to die. We hear the positions of doctors, nurses, family and friendsVideo list Page 25 of 68Rev 09