Library Guides: Medical Radiation Sciences: Radiation Therapy: Patient Care

Patient Care Books & eBooks

Torres' Patient Care in Imaging Technology by Andrea Dutton; TerriAnn Ryan
Publication Date: 2018 Ninth Edition
eBook
Also available in print, IAHS STACKS RC78 .T67 2019

Performing Hand Hygiene: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration 4 minutes)
This video demonstrates how to perform proper hand hygiene.
Hand hygiene: A must radiotherapy patients
Article: Bhebhe, Enala. Synergy (Jun 2012): 4-7
Best Practices for Hand Hygiene in All Health Care Settings
This document provides infection prevention and control practices for: knowing why and when to perform hand hygiene;understanding barriers and enablers that might influence hand hygiene;choosing hand hygiene agents; and applying the correct hand hygiene techniques.
Source: Public Health Ontario

Using Personal Protective Equipment and Isolation Precautions: Nursing Skills
This video demonstrates how to use personal protective equipment properly and discusses isolation precautions. Source: Mosby Nursing Skills 2011
Performing Sterile Gloving: Clinical Skills Essentials Collection (Video Duration 2 minutes)
This video demonstrates how to use sterile methods when putting on gloves.

Performing Sterile Gloving: Nursing Skills
This video demonstrates how to put on gloves properly. Source: Mosby Nursing Skills, 2011
Using a Prepackaged Sterile Kit: Nursing Skills
This video demonstrates how to use a prepackaged sterile kit. Source: Mosby's Nursing Skills, 2011

Mosby's Nursing Skills: Transferring and Positioning Patients
This is a Playlist of six short videos. Demonstrating the following; how to move a patient in a bed, how to position patients in bed, how to use a transfer belt to tranfer a patient from a bed to a wheelchair, how to transfer a patient from a bed to a stretcher, how to use a hydraulic lift

Assessment Made Incredibly Easy!
Publication Date: 2008
See Chapter 2: Blood pressure

Assisting With a Bedpan: Nursing Skills
This video shows how to assist patients with use of a bedpan. Source: Mosby Nursing Skills, 2011
Assisting With a Urinal: Nursing Skills
This video shows how to help patients use a urinal. Source: Mosby Nursing Skills, 2011