- Bathing a patient in bed
- Benefits of breastfeeding
- Bleeding during cancer treatment
- Blood transfusions
- Bringing your child to visit a very ill sibling
- Central venous catheter - dressing change
- Central venous catheter - flushing
- Cervical cancer - screening and prevention
- Changing your ostomy pouch
- Changing your urostomy pouch
- Children and grief
- Choosing a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility
- Clear liquid diet
- Closed suction drain with bulb
- Deep breathing after surgery
- Diet and eating after esophagectomy
- Drawing medicine out of a vial
- Drinking water safely during cancer treatment
- Dry mouth during cancer treatment
- Eating extra calories when sick - adults
- Eating extra calories when sick - children
- Enteral nutrition - child - managing problems
- Full liquid diet
- Gastrostomy feeding tube - bolus
- Getting out of bed after surgery
- Getting your home ready - after the hospital
- Health risks of alcohol use
- Health risks of obesity
- Hemovac drain
- Home health care
- How to care for pressure sores
- How to choose a health plan
- How to stop smoking: Dealing with a slip up
- How to stop smoking: Dealing with cravings
- Ileostomy - caring for your stoma
- Ileostomy - changing your pouch
- Ileostomy and your diet
- Indwelling catheter care
- Jejunostomy feeding tube
- Living with your ileostomy
- Lymphedema - self-care
- Make the most of your doctor visit
- Managing your weight with healthy eating
- Mediterranean diet
- Moving a patient from bed to a wheelchair
- Myths about drinking alcohol
- Nasogastric feeding tube
- Oral mucositis - self-care
- Oxygen safety
- Pain and your emotions
- Palliative care - fluid, food, and digestion
- Palliative care - managing pain
- Peripherally inserted central catheter - flushing
- Portion size
- Postural drainage
- Preventing pressure ulcers
- Pulling a patient up in bed
- Radiation therapy - skin care
- Safe eating during cancer treatment
- Self catheterization - female
- Self catheterization - male
- Skilled nursing or rehabilitation facilities
- Skin lesion removal - aftercare
- Smoking and surgery
- Sterile technique
- Storing your medicines
- Sun protection
- Suprapubic catheter care
- Surgical wound care - closed
- Surgical wound care - open
- Swallowing problems
- Taking medicine at home - create a routine
- Tests and visits before surgery
- The day of surgery for your child
- The day of your surgery - adult
- The night before your surgery
- Total parenteral nutrition
- Tracheostomy care
- Tracheostomy tube - eating
- Tracheostomy tube - speaking
- Turning patients over in bed
- Types of ileostomy
- Urine drainage bags
- Urostomy - stoma and skin care
- Urostomy pouches and supplies
- Using an incentive spirometer
- Using oxygen at home
- Weight gain after quitting smoking: What to do
- Wet-to-dry dressing changes
- When you have diarrhea
- When you have nausea and vomiting
Health exams for: #AGEGROUP#
The following exams, tests, and procedures are recommended for #AGEGROUPLOWER#.#FEMALETEXT#
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