- ACE inhibitors
- Aches and pains during pregnancy
- Achilles tendon rupture - aftercare
- Acne - self-care
- After a C-section - in the hospital
- After vaginal delivery - in the hospital
- Allergic rhinitis - self-care
- Allergies, asthma, and dust
- Allergies, asthma, and molds
- Allergies, asthma, and pollen
- Am I in labor?
- Anal itching - self-care
- Angina - when you have chest pain
- Animal bites - self-care
- Ankle fracture - aftercare
- Ankle sprain - aftercare
- Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury - aftercare
- Antihistamines for allergies
- Antiplatelet medicines - P2Y12 inhibitors
- Aspirin and heart disease
- Asthma - control drugs
- Asthma - quick-relief drugs
- Atopic dermatitis - self-care
- Baby supplies you need
- Back pain - returning to work
- Back pain and sports
- Bacterial vaginosis - aftercare
- Bathing a patient in bed
- Bathroom safety for adults
- Bed rest during pregnancy
- Being active after your heart attack
- Being active when you have heart disease
- Benign positional vertigo - aftercare
- Bicycle safety
- Bile acid sequestrants for cholesterol
- Birth control pills - combination
- Birth control pills - progestin only
- Bland diet
- Bleeding during cancer treatment
- Blood transfusions
- Breast skin and nipple changes
- Breastfeeding - skin and nipple changes
- Broken collarbone - aftercare
- Broken kneecap - aftercare
- Broken toe - self-care
- Butter, margarine, and cooking oils
- Calcium, vitamin D, and your bones
- Can't sleep? Try these tips
- Cardiac rehabilitation
- Caring for muscle spasticity or spasms
- Carotid artery stenosis - self-care
- Central venous catheter - dressing change
- Central venous catheter - flushing
- Cervical cancer - screening and prevention
- Changing your ostomy pouch
- Changing your sleep habits
- Changing your urostomy pouch
- Cholesterol and lifestyle
- Cholesterol testing and results
- Choosing a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility
- Clear liquid diet
- Closed reduction of a fractured bone
- Closed reduction of a fractured bone - aftercare
- Closed suction drain with bulb
- Collateral ligament (CL) injury - aftercare
- Colles wrist fracture - aftercare
- Common symptoms during pregnancy
- Communicating with someone with aphasia
- Communicating with someone with dysarthria
- Compression stockings
- Constipation - self-care
- Controlling your high blood pressure
- Cooking without salt
- COPD - control drugs
- COPD - quick-relief drugs
- COPD flare-ups
- Counting carbohydrates
- Daily bowel care program
- Day to day with COPD
- De Quervain tendinitis
- Deciding to have knee or hip replacement
- Deciding to quit drinking alcohol
- Deep breathing after surgery
- Dementia - behavior and sleep problems
- Dementia - daily care
- Dementia - keeping safe in the home
- Dementia and driving
- Depression - stopping your medicines
- Devices for hearing loss
- Diabetes - foot ulcers
- Diabetes - keeping active
- Diabetes - preventing heart attack and stroke
- Diabetes - taking care of your feet
- Diabetes - when you are sick
- Diabetes and exercise
- Diabetes eye care
- Diabetes eye exams
- Diabetes tests and checkups
- Diet after gastric banding
- Diet and eating after esophagectomy
- Dietary fats explained
- Diet-busting foods
- Dislocated shoulder - aftercare
- Dizziness and vertigo - aftercare
- Drawing medicine out of a vial
- Drinking water safely during cancer treatment
- Dry mouth during cancer treatment
- Dry skin - self-care
- Dry socket
- Eating extra calories when sick - adults
- Eating habits and behaviors
- Eating out
- Eating right during pregnancy
- Elbow sprain - aftercare
- Episiotomy - aftercare
- Exercise and activity for weight loss
- Exercise, lifestyle, and your bones
- Exercise-induced asthma
- Exercises to help prevent falls
- Fast food tips
- Fire safety at home
- Foot sprain - aftercare
- Frozen shoulder - aftercare
- Full liquid diet
- Generalized anxiety disorder - self-care
- Genital herpes - self-care
- Gestational diabetes - self-care
- Getting out of bed after surgery
- Getting your home ready - after the hospital
- Getting your home ready - knee or hip surgery
- Getting yourself healthy before surgery
- Giving an insulin injection
- Greater trochanteric pain syndrome
- Group B streptococcus - pregnancy
- Gunshot wounds - aftercare
- Hamstring strain - aftercare
- Hand fracture - aftercare
- Headaches - danger signs
- Health risks of alcohol use
- Health risks of obesity
- Healthy grocery shopping
- Hearing loss and music
- Heart disease - risk factors
- Heart disease and depression
- Heart disease and intimacy
- Heart failure - fluids and diuretics
- Heart failure - home monitoring
- Heel pain and Achilles tendonitis - aftercare
- Hemodialysis access - self care
- Hemovac drain
- Herbal remedies and supplements for weight loss
- High blood sugar - self-care
- High-fiber foods
- Hip flexor strain - aftercare
- Hip or knee replacement - in the hospital after
- Home blood sugar testing
- Home health care
- How to avoid exercise injuries
- How to avoid overheating during exercise
- How to breathe when you are short of breath
- How to care for pressure sores
- How to choose a health plan
- How to give a heparin shot
- How to prevent frostbite and hypothermia
- How to read food labels
- How to stop drinking
- How to stop smoking: Dealing with a slip up
- How to stop smoking: Dealing with cravings
- How to treat the common cold at home
- How to use a nebulizer
- How to use an inhaler - no spacer
- How to use an inhaler - with spacer
- How to use your peak flow meter
- Human bites - self-care
- Ileostomy - caring for your stoma
- Ileostomy - changing your pouch
- Ileostomy and your diet
- Iliotibial band syndrome - aftercare
- Immunizations for people with diabetes
- Indwelling catheter care
- Ischemic ulcers - self-care
- Jejunostomy feeding tube
- Kegel exercises - self-care
- Kidney stones - self-care
- Knee braces - unloading
- Kneecap dislocation - aftercare
- Labyrinthitis - aftercare
- Laceration - sutures or staples - at home
- Lacerations - liquid bandage
- Latex allergies - for hospital patients
- Learn about gluten-free diets
- Learn to manage your anger
- Learning about depression
- Leg or foot amputation - dressing change
- Life after weight-loss surgery
- Lifting and bending the right way
- Living with a chronic illness - dealing with feelings
- Living with a chronic illness - reaching out to others
- Living with endometriosis
- Living with hearing loss
- Living with heart disease and angina
- Living with uterine fibroids
- Living with vision loss
- Living with your ileostomy
- Long-term complications of diabetes
- Losing weight after pregnancy
- Low blood sugar - self-care
- Low-fiber diet
- Low-salt diet
- Lymphedema - self-care
- Make peak flow a habit
- Make the most of your doctor visit
- Making everyday tasks easier when you have arthritis
- Mallet finger - aftercare
- Managing latex allergies at home
- Managing menopause at home
- Managing migraines at home
- Managing pain during labor
- Managing tension headaches at home
- Managing your blood sugar
- Managing your chronic back pain
- Managing your weight gain during pregnancy
- Managing your weight with healthy eating
- Medicines for osteoporosis
- Medicines, injections, and supplements for arthritis
- Mediterranean diet
- Meniscus tears - aftercare
- Metatarsal stress fractures - aftercare
- Minor burns - aftercare
- Monitoring your baby before labor
- Moving a patient from bed to a wheelchair
- Myths about drinking alcohol
- Nail injuries
- Nasal fracture - aftercare
- Nasogastric feeding tube
- Neck pain or spasms - self care
- Nerve damage from diabetes - self-care
- Oculoplastic procedures
- Oral mucositis - self-care
- Oxygen safety
- Pain and your emotions
- Palliative care - fluid, food, and digestion
- Palliative care - managing pain
- Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) - aftercare
- Peripheral artery disease of the legs - self-care
- Peripherally inserted central catheter - flushing
- Phantom limb pain
- Pin care
- Piriformis syndrome
- Portion size
- Positioning your baby for breastfeeding
- Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) injury - aftercare
- Postherpetic neuralgia - aftercare
- Postural drainage
- Prediabetes
- Preeclampsia - self-care
- Pregnancy and travel
- Pregnancy and work
- Premenstrual syndrome - self-care
- Prenatal care in your first trimester
- Preterm labor
- Preventing falls
- Preventing hepatitis A
- Preventing hepatitis B or C
- Preventing pressure ulcers
- Pulling a patient up in bed
- Pulmonary hypertension - at home
- Radial head fracture - aftercare
- Radiation therapy - skin care
- Relaxation techniques for stress
- Responsible drinking
- Returning to sports after a back injury
- Rib fracture - aftercare
- Rotator cuff - self-care
- Rotator cuff exercises
- Sacroiliac joint pain - aftercare
- Safe eating during cancer treatment
- Saline nasal washes
- Self catheterization - female
- Shin splints - self-care
- Shingles - aftercare
- Shoulder separation - aftercare
- Signs of an asthma attack
- Simple, heart-smart substitutions
- Sinusitis in adults - aftercare
- Skilled nursing or rehabilitation facilities
- Skin and hair changes during pregnancy
- Skin flaps and grafts - self-care
- Smoking and asthma
- Smoking and surgery
- Snacking when you have diabetes
- Snacks for adults
- Staph infections - self-care at home
- Stay active and exercise when you have arthritis
- Stay away from asthma triggers
- Steps to take before you get pregnant
- Sterile technique
- Storing your medicines
- Strategies for getting through labor
- Stroke risk factors
- Subcutaneous (SQ) injections
- Sun protection
- Suprapubic catheter care
- Surgical wound care - closed
- Surgical wound care - open
- Swallowing problems
- Sweetened beverages
- Tailbone trauma - aftercare
- Taking antacids
- Taking care of your new hip joint
- Taking care of your new knee joint
- Taking care of your vascular access for hemodialysis
- Taking medicine at home - create a routine
- Taking medicines to treat tuberculosis
- Taking warfarin (Coumadin)
- Talking to someone with hearing loss
- Teenage pregnancy
- Tests and visits before surgery
- The day of your surgery - adult
- The night before your surgery
- Timing of breastfeeding
- Total parenteral nutrition
- Tracheostomy care
- Tracheostomy tube - eating
- Tracheostomy tube - speaking
- Traveling with breathing problems
- Tremor - self-care
- Trigger finger
- Turning patients over in bed
- Type 2 diabetes - self-care
- Types of ileostomy
- Understanding the DASH diet
- Urinary incontinence products - self-care
- Urinary tract infection in girls - aftercare
- Urinary tract infection in women - self-care
- Urine drainage bags
- Urostomy - stoma and skin care
- Urostomy pouches and supplies
- Using a cane
- Using a walker
- Using an incentive spirometer
- Using oxygen at home
- Using your shoulder after replacement surgery
- Using your shoulder after surgery
- Vaginal bleeding in early pregnancy
- Vaginal bleeding in late pregnancy
- Vaginitis - self-care
- Varicose and other vein problems - self-care
- Venous ulcers - self-care
- Warning signs and symptoms of heart disease
- Water safety and drowning
- Weight gain after quitting smoking: What to do
- Weight-loss medicines
- When you are drinking too much - tips for cutting back
- When you have diarrhea
- When you have nausea and vomiting
- When you have urinary incontinence
- When you need to gain more weight during pregnancy
- When your baby is stillborn
- Women and sexual problems
- Wrist sprain - aftercare
- Your diet after gastric bypass surgery
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The following exams, tests, and procedures are recommended for #AGEGROUPLOWER#.#FEMALETEXT#
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