The IDEAL project's video library is a comprehensive resource that includes not only 10 learning clips but also incorporates interactive training elements to enhance the learning experience. These elements include pop-up learning tasks that appear during video playback, offering immediate practice opportunities on the content being viewed. Additionally, the library provides learning materials in PDF format, ensuring that learners have access to written content for deeper study and review. Each video is meticulously designed to simulate common work situations in healthcare. This dual approach ensures learners have multiple avenues to engage with and internalize the material.
To accommodate varying levels of language proficiency and learning paces, the video player allows viewers to adjust the playback speed. Slowing down the videos can significantly enhance comprehension, making it easier for learners to follow along and absorb the content. Furthermore, the videos are equipped with interactive German subtitles that learners can translate into 17 languages by clicking on words they don't understand. This functionality plays a crucial role in overcoming language barriers, enabling learners to immediately correlate unfamiliar terms with their native language, thereby enhancing their language acquisition process.
The content of the videos is thoughtfully selected to represent a wide array of issues and situations commonly encountered by healthcare professionals. This includes demonstrative interactions with colleagues and patients, emphasizing the use of relevant wordings and phrases. By focusing on practical language use in specific healthcare contexts, the IDEAL project videos serve as an invaluable tool for learners to gain fluency in the professional language required in their field, thereby preparing them for effective communication in real-life healthcare settings.
1 Pflegeanamnese / Nursing anamnesis
Asking the patient for basic information about their medical background, like previous illnesses, life situation, nutrition, their family support etc.
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2 Fußpflege / Foot care for diabetics
To explain the importance of prophylactic foot care for patients with diabetes, and measures to prevent complications like decubitus and infections.
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3 Pflegevisite / Nursing rounds
Focus on patient-nurse interactions in the course of daily patient checkups, with topics such as general well-being, explaining medication and medical procedures.
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4 Medikation / Medication
How to explain to patients how and which medications to take based on doctors' orders.
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5 Präoperative Pflege / Pre-operative interview
Where the nursing assistant explains procedures and next steps before a planned surgery, and also asks some specific questions based on a pre-op checklist.
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6 An die Bettkante setzen / Mobilization to the bedside
This is more technical, and shows/explains how to mobilise and physically support bed-ridden patients to sit up and stand up from the hospital bed.
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7 Patientenübergabe / Clinical handover briefing
This video focuses on interaction between colleagues, showing a typical briefing/information exchange between nurses at a shift change in a hospital.
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8 Norton Skala / Norton scale
The following video has also more technical terms, as it explains (in a dialogue between two nurses) the so-called “Norton scale” used in clinical settings to assess the risk of decubitus complications.
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9 Glasgow Koma Skala / Glasgow Coma Scale (GKS)
This chapter focuses on how to pass technical information between two nurses (one experienced, and one new staff member) using the “Glasgow coma scale” to rate the consciousness level of patients.
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10 Vorstellung des Krankenhauses / Presentation of the hospita
The final video covers an introduction for new staff members about names and locations of different departments in a hospital.
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