Highlighting AV and ECI Resources at the AV Library

New Streaming Videos
ECI Books and Video
Safety Training Streaming Videos
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Donation from Business Support and Planning

New Streaming Videos

Episode 4: Self-Care and Stress Management (A Nurse’s Guide to Stress Management)
Streaming. 11 min. 2023. Professional.
This program emphasizes self-care's crucial role in nurses' well-being and quality patient care. It guides prioritizing activities, rest, and nutrition, reminding nurses to focus on their own self-care alongside caring for others. 

Managing Pain After Birth (Understanding Postpartum Health and Baby Care)
Streaming. 4 min. 2023. Adult.
This brief video provides an overview of available resources to support pain management for expectant and new parents both within the hospital setting and 
at home.    

Migraine: An Overview
Streaming. 20 min. 2024. Adult.
This program uses animation to illustrate the different phases of migraines, discussing the types and symptoms of migraine headache and their causes, complications, and dietary and non-dietary triggers. It considers diagnosis, treatment, and preventive medications and measures.

ECI Books and Video:

The DSHS AV Library contracts with HHSC Early Childhood Intervention to provide library services and maintain a collection of ECI resources. Here are some of the newest selections in this collection.

Down Syndrome Parenting 101: Must-Have Advice for Making Your Life Easier
Book. Natalie Hale, 2023. (WS 107.1 H163d 2023 ECI)
This book offers advice on everything from celebrating a child's unique personality and seeing him for who he is to insisting he finish his chores and ensuring he has the space to be his own person as an adult. The author leads readers through every stage of growing up, highlighting the experiences and people they will encounter along the way.

Parenting BASICS: Play & Milestones: 2 Year Olds (Español)
DVD. 11 min. 2016. (DD0871)
This film highlights play and milestones topics for two-year-olds including: kicking, throwing, running, puzzles, creativity and sentences. This is the Spanish language version of this film.

When Down Syndrome and Autism Intersect: A Guide To DS-ASD for Parents and Professionals, 2nd ed.
Book. 2024. (WS 107 W556 2024 ECI)
A guide to supporting individuals with the complex dual diagnosis of both Down syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Written by a team of parents and experts in the field, it covers every aspect of caring for children and adults with DS-ASD and offers sound information and resources steeped in research and clinical findings.

Safety Training Streaming Videos from AP Safety Training:

Environmental 101 for Employees
Streaming. 11 min. 2024. (English/Spanish)
This program discusses environmental protection methods used by companies and employee responsibilities​ when it comes to protecting the environment. Topics include the EPA and other governmental protection agencies, stormwater pollution prevention plans, identifying a hazardous material, hazardous waste programs, procedures to take during an accidental spill release, and universal waste.

Health and Wellness 101 for Employees
Streaming. 9 min. 2024. (English/Spanish)
In this program, learn about ways employers aim to protect employee health on the job and discuss those things to do to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Warehouse Safety: The Basics
Streaming. 11 min. 2019. Adult. (English/Spanish)
This training program explains to employees about warehouse hazards and how to avoid them. Topics include how pallet jacks work and their potential hazards, how to use a pallet jack safely, what to do when moving a load, the special precautions to take on loading docks, inclines, and lift gates.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

Courageous Warriors: Beauty from the Ashes
Streaming. 93 min. 2021.
This documentary explores the obstacles that women face while battling breast cancer. It is a telling journey of extraordinary women, young and old. How they took their life-altering circumstances and recovery from breast cancer beyond a medical diagnosis by creating new paths to wholeness.

Ending Disease
Streaming. 140 min. 2020. Adult.
This documentary follows patients and their doctors in the first generation of FDA-approved clinical trials for stem cell, anti-cancer T cell (CAR-T cell), and antibody therapies. Granted unprecedented access to groundbreaking trials taking place at top research facilities in the United States, the film features ten clinical trials that used regenerative medicine to treat brain cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, lymphoma, HIV, spinal cord injury, eye disease, and SCID.

Donation from Business Support and Planning

The Library and Information Science program received a donation of 41 books on workforce development. Please contact the library to borrow these and any other library materials. 

To borrow any books or videos listed above, please email avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov. 

Click on the streaming links to register to receive access information for each online video service. One registration per streaming service is required.

Visit the library catalog at www.texashealthlibrary.com for a complete list of titles available from the library.

If you would like to subscribe, please send an email to avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov with Subscribe in the subject line.

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Highlighting AV and ECI Resources at the AV Library

New Streaming Videos
ECI Books and Video
Safety Training Streaming Videos
Pain Awareness Month            

New Streaming Videos:

Episode 3: Coping Mechanisms and Stress Management (A Nurse’s Guide to Stress Management)   
Streaming. 14 min. 2023. Professional.
This program provides strategies to manage stress in nursing, enhancing physical and mental well-being through mindfulness, meditation, exercise, nutrition, sleep, social support, creative outlets, and professional growth.     

Feeding Your Baby (Understanding Postpartum Health and Baby Care)
Streaming. 18 min.  2023. Professional.
This program introduces breastfeeding and formula feeding, discussing feeding cues, stages of breastmilk production, mixing formula safely, and basic bottle feeding. The video also presents warning signs of feeding or breast issues and explains when to contact your healthcare provider.      

What All Nurses Need to Know About Rural Hospitals
Streaming. 46 min. 2022. Professional.
In this podcast, Anne Fulton discusses rural hospital resources and transfer procedures for critically ill patients. It highlights the challenges faced by rural emergency departments in relocating patients to advanced care facilities.         
 

ECI Books and Videos:

DSHS AV Library contracts with HHSC Early Childhood Intervention to provide library services and maintain a collection of ECI resources. Here is a selection of titles new to the ECI library collection.

Parenting BASICS: Health & Safety: 1 Year Olds
DVD. 11 min. 2016. (DD0867)
This film focuses on the nature curiosity, health, and safety of one-year-olds. It teaches parents that prevention and cleanliness can keep your child healthy. They learn to detect when their child is sick, when to call 911, injuries, and encounter unsafe situations or disasters.

Parenting BASICS: Health & Safety: 1 Year Olds (Español)
DVD. 11 min. 2016. (DD0868)
This film focuses on the nature curiosity, health, and safety of one-year-olds. It teaches parents that prevention and cleanliness can keep your child healthy. They learn to detect when their child is sick, when to call 911, injuries, and encounter unsafe situations or disasters.

Promoting Physical Development and Activity in Early Childhood: Practical Ideas for Early Years Settings
Jackie Musgrave, 2024. (LB 1139 M987 2024 ECI)
This book helps readers increase their understanding to support young children's overall development, health, and wellbeing. Breaking current physical activity guidelines into bite-size chunks, the book provides key advice on caring for and educating babies and young children on how to meet the recommended amount of physical activity each day. Current research is accessibly explored, including links with screen time and neuroscience, and informs a range of flexible, open-ended activities and practical strategies to use in every early years setting.                                

Safety Training Streaming Videos from Training Network Now/Streamery:

Drug and Alcohol Use Disorders in Healthcare Environments for Office and Facilities Managers and Supervisors
Streaming. 27 min. 2025.
People develop drug and alcohol use disorders every day and many of them have jobs. When workers are “under the influence” on the clock, it can put everyone in danger. That’s why it’s so important for managers and supervisors to know the signs of a drug and alcohol use disorder, so they can identify the warning signs in an employee before an accident occurs 
or know how to get help if they are struggling themselves.

Ergonomics - What's Wrong with This Picture?
Streaming. 10 min. 2024. (English/Spanish)
In this video, students are shown scenes of office employees at work and are asked to identify the hazards present. The clips are played back with narration and graphics explaining the problem and how to correct it. This method can make the training more interesting to employees weary of standard safety videos.

PPE: It's Your Choice
Streaming. 8 min. 2024. (English/Spanish)
This title addresses the most important part of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) - the responsibility of the individual to wear PPE when it’s required. All the procedures and equipment in the world are useless is employees do not understand this one simple fact.

Pain Awareness Month:

10 Things to Know About Pain
DVD and Streaming. 23 min. 2015. (DV1443)
This video presents ten science-based facts about pain such as chronic pain, the pain threshold, and life without pain. An alarming amount of people are knowingly or otherwise abusing over the counter pain medication. It explores alternative ways to treat pain other than using over the counter medications.

Managing Pain After Birth
Streaming. 4 min. 2023.
This brief video provides an overview of available resources to support pain management for expectant and new parents both within the hospital setting and at home.

Pharmacological Treatment and Classification of Pain
Streaming. 24 min. 2021.
This program explores pharmacological approaches to pain management, including NSAIDs, opioids, and adjuvant medications. It addresses the benefits and limitations of various drug therapies, with a focus on differentiating between acute and chronic pain conditions.

To borrow library books or videos listed above, email avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov. 

Click on the streaming links to register to receive access information for each online video service. Each streaming service requires a one-time registration.

Visit the library catalog at www.texashealthlibrary.com for a complete list of titles available from the library.

If you would like to subscribe, please send an email to avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov with Subscribe in the subject line.

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Highlighting AV and ECI Resources at the AV Library

New Streaming Videos
ECI Books
Safety Training Streaming Videos
NHTSA Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Safety Awareness 

New Streaming Videos:

Acute Agitation Management for Nurses
Streaming. 58 min. 2022. Professional.
Hostility, uncooperativeness, and impulsivity create acute agitation, one of the most stressful challenges for nurses.  This video explores pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions for de-escalating crises and discuss the metabolic and psychiatric causes of agitation.

Critical Skills for Managing a Patient in Crisis — A Lecture
Streaming. 336 min. 2016. Professional.
This video seminar addresses responses to medical emergencies, including neurological, gastrointestinal, and cardiac crises. Viewers learn to identify and effectively manage these urgent health situations.     

Episode 1: Understanding Stress (A Nurse’s Guide to Stress Management)
Streaming. 11 min. 2023. Professional.
Part of the series A Nurse’s Guide to Stress Management, this program examines stress in nursing, focusing on the fight-or-flight response. It discusses stress types, such as acute, chronic, physical, emotional, environmental, external, and cognitive stressors. It highlights common clinical stress sources and features interviews with practicing nurses. 

Nursing Professionalism: Attitude And Appearance
Streaming. 12 min. 2023. Professional.
This program highlights the importance of a positive attitude in promoting a constructive healthcare environment and improving patient satisfaction. It offers strategies for working with negative colleagues and explores how professional appearance impacts patient perceptions of competence. 

ECI Books:

The DSHS AV Library contracts with HHSC Early Childhood Intervention to provide library services and maintain a collection of ECI resources. Here are some of the newest selections in this collection.

Children and Youth with Complex Cerebral Palsy: Care and Management Laurie Glader. 2019. (WS 342 C536 2019 ECI)
This book explores management of the many medical comorbidities these children encounter, including orthopedic concerns, mobility and equipment needs, cognition and sensory impairment, difficult behaviors, seizures, respiratory complications and nutritional challenges, among many others. 

Children with Vision Impairment Assessment, Development, and Management
Naomi Dale. 2022. (WW 276 C536 2022 ECI)
This book provides guidance for practitioners who are involved in the care and management of children with long-term vision impairment and disability. It is divided into four sections following the ICF-CY model: (1) eye disorders, vision and brain, (2) child development and learning from birth to older childhood, (3) habilitation, orientation, reading and assistive technologies and (4) social relationships and participation in everyday contexts. 

Coaching In Home Visiting:  Supporting Better Outcomes for Professionals and Families
Christa D. Haring. 2025. (LC 4019.3 H281 2025 ECI)
This book answers the call for more and better training in early childhood home visiting programs. The authors developed this guide for two critical purposes: to give supervisors actionable strategies as they coach home visitors, and to give home visitors principles and practices for coaching families of children from birth to 5 years.

Safety Training Streaming Videos from AP Safety Training:

Bloodborne Pathogens: The Unexpected Hazard (Concise)
Streaming. 8 min. 2015. (English/Spanish)
The purpose of this program is to provide viewers with the knowledge needed to take the appropriate actions when encountering bloodborne pathogens unexpectedly. Topics include modes of transmission, Exposure Control Plan, occupational exposure, universal precautions, barrier devices, and handling, disposal, and disinfection of potentially infectious materials.

Construction Safety Orientation: The Basics
Streaming. 28 min. 2020.
This program focuses on how construction workers can do what they need to do to remain safe and make sure those working around them are safe as well. Topics include personal protective equipment, ladder safety, use of machinery and equipment, material handling, good housekeeping, fire prevention, fall protection, and preventing heat illnesses.      

Dump Truck Safety for Operators and Pedestrians
Streaming. 13 min. 2023. (English/Spanish)
This program gives an overview of common hazards presented by dump trucks and general safety tips to prevent dump truck-related incidents and injuries. Topics include how deadly run-over and back-over incidents can be, how to avoid contact with overhead electrical lines, how to avoid tip-over incidents, and the importance of a pre-use inspection combined with general safe driving practices.         

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Safety Awareness:

Drunk Driving Kills
DVD. 31 min. 2016. Senior High - Adult. (DV1335)
This film features several people arrested for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) and the impact it has made on their lives. They speak about how much their DUI cost them, the Mothers Against Drunk Driving classes they were required to attend, and the joys of sobriety.

Peer Pressure and Choosing to Drink - Think About It
DVD and Streaming. 19 min. 2011. Junior High - Senior High. (DV1119)
David and Julie are excited but nervous about their invitation to a party hosted by "the cool kids". David describes an elevated heart rate and feelings of being a social outcast, laughed at because he and Julie don't drink. David allows a subtle form of peer pressure to take control with tragic results. The potential consequences of choosing to drive while intoxicated are played out.

Top Ten Reasons Not to Drink Alcohol
DVD. 16 min. 2016. Junior High - Senior High. (DV0963)
Young viewers learn how drinking alcohol can lead to impaired decision making, vision impairment, memory loss, long term brain damage, addiction, and driving while under the influence and in some cases death. They also learn of the legal and safety issues involved.

To borrow any books or videos listed above, please email avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov. 

Click on the streaming links to register to receive access information for each online video service. One registration per streaming service is required. 

Visit the library catalog at www.texashealthlibrary.com for a complete list of titles available from the library.

If you would like to subscribe, please send an email to avlibrary@dshs.texas.gov with Subscribe in the subject line. 

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