If your patients, clients and employees need information on how stress may impact their lives, Understanding Stress and Managing Your Stress work in tandem to teach healthy management strategies.

According to producer, Lee Ricketts, “In Understanding Stress, we explain that when people have stress, they can meet it head on or let it sit unrelieved. We help them recognize their stressors and reactions to them. One way we do this is by introducing them to a stress diary.”

If they have too much unrelieved stress it can affect their health and we help them to be able to identify just how much stress they have in their daily life.

Managing Your Stress focuses on ways for people to live with stress in their lives. This includes documenting controllable and non-controllable stressors, goal-setting, and the importance of taking small steps to reach goals. The program encourages healthy lifestyle management and covers the benefits of pursuing hobbies, deep breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, prayer, and positive self-talk.

“Instead of letting stress fester in their lives, people can use healthy stress relief tools for a more positive result,” says Ricketts.

These programs can complement general health education and corporate wellness programs and are ideal for viewing in waiting rooms and common areas.

Two long-awaited programs on depression are schedule for release early this summer. Recognizing Depression provides a comprehensive overview, focusing on its signs and symptoms. Treating Depression presents common types of psychotherapy, other kinds of treatment, the benefits of anti-depressants, and the importance of finding support.

Both programs include candid and empowering messages of hope from patients who have struggled with depression. Ricketts explains, “We want to de-stigmatize the illness and motivate people suffering with depression to seek social and professional support.”

In keeping with our commitment to keep programs current, Milner-Fenwick has updated several diabetes programs.

Gestational Diabetes is now available in two versions depending on your patients’ educational needs. These two programs replace an older version to reflect current practice guidelines and feature new patients, updated meters, current insulins and insulin pens.

The 22 minute core program, Gestational Diabetes (Standard Version), provides a management plan that empowers patients to successfully manage their blood glucose levels through their pregnancies. Gestational Diabetes (Extended Version) provides an additional 23 minutes of content demonstrating self-care skills for the following:

• home blood glucose monitoring
• injecting insulin with a syringe
• injecting insulin with a pen
• hypoglycemia

Lana Goordineer, MSN, RN, CDE, of Bayhealth Medical Center in Delaware commented, "I feel that the real life presentations in the video will enhance the patient's willingness to comply with her gestational diabetes self-management. Young women will really be able to identify with the patients shown in the program."

Introduction to Diabetes: The Game Plan is now in its 3rd edition. It remains an ideal program to teach the basics of diabetes self-management. Patients are greeted by their diabetes “coach” who teaches them that they are the most important member on their diabetes care team. The “coach” and real patients encourage viewers to follow the game plan and be pro-active in their own care.

For patients needing a detailed program on blood glucose monitoring, Monitoring Your Blood Glucose: Key Concepts, 3rd Edition is now available. “One of the goals for updating this program was to put more emphasis on A1c testing including information on estimated average blood glucose (EAG),” according to producer Carrie Beaudoin. “It also gave us an opportunity to use more up-to-date meters in the demonstrations.”

This program stresses regular monitoring to keep blood glucose levels in a healthy range. Patients demonstrate the care, use and storage of their meters, lancets, and strips, and review proper sharps disposal.

HealthClips is expanding to over 300 digital video clips and 11 hours of programming. A new 30 clip asthma series has been added, 48 new diabetes clips will be released in June 2009, and 26 will be added to cardiology this summer. They can be viewed at www.healthclips.com.

“We are continuing to fill out our programming to provide a more complete solution for these important areas of care,” says JoAnne Nabozny, Product Development Manager.

“In diabetes, we’ve expanded from basic skills to clips covering problem solving behaviors and lifestyle changes. In cardiology, we’re adding modules in two key areas, heart attack and rehabilitation. And we felt that asthma was a high need area for educators since it now affects over 22 million adults and children in the US and the number is growing.”

For more information on any of these programs, contact your sales representative at (800) 432-8433 or go to milner-fenwick.com.

Quick Links to New Releases

General Health

• Understanding Stress (GN 48)
• Managing Your Stress (GN 49)
• Recognizing Depression (GN 53)
• Treating Depression (GN 54)

Diabetes

• Gestational Diabetes (Standard Version) (DB 78)
• Gestational Diabetes (Extended Version) (DB 69)
• Introduction to Diabetes: The Game Plan (DB 75)
• Monitoring Your Blood Glucose: Key Concepts, 3rd Edition (DB 77)

Spanish

In accordance with our commitment to providing our programs in Spanish, here are our most recent Spanish releases:

• Los Prímeros Dias en Casa: Manteniendo a su Bebé Sano y Feliz (First Days Home HV 35)
• Los Prímeros Dias en Casa: Manteniendo a su Bebé Sano y Feliz (First Days Home HV 36 contraception excluded)
• La Guía en Video para la Diabetes Tipo 2: Destrezas para Cuidar de Si Mismo (Diabetes Home Video Guide: Skills for Self-Care, 3rd Edition HV 34)
• Diabetes y Cuidado de los Pies y la Piel (Diabetes Skin and Foot Care: In Step, 4th Edition DB 68)
• Entendiendo la Insulina (Understanding Insulin, 3rd Editon DB 70)
• Usando Insulina (Taking Insulin, 3rd Edition DB 72)
• Entendiendo la Insulina y Amylin (Understanding Insulin and Amylin DB 71)
• Viviendo con Tension (Living with Stress, 2nd Edition GN 50)
• Cigarrillo: Mantenerse Sin Fumar (Smoking: Staying Quit GN 52)