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How To: Pass a marijuana drug test

Learn how to pass a drug test whether it's a random drug test tomorrow or an employment drug test a month away.

How To: Insert a Foley catheter in a male

This how to video demonstrates how to do a male Foley catheter insertion. Before beginning any catheterization procedure make sure to properly identify the patient, wash your hands, and that all the supplies are handy. Watch and learn how to properly insert a Foley catheter in a man. This medical how-to video is intended for medical students and professionals.

How To: Listen for breath sounds through chest auscultation

Lung auscultation is an important part of diagnosing and treating lung conditions. This medical how-to video shows you how to perform a lung exam on a patient's chest. Use a stethoscope to listen for normal and irregular breath sounds that a patient might have.

How To: Administer an intramuscular Z-track injection

This how to video demonstrates how to administer an intramuscular z-track injection on a patient. Watch and learn how simple it is do an intramuscular z-track injection in the leg or glutes. Make sure to properly measure your medication, identify the patient, and always wash the hands before injecting the patient. Note that this instructional video is intended for medical students and professionals.

How To: Begin a subcuticular or intradermal suture

An important part of surgery is knowing the various types of closures to perform. This medical how-to video demonstrates how to do a subcuticular suturing technique. The subcuticular suture technique is also known as intradermal suturing. Follow along and learn how it is done. Subcuticular or intradermal suturing technique is great for wound closure in the operating room.

How To: Give a bimanual pelvic exam

Learn the procedure for performing a bimanual pelvic exam of a female.

How To: Treat athlete's foot with vinegar and Listerine

Red, itchy, scaly, and cracking feet can only mean one thing, athlete's foot. Watch this how to video and learn how to treat athlete's with a simple home remedy from Pharmacologist Joe Graedon. He shows you over the counter products that you can buy and how to use a solution of vinegar, Listerine and Vick's Vapor Rub to help the foot fungus go away.

How To: Insert a urinary catheter into a male patient

Catheterization is used to drain a patient's urine freely from the bladder or to inject liquids for treatment and diagnosis of certain bladder conditions. Cathing is usually done at a clinic by a nurse, although self-catheterization is also possible.

How To: Repel Mosquitoes Naturally Using Just Plants & Oils

While we've already covered several good ways to tame the itch of a mosquito bite, you're much better off preventing them from biting in the first place than dealing with the itchy aftermath.

How To: Make a pen pipe

This video shows you how to make an improvised smoking pipe out of a common plastic Bic-type ball-point pen. The guide shows how to remove the pen cap and ink cartridge. Next, the video shows how you can use a razor blade to cut a wedge-shaped hole near one end of the plastic barrel. Once the hole is cut, the guide uses a hot glue gun to attach a hardware socket above the wedge-shaped hole. The socket will serve as a bowl to hold the smoking material. After letting the glue set for about thir...

How To: Perform a HEENT exam (head, ears, eyes, nose & throat)

Most won't know what the acronym HEENT stand for, but if you're a medical student, doctor or nurse, you know that it stand for head, ears, eyes, nose and throat. To perform a HEENT examination properly, you must know all the steps and techniques to diagnose your patient. This video lesson will outline the examination procedure, from start to finish, and shows you general palpation techniques and examining the temporomandibular joint, superficial lymph nodes, thyroid gland, eyes, ears, nose, m...

How To: Catheterize a female and male with a Foley catheter

This medical how-to video demonstrates how to catheterize males and females with a Foley catheter. Follow along and learn how insert the catheter into a bladder using mannequins. The first part of the video shows a female Foley catheterization and the second half shows the male version of this medical procedure.

How To: Perform a pelvic exam

This video is for health care practitioners. It gives instructions on how to properly perform a pelvic exam.

How To: Use subdermal interrupted suturing on a patient

The subdermal interrupted suture is a complicated, difficult type of suturing. It does have advantages, however, as the resulting suture is both strong and cosmetically pleasing. This video walks you through performing the stitch, and should make it easier to use this effective suturing procedure on your patients.

How To: Make the Medicinal Aphrodisiac Snake Wine

Herbalists have been prescribing snake wine to patients for centuries. It is said to cure everything from a low libido to back pain. Don't bother flying to Vietnam to buy a bottle in Ho Chi Minh City for $25. Make your own.

How To: Roll a double joint

This is a video on rolling a double joint. This is a hand rolled marijuana cigarette. Smoke your ganga quick and easy to get high super quick. This is the Stoner's Guide for connecting papers together and then rolling and extra huge dubbie! Smoke it out! Grab your cannabis and get high!

HowTo: Make Prison Cigarettes with Spinach

Akin to pruno, Blacktable's homemade cigarette "recipe" first originated with prison inmates: "Cigarettes in jail can cost as much as $40 a piece. (As a result), inmates have turned to common items to get their fix, crafting smokes from dried spinach, spices and even coffee grounds. And as with pruno, prisons have cracked down, with Kansas prison officials removing spinach from the prison menu during a 1994 crackdown, trying desperately to stop the practice.

How To: Make a cheap water bottle bong

In this tutorial, we learn how to make a water bottle bong. You will need: a water bottle, a pin or needle, a container for the weed, a lighter, tape, and a metal pen casing. First, take the cap and paper off the water bottle and then heat your pin up with the lighter. Push the pin into the top side of the water bottle, just two small holes will be fine. Next, push the pin into the side of the water bottle, making a hole big enough to put the pen casing through. When finished, push the pen ca...

How To: Make a vaporizer out of common household items

This tutorial is about making a home made vapouriser with a light bulb.You will require knife,light bulb,bottle cap,a small tube and screwdriver.With the knife slowly and evenly pry the metal tip away from its ceramic base.After you bend the tip away from the ceramic base you can pry it out completely.Now use the knife and apply pressure to the centre hole,twisting the knife will help crack he ceramic base.After you crack the ceramic, remove the rest of the ceramic by twisting the knife and s...

How To: Mix antibiotics into an a IV set up in nursing

This nursing how-to video demonstrates a Med-Advantage anitbiotic setup. This is a setup of a packaged IV with antibiotics. Follow along as Maria Cataldo, RN, shows you the proper technique for mixing the antibiotics for an IV. Practice this nursing technique in your labs.

How To: Give a massage

Psychetruth shows you how to give a massage. Start out by using any kind of oil, not to much, just enough to create slip. Take your thumbs and run down the spine. Feel if there are any points that need to be massaged longer. Move up to shoulder and work the mussels in that area. Then work the neck at the base of the skull. Lift up shoulders and massage out tension. Work your way down to the lower back. Move all around the back and work deep into the muscles.

How To: Ease breast tenderness before and during your menstrual cycle

Many women experience breast tenderness before and during their menstrual cycle. This is tough to live with, and there are lots of easy ways to relieve the pain. Watch the video to learn how everything from sports bars to drugs can help ease the pain.

How To: Suture a wound in a hospital setting

Suturing wounds is one of the most important parts of any doctor's job, and learning how to do so should be among the first priorities of any medical student. This three-part video covers all of the basics of suturing a wound in a hospital setting. It features information on infiltrating anesthetic, choosing how many sutures to use, and other techniques.

How To: Perform a full-body exam for melanoma

Skin Cancer Expert Dr. Coyle Connolly, D.O., does a full body check up on patient to detect if there are any new or existing moles or suspicious lesions that could be precancerous or cancerous.

How To: Make a English tea hookah tobacco substitute

This how to video shows you what you do when u don't have any tobacco left. Our host shows you how to use Earl English tea, ground ginger, and vanilla extract to make a quick substitute for tobacco.

How To: Make a bong from soda cans

Have you ever been in need of a bong or pipe? Do you have only have coke cans and a few home supplies? Well you are in luck; this video offers its viewers a comprehensive step by step guide on how to make a bong out of coke cans. The process is very quick and easy to learn. The end product is adjustable and can be easily disposed. All you need is a few coke cans and home materials that everyone should have. The instructions are clear and viewers should be making their own bongs in no time at ...

How To: Make a hot flash cooling spray

Cooling sprays are a safe, easy, and effective way to relieve the discomfort of hot flashes associated with menopause. Watch this video to learn how to make a hot flash cooling spray.

How To: Make a glass bottle bong

In this tutorial, we learn how to make a glass bottle bong at home. First, to do this you will need: a diamond bit, glass bottle, bucket with water and a drill. First, grab your drill and with very light pressure, you want to drill into the glass until you break through it. Now put water inside of your bottle almost up to where the hole is. You an now place your tube into the hole and use it as a bong. This is very simple way to make a bong if you don't want to pay hundreds of dollars for a n...

How To: Prevent heartburn with hard candy and gum

Heartburn can keep you up at night. Learn prevention tips and treatments for heartburn from Pharmacologist Joe Graedon and Dr. Terry Graedon in this how to video. Watch and see how stimulating saliva production with hard candy or gum can help the acid go back down into your stomach. You can also use yellow mustard or even chamomile to ease heartburn pain.

How To: Wrap an injured ankle

The last thing you want to do with an injured ankle is to hurt it further by wrapping it up improperly. Fortunately, wrapping an ankle is easy once you know how. And this free video first aid tutorial will show you precisely what you'll need to do. For more information, including detailed, step-by-step instructions, take a look!

How To: Roll a joint (as instructed by some little LEGO men)

Learn how to to roll a joint, instructed by a group of cute little LEGO men. Cute brickmation aside, this tutorial gives the necessary step by step instructions on rolling the perfect joint. All you need is a little weed, some rolling papers, and the LEGO men are optional.

How To: Use a Pringles can to make a homemade DIY shisha

Did you break you shisha and want to smoke? Then watch this how to video to learn an easy DIY hookah pipe. All you need to build you homemade shisha is a Pringles chips can. Yes you read correctly, watch and learn.

How To: Give a male perineal wash

Once each day, or according to your doctor's instructions, you will need to clean the urethral meatus - the opening where the catheter enters the body. This video shows you how to give a proper male perineal wash.

How To: Clear up a stuffed nose without medication

All stuffed up and wanting to breathe – but without the chemicals? Here's how to get relief fast! Learn how to clear up a stuffed nose with this home remedy.

How To: Stop dandruff flakes with a Listerine home remedy

Have you ever had nay flakes on your shoulder, itchy scalp, or dandruff? Watch this how to video and learn how to treat dandruff with home remedies from Pharmacologist Joe Graedon.

How To: Administer an intramuscular ventrogluteal injection

Studying to be a nurse? Then follow along in this nursing how to video to learn how to administer an intramuscular injection in the ventrogluteal region. The ventrogluteal region simply means near or on the hip. Watch this IM ventrogluteal injection demonstration by a second year nursing student.

How To: Use a neti pot to clear your sinuses

So the wife shows me an episode of Oprah with Dr. Oz of the You series of health books. He's showing this thing called a neti pot. It's a watering can for the nose. The thing is put into one nostril and warm salt water is poured through the nostrils cleaning out the sinuses.