"The Health Care Innovations Exchange is an AHRQ program designed to support health care professionals in sharing and adopting innovations that improve the delivery of care to patients. Explore this site to find innovative strategies and quality-related tools, learn how to improve your organization's ability to innovate and adopt new ideas, and interact with innovators and adopters."
Labels: health care, health services, innovation
This is a special issue of the
Electronic Journal of E-learning devoted to e-learning in healthcare [published as Vol 5(4),February 2008].
"It comprises six articles covering examples and evaluations of e-learning in healthcare, mostly for
nurses and allied health professionals. Includes abstracts, full text of the articles, & downloadable PDF format."
Labels: allied health education, ejournals, elearning, nursing education
Forthcoming book by
Linda Shields, professor of nursing at the University of Hull, reveals a dark side of the profession, illustrated in this disturbing archive film from the second world war showing a nurse helping a psychiatric patient to a gas chamber."
'Nursing can't move on unless it addresses its black side'article by
Chris Arnot of
The Guardian, London
Wednesday April 9, 2008
Click on the title to access the full article and watch the video.Labels: ethics, history of nursing, nursing research, Third Reich
New Web Portal to Advance Wide Range of Protein Studies"
The Protein Structure Initiative (PSI), an effort supported by the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched an online resource that will enable scientists from across biomedical disciplines to easily access a wealth of information about proteins."
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The Protein Structure Initiative Structural Genomics Knowledgebase (PSI SGKB) is designed to turn the products of the Protein Structure Initiative effort into knowledge that is important for understanding living systems and disease. The PSI SGKB is a key resource in the advancement of biology, biochemistry, functional genomics, pharmacology, bioinformatics, education and clinical medicine."
Another interesting and interactive component of this new web portal is
Functional Sleuth. Here are presented "PSI structures which lack full functional annotation. Explore these protein structures and add your input about the possible functions."
Click on the title to visit this new online resource! Labels: biochemistry, bioinformatics, biology, clinical medicine, education, functional genomics, pharmacology, proteins
