Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Learning the Basic Principles of Pharmacology with EDGT




Attention IUON Nursing Pharmacology students ~ please remember the online supplementary tutorials that we subscribe to on your behalf from EDGT [Educational Global Technologies Inc.]. The Basic Principles of Pharmacology is on online tutorial designed to help you learn the basic concepts and principles related to the field of pharmacology including the safe administration of medications.This resource is divided into five modules:
Module 1: Introductory Concepts
Module 2: Drug Facts
Module 3: Principles of Drug Action
Module 4: Responses to Drugs
Module 5: Test Bank
[Ask at Library Desk for login.]

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Nursing Curriculum Materials for Teaching Safe Patient Handling

The Safe Patient Handling Training for Schools of Nursing has been released by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
The material includes web-based training in safe patient handling and movement (flash media), as well as a downloadable .pdf booklet.
This resource has been developed in partnership with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), and the American Nurses Association (ANA).

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Monday, January 11, 2010

Back to the Future for New Zealand's Doctors and Nurses

New Zealand's healthcare system is facing an increasing challenge to meet current demands while anticipating demand to still double in the next ten years. Yet...
"The Government has funding for 154 general practice trainees; only two-thirds of the places have been filled." Meanwhile..."We have been told by the World Health Organisation that our reliance on importing health workers is unsustainable. About 70 per cent of psychiatrists, 40 per cent of all doctors and midwives, and 25 per cent of nurses and dentists working in New Zealand were trained overseas."
"Things must be done differently (says Des Gorman) and Health Workforce NZ has the task of facilitating this reform. Ironically, this includes a return to the past for both medicine and nursing."
How so? Click title to read more from The Dominion Post [Jan 6, 2010] ...also new reports were released in Aug 2009 addressing the education and training of New Zealand's healthcare workforce.

Des Gorman is head of Auckland University School of Medicine and chairman of Health Workforce New Zealand.

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Appealing for a 'Culture of Integrity" in Our Nursing Schools

Academic dishonesty, such as plagiarism and cheating on tests, seems to be on the rise in our institutions of higher education including nursing schools! A number of factors seem to be contributing to this sad state of affairs; such as the proliferation of online exams, copying from the Internet, as well as a general deterioration of ethics among this generation of students. Such are the findings of a new research study of nursing students published in the latest issue of the Journal of Nursing Education.
"When I began this project, I expected to demonstrate the greater integrity of nursing students versus students in other disciplines, but that has not turned out to be the case ..The finding that more than half of the nursing students, as well as approximately half of the graduate nursing students...self-reported one or more classroom cheating behaviors is discouraging. The fact that these proportions seem to be higher than those for non-nursing students is even more disturbing."
So what can be done? The article concludes that in fact "Faculty have a major role in controlling cheating and promoting academic integrity." The reasons given are that students rise to faculty expectations so they need to role model academic integrity.
"I believe that we should develop a 'culture of integrity'. We need to instill in our students the importance of honesty and integrity and how that translates to ethical behavior in our nursing practice."
Click on title to login to EBSCO CINAHL database to read the full text.
Citation: McCabe, D. (2009). Academic dishonesty in nursing schools: an empirical investigation. Journal of Nursing Education, 48(11), 614-623. Retrieved from CINAHL with Full Text database.

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

National Symposium on Medical and Health Care Education Reform

"The National Symposium on Medical and Health Care Education Reform, the Mayo Clinic Department of Education, and the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center (HPC) are convening on April 27-28, 2009, nationally-known leaders in medical and health care education to develop recommendations that will transform education to best facilitate health care reform."

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Thursday, April 09, 2009

Human Anatomy Online


Study the anatomy of the human body with this fun, interactive, award-winning website which includes animations, graphics, tutorials and descriptive links. Brought to you by MyHealthScore.com, this is an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions used by doctors and nurses.

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Monday, December 22, 2008

The 1st Interdisciplinary Clinical Simulation Symposium

Join us in St. Kitts on February 13 ~ 15, 2009, for the 1st Interdisciplinary Clinical Simulation Symposium. Hosted by the University of Medicine & Health Sciences ~ St. Kitts and the International University of Nursing, this symposium will hold workshops designed for nurses, physicians and medical faculty.
Check out the ICSS website for further details and online registration.

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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Simulation in Nursing Education


The Journal of Nursing Education: TOC Nov 2008
access through our EBSCO CINAHL full text database ~ link in sidebar.

1. A unique simulation teaching method.
2. Creating a nursing simulation laboratory: a literature review.
3. Critical thinking among RN-to-BSN distance students participating in human patient simulation.
4. Development of human patient simulation programs: achieving big results with a small budget.
5. Framework for adopting a problem-based learning approach in a simulated clinical setting.
6. Integration of high-fidelity patient simulation in an undergraduate pharmacology course.
7. Nursing students as television show consultants: media use for case studies.
8. Simulating health promotion in an online environment.
9. Simulation.
10. Simulator effects on cognitive skills and confidence levels.
11. Standardized patients: a creative teaching strategy for psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner students.

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Friday, June 13, 2008

Simulation Innovation Resource Center (SIRC) at NLN

"Online E-learning Site Facilitates Integration of Simulation Technology into Nursing Education Curricula

The National League for Nursing has given simulation technology in nursing education a long-awaited boost with the creation of the online Simulation Innovation Resource Center (SIRC), a project inaugurated with funding by Laerdal Medical. Nurse educators around the world can learn how to use simulation to promote and evaluate student learning, as well as dialogue with simulation experts and one another, by engaging with the resources on the SIRC website." New York (PRWEB)

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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient care. Nurses need to know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes.
To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses called "Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses". [AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043, edited by Ronda G. Hughes, Ph.D., M.H.S., R.N.]"
Click on the title to access this free ebook from the AHRQ website.

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

E-learning in Health Care : Special Issue of The Electronic Journal of e-Learning

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."

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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Emerging Technologies in Nursing and Nursing Education

This slideshow by Patricia Anderson of the University of Michigan Health Sciences Library gives a brief introduction to emerging technologies and their application to nursing and nursing education; focusing on Web 2.0, social technologies, and Second Life.

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Thursday, March 06, 2008

The Nursing Theory Page

Need to get a handle on the various theories of nursing?
This website is a very concise online resource linking you to all the key nursing theories as well as teaching resources and games to help you learn them. Unfortunately, some links are broken or will redirect you as site was built in 2003.

Click on the title to check out this great resource from the
Hahn School of Nursing & Health Sciences ~
University of San Diego
.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Simulation & Practice Learning Project

Conclusions of the NMC Study:
"The findings are overwhelmingly positive and suggest strongly that simulated learning: helps students to acheive clinical learning outcomes, provides students with learning opportunities which are not possible in the clinical setting, and helps to increase students confidence in approaching clinical situations."
Simulation allows the attention and focus to sift away from the patient, to the nursing student and their learning.

"The latest development enables universities to use up to 300 hours previously set aside for learning with patients, to learn instead in a safe simulated practice learning environment, where mistakes can be made without risk of causing harm to patients."

Click on the title to read the news report from Medical News Today
& access the full text document from the Nursing & Midwifery Council - UK [NMC] website.

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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean: Guest Lecture

Dr. Kathleen Allen-Ferdinand,
the Island’s leading authority on HIV/AIDs, will be giving a guest lecture in the IUON Auditorium
Wednesday, January 23 at 6:00pm.

All students, faculty, and staff
are invited
.

She will be discussing the status of the epidemic in the Caribbean, with specifics about St. Kitts.
Please encourage all of your students to attend.
Catherine Garner DrPH, RN, FAAN
Provost / Dean

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Friday, January 04, 2008

Test your Nursing Knowledge for Fun!

Thanks go to Marilyn Smith-Stoner for these online games and puzzles to test your nursing knowledge and have fun doing it!



Also don't forget the games available for you to check out from the Library such as RNtertainment!

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

The MELTING Project


MELTING, standing for Multi-Ethnic Learning and Teaching in Nursing.
A collaborative project initiated by the Mary Seacole Centre in the UK aimed at raising awareness of the multi-ethnic dimension of nursing, essential in today’s culturally diverse and rich society.

The MELTING project, launched in 2004, is now a model for transcultural healthcare practice, suitable for nurses and midwives involved in learning disability, adult, child and mental health. It also includes sections on the epidemiology and politics of diversity, transcultural communication and healthcare practice, multi-agency, race equality management and clinical supervision.

The Mary Seacole Centre works to promote the integration of a multi-ethnic philosophy into the process of nursing and midwifery recruitment, education, practice, management and research.

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