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.]Labels: administration of medications, International University of Nursing, IUON, nursing, nursing education, nursing pharmacology, online tutorials, pharmacology
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).
Labels: multimedia, nursing curriculum, nursing education, patient safety, training materials
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.
Labels: health workforce, healthcare reform, healthcare workers, medical education, New Zealand, nursing education
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.
Labels: academic integrity, cheating on exams, culture of integrity, ethical behaviour, faculty role models, nursing education, plagarism
"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."
Labels: education reform, health care education, Mayo Clinic, medical education, nursing education, symposium
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.
Labels: anatomical images, anatomy, human anatomy, interactive tutorials, medical education, nursing education
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. Labels: clinical simulation, interdisciplinary healthcare, iSTAN, IUON, medical conference, medical education, nursing education, SimMan, St. Kitts, UMHS-SK, University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Simulation in Nursing Education
The Journal of Nursing Education: TOC Nov 2008access 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.
Labels: high-fidelity simulation, nursing education, PBL, problem-based learning, simulation
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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) Labels: elearning, NLN, nurse educators, nursing education, simulation, SIRC
"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.Labels: evidence-based nursing, nursing education, patient safety, quality of care
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
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.
Labels: emerging technologies, healthcare technology, nursing, nursing education, technology in education, trends in education, trends in healthcare, Web 2.0
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.Labels: nursing education, nursing theories, nursing theory, online resources, teaching resources
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.Labels: nursing education, nursing skills, research study, simulation, skills practice, teaching methods, United Kingdom
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 / DeanLabels: Caribbean AIDS epidemic, Caribbean nursing education, HIV/AIDS, International University of Nursing, IUON Guest Lecturer, nursing education, St. Kitts
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!Labels: games, nursing education, nursing knowledge, puzzles, RNtertainment, tests
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.
Labels: Caribbean nurses, diversity in nursing, history of nursing, Mary Seacole, MELTING, multi-ethic, multi-ethic education, muticultural communication, nursing education, transcultural healthcare
