Tuesday, September 08, 2009

How to Give a Lousy Presentation

How to Give a Lousy Presentation: Fifteen ways to make a bad impression
By Carmine Gallo for Business Week
"Giving truly great presentations requires skill, work, and practice. Giving catastrophic presentations is far easier. So if you want to take the easy way out and look like a rank amateur, here are 15 surefire tips to guarantee that you leave a really, really bad impression."
Can you guess one? ~ spelling mistakes of course tops the list!

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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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