The use of smartphones in general and internal medicine units: A boon or a bane to the promotion of interprofessional collaboration?
Effective communication and coordination are critical components for improving collaborative care delivery among different healthcare providers who work in mobile and time-pressured environments. Increasingly, healthcare providers are exploring alternative communication technologies to help bridge the temporal and spatial issues that are often inherent in the clinical communication conundrum.
eLearning for undergraduate health professional education
The World Health Organization's Department of Health Workforce in collaboration with the Department of Knowledge, Ethics and Research commissioned this report to provide countries with evidence to inform and guide the adoption of innovative, technology-enabled models into health professional education, so as to augment capacities to scale up production, enhance quality and relevance of training, and adopt equity-focused policies.
Establishing face and content validity of the McMaster-Ottawa team observed structured clinical encounter (TOSCE)
The Objective Structured Clinical Evaluation (OSCE) has become the criterion standard for the assessment of clinical competence in undergraduate and postgraduate medical and other health professional programs.
Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America
America's health care system has become far too complex and costly to continue business as usual. Pervasive inefficiencies, an inability to manage a rapidly deepening clinical knowledge base, and a reward system poorly focused on key patient needs, all hinder improvements in the safety and quality of care and threaten the nation's economic stability and global competitiveness.
The performance of intensive care units: does good management make a difference?
A significant portion of health care resources are spent in intensive care units with, historically, up to two-fold variation in risk-adjusted mortality. Technological, demographic, and social forces are likely to lead to an increased volume of intensive care in the future. Thus, it is important to identify ways of more efficiently managing intensive care units and reducing the variation in patient outcomes.
Integrating problem-based learning in a nursing informatics curriculum
In recent years employers in health care organizations have been recognizing the need for nurses to enter the workforce with a set of informatics competencies. Numerous nursing informatics programs have been established worldwide. The challenge becomes to explore innovative tools that will equip nurses with the appropriate skills to utilize information technology to improve health care quality and patient safety and redesign health care services.
A survey of nursing faculty needs for training in use of new technologies for education and practice
This study describes nursing faculty's use, knowledge of, and training needs associated with distance learning, simulation, telehealth, and informatics tools in nursing education and practice. Web-based surveys were completed by 193 faculty members from nursing schools in the western United States. More than half of the respondents were frequent users of distance learning and informatics tools. Approximately 66% of faculty reported they were competent with distance learning and informatics tools.
Bedside, classroom and bench: Collaborative strategies to generate evidence-based knowledge for nursing practice
The rise of evidence-base practice (EBP) as a standard for care delivery is rapidly emerging as a global phenomenon that is transcending political, economic and geographic boundaries. Evidence-based nursing (EBN) addresses the growing body of nursing knowledge supported by different levels of evidence for best practices in nursing care. Across all health care, including nursing, we face the challenge of how to most effectively close the gap between what is known and what is practiced.
Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health
Rural America is a vital component of American society. Representing nearly 20 percent of the population, rural communities, like urban landscapes, are rich in cultural diversity. However, the smaller, poorer, and more isolated a rural community is, the more difficult it is to ensure the availability of high-quality health services. The Institute of Medicine report, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health examines the quality of health care in rural America.
Middle Cerebral Artery CVA Speech Language Path
Nursing and Speech IPEC simulation scenario published on the California Simulation Alliance (CSA) online library of peer reviewed, validated and tested simulation scenarios. This simulation was submitted in June 2014, and accepted for publication in August 2014.
