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University of California, Los Angeles via Medical Xpress
A new study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing shows that using eye-tracking technology could improve nursing education by reducing the role of subjective assessments and by providing more consistent evaluations. With more than 400,000 deaths each year in hospitals from preventable causes, ensuring patient safety relies on health care educators to train and certify safe, competent practitioners. Until now, educators have been using assessments that are primarily subjective and provided inconsistent results to determine competency.
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Tribune-Review
MATT's situation is dire: His severed right leg is spurting blood, he's got a collapsed lung and there's a nasty gash near his left eye. Lying in the back of an ambulance, his chances of survival are unclear, but MATT's legacy is cemented either way. He's here to educate thousands of aspiring doctors, nurses, first responders, EMS workers and other medical providers.
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Healio
A web-based tool and health care professional training improved communication during patient handoffs and reduced medical errors, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine. "Communication among healthcare personnel is vulnerable to error during patient handoffs," Stephanie K. Mueller, MD, MPH, from the division of general internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and colleagues wrote.
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Journal of Emergency Services
Montgomery County Hospital District EMS is collaborating with the South East Texas Regional Advisory Committee to validate their existing prehospital suspected neurological event guideline for stroke assessment and transport. MCHD is a nonfire based EMS service in Montgomery County, Texas.
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Healthcare IT News
Patients and doctors might be even further apart on a number of important issues than previously thought.
Nearly 50 percent of consumers said they take complete responsibility for their health, in fact, but fewer than 6 percent of healthcare professionals believe this to be true, according to new research published by Xerox Healthcare Business Group.
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Blended Learning with vSim® for Nursing and Scenarios from the National League for Nursing.
When students experience the same patient encounter through different technologies, it allows them to reinforce their knowledge and gradually build confidence and competence.
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Modern Healthcare
As the healthcare market changes, so are the capabilities physicians need to best practice medicine and serve their patients. Medical education is in an era of transformation, and medical schools are beginning to innovate to prepare new physicians for the emerging new model of care. Findings from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions' surveys of physicians, healthcare consumers, and health system CEOs show that physicians' expectations are changing.
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The New York Times
You’d think medicine would be the last holdout against virtual reality. After all, the body is the body — solid flesh, no faking it, no escaping it. We may turn books into bytes, create driverless cars and soldierless wars; but even patched with plastic and titanium and attached to external electric circuits, the body is still where medicine does business.
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Pocket Nurse helps thousands of health education programs operate efficiently with an extensive catalog of products that provide everything an educator needs. For more information visit pocketnurse.com, call 1-800-225-1600, or email cs@pocketnurse.com.
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BioMed Central
Junior doctors feel unprepared to deal with many of the human aspects of ethical and professional dilemmas. Equipping doctors to understand and navigate the emotion, stress, drama and uncertainties associated with moral decision-making in these areas is critical. There is an important gap in our understanding of how simulation can best prepare medical students and doctors for real life ethical encounters.
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Simulation now includes the same patient monitors used in clinical practice. Simply connect the VitalsBridge with your manikin and any clinical patient monitor and your participants can interact with the same patient monitors used in their clinical practice. It works with Standardized patients too! Learn more now or call 801-484-3820.
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Healthcare Finance News
Medical marijuana has been legal in Maine for almost 20 years. But Farmington physician Jean Antonucci says she continues to feel unprepared when counseling sick patients about whether the drug could benefit them. Will it help my glaucoma? Or my chronic pain? My chemotherapy's making me nauseous, and nothing's helped. Is cannabis the solution? Patients hope Antonucci, 62, can answer those questions. But she said she is still "completely in the dark."
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