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Healthcare Informatics
A new survey on technology utilization in nursing education has found a significant increase in the use of virtual simulation and other new technologies, according to global information services company Wolters Kluwer Health.
The research specifically revealed that 65 percent of nursing education programs use virtual simulation, while virtual reality utilization will increase from 10 percent to as much as 45 percent over the next five years in response to the worsening shortage of clinical training sites.
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San Antonio Express-News
Rissa Dunaway was disoriented. She peered at the kitchen and hospital bed through white-rimmed sunglasses that distorted her vision. A pair of headphones blared static into her ears as she took heavy, cautious steps around the room, trying to make out her surroundings. Within 4 minutes, Dunaway was ushered out of the room and she immediately collapsed onto a couch, flinging the glasses and headphones aside. Dunaway had just gone on a virtual dementia tour — a way to experience what it is like to have dementia.
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Keith Carlson
Nurses have consistently suffered the slings and arrows of their professional service to society. As frontline healthcare workers, nurses are frequently the targets of belligerent (and often violent) patients and families, not to mention irate physicians and fellow nurses intent on bullying their nurse brethren.
If the nursing profession was represented by a metaphorical human body, that body would be covered with multiple bruises, lacerations and scars.
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The Post and Courier
When Kristin Lefeavers took her son to the doctor's office after he complained of some digestive issues, she didn't expect to end up discussing his brain.
"Has anyone addressed the shape of your son's head?" Lefeavers remembers the doctor asking.
She knew her son had developmental troubles. He had been seen for autism before. But doctors previously said the shape of his head was nothing to worry about. She soon found out, though, that Jordyn's brain was growing too quickly for his head.
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MedPage Today
New York City emergency departments performed relatively well during "mystery patient drills" that secretly tested their ability to identify and isolate patients with communicable diseases, researchers found. Patients who entered an emergency room exhibiting signs, symptoms and a travel history consistent with measles or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome were masked and isolated in 78 percent of conducted drills, reported Mary M.K. Foote, M.D., of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and colleagues.
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Hickory Record
The Catawba Valley Community College Foundation recently received a gift from the Claude S. and Raenelle B. Abernethy Charitable Remainder Trust. The gift was recognized by naming the medical/surgical/intensive care unit in the college’s ValleySim Hospital in memory of Newton native Army Capt. George Andrew Rader, MD.
Rader was a Catawba County hero, a man who gave his life during World War II, not on a battlefield, but as a prisoner of war. He was a medical surgeon who treated several thousand fellow American POWs in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines before his death.
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Mastery Learning is a form of competency-based medical education. Use of the model has been shown to improve patient care quality and lower health care costs. This five day hands on course will equip you with the skills to develop mastery learning curricula for procedures, communication and team based clinical skills.
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Award-winning Sentinel City® was designed by nurse educators for use in population health and other nursing courses. It provides students with simulated clinical hours through integrated Home and Family Support Assessments, nursing diagnosis and final care plan creation. It includes 17 complete assignments with AACN Essentials mapping and grading rubrics. Learn More!
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Bethel University
Bethel, Minnesota, nursing students participate in many opportunities to practice the skills and knowledge they learn from textbooks and in their classroom courses. Simulations that realistically depict the situations they’ll encounter in the nursing profession is one such opportunity — and it’s vital to their preparation as future nurses.
Nursing graduate Paige Goenner talks about the impact of simulation experiences on her development as a nurse.
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MD Magazine
Physicians are granted a license to practice medicine, and it is presumed they will remain “competent” to treat patients throughout their careers. Within the past decade, reports of physician incompetence have been fueled by patients as well as by licensing boards and hospitals. Physicians must be “currently competent” to practice medicine in accordance with standards set by the courts, licensing boards and hospitals’ Bylaws. How is competence defined?
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Kenosha News
Wisconsin's Gateway Technical College, to better meet the needs of the health care industry, has taken another step in the future of nursing school education with a multimillion upgrade, the addition of more human patient simulators and the rebranding of its former Bioscience Center.
William Whyte, GTC’s senior vice president of operations, said the college has spent in the neighborhood of $2.5 million for renovations to the building, a redesign of the interior and for the heating, air conditioning and ventilation system.
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