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4 Technology and Innovation from Education to Practice
4 Technology and Innovation from Education to Practice
Pages 55-68
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offer, it would seem to be an excellent avenue for promoting interprofessional education (IPE)
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independent online learning. AMERICAN NURSE PRACTITIONER FOUNDATION AND THE LEADING REACH PATIENT ENGAGEMENT MOBILE PLATFORM Margaret Crump, American Nurse Practitioner Foundation In her presentation, Margaret Crump described a patient engagement mobile platform that is being rolled out by the American Nurse Practitioner Foundation (ANPF)
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Each category contains specific elements easily customized by the provider, clinic, or health care system to direct health professionals' behaviors around such issues as revenue, cost, time saved, and healthier patients. Leading Reach has been used in more than 75 countries worldwide and was provided to some of ANPF's nurse practitioners so they could study how well the mobile app connects the nurse practitioners to their patients, whether quality of care is improved, and whether ANPF should make it more widely available to their nurses.
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IMPROVING NURSING SKILLS THROUGH SIMULATION: TOOLS FOR ASSESSING IMPACTS ON PATIENT SAFETY Barbara Gawron, University of Illinois College of Nursing Barbara Gawron presented how she and her colleagues at the University of Illinois College of Nursing use simulation to formatively assess the clinical competency of nursing students in an effort to improve patient safety. To do this, data are collected by clinical instructors at the time of the simulation using the Creighton Competency Evaluation Instrument (C-CEI)
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ASSESING VIRTUAL LEARNING AND TEACHING THROUGH THE KHAN ACADEMY PLATFORM Rishi Desai, Khan Academy Rishi Desai described his work in medical education at Khan Academy, which is a free online platform for education. Khan Academy's website attracts roughly 10 million unique users per month through its four categories of content that include videos, questions and assessments, text, and games.
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To frame his response, Desai commented that Khan Academy staff increasingly think of their users not just as content consumers, but as content producers. Many of the games Khan Academy uses for educational purposes come from the users of its website.
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Crump responded first by saying the mobile app she described is being tested as a tool for five different interprofessional teams in central Texas. These teams work in transitional care units for patients with chronic conditions, and they are led by a nurse practitioner.
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For example, other schools might have observers watching the Johns Hopkins IPE simulation activity who would communicate and debrief through online video conferencing. In this way, schools would share resources and innovative practices, and students as well as faculty could become more familiar with technologies used for education and improving communication.
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Within seconds, Desai can stay connected with all three conversations taking place in the virtual space. Taking this example to a health care setting, Desai could imagine including a patient or including students as part of the virtual teams using a virtual communication device like HipChat.
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Although there are complexities with such a tool, Crump believes it is necessary to at least start the conversation so some of the challenges can be addressed and, it is hoped, improved. After hearing Crump's response, one participant asked whether the technology was just a communication device or whether it could be used for chronic care management like tracking blood sugar or monitoring blood pressure.
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. Despite these trends toward greater connectivity, Crump admits that TABLE 4-1 World Internet Usage and Population Statistics: June 30, 2012 Population Internet Users Internet Users Growth World Regions (2012 Estimate)
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REFERENCES ANPF (American Nurse Practitioner Foundation)
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2013. Internet world stats: World Internet usage and popula tion statistics: June 30, 2012.
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