Global health · 2021
Mobiles Lead Haiti Into the Future
After the 2010 earthquake, handheld clinical references helped nursing students and faculty in Leogane, Haiti, care for their communities.
Nursing education · 2021
SkillsHub: Get Ready for the Workplace
SkillsHub replaced paper skills checklists with step-by-step instructions, video, feedback and accreditation reports for nursing programs.
Home health · 2020
Key Strategies: How Mobile Tech Can Slash Rehospitalizations and Boost HCAHPS Scores
A home health and hospice clinical leader on cutting rehospitalizations by more than half with HIPAA-secure messaging and better hand-offs.
Devices · 2020
How to Keep Your Smart Device Sanitary
Your phone is dirtier than you think. A simple, safe routine for cleaning the screen, ports and case, and disinfecting both.
Telehealth · 2020
Telehealth Coding and Billing During COVID-19
How telehealth let practices keep caring for patients during the COVID-19 emergency, with a 2020 summary of consultation billing codes.
Patient engagement · 2020
Mobile Secure Communication Increases Patient Engagement
Portals are passive roads. How secure mobile communication keeps patients and families engaged across admission, hospital stay and discharge.
Burnout · 2020
When You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em
“Yet another digital tool? No way.” Why physician overload is a systems problem, and why the answer is tools that adapt to clinical workflow.
Telehealth · 2020
Telemedicine and COVID-19
An orthopedic practice moves from office visits to virtual care in weeks, sharing MRIs and surgical images with patients over secure video.
Home health · 2020
Emerging Trends: The Home in Home Care
As value-based payment shifts care to the home, compassionate care needs coordination across the whole care team.
Education · 2020
Smart Device Academic Policy
A starting outline for a school smart device policy: classroom and clinical use, airplane mode, safeguarding data and device hygiene.
Burnout · 2019
Physician Burnout: Causes, Effects and Remedies
What drives physician burnout, what it does to clinicians and care, and what physicians and their institutions can do to prevent it.
Evidence · 2018
Medical Librarians: Vital Partners in Healthcare
Medical librarians research fast, support evidence-based medicine and measurably improve outcomes. Why clinicians should get to know theirs.
Nursing education · 2018
What Does Self-Care Have to Do With My Role as an Educator?
Know, don’t know, no. Three nurse educators on faculty self-care.
Research · 2018
New Research Shows Exercise Benefits Can Be Passed Down to Children
A 2018 study in mice found the learning benefits of a stimulating, active environment reached the next generation through sperm RNA.
Medical education · 2018
Nutrition Receives New Attention in the Medical Field
Medical students want nutrition knowledge they can use. Culinary medicine courses in Britain and North America are starting to answer.
Nursing students · 2018
NCLEX Exam Format and Information
The NCLEX-RN tests clinical judgment, not recall. How the questions work, with a note on the 2023 format change.
Students · 2018
Grit: Why Is It So Important?
Talent fails at the first setback without the persistence to push through. What grit is, and how to build more of it.
Students · 2018
Print vs. Digital: Which Is Better for the Student?
Digital wins on volume, convenience and cost; print wins on retention. Why the learning goal decides the format.
Students · 2018
Best Study Techniques for a Big Test
Start twelve weeks out, answer questions daily, attack your weak areas and make the final four weeks count.
Education · 2017
An Introduction to Active Learning
Students learn more when they do and explore. What active learning is, how to use it in class, and how to design for it online.
Nursing education · 2016
Clinical Log, aka nTrack
Paper clinical logs get lost and can’t report in aggregate. nTrack let students log encounters and faculty review them online.
Webinar · 2016
How to Thrive, Not Merely Survive, as a Nursing Student
Nurse educator Keith Rischer on why nursing is worth giving your all, and what you must bring and know to succeed.
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