Category: Healthcare Education
Cross-Departmental Interprofessional Education: Overcoming Obstacles
As an educator, you understand the need for interprofessional education (IPE), but you may be wondering how to overcome even common barriers to effective interprofessional education. Read on for tips on improving cross-departmental education practices at your institution. Develop a ...
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Nursing Simulation Training Goes High Tech at Community Colleges
Getting a college education is expensive! So it’s no surprise that increasing numbers of healthcare learners are looking to community and two-year colleges to obtain their degrees. Like their four-year counterparts, community colleges strive to keep up with the demands ...
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Something big is coming to healthcare education!
Medical education is evolving. Traditional classroom learning has migrated to hands-on, active education focused on mastery of key competencies. Competency is defined as “the ability to do something successfully and efficiently,”* and Competency Based Medical Education (CBME) is an approach ...
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8 Benefits of a Cloud-Based Learning Management System
According to a recent report, University boards are cutting back sharply on expenses, leaving administrators with the challenge of running their organizations more efficiently without sacrificing the quality of education. Budget cuts of more than 40% at some colleges during ...
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Seven Tips to Take Your Simulation Program to the Next Level
The healthcare simulation field is rapidly evolving, with new technologies and methodologies being developed every year. Read on for ideas on how you can improve, expand, and accelerate your simulation program—starting today.
5 Ways to Bring Your Counselor Education into the 21st Century
The demand for licensed counselors and mental health professionals is at an all-time high. But there’s a lot of competition between counselor education programs to recruit and retain the best and brightest students. Are you ready to take your clinical ...
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5 Strategies for Increased Community College Nursing Program Enrollment
With the impending shortage of trained nurses – the American Nurses Association anticipates that there will be an additional 1.13 million nurses needed in the workforce by 2022 – community colleges have more opportunity than ever to educate the next generation of ...
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Tips to Boost Nursing Student Recruitment with Simulation-Related Data
The healthcare field is bracing for a major shortage of nurses in the coming decade: according to the American Nurses Association, there will be an additional 1.13 million nurses needed in the workforce by 2022, and the U.S. Bureau of ...
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Five Benefits of System Automation for Your Sim Center—Besides Peace of Mind
Nursing educators understand that simulation-based training is a clinical learning necessity– but even a simple simulation scenario requires significant resources, from people and processes, to space, time, devices, and written course materials. But with the help of a simulation management ...
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Nine Powerful Simulation Reports Your Med School Needs
Simulation-based training has evolved from an educational afterthought to a clinical learning necessity—and the amount of associated data and information has increased exponentially. In fact, a sim center’s data may double every two years! But with the help of a ...
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