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Join our Webinar: Using an Academic EHR with Advanced Practice students

February 17th, 2016 at 3:30pm ET

Register here (registration is limited to 50 participants): http://ehrtutor.enterthemeeting.com/m/W3H4BE46

We have a few instructors who all came up with an excellent lab idea independently. It's really interesting when we hear from schools because so often people will arrive at similar use-cases without interacting with each other at all. This activity was one of those times. A modified version adapted from each instructor's idea is below:

One of our trainers recently stumbled upon this free, open source, vital sign simulator and we decided we needed to share the link with everyone. This is a great tool to enhance a simulation or skills lab to make the vital signs readings more realistic! Check it out here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vitalsignsim/ 

Did you know Patricia Thomas did a Ted Talk on Nursing Education? Being a huge fan of Ted Talks, I'm amazed I never came across this before. Check out her wonderful presentation here:

Here at EHR Tutor, we have several customers whose schools focus on international students. If you also find yourself with a large portion of students from other countries with language and/or cultural differences, we've compiled a few helpful teaching ideas.

Join us for our free, 20 minute webinar this Wed at 3:30pm ET: Barcode Scanning the Easy Way. We'll be doing a short presentation on how you can easily integrate barcode scanning and medication administration into your lab using EHR Tutor.

For schools considering solutions to electronic charting, picking an Academic EHR system can be overwhelming. Once you choose a product that fits the needs of your school, there are still dozens of factors to consider. To make the process easier, we've compiled some points to ask your sales representative when reviewing products.

We recently did a webinar on how to use our electronic charting system, EHR Tutor, to make a scenario more realistic when working in a basic skills lab. For anyone who is a customer of ours, make sure you check out "Instructor Resources" within EHR Tutor to view the webinar. For everyone else, we're including a quick idea below.