A few days we posted about concept maps and our resources through FreeNurseTutor, but we realize concept mapping can confuse both new educators and nursing students. Because of that, we wanted to point you towards a few resources that might clear up the confusion.
Has anyone out there heard of Learners TV? Apparently there's a whole website out there with online lectures and videos on different topics... for free.
We noticed a huge amount of traffic from students who viewed our post on learning medications. So we figured it's time to give a back-to-school shout out to instructors who are starting up the lessons again after a wintry holiday season.
One of our EHR Tutor users recently mentioned concept maps and how she was working on a set for her classroom for the upcoming semester. Little did she know, we have a blank concept map template and ideas for how to use it on FreeNurseTutor.com.
We all know that charting is moving to EHRs and EMRs, largely because of the Affordable Care Act and the HITECH Act. As practitioners are preparing to qualify for Stage 2 Meaningful Use Criteria, it's important for instructors to be aware of what students will be facing in the field from this point forward.
We're always amazed when we hear someone complain because they have a computer without Microsoft Office/Word on it and can't seem to open or edit documents. The reason we're amazed is because there's an amazing, free resource that still doesn't seem to be widely used in the funding-hungry education community: OpenOffice.org.
With the advent of Electronic Health Records, the entire medical profession is suddenly being confronted with a unique set of questions, problems and concerns. Want to know what it all means? We found this great, free course on Coursera offered by the Georgia Institute of Technology for anyone who might be interested: Health Informatics in the Cloud.
We were recently cleaning up some of the Free Educator's Resources on FreeNurseTutor.com and realized we had some overlap in our blog and resources. We also were missing some information on our blog that we had on our resources list, so we're starting to remedy that now.
For anyone who has not used the resources on FreeNurseTutor.com, here are one of our favorite links. We've written about using Google Apps in the classroom multiple times including ideas for how to use Google Calendar for a syllabus supplement and due date reminder, using forms for quizzes or assignments and Google Hangouts for study groups.
However, we're not the first people in the world to recognize the usefulness of Google Apps in education. TechPluto.com offered a great assessment of Google Apps in any educational environment including videos and testimonials on how to do that. Check out the article here.
One of my favorite points? "Save money by outsourcing your infrastructure overheads to Google : Google Apps for Education takes all your IT overheads off your shoulders by providing you cloud based hosting on reliable Google servers." Who wouldn't want that?
We realize we're a few days late to announce the winner of the 2013 Techie Teacher of the Year Award, but with all this technology use keeping us busy, it took a bit of time for us to touch base with this year's winner, Colleen Royle, MSN RN from Minnesota State University, Mankato.
We've seen dozens of talented students pass through nursing school, medical terminology classes and CNA programs in our day. But no matter how gifted/intelligent/kind a person is, learning medications and terminology usually comes down to rote memorization - something we're not all great at.
