Join us for a free seminar on Teaching Critical Thinking with your Academic EHR System on Dec 18, 2013 3:00 PM EST.
All you have to do is register using the following link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2285574966860185858
Diane Yeager, Founder of EHR Tutor and FreeNurseTutor.com, will be doing a fifteen minute example lesson on how to use any Academic EHR System to teach critical thinking when examining a cardiac patient's chart. Our purpose is to share ideas for how instructors can use EHRs in the classroom for more than just charting.
We welcome any attendees who currently have an Academic EHR System or are considering purchasing a system like EHR Tutor in the future.
Please keep in mind, the first 15 minutes will be dedicated to a quick example of how to use a cardiac patient to encourage critical thinking and any related questions. We kindly ask you to hold any questions about using or purchasing EHR Tutor specifically until after 3:15 at which point Diane will remain on the webinar to answer any questions you may have related to our specific program.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
See you there! And feel free to pas this information on to any Nursing, Health Occupations or CNA teachers you know.
For those of you who are not subscribed to the FreeNurseTutor.com newsletter where we mentioned our Cyber Monday deal, I'm including the information below. Basically, if you request a demo today you'll get a half a year of EHR Tutor for your classroom for free. You don't even have to make your final decision until the end of the year, just schedule and demo and start thinking about how to use an Academic EHR in your classroom:
A while back we did a post on using google apps in the classroom to share assignments and/or the class syllabus using Google Drive and how to have study sessions or office hours using Google Hangouts.
We posted about using Coursera.org to improve computer skills in the past, but we wanted to revisit the topic in regards to online education. Massive open online courses (MOOC), like Coursera, offer students the ability to enroll in and attend classes online for free. There's no limit to the amount of students per course but based on personal experience you can get a very individualized education.
So if you've been out of school for a while and your NCLEX seems like nothing more than a dream (or nightmare!) from long ago, here are some classes that might help you refresh your medical knowledge. Or, just learn about a new area and new advances.
Contraception: Choices, Culture and Consequences offered by Jerusalem Mokonnen, RN, MSN, FNP offered through University of California: Learn about the wide range of contraceptive methods, and the public health implications related to access to information and choices about reproductive health.
Escpecially good for women's center or labor and delivery nurses.
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Optimization of Antibiotic Practices offered by Stan Deresinski, MD through Stanford: This course will offer a practical approach to prescribing antibiotic therapy and development of antimicrobial stewardship across all specialties and settings.
How are antibiotics really impacting our patients?
Diabetes: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Opportunities offered by B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD and Lisa A. Kroon through University of California: This multidisciplinary course will emphasize the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes. Topics will include patient self-management, appropriate use of technologies, nutrition, behavior modification and pharmacotherapy in the management of this disease. The course will conclude by summarizing new basic science research regarding the pathophysiology and treatment of diabetes.
A deeper look at Diabetes.
Hey Everyone! Check out the Fall 2013 Minority Nurse Magazine. We're mentioned in the article, "Technology in the Workplace: How You Can Prepare" which goes over several ways you can prepare for technology use in the medical field no matter where you are in your education or career.
I came across this amazing website that was posted on Twitter. It's a real time EHR user survey with graphs of the results which are constantly updating. Last I checked, 37 people had completed the survey but anyone working at a medical practice that uses an EHR can participate by filling out the questions here - http://www.softwareadvice.com/medical/userview/ehr-survey
A few weeks ago, @FrisoRaemaekers sent me a really interesting graph on Twitter. I'm including the infographic below:
We love any technology resources that have a free version (or are completely free like FreeNurseTutor!) so we decided to post FlipSnack's new educational website.
We've been extremely busy with new schools signing up for EHR Tutor, but in between all the hustle and bustle, our CEO sat down for a podcast interview with RNFN Radio.
I'm a huge fan of Coursera.org, a company that allows students to take any number of courses for free. There are hundreds (I couldn't find an exact count, but possibly even thousands) of courses offered for no charge by professors all over the worlds from institutions including Michigan State, Peking University and Stanford. An unlimited number of students can sign up for each class and all work is done online.
I realize most people reading this blog are either Nursing Instructors, Administrators or students -- meaning you're already paying for, or have paid for, a college education. However, learning doesn't need to stop in the nursing classroom.
Especially when technology is involved. I know many people have mentioned being less equipped for electronic charting than they would like, mainly because they have little computer experience. By taking one of these classes, you can learn about whatever subject you'd like while getting computer experience, just by virtue of the fact the class is online.
However, I'm listing to computer classes specifically below:
Internet History, Technology, and Security offered by Charles Severance through Michigan State University: What is the Internet? How was it created? How does it work? How to we secure communications on the Internet?
Because EHR Tutor is an internet based program just like many learning management systems, we thought this course would be a relevant crash course in the thing that has brought computers this far: the internet.
Computer Science 101 offered by Nick Parlante through Stanford University: CS101 teaches the essential ideas of Computer Science for a zero-prior-experience audience. The course uses small coding experiments in the browser to play with the nature of computers, understanding their strengths and limitations. Sign up for the "To be announced" session to be notified by email when the class is next run, and sign up for "Self-Study" to start browsing the class materials right away. Self-Study mode makes all the videos and assignments available to be done at your own pace, but without a certificate of completion at the end.
This class is a great introduction to computers after you have the on/off button and mouse usage down. For a new computer user, this is a way to really understand the machine you'll be relying upon at your job.
And for those of you on the fence about Coursera, it only takes a few seconds to create an account and sign up for a course. There's no commitment of any sort and you can leave the class at any time if you decide it's not for you.We love the fact we can now continue education without paying a dime!