We recently hosted a free webinar on medication administration and have been promoting our barcode scanning feature for the last few weeks. Why? Because medication administration is a big deal in the world of EHR meaningful use measures. For stage two of meaningful use requirements, medical practices must "enable a user to create a single reconciled list of medications, medication allergies, or problems" among other medication related requirements.
We'd like to invite you to join us for a free, 20 minute webinar:
Anyone looking for practice scenarios? If you view our Diabetic Patient Scenario, you can practice taking care of a diabetic patient on the medical surgical floor. Go step by step and answer the questions for this patient's care correctly.
If you're doing a lesson plan and need a sample patient scenario for the classroom, we found a great resource from University of Virginia Medical School. You can find 6 different patients along with common concerns and problems with those patients.
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.
Based on a suggestion from one of the participants at HOSA 2013, we've decided to spend a day brainstorming all the different ways you can use Google's free applications in your classroom. Any of the apps below can be used on any computer with your free gmail account. If you or one of your students does not have a gmail account, create one at https://accounts.google.com/SignUp.