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To meet the challenge of decision making in client care, the nurse needs a comprehensive data base - gathering data is a prerequisite for problem solving and individualized interventions. Assessment is now a critical part of every nurse's practice, as all nursing decisions and actions are based on initial and ongoing assessments. Therefore it is extremely important for nursing students to develop excellent assessment skills. This blended course is designed to develop the cognitive processes and psychomotor skills necessary for conducting health assessments of healthy individuals. In other words, students learn how to gather data, what data to gather and what to do with the data once is has been gathered. Nursing students must understand what the expected assessment findings are for each system, before they can recognize any abnormalities that might be seen in clinical courses. To this extent, the students must complete the online theory portion of each unit prior to attending and practicing the skills on each other in the onsite lab component. This course prepares beginning practitioners to complete a health history as well as a head-to-toe physical assessment. These skills are essential for successful clinical practice.

"The challenges in teaching nursing online include providing nursing students with learning experiences that relate to real world nursing situations, and comprise high-stake medical and interpersonal elements."

Excellent resource by Dr. Schirm of Penn State on evidence-based nursing practice! I recommend this tutorial for all nursing students!

Excellent resource by Dr. Schirm on evidence-based nursing practice!

Transformative learning in nursing

Study of the three key ideas for success in an online nursing course.

"Some important factors should be considered when deciding if online learning is right for you. While it has been shown that students can learn course content online as well as in the traditional classroom setting, less information is available on socialization issues related to the nurse generalist, specialist, or practitioner. The role modeling, mentoring, and collegial friendships may or may not be as adaptable to online methods. Careful selection of clinical settings for experience, on-site preceptors, requirements for certain on-campus experiences, and group attendance of students and faculty members at regional or national meetings are some methods used to assist socialization."

"Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation"

A comprehensive definition for evidence-based nursing practice.

Looking for more information on training doctors, nurses, and psychologists who come to our Naturopathic Medicine courses.

Binghamton University, SUNY doctoral research university for 14,600 students in beautiful upstate New York; 140 plus undergraduate and graduate degrees in arts and sciences, nursing, education and human development, management, engineering and applied science

benefits of using youtube to learn, and some constraints

Merlot for Health Sciences showing teaching with simulation is a very important topic in medical education lately as online learning is used in medical and nursing schools. This is a great example to see how an online simulation to cover the topic is done.

Merlot for Health Sciences! Awesome