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Using mannequins that respond like real patients, this Virtual Education and Simulation Training Center is crucial in shaping field-leading medical providers. Go inside Christiana Care's training center and see how you can prepare yourself for a rewarding medical career. Simulation studio is a training area to look and feel like a hospital

Found the simulation interesting as the Christiana Care's training center is set up to look like a hospital from ED to OR to ICUs and a delivery room.

The featured Innovations describe two programs that delivered patient-centered care to vulnerable populations, thereby improving the patient experience and enhancing access to appropriate care. The featured QualityTools provide clinicians and other stakeholders with resource guides that support a patient-centered approach to medication management.

Direct link to "Putting Evidence into Practice" for University of Iowa College of Nursing, John A. Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing on National Guideline Clearninghouse

Patient Centered Goals established by a group multi-discipline experts.

"The Online Teaching Guide was developed by faculty members from the Duke University School of Nursing (DUSON) under the guidance of the Duke Center for Instructional Technology (CIT). The work of this group culminated in this resource for faculty members who want to enhance their ability to plan effective online learning experiences for students. This guide serves as a user-friendly and practical tool to assist faculty in planning and implementing online courses."

The Simulation Innovation Resource Center

"HEAL is a digital repository that allows medical educators to discover, download, and re-use over 22,000 medical education resources. Through generous funding by IAMSE, HEAL is becoming a dynamic, user-centered digital environment to allow medical educators to share and discuss teaching resources and methods. This is being accomplished through the incorporation of key characteristics of Web 2.0 technologies into HEAL including user reviews of resources and user tagging (searchable keywords) of resources. "

The potential of SecondLife comes alive in this presentation. This virtual hospital is scheduled to open in 2011 by - PALOMAR WEST MEDICAL CENTER . Palomar West Medical Center is a Magnet designated facility.

This easy tool will allow you to create, publish and grade quizzes online. This generator is very flexible and, perhaps even more importantly, is free of charge. (Source: Web 2.0 toolbox)

"Qualitative Research Online resources to aid in conducting, finding, using, synthesizing, and teaching qualitative research in the health sciences."

comprehensive collection of materials to help nurse educators understand and conduct qualitative research

"Dr. Drew Polly, College of Education, UNC Charlotte, joins Maria again to talk about using social bookmarking tools. Drew describes what social bookmarking is and how your students can use the tools to meet a course goal. He also emphasizes the importance of taking the time to evaluate, analyze and annotate the bookmarks so they'll provide valuable and useful information."

A terrific podcast about Social bookmarking

A vision of students today

Digital natives as learners:"Engage them, don't enrage them". This is a video (7:52) that explains some of the issues related to 'Digital Native' students in a non-digital school structure.

Interesting video on today's learners versus standard teaching methods. Well referenced and entertaining. Daivd Warlick is quoted a couple of times

This site was designed with the purpose of making the general public aware of socially relevant diseases and help them judge the potentially dangerous disease at early stages . It is a Medical Diagnosis System in SecondLife.

A virtual medical Center tour at the University of Auckland. The Second Life Tour is led by project director Scott Diener, Ph.D.

"To facilitate integration of the Master's Essentials into nursing program curricula, AACN is developing new resources, assembling an online faculty tool kit, planning interactive sessions, and hosting a series of Webinars for faculty and staff engaged in this important work. Watch for details on these upcoming activities and please let us know what additional materials you would find useful by sending your suggestions to Kathy McGuinn, AACN Director of Special Projects, at kmcguinn@aacn.nche.edu or 202-463-6930 , extension 262. "