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"Biomedical PowerPoint Toolkit Suite All 8 PowerPoint Toolkits with over 2,000 professionally designed and ready-to-use slides and diagrams to help you create professional presentations All diagrams are vector-based and placed in PowerPoint slides already. They can be freely edited, adjusted, scaled and colored in PowerPoint. Download Demo Slides "

While not free, these graphic diagrams could be a real benefit to your teaching practice.

Professional organization for all Registered Nurses in North Carolina

The demand for Registered Nurses is strong and growing. Find out about how to become an RN and find online programs to prepare for the NCLEX-RN examination.

An online newspaper that collects together the week's news relating to health education. Read and subscribe free at:  http://paper.li/f-1327779598

Take Home: UMass Medical School and WPI have developed an app that can detect atrial fibrillation.  This moves connected and mobile health closer to reality.  The really important development with this approach might allow us to treat patients who have AF intermittently (paroxysmal) differently than we currently do.  Because we are worried about stroke, patients now get blood thinners all the time because we are concerned that they will have recurrences without knowing about it.  With this technology, in the future, we might see validation of a strategy that allows use of blood thinners when patients are in AF only, sometimes called a pill in the pocket.

Health Study Weekly - an online newspaper that collects together the week's news relating to health education. Read and subscribe free of charge at:  http://paper.li/f-1327779598

" Welcome to the Nurse Educator Partnership IMER recognizes the important role nurse educators play in advancing oncology nursing practice. The Nurse Educator Partnership has been established to provide opportunities for oncology nurse educators to network with peers, access to educator resources and thought leaders, and professional development support."

14 tweets that demonstrate the professional value of Twitter

"Cary Moskovitz has been using the concept of "think aloud" responses in his writing courses, getting professionals in various fields at Duke to record comments and feedback on student papers. Students gain valuable insight from a reader familiar with the subject area of the paper and gain a better sense of ownership of their writing in a "real world" situation."

"The Blausen Human Atlas is an ideal interactive resource for professional, patient and consumer education. It contains 150 common medical treatments and conditions and combines 3D animation (approximately one to two minutes in length) with accompanying narration."

This iPhone / iPad app has video and graphic representations of body systems in a slick 3D interface.

" Funded by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, College Open Textbooks is a collection of colleges, governmental agencies, education non-profits, and other education-related organizations that are focused on the mission of driving the awareness and advocacy for open textbooks. This includes providing training for instructors adopting open resources, peer reviews of open textbooks, and mentoring online professional networks that provide support to authors who open their resources. Through our community outreach, we have found that open textbooks should be: * easy to use, get and pass around, * editable so instructors can customize content, * cross-platform compatible, * printable, * and accessible so they work with adaptive technology. "

NurseZone.com is an online community dedicated to providing nurses with professional and personal development information and opportunities. We provide student nurses, new graduates and experienced nurses with the resources they need to succeed in this unique and exciting profession. Users will find a wealth of helpful content, from our nursing experts' tips and advice to features on new medical trends, the latest nursing practices, inspiring personal stories, community forums and blogs, and links to continuing education courses, jobs and a variety of nursing-related Web sites.

"The International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations (NNAs), representing the more than 13 million nurses worldwide. Founded in 1899, ICN is the world's first and widest reaching international organisation for health professionals. Operated by nurses and leading nurses internationally, ICN works to ensure quality nursing care for all, sound health policies globally, the advancement of nursing knowledge, and the presence worldwide of a respected nursing profession and a competent and satisfied nursing workforce."

The National League for Nursing advances excellence in nursing education that prepares the nursing workforce to meet the needs of diverse populations in an ever-changing healthcare environment.

Online Continuing Education Modules for Nurse Educators

A guide for becoming a better screencaster. IMHO, screencasting is what professors are doing when they record a lecture for students. This may help improve the quality of those 'recorded lectures'

National Student Nurses' Association