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The program incorporates commonly held cultural beliefs in the Latino community, using them to frame abstinence and condom use as acceptable and effective health strategies.

This guide, for hospital administrators and emergency department leaders, provides step-by-step instructions for planning and implementing patient flow improvement strategies to ease emergency department crowding.

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.

Industry best practices suggest that "portfolio assessment" is the best way to combat the existence of cheating in an online environment.

For the Nurse Educator hoping to incorporate the QSEN competencies into student learning experience, this site lists strategies (submitted by users) to be used in planning.

I thought some of the 11 strategies were overlapped with our online teaching guides.

Learn how linkages between clinical practices and community organizations improved the delivery of preventive services.

I ran across this beautifully done video story today, and thought it might be a good resource for community health. I could see it as an intro to a discussion board prompt, e.g. Is a clinic like this ethical?