Corporations, Foundations and Associations – Fixing the Nursing Shortage. Lori Ponoroff, US News Editor, in the third article on the nursing shortage, describes initiatives of Associations, Corporations and Foundations to encourage nursing as a career choice. Associations, Foundations and Corporations are solving the nursing shortage problem in multiple ways as...

Robert Hester, PhD. and colleagues are developing a software simulation program for healthcare education, Osler One that enhances medical knowledge, professionalism, practice-based learning and improvement, ethics, and systems-based practice. Clinical medicine involves caring for both chronic and acute conditions. Medical simulations routinely address acute conditions such as hemorrhage, heart attack,...

  Manny Dominguez, PhD, Deputy Chief Learning Officer at the VHA Employee Education System . (Photo: Department of Veterans Affairs) Marty Kauchak spoke with Manny Dominguez, PhD, Deputy Chief Learning Officer at the VHA Employee Education System, regarding learning technology developments at his organization. Dr. Dominguez shared insights on a...

The Critical Need for a 21st Century Flexner Report. Frank Lau, MD, highlights major problems in today’s medical education and suggests incorporation of cutting edge science in today’s medical school curricula. Frank Lau, MD discusses the need for a Flexner style medical education revolution in medical school curricula. 100 years ago,...

Blue Skies of Texas, a continuing care retirement community, has opened a nursing simulation lab for on-site training of its facilities’ nursing staff. The lab will be available 24-hours a day for nurses to hone their skills specific to geriatric care. Newly hired nurses to will be required to successfully...

For too long we have looked at healthcare reform through its many parts rather than as a system. In a series of BBC Reith lectures Atul Gawande states this is “the century of the system”. Gawande argues that better systems can transform global healthcare by radically reducing the chance of...

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an approach practitioners can use to encourage behavior change – helping a patient to devise a plan, stick to it, and feel like a participant in a collaborative relationship. MI has been proven effective across the spectrum of healthcare disciplines, but adoption is relatively low. So...

A new approach to teaching healthcare students safe moving and handling techniques developed by healthcare academics at Birmingham City University in the UK resulted in a 92 percent reduction in student injuries. Last year 7120 students participated in the posture awareness program first introduced in 2009 – and only three...

The British Military has trained more than 4,000 Sierra Leone Ebola healthcare workers in a specially designed three-day class at the Ebola Training Academy National Stadium in Freetown. The trained workers will go to work in one of the many Ebola response Community Care centres and Ebola Treatment Centres across...

EagleMed critical care air medical transport company have had a Mobile Air Medical Education Unit built to simulate medical operations inside the company’s airplanes and helicopters that it’s using as a teaching aid for its clinical practitioners. The trailer-based Mobile Air Medical Education Unit replicates the interior medical environments of...