Computer User Training

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Teaching EBM teachers: a team approach.

A collaborative Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) course, co-taught by medical and library faculty, targets the needs of health care and information professionals involved in teaching and practicing EBM by introducing concepts, methods and tools of the EBM ...
Josephine L Dorsch, Susan Jacobson, Carol S Scherrer (Med Ref Serv Q, 2003SUMMER)
teaching-ebm-teachers-team-approach.asp

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Integration of information literacy into a revised medical school curriculum.

The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern Californias newly revised Year I-II curriculum integrates information literacy components based on the AAMCs medical informatics objectives throughout the two-year continuum. Students are required ...
Janis F Brown, Janet L Nelson (Med Ref Serv Q, 2003FALL)
integration-information-literacy-revised-medical-school-curriculum.asp

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Informatics training in pathology residency programs: proposed learning objectives and skill sets for the new millennium.

CONTEXT: To be successful in tomorrows health care environment, to make the most appropriate decisions for their laboratories, to optimize training and continuing medical education opportunities, and to advance pathology as a professional specialty, ...
Walter H Henricks, Philip J Boyer, James H Harrison, J Mark Tuthill, James C Healy (Arch Pathol Lab Med, 200308)
informatics-training-pathology-residency-programs-proposed-learning.asp

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Educational workshop improved information-seeking skills, knowledge, attitudes and the search outcome of hospital clinicians: a randomised controlled trial.

A double-blind randomised controlled trial was conducted on a group of Hong Kong hospital clinicians. The objective was to test if a three-hour educational workshop (with supervised hands-on practice) is more effective (than no training) to improve ...
Grace Y T Cheng (Health Info Libr J, 200306)
educational-workshop-improved-information-seeking-skills-knowledge.asp

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Effects of a nursing literature reading course on promoting critical thinking in two-year nursing program students.

Critical thinking is essential for professional nursing practice. Promoting critical thinking with teaching strategies has been a focus of nursing education and nursing research. Reading and writing assignments are teaching strategies for fostering ...
Fang-Chiao Chen, Ming-Chen Lin (J Nurs Res, 200306)
effects-nursing-literature-reading-course-promoting-critical-thinking.asp

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Graduate students experiences in web site development: a project assignment for nursing informatics class.

As healthcare delivery systems requirements change, nurses will not only have to process and communicate more information, but the nature and types of this information as well as the communication methods will also dramatically change. Nurses must ...
Jeongeun Kim (Comput Inform Nurs, 200305-06)
graduate-students-experiences-web-site-development-project-assignment.asp

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A guide to assist nurse practitioners with standardized nursing language.

The purpose of this project was to develop a guide to support use of the Omaha System in primary care. The Omaha System is a community practice-based standardized nursing language developed by the Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) of Omaha, NE. Nurse ...
Amy J Barton, Lynn Gilbert, Victoria Erickson, Julaluk Baramee, Desree Sowers, Kathryn J Robertson (Comput Inform Nurs, 200305-06)
guide-assist-nurse-practitioners-standardized-nursing-language.asp

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Facilitating written work using computer word processing and word prediction.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether occupational therapy intervention that focused on teaching children to use word processing, either alone or with word prediction, was effective in improving the written communication skills ...
Dottie Handley-More, Jean Deitz, Felix F Billingsley, Truman E Coggins (Am J Occup Ther, 200303-04)
facilitating-written-work-computer-word-processing-word-prediction.asp

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Improving on-line skills and knowledge. A randomized trial of teaching rural physicians to use on-line medical information.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the change in frequency and methods with which a pilot group of rural physicians consulted on-line medical resources before and after an educational intervention. DESIGN: Physicians were randomly assigned to an educational ...
Jonathan Kronick, Catherine Blake, Eeva Munoz, Lila Heilbrunn, Lynn Dunikowski, William Kenneth Milne (Can Fam Physician, 200303)
improving-line-skills-knowledge-randomized-trial-teaching-rural.asp

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Clinical application of the Omaha system with the Nightingale Tracker: a community health nursing student home visit program.

The application of computer use in the clinical and educational arena needs to be emphasized for both the improved management of patient data and nursing knowledge. Faculty commitment to automation of home visit documentation records was essential to ...
Helen L Sloan, Carolyn P Delahoussaye (Nurse Educ, 200301-02)
clinical-application-omaha-system-nightingale-tracker-community.asp