Teaching

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Outcomes of videotape instruction in clinic waiting area.

PURPOSE: The purpose of our study was to examine the effectiveness of general health-promotion teaching for patients in the waiting room of a clinic, using focused videotape instruction. DESIGN: An experimental design was used. SAMPLE: Subjects were ...
Marilyn H Oermann, Sue A Webb, Jo Ann Ashare (Orthop Nurs, 200303-04)
outcomes-videotape-instruction-clinic-waiting-area.asp

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Strategies for teaching loss, grief, and bereavement.

Teaching loss, grief, and bereavement to nursing students should be an interactive process to stimulate critical thinking and address the affective domain of learning. Lecture as a teaching methodology may be the easiest to prepare and deliver; however, ...
Marianne LaPorte Matzo, Deborah Witt Sherman, Karen Lo, Kathleen A Egan, Marcia Grant, Anne Rhome (Nurse Educ, 200303-04)
strategies-teaching-loss-grief-bereavement.asp

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Making nursing research "real": an experiential approach.

Research can be a challenging subject for nursing students at all levels. Although a research course was a prerequisite for admittance to our masters of science in nursing program at Viterbo University, faculty found that students had varying levels of ...
Vicki Moss, Bonnie Nesbitt (Nurse Educ, 200303-04)
making-nursing-research-real-experiential-approach.asp

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Experienced clinical educators improve their clinical teaching effectiveness.

OBJECTIVES: To determine if experienced clinical educators (CEs) can improve their teaching by incorporating 4 literature-based teaching methods into their instruction. METHODS: We trained 7 experienced CEs on the teaching methods during a monthly ...
Patricia Lye, Charlotte Heidenreich, Rebekah Wang-Cheng, Dawn Bragg, Deborah Simpson, The Advanced Faculty Development Group TA, (Ambul Pediatr, 200303-04)
experienced-clinical-educators-improve-clinical-teaching-effectiveness.asp

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Technology-based vs. traditional instruction. A comparison of two methods for teaching the skill of performing a 12-lead ECG.

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of an interactive, multimedia CD-ROM with traditional methods of teaching the skill of performing a 12-lead ECG. A randomized pre/posttest experimental design was used. Seventy-seven ...
Pamela R Jeffries, Shirley Woolf, Beverly Linde (Nurs Educ Perspect, 200303-04)
technology-based-vs-traditional-instruction-comparison-two-methods.asp

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Facilitating transformation through collaboration.

The philosophical underpinnings of transformative education were utilized to redesign a course taught to special education majors and nursing students at a rural southeastern university. The main goal when restructuring the class was to develop a course ...
Ramona Browder Lazenby, Rhonda Collins Morton (Nurs Educ Perspect, 200303-04)
facilitating-transformation-collaboration.asp

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Finnish students perceptions of a visiting professor.

Although nurse educators enthusiastically endorse visiting professors, cross-school collaboration, cross-cultural teaching, and international faculty exchange programs, no previous studies have documented students perceptions of visiting faculty. An ...
Susan C Haussler, Eija Paavilainen, Päivi Astedt-Kurki (J Prof Nurs, 200303-04)
finnish-students-perceptions-visiting-professor.asp

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Teaching with a video system improves the training period but not subsequent success of tracheal intubation with the Bullard laryngoscope.

BACKGROUND: The Bullard laryngoscope is useful for the management of a variety of airway management scenarios. Without the aid of a video system, teaching laryngoscopy skills occurs with indirect feedback to the instructor. The purpose of this study was ...
G Brent Shulman, Ned G Nordin, Neil Roy Connelly (Anesthesiology, 200303)
teaching-video-system-improves-training-period-not-subsequent-success.asp

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The current status of the anatomical sciences curriculum in U.S. and Canadian dental schools.

The anatomical sciences form one of the major building blocks of the basic medical sciences in the professional training of dentists. This paper defines the courses and classifies the formats of teaching for each course within the anatomical sciences ...
Geoffrey D Guttmann (J Dent Educ, 200303)
current-status-anatomical-sciences-curriculum-u-s-canadian-dental.asp

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Enhancing the dental histology curriculum using computer technology.

The predominant difference between the histology offered to dental students and that taken by other health care professionals is the emphasis placed on the oral tissues. The oral histology component of the dental curriculum is commonly handled in one of ...
Brian R MacPherson, Jennifer K Brueckner (J Dent Educ, 200303)
enhancing-dental-histology-curriculum-computer-technology.asp