Teaching Materials

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Accessing the living laboratory: trigger films as an aid to developing, enabling, and assessing anesthesia clinical instructors.

Problems arise when clinical instructors are placed in situations for which they are ill prepared. Teaching occurs in settings where patient safety and quality must be ensured. Trigger films are 2- to 4-minute vignettes simulating real-life situations ...
William Hartland, Chuck Biddle, Michael Fallacaro (AANA J, 200308)
accessing-living-laboratory-trigger-films-aid-developing-enabling.asp

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How does beneficiary knowledge of the Medicare program vary by type of insurance?

BACKGROUND: Prior research found that Medicare beneficiaries knowledge of the Medicare program varied by the type of supplemental insurance they had. However, none of these studies used both multivariate methods and nationally representative data to ...
Lauren A McCormack, Jennifer D Uhrig (Med Care, 200308)
beneficiary-knowledge-medicare-program-vary-type-insurance.asp

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Dental undergraduate expectations and opinions of Web-based courseware to supplement traditional teaching methods.

The rapid growth of Internet for the delivery of information has enabled teaching materials to be placed on websites allowing student access to course material. It is the aim of this paper to evaluate a cohort of dental undergraduate students who have ...
R Eynon, G Perryer, A D Walmsley (Eur J Dent Educ, 200308)
dental-undergraduate-expectations-opinions-web-based-courseware.asp

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Giving information to patients.

Giving information is integral to many nursing roles. Ann-Louise Caress discusses factors to take into account when giving healthcare information, and suggests some approaches to enhance ...
Ann-Louise Caress (Nurs Stand, 2003079-15)
giving-information-patients.asp

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The information sources used by community nurse prescribers.

A purposive sample of 22 community nurse prescribers and five prescribing leads were interviewed to determine how nurses both access and assess the reliability of pharmacological information. Prescribers used both printed material and other professionals ...
Jason Hall, Judith Cantrill, Peter Noyce (Br J Nurs, 20030710-23)
information-sources-community-nurse-prescribers.asp

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Developing and evaluating patient education materials.

Nurses should be involved in all aspects of patient education, including the development of print and web resources, but most nurses have not been educated in how to develop these resources. This article discusses the rationale for nurse involvement, ...
Diane Monsivais, Audree Reynolds (J Contin Educ Nurs, 200307-08)
developing-evaluating-patient-education-materials.asp

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Understanding abuse and violence against women: a two-day immersion course.

The author describes a 2-day immersion course on woman abuse/family violence conducted for undergraduate nursing students. The goals of the course were to assist students in developing a commitment to routine screening, to become comfortable with ...
Ruth Ann Belknap (Nurse Educ, 200307-08)
understanding-abuse-violence-against-women-two-day-immersion-course.asp

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Using health web sites for patient education.

There are thousands of health web sites, but because of the unregulated nature of the Internet, not all sites provide accurate, complete, and up-to-date information. Nurses have an important role in evaluating health web sites and directing patients to ...
Marilyn H Oermann (J Wound Ostomy Continence Nurs, 200307)
health-web-sites-patient-education.asp

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Evaluation of an articulated measuring apparatus for use in the oral cavity.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the trial Teaching Robot for the development of a contact-type measuring apparatus for using directly in the oral cavity. A standard model was used to mimic the dentition by placing an arrangement of three bearing ...
Yoko Maikuma, Kazuhiro Usui, Kouji Araki, Shiro Mataki, Norimasa Kurosaki, Nobuyuki Furuya (Dent Mater J, 200306)
evaluation-articulated-measuring-apparatus-oral-cavity.asp

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Student use and perceptions of different learning aids in a problem-based learning (PBL) dentistry course.

First-year dental students in a new problem-based learning (PBL) course, the Bachelor of Dentistry (BDent) Program at the University of Sydney, Australia, completed the Study Process Questionnaire and two other questionnaires in this study. The study ...
Tania M Gerzina, Rebecca Worthington, Scott Byrne, Catherine McMahon (J Dent Educ, 200306)
student-perceptions-different-learning-aids-problem-based-learning.asp