The go to for the Nurse Educator
The term ‘hidden curriculum’ refers to an amorphous collection of implicit academic, social, and cultural messages, unwritten rules and unspoken expectations, and unofficial norms, behaviours and values of the dominant-culture context in which all teaching and learning is situated. These assumptions and expectations that are not formally communicated, established, or conveyed stipulate the ‘right’ way to think,…
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This is my first dive into AI, and came across this resource for creating presentations. I only used the words ‘nursing’ and ‘ECMO service’ and no other background information to see what was created, and within 3 minutes the below presentation was generated [link here also]. Gamma is an AI A GPT-4 powered app that…
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As an educator you may want to measure knowledge and skills often with the focus on competence. This scoping review reports on various evidence based knowledge and skills instruments that could be utilised in clinical practice to assess healthcare professionals evidence based practice (EBP) knowledge and skills. This information could then be used to plan…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is now being announced as part of search engine and browsers. How we start to engage with this technology in healthcare – lets see but there will be some posts on using AI in education to come. Take a read from Microsoft: Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge,…
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Bundle of Rays is transforming healthcare education using immersive learning technologies & advancing the nursing profession through their unique AR & VR platform. Bundle of Rays was established by Bradley Chesham who is a nurse [more info here]. Take a look at how the immersive learning environment looks from the learners perspective at Bundle of…
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Undertaking research is difficult, especially the statistical analysis part if your main role is clinial focused and research is just one aspect of your role. There is a difference between a research nurse and a nurse researcher. These Research Made Simple posts aim to help provide introductory or refresher resources for nurses undertaking clinical research…
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Ross, P., Watterson, J., Fulcher, B. J., Linke, N. J., Nicholson, A. J., Ilic, D., & Hodgson, C. L. (2022). Nursing workforce, education, and training challenges to implementing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation services in Australian intensive care units: A qualitative substudy. Australian Critical Care.
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Ethnography is a methodology concerned with “studying people in their cultural context and how their behaviour, either as individuals or as part of a group, is influenced by this cultural context. Ethnography is a form of social research and has much in common with other forms of qualitative enquiry” — Draper (2015) Take a look…
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An intersting development to watch is the acquisition of healthcare by tech companies. The potential for disruption to the traditional healthcare models, especially from the technogical side of things such as digital heath monitoring, electronic management systems, online consulations and artifical intellegince is definetly a space to watch. How healthcare delivery will change is unknown…
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Resource: Dine, C. J., Shea, J. A., & Kogan, J. R. (2016). Generating good research questions in health professions education. Academic Medicine, 91(12), e8-e8. Use the FINER criteria approach to help formulate an intersting research question. Identify a problem challenge or something that wither interests or annoys you. Feasible Interesting Novel Ethical Relevant Then conduct a quick…
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