Swarm Intelligence & Team Adaption

Nature contains striking examples of collective behaviour as seen in social insects, fish and bird colonies. This collective behaviour is known as Swarm Intelligence (SI). S. Cristancho (2020) Journal Club Article Cristancho, S. M. (2021). On collective self‐healing and traces: How can swarm intelligence help us think differently about team adaptation?. Medical Education, 55(4), 441-447. Background The…

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International Nurses Day 2023

The World Health Organisation (WHO) are providing live webinars on International Nurses Day 2023 – theme of Hope, Peace & Health Security [details here]. The International Council of Nurses (ICN), the theme for International Nurses Day is A Voice to Lead: Our Nurses, Our Future and addresses the global health challenges exacerbated by the shortage…

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AI Chatbot: Nursing Education Network

As AI generated search tools become more popular, this is a first delve into developing an AI search tool for this website. ChatShape was used to develop as it was user friendly and free! Please try the Nursing Education Network AI Chatbot: Nurse Educator, its not embeded into the blog as yet, as more work…

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The Hidden Curriculum

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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Artificial Intelligence & Presentations

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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Instruments for Assessing Healthcare Professionals Evidence Based Practice

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) Search Engines & Browsers

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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Nursing & ICU ECMO Services

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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Nursing Research: Ethnography

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) Have a look…

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Generate a Research Question: Research for Health Professionals (Part 2)

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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