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SEASONS
GREETINGS
At the top of
this issue we put forth a few thoughts on Best Practice in Nursing Education to coincide with our current webinar series, Best Practices for Nurse Educators: Building Great eLearning Programs.
In the spirit
of the holiday season, we are using the remainder of this edition to reflect on one of our most important values at Decision Critical –giving
back. Each year, we seek opportunities to support programs that guide others towards nursing education and toward decisions
promoting healthy lives and communities.
I hope you all
have had a great 2007 and that 2008 will be even better for you.
Yours in
Nursing,
Kenneth
W. Dion, RN, MSN, MBA, PhDc
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BEST PRACTICES IN NURSING EDUCATION
When we examine healthcare eLearning in America we find that healthcare remains behind corporate
America despite healthcare's high regard for maintaining high knowledge standards. Recent informal polls conducted at Decision
Critical shows that, on average, today's healthcare organization may have only 30 to 50 online courses where their counter parts in corporate America
have hundreds, if not thousands, of courses online. Why is that?
In recent years, healthcare, nursing and students have changed – nursing education, in many
cases, has not. Knowledge management and succession planning are areas that remain insufficient in many of today’s
healthcare institutions.
There appear to be four compelling reasons:
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An
apparent disconnect between traditional learning systems and the "active learning" reality of how medical teams learn in today's
workforce.
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Compliance training can seem at the onset to be cost prohibitive for expanding internal training.
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Healthcare training professionals are in need of new strategies to transform their workforces.
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Many healthcare eLearning vendors need to adapt their business practices to the needs of today's healthcare organization.
If we compare traditional eLearning portal learning to RN learning on the job, we find the
traditional textbook process that states: assessment, delivery of information, test knowledge. However,
today’s reality is that medical teams “actively learn” in order to identify small chunks of information relevant to how to do
the task at hand.
DCI has contracted with Richard Close, a 20-year veteran eLearning strategist, to examine
today’s healthcare eLearning practices and produce a tactical list of things nursing professionals can do in today healthcare
environment. Richard is presenting these opportunities in a webinar series being offered this month, Best Practices for Nurse Educators: Building Great eLearning
Programs. Armed with these practices it is our hope that we can more effectively move into patient and community training that will
seriously impact quality of care in America.
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WEBINAR SERIES: Best Practices for Nurse
Educators: Building Great
eLearning Programs
This webinar will stimulate questions for the acute care nurse educator in particular and
provide tactics that can be taken back into the work place. For experienced nurse educators,
this webinar is designed to be an audit and snapshot of the future. For the novice, it will serve as a road map of what to do and what not to do as well as provide practical advice on providing training programs with excellence. For those working with an old learning portal or LMS, this webinar will expand your vision on the broad use of elearning applications.
This complimentary 1 hour webinar for nurse educators – both expert and novice - will
address:
- Myths about and problems with learning programs
- The truth about Learning Management Systems
- What makes for poor and great learning
- Why healthcare learning is different
- The issues around learning content and delivery
- Critical factors and next steps for developing
successful elearning programs
This webinar is being presented by our guest speaker, Richard Close, President, The Chrysalis
Campaign.
Space is Limited - Reserve Your Seat Now At: www.decisioncritical.com/webinars.asp
Watch our website and future editions of Critical Communication for information on an eLearning Best
Practices sesison in early 2008 with a focus on the academic environment. If you would like to be notified when this
session is scheduled, email Amanda LeBlanc to be added to the notification
list.
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The staff at the Kuwait EMC show off some of the scrubs
received from AaSP's Operation Scrubs. |
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT: Operation
Scrubs Decision
Critical joined the Operations
Scrubs effort in 2007. Operation Scrubs is championed by the Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon with help from Health Care Compliance Strategies (HCCS). Earlier this year, Decision
Critical sent out a call to action to enlist the help of Decision Critical friends and customers in collecting gently used scrubs for military
hospitals in Kuwait and Bagdad.
The request was originally received from a military hospital in Kuwait for
some colorful scrubs. It seems that in the ward tents in the field, the staff wears sand colored scrubs or brown colored
t-shirts and the medical staff and patients could use a little cheering up! The effort began a few months ago and 31st Combat
Support Hospital already has their first shipment from Nassau University Medical
Center (NUMC) of East Meadow, New York. The chaplain wrote the following message back.
"We got the scrubs! Thank you so much for doing this! I
can't tell you how much the nurses and corpsmen appreciate the "color" around the tents now! It certainly has brightened the wards
up! You and all the people involved are AWESOME! We will pass these on the Crew that will be relieving us so they can enjoy having
some color in their deployment!" LCDR George M., Kuwait
The trauma center at Ibn Sina treats not only Americans but wounded Iraqis as well.
Due to the nature of the insurgency in Iraq, the 28th CSH has found itself taking care of local families and children in Baghdad.
A special Decision Critical thank you goes out to several hospitals in the
MedCath System for their participation and donations.
If you are interested in participating in Operation Scrubs, please contact Emma Tuel
at etuel@decisioncritical.com.
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NEWS &
EVENTS
NEW TEAM MEMBER JOINS DECISION CRITICAL: We welcomed
new team member, Kathy Borkowski as Director of Business
Development in November.
DECISION CRITICAL SUPPORTS
NURSING EDUCATION THROUGH MULTIPLE SCHOLARSHIPS including Florida Student Nurses Association, the University of Central Florida School of Nursing and the Foundation of
the National Student Nurses Association.
DECISION CRITICAL GIVES
$1.00 BACK TO THE NSNA FOUNDATION
for every Critical
Portfolio sold on the Decision Critical website. ANCC CERTIFIED NURSES AND MEMBERS OF SIGMA THETA TAU INTERNATIONAL, The Honor Society of Nursing receives 15 months for the cost of 12 when
purchasing an individual subscription to Critical Portfolio. Don’t have the discount code? Contact us
today!
EVENTS:
- Texas Organization of Nurse Executives Annual
Meeting: Decision Critical
sponsored the keynote speaker at this October 15 – 17,
2007, event in Austin, Texas.
- Florida Student Nurses Association (FSNA) Annual Meeting: Kenneth W. Dion, RN, MSN, MBA, PhDc presented the end note presentation, “My NSNA Experience – From Student to Officer to
Treasurer of the Foundation” in November 2007.
- Decision Critical Executive Team Members Participated in the Nursing Economics, Nurse Faculty Nurse Executive
Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona in
early
December.
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