We in clinical education can often be guilty of adopting academic terminology and educational theory at a very superficial level. In reading Chris Nickson's recent post, I registered some overt parallels with my experiences in simulation education.
#FOAMed
In the search for FOAMing tonight I found a great series of YouTube videos by Hawknurse. 41 videos of fundamental nursing skills (even including emotional intelligence).
Fundamentals of Nursing (don’t call it basic)
4 In what felt like being part of a spectacular experiment, the SMACC 2013 program launched in style with an opening plenary to end all others, imploring us all to consider what make critical care so different? For the uninitiated, SMACC 2013 was the inaugural Social Media and Critical Care Conference, […]
Talking SMACC – A nurse eye view.
Just a quick follow up from the first post regarding education and quality improvement. The emphasis needs to be on the search for the right metrics when it comes to quality improvement in general, not just in clinical education (the two should be inextricable). What we want, is to decrease […]
Crude data is just crude
10 Are we saddling clinical education with an unrealistic yoke to carry? First of all, apologies to those who thought this would be cool stuff about gadgets and manikins. About two years ago, I began a relieving post that involved attending hospital governance meetings in an educator capacity. In the first […]