Cooperation is might the key of your success

Cooperative Learning
Activities for Nursing Students

   Role-Playing Activities

1. • Role playing is a useful exercise for nursing students. One student plays the patient, whose situation varies depending on the class and the type of patient care being discussed, and other students play the role of the nurses. The patient gives complaints or acts appropriately according to the role; the students work together to provide the best care. For example, one student might put cold compresses on the patient's head to bring down a fever while another hooks up the IV. The students learn to work as a team for efficiency and to work around each other.

   Group Projects

   • Teachers can assign the nursing students group projects relating to the field of study. Group projects are often used to help students develop cooperative skills. The students are divided into groups and receive specific instructions on the project and the elements of how the group should work together.

   Practice Nursing Skills

   
   
   • Nurses must meet specific standards for skills, such as taking blood pressure and using needles. The nurses can practice on each other or simulate practice on each other as a cooperative activity. Students should break into groups of two or three for best results in training. They then alternate skills such as taking blood pressure and pulse.

   Listing Activities

   • Listing activities break the students into groups. The groups discuss a specific aspect of nursing, such as emergency care or pediatric care, and then list important items relating to the topic. The students work out the list as a group and prioritize items. For example, limit the list to the five most important points on the topic and then have the students work together to determine what they feel is the most important.
     

     Nurses often end up working cooperatively to take care of patients. It's important for nursing students to learn cooperative activities and strategies before leaving nursing school so they are ready to provide the best possible patient care. Cooperative learning is working together to reach a common goal, a skill that's vital to a nurse.
     

Meet the Automated System

 Automated Health 

Information System

The term health information system is often being used without a clear definition of its objectives, components and area of application. This paper reviews the types and major uses of systems designed for collecting, processing, analyzing and distributing information required for organizing and operating health services. Theoretical considerations based on information theory, systems theory and the prevailing planning ideology for the development of the data base of such systems as well as practical guidelines for the inclusion of specific data items into the data base, are being presented.

Utilization of computer technology in health care is expanding, and managers need information regarding existing automated functions when making decisions relative to system design or acquisition. The Automated Hospital Information System (AHIS) Component Catalog, compiled by the Health Services Research Center/Health Care Technology Center (HSRC/HCTC) at the University of Missouri-Columbia, describes the features of software packages offered by vendors and utilized in hospitals. On the basis of an analysis of the contents of the Catalog relative to automated functions for dietetic departments, charge capturing and diet change notification were the functions used most frequently in hospitals.Although a stores inventory was not included as a component offered by any of the responding vendors, 23 of the hospital systems described in the catalog included a stores inventory component. Menu planning and meal scheduling were functions which were both available from vendors and utilized in hospitals.

This offers a unique employment opportunity with a sense of reward and accomplishment each day. We strive to create a knowledgeable and culturally sensitive staff with relevant experience in health and human services. Our success has enabled us to grow into a diverse staff of over 400 employees located in six states; each project’s (i.e., eight statewide contracts) staff is designed to fit their program’s specialty and meet the needs of our consumers.
The combined expertise of AHS’ professionals’ help meet the needs of all three interdependent components of our successful health program: (1) the families who utilize the service, (2) the health and human service professionals who deliver care, and (3) the funding source which underwrites the program’s costs.

What is it in the Modern World telenursing all about?

What is telenursing?

Telenursing refers to the use of telecommunications and information technology for providing nursing services in health care whenever a large physical distance exists between patient and nurse, or between any number of nurses. As a field it is part of telehealth, and has many points of contacts with other medical and non-medical applications, such as telediagnosis, teleconsultation, telemonitoring, etc.

Developments in telenursing are occurring at a great pace. In a very short time and driven by technical developments, the field of telenursing has become too extensive to be covered by only a small number of experts. As a consequence, there is a need for a broad overview of the field to enable the concepts to be understood by a wider population.

Telenursing is presented in such a way that it should make it accessible to anyone, independent of their knowledge of technology and has been written with contributions from a host of renowned international authorities in telenursing. Books on theoretical and technical aspects inevitably use technical jargon, and this book is no exception, but it is kept to a minimum in an effort to maximize clarity. Moreover the book has been organised systematically, thus ensuring that the content is concise and easy to read. Every chapter provides a comprehensive list of citations and references for further reading. Figure drawings and clinical photographs throughout the book illustrate and illuminate the text, providing readers with high-quality visual reference material. It is therefore appropriate for all professionals, including nurses, physicians, allied health professionals and computer scientists to help them understand the changes going on and how best to make use of them in practice.

 

The identified ethical dilemmas in telenursing also occur in other forms of nursing. However, telenursing might be particularly sensitive to ethics. For example, respect for autonomy and obtaining informed consent might be difficult when a woman calls in for her spouse, respect for integrity might be difficult in both the information and the documentation process, and the balancing of giving the patient honest information with the ethical demand to avoid harm, are all examples of ethical dilemmas that telenurses handle in their daily work. Hence, ethical competence building and ethical discussions on a regularly basis are needed for telenurses. Telenursing in healthcare brings advantages for both patients and personnel: for example, the improvement of resource- and time allocation and access for patients. However, this technique might also entail ethical difficulties.