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Education, the solution to everything, until everything goes wrong.
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...
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Crude data is just crude
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...
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Talking SMACC – A nurse eye view.
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...
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FOAM Injection for Nursing Graduates
Basking in the glow of SMACC 2013, I have reflected on how much we are limited by simply lacking knowledge of what is out there. Inspired by the likes of Mike Cadogan and his tireless work for a...
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For the Affirmative… Social Media
I thought I’d share the article I have written for our upcoming hospital newsletter. Some similar content (first paragraph) to my SMACC review but otherwise a different focus. So pleased to get the...
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Fundamentals of Nursing (don’t call it basic)
In the search for FOAMing tonight I found a great series of videos by Hawknurse. http://www.youtube.com/user/hawknurse 41 videos of fundamental nursing skills (even including emotional intelligence). I...
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FOAM and Simulation: Kindred spirits in Education
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...
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