E-learning for health professionals

Interactive simulator for e-Learning environments: a teaching software for health care professionals

There is an established tradition of cardiovascular simulation tools, but the application of this kind of technology in the e-Learning arena is a novel approach. This paper presents an e-Learning environment aimed at teaching the interaction of cardiovascular and lung systems to health-care professionals. Heart-lung interaction must be analyzed while assisting patients with severe respiratory p...

CancerSPACE: An Interactive E-learning Tool for Healthcare Professionals

This paper describes the development of CancerSPACE (Simulating Practice And Collaborative Education), a simulation-based, online e-learning tool for healthcare providers that aims to increase cancer screening rates for underserved and minority populations that bear a disproportional share of the cancer burden. It presents insight into the purpose of developing this type of educational tool as ...

Web-based Learning for Practicing Health Professionals - Does it Work ?

Devising ethical codes for e-contents in e-learning

Background: Promoting ethics is one of the goals of education, but the free flow of communication and divulging unethical behaviors in e-learning make the urgent need to clarify ethical values. Therefore, the aim of this study was to prepare ethical codes to develop and deliver e-contents.    Methods: A draft of e-content ethical codes was prepared based on the literature review. Then, it was ...

Nurses' Attitudes Towards E-Learning for E-health Education

Many studies and authors’ own studies suggest that e-learning system is the solution that will establish an educational framework for e-health implementation. Therefore, it is essential in order to achieve success, to assess and evaluate the attitude of the nursing community who are the end users towards the possibility of implementing the ‘E-learning system’ as a solution to educate the nursin...