Computerized physician order entry (CPOE) eliminates illegible handwriting, reduces medical errors, and improves patient care. The administration, medical staff, nursing, and health information systems departments of a community teaching hospital cooperated to achieve organization-wide use of its CPOE system.

Methods We developed a teaching program for nursing staff on the care of patients receiving epidural analgesia. The program consisted of a lecture course and interactive teaching session with a pre course questionnaire to assess existing knowledge of the benefits and complications of epidural analgesia and management of common side effects. We repeated the questionnaire after the course without...

BACKGROUND The Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illness strategy equips health workers with essential knowledge and skills to effectively manage sick children with common neonatal and childhood diseases. Since in-service training is very demanding to achieve the desired coverage of training of health workers, pre-service training is taken as a solution. At the time of the survey, ...

A quality assurance system (QA) should ensure that student needs are met. It also respects accreditation requirements and student perceptions, supports training and development of teaching staff, controls costs and improves efficiency of elearning system.

When epidemic cholera appeared in Haiti in October 2010, the medical community there had virtually no experience with the disease and needed rapid training as the epidemic spread throughout the country. We developed a set of training materials specific to Haiti and launched a cascading training effort. Through a training-of-trainers course in November 14-15, 2010, and department-level training ...

In 1919, the Psychological Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania added a teacher to its staff. The child's response to teaching has always been a factor in determining his mental status, since failure in school is often taken to indicate the need of a psychological examination. Nevertheless the use of teaching for the purpose of discovering the mental status of a child is commonly beyond the...

This paper focuses on some of the issues raised when professional library staff combine archive management with an active teaching role, drawing on my own experience as an archivist in the University of Sussex Library. There are of course many archivists who are also teachers on professional training courses for prospective archivists but my concern here is teaching in higher education in subje...

After more than two decades of plans and programs directed at integrating information and communication technologies (ICT) into educational systems, a number of studies from different contexts relate that, although the presence of this media in schools is already a reality, the teaching staff has still not innovated its methodology and its educational practice since the adoption of ICT as a hab...

INTRODUCTION In the design of educational programs, much attention has been paid to teaching methods, needs assessment, an important part of the development of educational programs, generally is neglected. Another important aspect in educational program design is assessing effectiveness. The aims of this study were to design a formal needs assessment program to define the core contents of a fac...