A technology-driven nursing faculty resource center.

With the overwhelming need to recruit and retain more nursing faculty, providing faculty development is imperative. The authors discuss the design, implementation, and evaluation of a virtual Nursing Faculty Resource Center, allowing easy replication in other nursing institutions.

National Library of Medicine and the Marine Biological Laboratory Biomedical Informatics Fellowship--one team's experience.

Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions incorporates informatics in all aspects of the undergraduate and graduate curriculums. Four members of the Informatics Team completed the National Library of Medicine and the Marine Biological Laboratory's Informatics Fellowship. This presentation will describe this life changing experience for this informatics team.

The standardized patient experience in undergraduate nursing education.

Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions was the first Undergraduate Nursing Program to incorporate the Standardized Patient Experience as a requirement for the completion of the Undergraduate Nursing Degree. This requirement has resulted in positive student outcomes and increased student satisfaction.

The fusion of gerontology and technology in nursing education: History and demonstration of the Gerontological Informatics Reasoning Project--GRIP.

Phase I of our Gerontological Reasoning Informatics Project (GRIP) began in the summer of 2002 when all 37 senior undergraduate nursing students in our accelerated BSN nursing program were given PDAs. These students were oriented to use a digitalized geriatric nursing assessment tool embedded into their PDA in a variety of geriatric clinical agencies. This informatics project was developed to make geriatric nursing more technology oriented and focused on seven modules of geriatric assessment: intellect (I), nutrition (N), self-concept (S), physical activity (P), interpersonal functioning (I), restful sleep (R), and elimination (E)--INSPIRE.