An educational module to improve healthcare staffs' attitudes toward sickle cell disease patients.

Sickle cell disease is a genetic blood disorder primarily affecting individuals of African descent. Studies of healthcare providers suggest there is inadequate knowledge about the pathophysiology and clinical presentations of the disease, and misperceptions of patients' behaviors and communication during crisis that have led to inappropriate staff attitudes and thus become major barriers to the delivery of optimal care. In this article, the authors describe the effect of an educational module on improving healthcare staffs' attitudes toward patients with sickle cell disease.

Elders' use of folk medicine and complementary and alternative therapies: an integrative review with implications for case managers.

Purpose Of Study: The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), folk medicine, and other nontraditional therapy use by the elderly population.

Primary Practice Setting: For all case managers who coordinate health care for the elderly as they transition from one setting to another and participate in health promotion and prevention activities.

Methodology And Sample: A computerized database search of MEDLINE, CINAHL, ProQuest, and PsycINFO was completed before writing the integrative review.

Educational games for health professionals.

Background: The use of games as an educational strategy has the potential to improve health professionals' performance (e.g. adherence to standards of care) through improving their knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Educational games for health professionals.

Background: The use of games as an educational strategy has the potential to improve health professionals' performance (e.g. adherence to standards of care) through improving their knowledge, skills and attitudes.

The effect of educational games on medical students' learning outcomes: a systematic review: BEME Guide No 14.

Background: An educational game is 'an instructional method requiring the learner to participate in a competitive activity with preset rules.' A number of studies have suggested beneficial effects of educational games in medical education.

Aim: The objective of this study was to systematically review the effect of educational games on medical students' satisfaction, knowledge, skills, attitude, and behavior.

Integrating leadership and management content across the curriculum: a 3-course approach.

Leadership or management courses for undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students are often relegated to the last semester of study. The authors discuss how leadership and management constructs were integrated throughout the students' upper-division, 2-year nursing curriculum via 3 leadership/management courses. The purpose of this innovative leadership education model is to facilitate the acquisition of both leadership and management behaviors and provide opportunity for students to practice these skills in clinical settings.

Connecting with guidance counselors to enhance recruitment into nursing of minority teens.

The purpose of this article was to describe the design, implementation, and outcomes of one strategy used to promote careers in nursing among minority high-school-aged teens-namely, a workshop for guidance counselors in a large urban school system. All guidance counselors in an urban inner city school system were invited to attend a workshop on careers in nursing as part of their monthly continuing education requirements. Thirty-nine (39%) participated in the half-day workshop held at a school of nursing.

The Western New York regional electronic health record initiative: Healthcare informatics use from the registered nurse perspective.

This paper describes a select population of Western New York (WNY) Registered Nurses' (RN) perspectives on the use of healthcare informatics and the adoption of a regional electronic health record (EHR). A three part class assignment on healthcare informatics used a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) Analysis, and a Healthcare Informatics Schemata: A paradigm shift over time(c) timeline to determine RN perspectives about healthcare informatics use at their place of employment. Qualitative analysis of 41 RNs who completed the SWOT analysis provided positive and negative themes related to perceptions about healthcare informatics and EHR use at their place of employment.

Incorporating healthcare informatics into the strategic planning process in nursing education.

The purpose of this article is to describe the incorporation of healthcare informatics into the strategic planning process in nursing education. An exemplar from the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York School of Nursing, is interwoven throughout the article. The challenges and successes inherent in a paradigm shift embracing the multifaceted adoption of technology in higher education are illustrated.

The evolution and evaluation of videoconferencing technology for graduate nursing education.

The Integrated Services Digital Network H.323 (ISDN), which has been in use for the past 20 years often requires a dedicated telephone line and other equipment to implement. Consequently, expansion of ISDN-based videoconferencing requires infrastructure not always accessible in those areas that are most in need of technological connections.

Demonstrating a positive return on investment for a prenatal program at a managed care organization. An economic analysis.

Healthcare providers need information to guide the management of patient health while administrators focus on resource management. The underpinning of economic analysis, in the clinical setting, is that resources are scarce. The allocation of resources requires delivered services to provide more benefits than cost and hence, the need to demonstrate a return on investment (ROI) for disease management programs.