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Catherine Burns

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PubMed2004

Applications of ecological interface design in supporting the nursing process.

Today's nursing environment is complex, with many sources of data that are often poorly displayed. Ecological interface design (EID) is a systematic approach to designing interfaces to complex systems. EID has been used to design interfaces for aviation displays, power plant monitoring and control, human hemodynamic monitoring, anesthesia monitoring, and neonatal intensive care monitoring and diagnosis. EID makes critical relationships easily visible, eliminating the mental workload of integrating, calculating, or remembering multiple values. This paper reviews past experimental studies of EID in healthcare applications and discusses the application of EID to a decision-support tool for diabetic patients using personal digital assistants. The authors also discuss other contributions that EID could make to the nursing process in the areas of physiological monitoring, decision support, database design, and the measurement and analysis of nurse-sensitive outcomes, including patient safety outcomes.

Computers, Handheld↗
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Mastering the preceptor role: challenges of clinical teaching.

This article aims to help both experienced and new preceptors become more effective teachers while maintaining their clinical workloads. A variety of strategies is essential to increase teaching effectiveness and decrease stress for the busy preceptor who juggles the roles of teacher and clinician. The article will begin with a review of role expectations and role strain factors for student, faculty, and preceptor. Principles of clinical teaching will be identified, followed by some strategies for teaching on busy days and concluding with suggestions for dealing with difficult students.

Adult↗
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Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome: report of seven patients with the Smith-McCort variant and review of the literature.

Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen (DMC) syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive disorder affecting skeletal development. The patients have a striking "barrel-shape" chest, shortened trunk, and various distal deformities, including genu valgum or varum, and minimal decrease in joint mobility. The most notable radiographic findings are a lacy iliac crest apophysis, hip dysplasia, double vertebral hump, and odontoid hypoplasia with atlanto-axial instability. Patients may require orthopedic femoral osteotomy, total hip arthroplasty, early meniscectomy, realignment osteotomy, or posterior cervical spine fusion. Patients with the Smith McCort variant have similar orthopaedic manifestations but are not mentally retarded. The diagnosis may be confirmed histologically, but no biochemical or developmental defect has been defined as yet. The authors report seven affected members of two families from Guam and describe their orthopaedic treatment. The authors review the historical reports, clinical findings, and diagnostic radiographic features in DMC syndrome.

Abnormalities, Multiple↗