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L L Travis

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PubMed1995

Summative evaluation of a baccalaureate nursing informatics curriculum.

This paper describes the fifth stage in the process of designing, implementing and evaluating the nursing informatics courses incorporated into a baccalaureate nursing program. The challenge is to construct an evolving nursing informatics curriculum so as to provide nursing professionals with the foundations for affecting health care delivery. The basic components of the curriculum framework are information, technology, and clinical care process. Information on the two groups of graduates who have completed the four course sequence and the one group of graduates who have been in practice will be discussed.

Attitude to Computers↗
PubMed1994

The effects of an undergraduate nursing informatics curriculum on students' knowledge and attitudes.

This paper describes the fourth stage of a process to design, implement and evaluate the nursing informatics courses incorporated into a baccalaureate nursing program. The challenge is to structure the nursing informatics curriculum so as to provide the nursing professional with the basis with which to impact health care delivery. The basic components of the framework are information, technology, and clinical care process. Students in the fourth course worked closely with agency personnel to design, implement and evaluate clinical application projects.

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PubMed1993

Supporting patient centered computing through an undergraduate nursing informatics curriculum stage III.

The patient has been one of the focal points of the process followed to design, implement, and evaluate an integrated informatics curriculum in a baccalaureate nursing program. This paper describes the third stage of a process to design the informatics nursing courses. A challenge is to structure the nursing informatics curriculum so as to enhance the patient care process. A number of strategies were used to focus the curriculum, students, and faculty around the patient. The basic components of the framework are information, technology, and clinical care process. The clinical care process which emphasizes the patient is an inherent part of the conceptual framework in all aspects of the curriculum. Therefore the faculty has ensured a blend of information, technology, and the clinical care process throughout the curriculum.

Computer Literacy↗
PubMed1992

Supporting collaboration through a nursing informatics curriculum stage II.

Collaboration is at the center of the process used to design, implement and evaluate an integrated informatics curriculum in a baccalaureate nursing program. This paper describes the second stage of a process to design the informatics nursing courses. The challenges to foster faculty collaborative relationships as well as to enhance the course content of all nursing informatics curriculum. A number of strategies were used to develop the collaborative efforts between the faculty and nursing staff in the clinical agencies. Information technology was incorporated into the didactic and clinical portions of courses through the use of creative teaching strategies. Therefore, the faculty have ensured a blend of information, technology, and the clinical care process throughout the curriculum.

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PubMed1991

An integrated informatics curriculum in a baccalaureate nursing program.

As health care requirements change, nurses will not only have to process and communicate more information, but the nature and types of this information will dramatically change as well. It is imperative that nurses understand the potential information technologies offer to assist the nurse in this expanded role. This paper describes an innovative endeavor to incorporate information technology with its undergraduate nursing program. The challenge was to design a program that would help develop the students' skills to critically appraise their information needs and conceptually evaluate the utility of gathering information in providing patient care. After completing the first nursing informatics course, there was an increase in the students' perception and understanding of the uses of information technology to support the nursing process in providing patient care.

Attitude to Computers↗
PubMed1989

Limits on negative information in language input.

Hirsh-Pasek, Treiman & Schneiderman (1984) and Demetras, Post & Snow (1986) have recently suggested that certain types of parental repetitions and clarification questions may provide children with subtle cues to their grammatical errors. We further investigated this possibility by examining parental responses to inflectional over-regularizations and wh-question auxiliary-verb omission errors in the sets of transcripts from Adam, Eve and Sarah (Brown 1973). These errors were chosen because they are exemplars of overgeneralization, the type of mistake for which negative information is, in theory, most critically needed. Expansions and Clarification Questions occurred more often following ill-formed utterances in Adam's and Eve's input, but not in Sarah's. However, these corrective responses formed only a small proportion of all adult responses following Adam's and Eve's grammatical errors. Moreover, corrective responses appear to drop out of children's input while they continue to make overgeneralization errors. Whereas negative feedback may occasionally be available, in the light of these findings the contention that language input generally incorporates negative information appears to be unfounded.

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PubMed1978

Percutaneous drainage of lung abscess.

The availability of effective antimicrobial agents has greatly decreased the need for surgical intervention in patients who have a pyogenic lung abscess. We describe 3 patients with lung abscesses caused by gram-negative bacteria who failed to respond to medical treatment and who were believed to be unable to withstand lobectomy. Percutaneous insertion of a drainage tube directly into the abscess brought about a dramatic clinical response, with prompt closure of the cavity. This procedure provides an alternative to thoracotomy and lobectomy in treating lung abscesses that fail to respond to medical therapy.

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Organizational effectiveness: the key to accountability for collegiate schools of nursing.

This study describes the organizational effectiveness of collegiate nursing programs in terms of their ability to interact with their external environment. Nursing education administrators from 401 institutions were surveyed concerning their ability to secure resources and the degree of their system's openness and community interaction. Overall, with a response rate of 76.8 per cent, the administrators considered the availability of resources to be adequate and perceived their programs to be moderately successful in procuring resources. A categorical comparison of responses indicated that administrators in specialized/professional institutions identified a greater degree of richness in the availability of resources and perceived their programs to be more successful in procuring resources. However, a second categorical comparison found no statistically significant differences among administrators in their perception of system openness and community interaction. All administrators considered their environments cooperative, accepting, predictable, and stable.

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Offset potential of commercial ECG electrodes.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the offset potential characteristics of commercially available disposable electrocardiograph (ECG) electrodes. DESIGN: Descriptive. SETTING: Laboratory. SAMPLE: Four hundred twenty-eight (214 pairs) disposable ECG electrodes representing 11 manufacturers/types. OUTCOME MEASURES: Direct current offset potential. RESULTS: The maximum offset potential for any electrode pair of a given type ranged from 0.2 mV to 21.6 mV. Of the 11 types of electrodes studied, three had a mean offset potential of < 0.1 mV and one type had a mean offset potential of > 1.0 mV. CONCLUSIONS: Although all of the ECG electrodes studied meet applicable standards, the differences found may be important when measuring biologic signals other than the electrocardiogram.

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