Best Practices To Foster Innovation In Nursing Education

Setting up a Distance Learning Task Force is necessary to assess university resources, and student needs (Hillman & Corkery, 2010). This will allow administration to have all the facts needed to decide on a path. Task Force determines the expansiveness of the online program and the courses implemented (Hillman & Corkery, 2010). Departmental head’s research will navigate the universities decisions. Students take classes towards specific degrees, which the Task Force identifies. Priority of classes should focus on gaps in regionally based education (Hillman & Corkery, 2010). The Task Force efforts in developing a rationale has an effect on university

“Can You Be Educated from a Distance,” an insightful essay by James Barszcz, brings to focus some of the benefits and disadvantages of Distance Learning education (DL). In it, Barszcz discusses the mechanics of DL courses available to students, the quality of education DL can offer, and some reasoning behind its rapidly growing popularity. “Can You Be Educated from a Distance” is an engaging article that students of all ages can benefit from.

My philosophy of nursing education grows out of my philosophy of nursing. Much has been said related to healthcare reform, healthcare globalization, and healthcare delivery. A resounding theme in all of these discussions is the need for nurses to take a position of leadership in the healthcare industry (Institute of Medicine, 2010). I believe nurses, as leaders, are uniquely qualified to bridge the gap between the healthcare industry and a rapidly changing global environment. Nurses are educationally in tune to the proposed changes that are being made, yet sensitive enough to address the needs of individuals affected by these changes. In a global community, nurses advocate for the individual.

Often within a few years of a nursing student graduating, there are already updates that have been made to improve patient care. Online education can seamlessly keep nurses up-to-date on all the most recent changes. Since the EPB has already been proven by other healthcare providers the nurse can be sure that they are providing the best care available. Also, because patients are living longer, nurses that were deemed competent decades ago would not be considered so today. Various learning styles can be implemented in the online program just as well as they could be in a face to face seminar. Incorporating elements such as: articles to read, auditory components, visual graphs allows for any audience to become engaged.

The purpose of this assignment is to create an innovation to improve student nurses learning and analyse the innovations its effectiveness. The chosen innovation is for student nurses to have coloured lanyards to identify what year they are in; along with this, having useful calculations on the back of the ID card. The background for the rationale of choice and how the innovation will potentially improve students’ learning will be discussed. The three learning outcomes I have chosen in order to critically discuss the innovation are:

We, as humans, fear the unknown, and change is after often at the root of our fears. One of the greatest catalysts for change is today’s rapid technological development, but the concept of traditional education has always been the same. Even that is changing, and as to be expected, there is a substantial amount of fear and apprehension towards distance education. With this, students are presented the chance to overcome of a

According to Waymire (2012), scholarly innovation is defined as a lifetime improvement in state of knowledge within an academic discipline. Scholarship in my area of specialty is the integration of patient centered health care. To improve and integrate academia into practice and to enable scholarship and innovation in the nursing profession to thrive, a scholar must be open minded, be service to mankind, see a vision, and be insightful (Tolk, 2012). A scholar must incorporate humanity service to mankind as main objective to each innovation inquiring and open mindedness to be able to understand wild range of views and appropriately accommodate them as much in his or her own thinking and abilities, particularly being open to ideas of other

I have many areas, which I need to improve on within nursing school. I know I need to improve on pharmacology and understanding why the medication is given and the side effects the drug may have. When looking at pharmacology, I understand some medication, but trying to differentiate why one medication is given instead of another that may ultimately do the same action for the diagnosis. There are numerous drugs in health care, it is a bit overwhelming to think we might have to know all of them or at least have a general idea of what all of them do and the side effects they have.

Change, particularly the introduction of new ideas at work (innovation) is more likely to succeed if participants have ownership/involvement in the change process the ‘rate of recovery when learning a new task is directly proportional to the amount of participation’ (Coch and French 1948).

Ethics is broadly defined as doing what is right based on a set of moral values. Unfortunately, there are varying definitions on what encompasses morality, which leads to differing views of what is right, and this inevitably leads to varying viewpoints of what is ethical. A leader planning or implementing an innovation will base their decisions on the moral and ethical values they embrace. The health and nursing innovations introduced by Florence Nightingale are widely acknowledged as ethical, moral, and have made a positive impact on the healthcare available to everyone. She designed her innovations and improvements to ease the suffering, benefit the healing process, and decrease the mortality rate of the sick and injured. One beneficial innovation

Now some open universities are providing academic services in the form of online course material, interactive classes and online teaching and learning facilities to the student community with the help of information and communication technology. ICT based Distance Education (DE) has come to stay in the

Online education, also called long distant learning, can be defined as a new method of learning through a computer network. This modern way of teaching gives students an opportunity to take classes online. Bill Gates

Non-traditional students are finding it easier and easier to maintain a job, a family, and pursuing a college career at the same time. This is possible because more and more non-traditional students are receiving an education using distance learning, as opposed to traditional, in-the-classroom teaching. Distance learning is basically taking college level, credit-bearing courses via the Internet. One of the most obvious advantages of distance learning is that it puts the classroom in your home, office, or wherever you can find a computer and log on to the Internet. However, there is much controversy regarding the quality of the courses being offered on the Internet versus the quality of

Distance learning (education) has become an integral part of the education process over the past few decades and is growing in popularity as technology advances.(Willis 1992) describes distance education (as) "the organizational framework andprocess of providing instruction at a distance. Distance education takes place when ateacher and student(s) are physically separated, and technology…(is) used to bridge theinstruction gap." (Coutts 1996). Furthermore, "distance learning activities are designedto fit the specific context for learning, the nature of the subject matter; intended learningoutcomes, needs and goals of the learner, the learner's environment and the instructional echnologies and methods." (American

Education is an important part of people’s lives; it will either make them or break them in the future depending on the careers they choose. Education is greatly diverse today in comparison to the 1950s because of advancements in teaching and other great inventions that provide easier techniques of teaching. One major issue that has been raised is distant learning courses and online education.