“You would have to pry it from my cold dead hands.” This was one of the comments shared by the participants of a study on the views of nurse managers and student nurses concerning the use of smartphones and tablets ...
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Nursing students take to Twitter to form journal club
An Australian university has swapped out traditional journal clubs for a Twitter-based group to improve students’ engagement with evidence-based practice. A research team from the University of Technology Sydney, led by Dr Caleb Ferguson from the Graduate School of Health, ...
More »The future of healthcare communications and tech products
Jeremy Paton is team engagement solutions lead at Avaya Australia and New Zealand, the local office of the California-based technology firm. After more than a century in the telephonic hardware industry, Avaya is transitioning into a software-led communications enabler. Healthcare is one industry ...
More »Government launches consultation on future of digital health
There's a new way for health professionals and consumers to let policymakers know their opinions on the My Health Record system, telehealth, innovation and other aspects of digital health. The Australian Digital Health Agency has launched a national consultation with the general ...
More »Gaming to teach skills part of the future of healthcare
Serious games are a big part of health education’s future, says a nursing academic who has helped develop a game that explores safety risks and hazards in care environments. The application Safe Environments was developed by University of the Sunshine ...
More »Embrace technology but don’t lose touch with patients: academics
Nurses have seen the value of touch and must keep it in mind as healthcare technology advances. This was one of the key messages Australian academics made in a recent editorial in the Journal of Clinical Nursing. They wrote that ...
More »Classes could ease concerns over nurses’ social media use
Nursing students may soon be taking classes in Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn if education providers heed advice from the authors of an article published in Nursing Informatics 2016 on the importance of social media training for undergrads. University of Tasmania ...
More »Nurses must be leaders in the digital health era: informatics exec
It’s critical that nurses be at the forefront of the movement into the digital health era and are heavily involved in leading change, not just for the care team and patient but to ensure they are advocating for their own ...
More »Seminar to explore tech advances in wound care
It may seem unlikely that drones, droids and robots would have much to do with wound care, but they encompass the theme of this year’s National Science Week, which Wounds Australia (Qld) has embraced as the basis for an upcoming ...
More »More than plastic: Vignettes help students connect with manikins
A technology-enhanced approach to learning simulations improved students' engagement with manikins and helped them reflect on their values and pre-conceived notions of people from diverse backgrounds, research has found. The study aimed to address a lack of empirical research regarding how to ...
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