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Category Archives: Education
Why Secure Communication Is Important
Clear and effective communication between patients and Healthcare Professionals is an essential pillar of the healthcare industry. Many patients, along with regular clinic visits, prefer to connect with their Healthcare Professionals through electronic communications such as emails, SMS, text messages and chats. Data have shown that Healthcare Professionals find texting [1] to be an efficient and […]
Types of Bullying and their Surefire Remedies
What is bullying? Bullying is an intentional harmful behavior that hurts or humiliates a child physically or emotionally due to an imbalance of power. It can happen in school, in the community or online. This behavior is either repeated or can be a one-time incident. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reports that in 2016, […]
How do we care for our students?
In the third edition of Skyscape’s Fellows Advisory Network nursing newsletter, we explored how faculty members can take care of themselves by growing what you know, learning what you don’t know, and being comfortable saying no. These same words – “Know, Don’t Know, and No” – can help us care for our students as we […]
Medical Librarians: Vital Partners in Healthcare
“What could explain my patient’s pain and discolored legs after ankle surgery?”
Stopping the Line for Patient Safety
At Toyota factories—yes, the car company—every assembly line has a big red button. And every worker has a responsibility to press the button if they feel something is amiss. This button stops the entire assembly line. Stopping the line could mean the difference between building a safe car versus building one that puts people at […]
Tips for a Successful Back-to-School Season
Heading back to school following a relaxed summer can be a time of great excitement, and carries with it some anxiety for both parents and children. Parents can help to mitigate this by establishing a regular routine for their school-aged children, in an effort to make the 2018-2019 school year as successful as possible.
What does self-care have to do with my role as an educator?
Know, Don’t know, No.
A Guiding Light in the Middle of the Night: the Life of a Medical Student
“Beep, beep, beep” – the one sound you dread to hear at 3 AM. As you get up from what you thought might be a few “clutch hours” of precious sleep, you see the numbers “6666” on your beeper – and your heart sinks… It’s the ER with your 7 th admission of the night. […]
Research shows missing microbes causing childhood cancer
t’s been a truism for as long as science has known about germ theory that letting children get dirty is good for their immune systems. Now, new research has shown that overprotecting children from germs is correlated with the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Professor Mel Greaves, of Britain’s Institute of […]