Nurses are the lifeblood of the medical industry. Whether you work in a nursing home, hospital, or private practice, as a nurse – you will be responsible for just about everything the doctor does not do … which is a lot. Nurses deal directly with patients, checking on them regularly, taking care of everything from […]
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NCLEX Exam Format and Information
So you’re preparing to take the NCLEX-RN nursing exam. Fantastic. This will be a milestone in your nursing career, and the test is pricey, so you want to optimize your chances of getting a high score. Registration and scheduling fees are typically between $200 and $300. Additional costs for materials tend to run an average […]
Print vs. Digital – Which is Better for the Student?
Is education more effective through digital tools or traditional print books and literature? The anecdotal debate is loud, but the timing of a number of studies is now starting to clear up the dust. What is also becoming clear is that the goals of education are just as important for lesson learning as the format […]
An Introduction to Active Learning
What is Active Learning?
Don’t Graduate from “Google University”
We recently came across some research that Google searches can give your brain “an inflated perception of self-knowledge”, a likely condition that will soon be classified as a mental disorder by DSM-5 (paradoxically, when we googled this syndrome, we came across a condition called Dunning–Kruger effect that deals with the illusory superiority of this kind. Clearly I […]
The All-new 5 Minute Clinical Consult Unveiled
The latest update of 5 Minute Clinical Consult is on the AppStore! So what’s the big deal? Don’t we have over 400 titles available and growing? Yes, that’s true. But let’s look at the new features on this latest release. Fresh, sleek look and feel – complete with modern, flat and bright. Locate the topic […]
Did someone say “Delightful”?
In today’s world there are far too many mobile apps. It is very difficult to deploy an app that will attract users’ attention. It is even harder to release something that will make its way among all others up to the top successfully. Definitely, one could say that a secret ingredient that turns simple apps to outstanding apps is the […]
AMIA – SCAMC (19th Symposium)
We launched the Constellation project at Boston’s flagship hospitals – Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. The exercise was the first structured effort of its kind in the medical setting. Here are the details from the paper accepted by American Medical Informatics Association’s SCAMC proceedings in Washington, DC. AMIA – SCAMC (19th Symposium) The […]