Understanding Your Learner

2020 ◽  
pp. 1545-1574
Author(s):  
Tina M. Souders
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Learner Characteristics ◽  
Health Care Workforce ◽  
Learner Analysis ◽  
Health Care Educators ◽  
Undergraduate Programs ◽  
Skilled Health

Now more than ever before, health care educators are being challenged to meet the complex and dynamic needs of an expanding health care workforce. Continuing education requirements as well as graduate and undergraduate programs are striving to keep pace with the demands for more highly skilled health care professionals. Likewise, technology and related instructional media have been evolving at an exponential pace. The confluence of these variables requires health care educators to be knowledgeable about the options and tools available to design and deliver instruction using a variety of platforms in more diverse settings. In order to ensure that instruction achieves its intended goals, it is imperative to fully assess the learner characteristics of the target audience. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the rationale for conducting a learner analysis and utilizing learner characteristics in designing effective instruction.

Understanding Your Learner

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Tina M. Souders
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Instructional Media ◽  
Learner Characteristics ◽  
Health Care Workforce ◽  
Learner Analysis ◽  
Health Care Educators ◽  
Undergraduate Programs ◽  
Skilled Health

Now more than ever before, health care educators are being challenged to meet the complex and dynamic needs of an expanding health care workforce. Continuing education requirements as well as graduate and undergraduate programs are striving to keep pace with the demands for more highly skilled health care professionals. Likewise, technology and related instructional media have been evolving at an exponential pace. The confluence of these variables requires health care educators to be knowledgeable about the options and tools available to design and deliver instruction using a variety of platforms in more diverse settings. In order to ensure that instruction achieves its intended goals, it is imperative to fully assess the learner characteristics of the target audience. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the rationale for conducting a learner analysis and utilizing learner characteristics in designing effective instruction.

Advancing Public Health Through Continuing Education of Health Care Professionals

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. S60-S66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Suchanek Hudmon ◽  
Robert L. Addleton ◽  
Frank M. Vitale ◽  
Bruce A. Christiansen ◽  
George C. Mejicano
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Health Care Professionals

scholarly journals Impact of Diabetes Continuing Education on Knowledge and Practice of Diabetes Care among Health Care Professionals in Yemen

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-230
Author(s):  
Salmeen D. Babelgaith ◽  
Mansour Almetwazi ◽  
Syed Wajid ◽  
Saeed Alfadly ◽  
Ahmed M Shaman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Diabetes Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Diabetes Management ◽  
Knowledge Score ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
The Impact

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the Impact of diabetes continuing education on knowledge and practice of diabetes care among health care professionals in Yemen. Methods: A quasi-experimental study was carried out among health care professionals. The original questionnaire consisted of 22 multiple choice questions. A total of 73 HCPs received continuing education (CE) intervention.  Knowledge attitude and practice (KAP) was assessed using a validated questionnaire.  Results: The result showed that majority of the HCPs has a good general knowledge on diabetes and its managements prior to the CE program. Evaluation of the general knowledge score of the HCPs found some improvement in the knowledge score, however the improvement was not significant (p=0.31). The result of this study found that HCPs has good knowledge on monitoring the sign, symptoms and laboratory parameters. Conclusion: Evaluation of the knowledge score on Goal of Diabetes Management of HCPs found significant (p=0.024) improvement in the knowledge score. The results indicated that the lab values were rated as the most important in the goal for the treatment of diabetes patients.  The study also found no significant difference in practice score after CE program among HCPs.

Developing an Interprofessional Continuing Education Symposium for Health Care Educators in Qatar

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 545-551 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela S. Dickerson ◽  
Kathy Chappell ◽  
Sharon Decker ◽  
Donald Moore ◽  
Jobeth Pilcher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Health Care Educators ◽  
Education Symposium

Health Care Professionals’ Knowledge Regarding Patient Safety

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indre Brasaite ◽  
Marja Kaunonen ◽  
Arvydas Martinkenas ◽  
Vida Mockiene ◽  
Tarja Suominen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Pressure Sore ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Background Factors ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Safety Knowledge

This study looks to describe health care professionals’ knowledge regarding patient safety. A quantitative study using questionnaires was conducted in three multi-disciplinary hospitals in Western Lithuania. Data were collected in 2014 from physicians, nurses, and nurse assistants. The overall results indicated quite a low level of safety knowledge, especially in regard to knowledge concerning general patient safety. The health care professionals’ background factors such as their profession, education, the information about patient safety they were given during their vocational and continuing education, as well as their experience in their primary speciality seemed to be associated with several patient safety knowledge areas. Despite a wide variation in background factors, the knowledge level of respondents was generally found to be low. This requires that further research into health care professionals’ safety knowledge related to specific issues such as medication, infection, falls, and pressure sore prevention should be undertaken in Lithuania.

scholarly journals Education of health care professionals, health associates and expert associates on gender-based violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Katarina Boričić
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Health Council ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Gender Based

Objective. The aim of this study is to determine the quality of accredited education on the topic of gender-based violence to health care professionals, health and professional associates in the Republic of Serbia. Methods. A search of a database of accredited continuing education programs published on the website of the Health Council of the Republic of Serbia for the period between January 2010 and July 2019. identified programs using the keywords "violence", "family" "gender-based". The ch2 test was used to examine the differences between the independent variables versus the dependent variable. Results. This study showed that two thirds of the training was intended for health care professionals, only while health care workers, health and professional associates were allocated for every seventh education. If the type of institution is observed, it can be noticed that twice as many programs are accredited by civil society organizations in relation to the number of programs accredited by health institutions. Considering the time period in which the programs are accredited, a trend of increasing number of programs can be observed. Among the accredited programs, national courses accounted for 42.6% of the accredited programs while every other program was free. There is a statistically significant difference between educations organized by different types of institutions in relation to the type and cost of education. Conclusion. Although in the observed period there is an increasing trend in the number of accredited programs dealing with gender-based violence, there is still room to improve the quality of continuing education in terms of increasing the number of trainings with an interactive method of work, trainings aimed at different profiles of health professionals and health and professional associates, as well as free on line trainings.

scholarly journals Survey of health informatics education in Finland in 2017

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Tolonen ◽  
Alpo Värri
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health It ◽  
Health Care Workforce ◽  
Information Technology Education ◽  
It Education

The European Union and the USA collaborate in developing the skills of the application of information technology in the health care workforce. A part of this activity is a project which studies the gaps in the present education and proposes methods of filling these gaps. The objective of this paper is to identify the existing IT related education to the health care work force in Finland. A secondary objective was to get an impression of the experience and attitudes of the members of this workforce about health IT education. This paper presents the results of the survey of how information technology is educated to the students of the health care professions in Finland in the year 2017. In addition to literature search including also the study guides of many major health care professional education organizations, 24 telephone interviews of health care professionals in different fields in Finland were made. The results show that although basic information technology education is often available at every level of education, it is expected that the health care professionals learn to use the health information systems during their training periods or later in working life. The interviews showed that the given education varied considerably and some of the personnel had received no or only a little education on IT during studies. As the amount and quality of on-the-job information technology education varies, many health care professionals are not able to fully benefit from the information systems if their general feeling is that they just “survive” from daily activities with them. The results lead to suggest that the health professional degrees should contain at least a minimal amount of relevant health IT education which is tested with an exam and that the present health care workforce should receive ear-marked in-service training in the use of health information technology based on the needs of the individual.

Health care professionals' knowledge of procedural issues in transplantation: the need for continuing education programs

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
İ Tokalak ◽  
Ö Başaran ◽  
R Emiroğlu ◽  
A Kut ◽  
H Karakayali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Education Programs
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