Technologies Employed Within the Healthcare Setting During the COVID-19 Pandemic For A Continuation of Care: Emerging CoP

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 212-232
Author(s):  
Cassandra Sturgeon Delia
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Setting ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Disease Spread ◽  
New Era ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The Media ◽  
Health Communities

In early 2020, the coronavirus (COVID-19 ) was declared a pandemic (“WHO Director-General’s opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 11 March 2020” 2020), as the respiratory disease spread and productively infected patients generating havoc in the health sector (Chan 2020). As a response, digital services were offered to patients to allow the continuation of care and digital tools were adopted to assist health professionals (HP) in maintaining a social distance and minimising viral transmission (Meinert, Milne-Ives, Surodina and Lam 2020). Although much is discussed of the technologies employed during this period, changes in practices adopted by HP have been largely overlooked. Applying technology to the clinical setting improves the interprofessional community of practice as HP can collaborate on clinical decisions improving clinical outcomes (Waldman, Waldman, Waldman and Abuabara 2020). This literature review takes an exploratory stance into the technologies employed by HP during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic to investigate how their professional development has been affected. The study aimed to clarify the role of technologies utilised during the COVID-19 pandemic in the health sector and discuss the extent to which practice differed from the traditional means. Moreover, the study sought to shed a light on how technology assists HP in their role and professional development during the pandemic and possible thereafter. Core literature is discussed to identify whether emerging CoP has evolved within health communities due to the technology revolution in this short period and whether the technology employed shall be considered permanently to ensure best practices. The data provide convincing evidence that technology changed the way health care is delivered. Moreover, the findings show that COVID-19 pandemic has created a CoP between HP to share best practices in this new era that may lead to a shift in their professional development long after the pandemic has ended.

scholarly journals Facilitating Institutional Oversight and Program Improvement Through Educational Competency Committees

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 384-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn M. Andolsek ◽  
Rhea F. Fortune ◽  
Alisa Nagler ◽  
Chrystal Stancil ◽  
Catherine Kuhn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Program Evaluations ◽  
Special Review ◽  
Sensitivity Specificity ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Institutional Oversight

ABSTRACT  The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires programs to engage annually in program evaluation and improvement.Background  We assessed the value of creating educational competency committees (ECCs) that use successful elements of 2 established processes—institutional special reviews and institutional oversight of annual program evaluations.Objective  The ECCs used a template to review programs' annual program evaluations. Results were aggregated into an institutional dashboard. We calculated the costs, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value by comparing programs required to have a special review with those that had ACGME citations, requests for a progress report, or a data-prompted site visit. We assessed the value for professional development through a participant survey.Methods  Thirty-two ECCs involving more than 100 individuals reviewed 237 annual program evaluations over a 3-year period. The ECCs required less time than internal reviews. The ECCs rated 2 to 8 programs (2.4%–9.8%) as “noncompliant.” One to 13 programs (1.2%–14.6%) had opportunities for improvement identified. Institutional improvements were recognized using the dashboard. Zero to 13 programs (0%–16%) were required to have special reviews. The sensitivity of the decision to have a special review was 83% to 100%; specificity was 89% to 93%; and negative predictive value was 99% to 100%. The total cost was $280 per program. Of the ECC members, 86% to 95% reported their participation enhanced their professional development, and 60% to 95% believed the ECC benefited their program.Results  Educational competency committees facilitated the identification of institution-wide needs, highlighted innovation and best practices, and enhanced professional development. The cost, sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value indicated good value.Conclusions

scholarly journals Teachers’ Professional Development on Media and Intercultural Education. Results from some participatory research in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-120
Author(s):  
Maria Ranieri ◽  
Andrea Nardi ◽  
Francesco Fabbro
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Intercultural Education ◽  
Intercultural Understanding ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
The Media ◽  
Teachers Professional Development ◽  
University Of Florence ◽  
The University

Abstract Media and intercultural education are being increasingly recognised as a fundamental competence for teachers of the 21st century. Digital literacy and civic competence are facing several new challenges in response to the intensification of migratory phenomena and the unprecedented spread of fake news, especially among adolescents at risk of social exclusion, but teachers’ professional development is still far from coping with this emerging need. Intercultural understanding and a critical use of media among adolescents have now become primary goals for the promotion of active citizenship. This article intends to provide some recommendations on how to support teachers’ professional development in the field of media and intercultural education. To this purpose, it presents and discusses the results of an action-research project aimed at teachers’ improvement of teaching skills about the media in multicultural public schools. The results are part of a larger European project “Media Education for Equity and Tolerance” (MEET) (Erasmus Plus, KA3), an initiative promoted in 2016–2018 by the University of Florence (Italy).

scholarly journals Collaboration or Collusion? The New Era of Commercial Online Resources for Students in the Digital Age: an Opinion Piece

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Lieneck ◽  
Salvador Esparza
Keyword(s):  
Online Learning ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Management System ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Healthcare Administration ◽  
Potential Solution ◽  
Global Level ◽  
New Era ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Programs Of Study

The purpose of this paper is to share online resources available to students at a global level, to include healthcare administration programs and any other course of study. While somewhat daunting in nature, this editorial offers faculty of healthcare administration (and other related programs of study) the opportunity to explore what course materials (of any format) may be posted to commercial external websites by current and/or previous students for ongoing collaboration among academic cohorts. Findings include an opportunity for students in any program, at any level, to post individual and/or copyrighted course materials on public, external websites, often with an underlying motivation of financial remuneration for their efforts. Best practices for identifying individual course resources posted externally to the course are provided, while a potential solution for more effective and productive collaboration within the course and the internal course online learning management system is offered.

scholarly journals Creative Networks of Practice Using Web 2.0 Tools

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-53
Author(s):  
Jukka Orava ◽  
Pete Worrall
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Learning ◽  
Networks Of Practice ◽  
Learning Event

This paper examines the professional implications for teachers and managers in new and evolving forms of professional development using Web 2.0 tools in a European context. Research findings are presented from the “Creative Use of Media” learning event developed through a European eTwinning Learning Lab initiative in spring of 2009. The Creative use of the Media online learning event supported a series of initiatives celebrating the European Year of Creativity and Innovation and involved 135 participants from 27 countries. The key objective was to introduce a range of learning themes constructed around a phenomenon-based inquiry model, which supported interdisciplinary approaches and collaborative online learning methodologies to stimulate new teaching and learning rationales. Digital Web 2.0 technology was used as an independent creative medium and as a powerful facilitating tool to enhance and blend with the more traditional forms of visual, audiovisual and multimedia inquiry. In developing models encapsulating risk taking and experimentation this online learning project supported a general principle that future education models and professional development would be based on social learning and “customer-driven collaborative knowledge building” in relation to open source materials.

scholarly journals Towards Growth-Mindset Mathematics Teaching in the Netherlands

10.29007/gdgh ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Alpar ◽  
Marloes van Hoeve
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Time Pressure ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Growth Mindset ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
New Era ◽  
Collaboration And Communication

Mathematics is the foundation of sciences and it is important in a learner’s career success. Growth mindset in mathematics teaching is essential to reach a broader student population effectively. Shifting the focus from performance and time pressure to deep understanding and personal growth, unnecessary competition vanishes among learners. As a result, they develop a better relation with their own thinking and they gain insights into the thinking of others. At the same time, collaboration and communication emerge naturally. The fear of mathematics and making mistakes disappear, while students learn by connecting ideas and applying the already learned study material.In the academic years of 2017-2018 and 2018-2019, two Dutch research projects dealt with the application of a growth mindset in mathematics teaching. One was in secondary schools, the other one at universities. In this article, we briefly report about and reflect on the exciting results of these studies and suggest further directions for research and the development of best practices.The ideas and experiences described in this paper are urgent as currently we are at the threshold of a new era in which education and learning are (and should be) really open for everyone; with low floor and without ceilings.

scholarly journals La couverture médiatique des accommodements raisonnables dans la presse écrite québécoise : Vérification de l’hypothèse du tsunami médiatique

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thierry Giasson ◽  
Colette Brin ◽  
Marie-Michèle Sauvageau
Keyword(s):  
Social Issue ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Reasonable Accommodation ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Agenda ◽  
Short Period ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Hype ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACT  From March 2006 to May 2008, the province of Québec engaged in a contentious public debate on diversity and reasonable accommodation practices. This study examines the evolution of press coverage in eleven Québec dailies dedicated to the issue of reasonable accommodation over the intensive twelve-month period during which the concept entered the public agenda. We examine the “media tsunami” hypothesis, an expanded version of the media hype theory developed by Vasterman (2005). The hypothesis posits that the media, in dealing with an emergent social issue in a relatively short period of time, amplify the importance of the issue through successive waves of press coverage that gain in intensity and magnitude over time. In doing so, they can manufacture social “crises.”RÉSUMÉ  De mars 2006 à mai 2008, le Québec a été secoué par un débat sociétal sur la question de la gestion de la diversité culturelle et du principe d’accommodement raisonnable. Cette étude s’intéresse à l’évolution de la couverture du concept d’accommodement raisonnable dans la presse écrite québécoise au cours de la période intensive du traitement médiatique où le terme est entré dans le discours public. L’article examine l’hypothèse du « tsunami médiatique », une version plus étoffée de la théorie du media hype mise de l’avant par Vasterman (2005). L’hypothèse de la déferlante médiatique pose que l’enjeu en question est une création médiatique dont la couverture en amplifie l’importance sociétale et peut générer une inquiétude au sein de la société. Les données tirées d’une analyse exhaustive du contenu de onze journaux québécois révèlent que la couverture produite par la presse écrite de la question des accommodements raisonnables représente un cas typique de « tsunami médiatique. »

scholarly journals EU az egészségügyért: az Európai Unió 4. Egészségügyi Cselekvési Programja

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 325-336
Author(s):  
Ágnes Szitáné Kazai
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Healthcare Workforce ◽  
Health Programme ◽  
The Eu

The European Commission proposed a new, ambitious health programme 2021-2027 in May 2020. The main aim of this EU4Health programme is to provide a significant contribution to the post-COVID-19 recovery by making the EU population healthier, strengthening the resilience of health systems, and promoting innovation in the health sector. The general objectives of the programme are to protect people in the Union from serious cross-border threats to health; to improve the availability in the Union of medicines, medical devices and other crisis relevant products, contribute to their affordability, and support innovation; to strengthen health systems and the healthcare workforce, including digital transformation and increasingly integrated and coordinated cooperation among the Member States, sustained implementation of best practices and data sharing, to increase the average level of public health.

scholarly journals Workshop on Radio Transients

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (S285) ◽  
pp. 272-272
Author(s):  
Steve Croft ◽  
Bryan Gaensler
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
New Era ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
New Radio ◽  
The Status ◽  
Survey Strategy ◽  
Radio Transients ◽  
Single Pixel

SummaryWe are entering a new era in the study of variable and transient radio sources. This workshop discussed the instruments and the strategies employed to study those sources, how they are identified and classified, how results from different surveys can be compared, and how radio observations tie in with those at other wavelengths. The emphasis was on learning what common ground there is between the plethora of on-going projects, how methods and code can be shared, and how best practices regarding survey strategy could be adopted.The workshop featured the four topics below. Each topic commenced with a fairly brief introductory talk, which then developed into discussion. By way of preparation, participants had been invited to upload and discuss one slide per topic to a wiki ahead of the workshop.1. Telescopes, instrumentation and survey strategy. New radio facilities and on-going projects (including upgrades) are both studying the variability of the radio sky, and searching for transients. The discussion first centred on the status of those facilities, and on projects with a time-domain focus, both ongoing and planned, before turning to factors driving choices of instrumentation, such as phased array versus single pixel feeds, the field of view, spatial and time resolution, frequency and bandwidth, depth, area, and cadence of the surveys.2. Detection, pipelines, and classification. The workshop debated (a) the factors that influence decisions to study variability in the (u,v) plane, in images, or in catalogues, (b) whether, and how much, pipeline code could potentially be shared between one project and another, and which software packages are best for different approaches, (c) how data are stored and later accessed, and (d) how transients and variables are defined and classified.3. Statistics, interpretation, and synthesis. It then discussed how (i) the choice of facility and strategy and (ii) detection and classification schemes influence what is seen (in terms of types of object and rates) by different surveys, (iii) how results from different surveys could be compared, and (iv) how what we know from existing surveys drives choices (i) and (ii), particularly as regards finding new classes of object.4. Multiwavelength approaches. The workshop concluded by discussing what information is needed from wavelengths other than radio in order to classify transients and variables adequately and predict their rates as a function of topics (1), (2) and (3). It asked what the constraints are on responding to, and issuing triggers for, follow-up observations, and how that might feed back into considerations for designing our telescopes and surveys.

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