We are, most of us, about 1/3 done with the course. Already! I have read most of the postings and will get grades posted soon for the first module(s) - as soon as I get module 5 ready to go. Plan to have that by the end of this weekend.
I hope students feel that they are learning something of use to them. Much of the course is "fear factor" - exposure to many different forms of technology that will be encountered in graduate school and in current nursing practice. We don't expect students to be technology experts when they finish - but hopefully all will at least get a sense of how to learn about a new technology, and a feeling of "I can do this!"
Meanwhile, I am in Washington DC at a conference of pediatric critical care researchers. Yesterday's topics ranged from cellular changes in pertussis, to my favorite talk of the day, how to set up a biorepository (including the volumes of clinical and administrative information to be managed along with the repository). In the working sessions, I worked on a simple decision support protocol for managing septic patients based on genomic findings. Complicated topic, but simple protocol.
Yeah, I know. I'm a nerd.
--K
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
That's o.k., "nerds make all the money." As quoted by my brother-in-law, a computer programmer who absolutely loves what he does! And I think all of us students have a bit of "nerd" in us as we love to learn. Haha. Anyway, I am learning new things every Module, certainly it's only getting my feet wet into the world of technology, but I am being exposed to a lot of different things nonetheless.
Post a Comment