[Rockies-Edu] Nursing students and a new iPod Touch initiative
[Rockies-Edu] Nursing students and a new iPod Touch initiative
- Subject: [Rockies-Edu] Nursing students and a new iPod Touch initiative
- From: Corey Carson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:11:11 -0600
Interesting and unique new initiative.
---
Drexel nursing students using iPods ... for nursing
(online at http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/ )
More than 300 students in Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health
Professions received iPod touch devices Monday morning, the first day
of classes, as part of an initiative by the Philadelphia school to
make key medical information available to students at the touch of a
finger.
“Whether students are searching for drug interactions during a
clinical exercise or information in a medical dictionary, they can go
online and find the latest research through numerous databases,” said
L.J. “Rocky” Rockstraw, director of Drexel’s center for clinical and
electronic learning resources and an associate clinical professor at
the College of Nursing and Health Professions.
Rockstraw noted medical mistakes made at the point of care, such as
drug conflicts and incorrect nursing procedures, are a leading cause
of preventable death in hospitals — making the need for quickly
accessible and updated information important. Drexel officials said
much of what can be accomplished online with a computer can be done
with an iPod touch with built-in Wi-Fi.
The College of Nursing and Health Professions began using pocket-PC
handheld devices in 2001 to access drug and medical databases. The
infrastructure required to support those devices was difficult to
maintain and updates were often hard to install. Drexel officials, in
a testimony sure to please iPod maker Apple, said the iPod touch was
selected because of its “ease of use and available technical support.”
---
----------------
Corey Carson
Systems Engineer
Apple - Higher Education
Colorado, Wyoming and Montana
303.378.7193
800.800.2775 (Tier 1 Tech Support)
866.752.7753 (Tier 2 Tech Support)
Rockies-edu listserve:
http://bit.ly/rockies-edu/
----------------
Attachment:
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Rockies-edu mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden