U-M School of Nursing Clinical Learning Center Tour
Explore the Clinical Learning Center in the U-M School of Nursing with fellow Michigan IT community members on Thursday, June 20.
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Profiles in IT: Irina Knokh—OER advocate
Irina “Irene” Knokh is an instructional learning senior with Nursing at Michigan. She is passionate about curating and sharing resources. She also serves as an EDUCAUSE ambassador and is active with several advocate groups on campus. She loves animals, and British mysteries and comedy shows.
HoloLens2 for Nursing: ‘Hands-on’ learning during pandemic and beyond
The U-M School of Nursing has one of the most technologically advanced programs around with its Clinical Learning Center, yet leadership in the school wrestled with how to teach hundreds of students the hands-on nursing skills and procedures required to advance in the program, while following COVID-19 guidelines for social distancing and university calls to minimize in-person courses.… Read More »
MiXR Studios Podcast: Nursing clinical simulations with guest Michelle Aebersold
This week’s MiXR Studios podcast explored nursing simulations and extended reality (XR) from Second Life in discussion with Michelle Aebersold. Michelle Aebersold, a U-M clinical professor of nursing, spoke about her journey into XR and her efforts to build multi-user simulations at the School of Nursing, starting with Second Life and continuing today using virtual reality (VR). She… Read More »
Nursing alumni build nationwide network to bring face shields to the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic
Nurses have built a national network of volunteers that has helped deliver more than 10,000 face shields to frontline health care workers, first responders, and other essential personnel throughout Michigan and across the United States. “Operation Face Shield” is centered on the idea of using 3-D printers to address the nationwide shortage of personal protective equipment.
School of Nursing launches 3 online master’s programs
The U-M School of Nursing is now offering three of its Master of Science in Nursing degree programs online. Courses will begin in fall 2020 for Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner, Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner and Leadership, Analytics and Innovation. These specialty programs were identified for development in a digital framework because they cross the spectrum of nursing education. The new… Read More »
Meet Michigan Medicine’s new chief nursing informatics officer
Earlier this month, Carleen Penoza was announced as Michigan Medicine’s new chief nursing informatics officer. Today is her first official day on the job. Carleen served as the Health Information Technology & Services director of inpatient applications before becoming the interim senior director for clinical and operational applications. Prior to that, she spent 21 years at Beaumont Health… Read More »
ITS uses Canvas data to improve Undergraduate Nursing program’s clinical evaluations
ITS Teaching & Learning data concierge Jeff Ziegler recently completed a project for the School of Nursing’s Undergraduate Nursing program that has greatly improved their student evaluation process. Working with clinical instructor Diane Accurso and student advisors Rachel Patterson and Chad Gorski, Ziegler designed and implemented a custom solution for their Professional Nursing Education (PNE) clinical course that uses… Read More »