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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Simulated patient"”.
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Assessing Clinical Competency: The Simulated Patient Assessment and Research Collaboration
The efficacy of using simulated patients (SPs) to train clinical interviewing skills in pre-practicum- and practicum-level mental health clinicians was evaluated compared to the use of traditional role-play with peers. Participants, regardless of group, engaged in a 15-minute videotaped simulated …
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Nursing Student Perceptions of the Effects of Interprofessional Communication and Teamwork on Time to Rescue
… Healthcare delivery continues to evolve and patient care provided by a team of professionals has emerged as one of the best ways to positively impact patient outcomes. While simulation and interprofessional education research is established in multiple healthcare disciplines, their effects on …
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Low-dose imaging of liver diseases through neutron stimulated emission computed tomography: Simulations in GEANT4
… and parameters that are used to scan the patients. In order to optimize a clinical liver imaging system based on NSECT, it is important to implement low-dose techniques and evaluate their feasibility, sensitivity, specificity and accuracy by analyzing the generated liver images from a …
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Effects of scheduling order in a collaborative medication scheduling task
… was increasing, posting more responsibility to patients, especially for older adults. Successful self-health management often included taking medication as prescribed with good medication regimen. Taking medication as prescribed requires developing medication plans and prospective memory to …
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The Utility of a Palliative Communication Class in Improving the Communication Skills of Oncology Nurses in an Outpatient Infusion Area
<p>Many oncology patients report having unmet emotional needs. In the Outpatient Infusion Area, oncology patients have indicated that they are dissatisfied with how their emotional needs are met, as evidenced by a 70.9% Press Ganey score for the domain “emotional needs met.” Members of the Patient …
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Investigating the effectiveness of posture coaching and feedback during patient handling activities in a student nursing population
… kinematics and muscle activity during common patient handling activities to aid in the determination of coaching for a follow up feedback study. The second section determined the effects of a feedback intervention (combined verbal and auditory) on trunk kinematics during simulated patient …
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Problem Definition and Hypothesis Generation by Recent Family Nurse Practitioner Graduates
… ability to generate hypotheses to diagnose patient problems. Diagnostic-reasoning software provided web-delivered simulated-patient scenarios that described patient problems that were either ill defined or well defined. The independent variable was problem definition (ill-defined versus …
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Enabling health, independence and wellbeing for patients with bipolar disorder through Personalised Ambient Monitoring
… sensors to monitor the activity patterns of patients with Bipolar Disorder (BD). BD is a chronic and recurrent mental disorder associated with severe episodes of mania and depression, interspersed with periods of remission. Early detection of transitions between the normal, manic and …
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Evaluation of Reported Level of Clinical Confidence in Student Nurses Using Deliberate Practice
… simulations requiring them to review a simulated patient chart and provide rationale for administration of identified medications. Statistical analysis was completed using independent samples t-test to evaluate any potential differences. Statistically significant differences were …
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The e-MedTable: Development and testing of an electronic collaborative tool to support medication scheduling
… with providers. Unfortunately, physician and patient communication is often inadequate. Successful adherence is also related to integrating medication taking with a daily routine. Previous research tested a paper tool (MedTable) to support provider-patient collaborative planning. The tool …
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The Impact of Perceived Communication Apprehension on Communication Effectiveness and Person-Centered Care Among Prelicensure Nursing Students
… perception of person-centered care and the patient’s report of the student’s communication effectiveness, after controlling for the student’s communication apprehension? and (c) what is the association between the student’s perception of person-centered care and the observer rating of the …
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Problems With Auditory Alarms in Anesthesia and Tests of a Proposed Solution: Multimodal Multitask Performance With an Auditory Display
Auditory alarms are used pervasively for patient-monitoring equipment to warn of potential problems, despite widely reported shortcomings in their design. Problems include high rates of false alarms; interruptive, uninformative, stress-inducing acoustic profiles for alarm sounds; and alarms that …
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Strategies for the Improvement of Healthcare through Simulation
… these egregious rates. However, simulation of patient care events may better prepare healthcare professionals to prevent medical errors as it has been proven to be an effective learning strategy (Kirkham, 2018), enhancing skills while gaining experiential knowledge, without risk to actual …
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Using High-fidelity Medical Simulation to Assess Critical Thinking in Medical Students
… meet this societal need and for the care of ill patients. Research shows this skill is key in decreasing medical errors, which in turn decreases cost. (Norman and Eva, 2010) Missing from the literature is a method to assess critical thinking in the setting of caring for the critically ill …
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A Fluid Structure Interaction Model Of Intracoronary Atherosclerotic Plaque Rupture
… observation that most myocardial infarction (MI) patients have moderate stenoses (less than 50%). Considering the important role the arterial wall compliance and pulsitile blood flow play in atheroma rupture, fluid-structure interaction (FSI) phenomenon has been of interest in recent studies. In …
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Improving Medical Student Performance on Clinical Skills Exams
… into residency. These exams place students in a simulated patient encounter and grade them on their proficiency in handling that encounter. The National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) instituted the United States Medical Licensing Exam: Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS), a Clinical Skills Exam, as …
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Risk assessment tool for diabetic neuropathy.
… of neuropathy based on the clinical history of patients. The smart tool is based on the research related to the risk factors of diabetic neuropathy which was studied and analysed using summarised patient data. Box-Cox regression was used with the response variable (VPT) and a set of clinical …
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Implementation of a New Working Method in Psychiatric Care
… of inter-rater reliability was conducted through simulated patient cases. In Study II, data were collected through focus group interviews pre- and post-implementation of the ICF-based assessment tool; thereafter, data were analysed using directed content analysis guided by Normalization Process …
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A Graduatte Level Immersive-Simulattion Program for Teaching and Assessing Fundamental Skills in Entry Level Clinical Perfusionists.
… equipment that replaces the function of the patient's heart and lungs and arrests and restarts the patient's heart in the course of a Cardiopulmonary Bypass (CPB) procedure. In the perfusionists scope of practice, the consequence of unskilled actions, inaccurate understanding or delayed …
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The Effects of Serial Position, Evaluation Format, and Behavioral Isolate on Verbal and Nonverbal Clinical Cue Recognition and Performance Ratings
<p>Standardized patients are individuals trained to realistically portray specific physical and psychological symptoms and evaluate healthcare trainees on their patient interaction skills. Prior research suggests that individual differences among standardized patients often result in assessment …
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