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Skilled Nursing Resource Site
for Web-based
Continuing Education
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Evaluation of the site linked here is part of a doctoral dissertation
subject area guide project.
Comments are welcome.
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Authority, sponsorship, intended audience.
Target audience is clinicians desiring to learn about breath sounds and the nursing management of the cases presented. This site was developed for undergraduate students by a graduate nursing class in computer-aided instruction at the University of Maryland at Baltimore School of Nursing. Sound files courtesy of University of Manitoba, Canada. Site description states this is "an experimental computer-aided instruction on listening to breath sounds." Visit the nurse/student authors of this site, they each provide a home page.
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Accuracy.
Each of the nurse/student authors provide a scholarly article on some aspect of this course, such as content validity, design for Web-based instruction, etc. Authorship of the case study was the result of this collaborative effort.
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Objectivity.
This site contains no advertising, has a scholarly and academic orientation, and is experimental using Web-based media.
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Currency.
Site created Spring 1996.
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Browser and other concerns.
The School of Nursing has an experimental Web server, bringing us this site. Although difficult to connect at times, it is worth the effort to re-dial. Sounds are hyperlinked to another location, and after several attempts I still could not get them to play. The scholarship, collaboration and creativity evident in this production is well worth the visit.
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Continuing Education.
This is a web-based tutorial, mostly read-only, with some interactive decision-making, based on case studies. There are two cases presented, one adult and one child. Links are provided for greater depth on key terms, disease processes, treatment interventions, and audio clips of various breath sounds.
