A wiki resource for critical care nursing
I spent some time today with Holy Northam and Laura Hale setting up a Wikiversity resource for critical care nursing.
We met in the delightful surroundings of the Teaching Commons at the University of Canberra.
Ultimately the resource will be used by postgraduate critical care nursing students and critical care clinicians to develop a patient education guide that will lead to a clinical support site. The resource will include support for and education of:
- Patients in the critical care environment
- Families of patients
- Staff working in critical care
- Visitors
It was great to be part of a discussion with Holly and Laura.
Holly is a Registered Nurse and Midwife. She has spent over 30 years in critical care nursing areas. She is the convener of the Postgraduate Critical Care Nursing courses at the University of Canberra and teaches in the undergraduate Ethics and Law unit. Holly has a specialist interest in organ and tissue donation and has worked for ACT Health as the ACT Organ and Tissue Donor Coordinator.
Laura is a passionate advocate for wiki collaboration. She notes on her Wikipedia user page that “I am not a WikiMedia Foundation (WMF) employee or intern, nor am I based in WMF offices or affiliated with them in any official capacity. I just love the idea of sharing knowledge and trying to help people”. She has a particular interest in women and sport. I have found Laura’s work on gender issues in wiki production to be particularly thought provoking.
I am looking forward to supporting the development of the wiki resource and note that news of it will be shared with the tag #CCare.
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Critical Care – An attentive nurse and a lot of machines that go “ping”
Year of Reading: Mongarlowe
I am fortunate to live in the village of Mongarlowe in New South Wales.
There is a notice board at the entrance to Clyde Street in the village that shares news of events.
Last week the board was alerting everyone to Clean Up Australia Day on 4 March.
To my great delight there was an addition to the notice board this weekend.
I love the idea that the Year of Reading has come to Mongarlowe and that it is housed in a Tardis-like location.
The Year of Reading 2012 “is about children learning to read and keen readers finding new sources of inspiration. It’s about supporting reading initiatives while respecting the oral tradition of storytelling. It’s about helping people discover and rediscover the magic of books. And most of all, it’s about Australians becoming a nation of readers”.
I think a telephone kiosk library in rural Australia is a great place to look for the magic of books. Wonderfully, all the books are at readers’ heights.
For more information about the National Reading Year have a look at the wiki developed to support the Year.
Developing an E-Portfolio
I missed out on the the EpCop MOOC last year.
I did sign up for it but failed to make any of the synchronous presentations or conversations.
However since then I have returned regularly to look at the great resources available. The EpCop site will be a perfect reference site for participants in the Sport Coaching Pedagogy unit I am running this semester at the University of Canberra.
Participants in the Sport Coaching Pedagogy unit will develop an e-portfolio as part of their practice and assessment. I have been looking at ways to support their e-portfolio awareness and development.
It has been interesting to see the number of Scoop.It sites that have appeared and share e-portfolio news. These include:
- Heath Sawyer
- Sigi Jakob
- Carole McCulloch
- Susan Bainbridge
- Ray Tolley
- Ramesh Sharma
- Dominique-Alain Jan
After looking at all these sources I was delighted to find Sarah Stewart’s discussions of e-portfolio thoughts and actions. I really admire Sarah’s ability to share ideas and practices. Her e-portfolio posts are a great resource and one that I will use with Sport Coaching Pedagogy students.
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Managing to Know: cave paintings, e-portfolios, printing press & PLE
SCP12: Week 2
The Sport Coaching Pedagogy (#SCP12) unit starts this week at the University of Canberra.
There are 70 participants in the unit. They have a great range of coaching and teaching backgrounds.
The unit has a:
- Wikiversity page that provides information about unit content and assessment
- Facebook page that shares information about #SCP12 activities
- Moodle site hosted by the University’s remarkable Teaching and Learning Centre.
This week I aim to explore the themes of the unit and discuss generic issues in coaching and teaching. I am going to use these images to trigger my discussion.
In the tutorials for the unit this week I aim to look at personal learning environments and the development of an e-portfolio for each of the participants in the unit.
I think I will use this presentation as a way to start discussion:
One of the opportunities for me on this course is to model in practice some of the ideas I am discussing about coaching, teaching and pedagogy!
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Freedom Wheelchair
Last December I wrote about a wonderful scheme called Freedom Wheels.
I have been thinking a lot about the possibilities afforded by the scheme.
To my great delight I heard about a different set of freedom wheels this morning.
Stella Young was a guest on Radio National’s Life Matters program. The Life Matters website has a podcast of the interview with the great title A Wheelchair Named Desire.
Stella has had the same wheelchair for seventeen years “but it is not without regret that she must let it go for a new one”. In the interview she speaks about her personal relationship to her wheelchair and what it means for those who need wheelchairs to have adequate care and funding”.
The interview was a wonderfully clear sharing of the freedom wheelchairs offer to their owners and a daunting discussion about the affordability of the technology that makes such freedom possible.
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