distance learning and the educational perspectives in nursing tics
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for your learning style. Be sure to check the instructors style to teaching before you decide on the course.
The course may be offered by more than one instructor each of whom may have different teaching styles.
Technology is transforming not only nursing practice but also nursing training and educationmodels. With the introduction of computers in the healthcare area, nurses became primary users,
responsible for data input. Consequently, they had to become computer-literate in order to use
computer technology in an efficient manner. To meet educational and training needs. Nursing schools
and hospitals initiated programs to prepare nurses to use computers. In addition to teaching how to use
computer applications, course instructors also considered the use of computers to teach nursing
consent.
Computer applications in nursing education are also changing nursing education from a passive
teaching to an active learning process. Computers allow students to work at the time that best meets
their specific needs. Usually, the programs are very interactive and easy to use and offer immediate
feedback about students performance.
Latin American countries are investing a significant effort to prepare professionals in health
informatics. An example of this was recently implemented in Brazil. A 4-year grant from the Fogarty
International Center of the National Institutes of Health (U.S), promoted to establishment of bilateral
consortium of health informatics faculty. A program was designed to enhance training in Brazil by
augmenting the teaching resources of local faculty. The training program based on the experience of the
Brazilian faculty and some lessons learned from an existing training program in Boston (U.S), which
involved faculty from Harvard University and it affiliated hospitals: Massachusetts In (Marin et al. 2004).
The program started on October 1999.since then, it has sponsored 10 onsite courses in Brazil, which
were subsequently made available on the Internet and CD-ROM, together with regular medical
informatics courses taught yearly at Harvard and MIT. The program started, in 1 and 2, with activities
targeted at faculty from leading universities in southern Brazil, which are better equipped with staff and
material resources than universities in other parts of the country. There were short courses in Brazil,
which were taught by a mix of Brazilian an U.S faculty, as well as support for faculty enrichment via
participation in international scientific events. In years 3 and 4, the training program was responsible for
the organization of several scientific meetings in Brazil and continued to promote student and faculty
participation in national and international conferences, short-term courses, and workshops.
During the development and implementation of this training program, different regions of Brazil were
reached, delivering courses that were previously given in Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro. By the end of
2003, it was found that around 1,724 professionals were involved as either a faculty member of a
student in the program.
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There has been a trend toward distance learning program development in South America. Computer
technology is providing students living in distant regions and having difficulties in accessing the main
educational centers the opportunity to improve their personal knowledge base.A contributing factor to
the development and success of these programs is the distance between countries and cities due to the
geographic characteristics of South America.
In Brazil, the Brazilian Council ofTelemedicine was established in 2002. It is developing several
educational programs. The council includes the telenursing group. Presently, this group organized two
teleconferences in the country with more than 400 participants, each from different regions that
discussed nursing topics such as pressure ulcers, and home care.
Organizations Which helps in the Development o f NI in SouthAmerica
Brazilian Society of Health Informatics The Sociedade Brasileira de Informtica em Sade
is a professional society created in November 1986 in Campinas, during the First Brazilian Congress on Health Informatic
Mission: promoting the development and the interchange of ideas and results in the fields devoted to theinformation
technologies applied to the health sciences (Medical informatics, Telemedicine, Bioinformatics, etc.).
a nonprofit membership organization of individuals and institutions interested in developing and using
information technologies to improve health care in Brazil.
SBIS develop the following activities:
Stimulate educational activities related to health informatics; Stimulate scientific research and technical development in Health Informatics; Organize conferences, symposiums, courses, seminars, and other activities that lead to experience and
knowledge exchange;
Cooperate with sister societies; Contribute to the definition ofhealthcare policies; Promote Health Informatics as a means to reduce costs and improve the quality of healthcare services
Currently it has around 780 associates, thus being the third largest in the Americas, after the American MedicalInformatics Association and the Canada's Health Informatics Association, and the largest in Latin America,
according to the International Medical Informatics Association
Brazilian Council ofTelemedicine
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Established on 2002Develops several educational programs .
Involves telenursing groups consists of more than 400 psrticipsntd from different regions that discussed topics
such as pressure ulcers, catheters and home care
Nucleus of Computer science in Nursing (Nucleo Informatica em Enfermagem)
1st center to offer the specialization degree in south america
created in October of1990 is composed for professors of the Department of Nursing and nurses of the SoPaulo Hospital.Tied with the Advice of the Department of Nursing, in accordance with its regiment, destines it the
development of computer science in education, searches, assistance and administration in nursing, havingfor purpose:
to give courses of computer science for pupils of the courses of Graduation and After-Graduation of theDepartment of Nursing;
to prepare professors and nurses for the use of computer science in the professional activities; to divulge, to promote and to participate of events of computer science in the health area; to delineate, to guide, to think and to develop programs informatizados for the nursing education.