Lighting the Way to the Future of Nursing
We treasure those who have gone before us and lighted the way. Their work has enhanced our expertise by developing standards of excellence and best practices to light the way. Our eyes are on the future as we uphold the developments of the past and incorporate the wisdom and knowledge gained into the present and the future, as we constantly seek innovative and creative ways to continue building the expertise of nurses through research, education, and practice. Some of them are described below…
The Living Laboratory is a center where nurse leaders from a variety of partner organizations and fields of expertise work together under one roof for these purposes:
- Nursing education and training,
- Home stabilization of the elderly, disabled, chronically ill and disenfranchised,
- Mentoring of inexperienced nurses in the hospital and long term care facilities,
- Human centered engineering,
- Developing and testing innovative health care applications
- Providing research data related to all of these functions.
The elements of science, technology, engineering, and medicine in all of its forms will be imbedded with the principles of patient and family centered care to establish the Nursing Workforce Living Laboratory.
The Living Laboratory Smart House portion of The Living Laboratory is a high-tech home that will open on November at Bethany Village in Centerville. This Smart House is part of a collaboration between The Nursing Institute and Graceworks Lutheran Services. This will be the first time a family of simulated models, monitored remotely by faculty through robots, will occupy a “Living Laboratory” for nursing instruction at a senior living community.
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Remote Presence Robot
 Meet RP-7, or Morgan, as he is affectionately known to us. He joined the Nursing Institute staff in the summer of 2007, coming from InTouch Health Technologies in Santa Barbara, California. Since he has been with us, he has traveled throughout the US. Morgan has been called a Faculty Extender because he can allow faculty in remote locations to interact and instruct students in any location. He's about 5 1/2 feet tall and weighs almost 200 pounds. He has a flat screen monitor (his "head")where the educator's face is displayed. His camera eyes (mounted atop his "head") capture images of the students so the educator can see and interact with them.
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Nursing Ergonomics
A very important aspect of the Nursing Institute's dedication to the profession of nursing is the recruitment and retention of nurses.
The Nursing Institute’s Nursing Ergonomics Initiative came as a result of Govind Bharwani, Ph.D. Dr. Bharwani has taught courses in Ergonomics, Six Sigma, and Lean Process Improvement in the College of Engineering at Wright State University and served as Project Analyst for the Nursing Institute Robot Extender Study. He has over 20 years of ergonomics consulting experience, and has applied principles of Ergonomics and Six Sigma in a long-term care facility in Dayton, Ohio to reduce resident falls, build care teams, and improve the connection between residents and caregivers. He has developed ergonomic training modules for nurses and nursing aides to reduce musculoskeletal stresses during care tasks and computer work, leading to decreases in job-related injuries and workers' compensation costs, and a CE course, Nursing Ergonomics.
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Research, Education and Consulting Projects
Fast Track to Faculty -
is a program designed to cultivate new faculty and increase enrollment in programs of nursing. Through technology, it will prolong the contributions of experienced nursing faculty and create an accelerated competency development plan, hastening the process from novice to experienced nurse.
Nursing programs scattered throughout rural, suburban, and inner-city locations in 22 Ohio counties benefit from The Fast Track to Faculty. By using remote presence robots and interactive video conferencing equipment, Fast Track to Faculty expands the productivity, reach, and expertise of faculty throughout the region. In this nursing education model, faculty and instructors will provide lectures, supervision of students and new clinical instructors and clinical education in human patient simulation laboratories using state-of the art technology in classroom settings and in the clinical area.
Ohio Human Patient Simulation User Group -
This statewide user group developed by the Nursing Institute provides all users of Human Patient Simulators with a network to gain and share knowledge, best practices, and innovations in the use of this dynamic educational technology.
Participants include ut are not limited to in-hospital healthcare providers, emergency care providers, simulation manufacturing representatives, the military, and educators with an interest in the use of Human Patient Simulation.
The group meets quarterly at various locations in the state of Ohio. if you are interested in hosting a meeting, presenting an educational program, or joining the user group, please contact the coordinator, patricia.burnell@wright.edu for additional information.
Upcoming Ohio Simualtion User Group Meetings:
- November 16, 2009 @ 1:00 PM in Toledo, Ohio (Map and Directions) Topic: Curriculum Integration
- February, 2010 in Columbus, Ohio
- May, 2010 at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
Watch our events page for updates on time and exact location.
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