Dedicated teaching area can improve learning
February 1, 1999 less than 1 minute read
Dedicated teaching area can improve learning
Some health care facilities have dedicated learning centers where patients and family members go to learn medical skills. Yet most institutions don’t have the extra space.
That was the case at the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics in Salt Lake City. Therefore, staff in the bone marrow transplant program use the conference room as a teaching area. In this room, they demonstrate use of medical equipment and have the family caregiver demonstrate back.
"The home care nurse spends a lot of time with the caregiver. We have practice equipment set up in the conference room so they work there, and then we have them work the equipment with the patient. We want to make sure they are maintaining sterile techniques and understand how to work the pump and different lines," says Robin Phillips, MSN, RNC, nurse manager for the bone marrow transplant program at the health care facility.
For more information contact: Robin Phillips, MSN, RNC, Nurse Manager, Bone Marrow Transplant Program, University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics, 50 North Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132. Telephone: (801) 581-2780. Fax: (801) 585-2098. E-mail: [email protected].
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