Nurse Knowledge Exchange, also known as change of shift report, is a real time exchange of information that promotes accountability and teamwork between nurses. It is also an opportunity to involve the patient and family in the patient’s plan of care. This example takes place in the critical care environment.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock is a national leader in patient-centered health care and building a sustainable health system. Founded in 1893, the system includes New Hampshire’s only Level 1 trauma center and its only air ambulance service, as well as the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, one of only 40 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, the state’s only Children’s Hospital Association-approved, comprehensive, full-service children’s hospital. As an academic medical center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock provides access to nearly 1,000 primary care doctors and specialists in almost every area of medicine, as well as world-class research at the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Learn more at http://www.dartmouth-hitchcock.org/.
As part of our new “A Day in the Life” series, we met Rook Rampersaud, RN, a nurse in our Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit. Rook allowed us to record her during a 12-hour shift to find out what life is really like for a nurse caring for some of our most critical patients. We saw that Rook’s day is fast-moving, but that her knowledge, expertise and compassion for patients have no trouble keeping pace.
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Vitamins are the building blocks that keep our bodies running; they help build muscle and bone, capture energy, heal wounds and more. But if our body doesn’t create vitamins, how do they get into our system? Ginnie Trinh Nguyen describes what vitamins are, how they get into our bodies — and why they are so crucial.
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AI, blockchain and other technologies and platforms hold the potential to transform health care to the benefit of patients, payers and providers. However, differentiating true value-producing innovations from hype requires a deep understanding of the technologies as well as the health care ecosystem.
“Innovations in Digital Health” is a Harvard Medical School Executive Education program designed to help industry leaders, investors and policy makers understand these nuances so that they can set a digital health strategy for their organizations. The program is led by Dr. John D. Halamka, a practicing physician and digital health visionary. The all-star faculty lineup for this program includes other leaders at major organizations that are directly involved in shaping the future of the industry.
The program provides participants with insider perspectives from the front lines of health care and digital health. For more information about the Innovations in Digital Health program, visit https://hms.harvard.edu/digitalhealth. Video Rating: / 5
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Is healthcare a right or a luxury? The answer each individual gives to that question depends largely on their previous experiences with medical care, and on their geographical background and personal philosophy. It is not as simple as it sounds. But the world is getting smaller, and it is imperative that we develop a shared understanding of what kind of healthcare system works best for society in general, and how to fund this effectively. In this talk, Tarik Sammour challenges the audience to think about these questions and engages them in a passionate debate, while putting his own personal spin on things as all good speakers do! Tarik Sammour is a surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and an Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide, specialising in advanced bowel cancer surgery, patient outcome centred research and robotics. Throughout his training, Tarik has been privileged to work in a wide variety of healthcare systems, from the smallest general hospital in rural New Zealand to one of the largest medical centres in the United States, giving him a unique first-hand insight into what works well for patients and what doesn’t. One of the reasons he eventually chose to settle in Adelaide was because he saw the city’s potential as a leader in healthcare delivery and innovation. With an ageing population and spiralling healthcare costs, he has some ideas to solve problems that are relevant to us all. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Vitamins are essential substances that our body needs in order to grow, develop normally and maintain its functions. This videos covers vitamins A, B, C and D and their functions in the human body, ways where we can obtain them in our diet and the health outcomes when there is a deficiency in our body. This video was created by a group of McMaster University students in a knowledge translation course for the Demystifying Medicine series: Soheil El-azzouni, Stanley Chen, Sara Halawa, Yuxin (Tiffany) Tian and Kimberly Young.
Author Naomi Whittel explains how intermittent fasting and protein cycling work in the 15-day plan to reset your body. Find out what you can eat on low-protein days, where protein intake is limited to 25 grams.
