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BACKGROUND: A recent revision to the Nurse Practitioner Role Core Competencies will lead to robust changes in graduate education. Incorporating innovative technology into the core courses of advanced practice nursing will prepare practice-ready providers with a high level of competence leading to successful health outcomes, improved patient satisfaction, and decreased health care costs. PROBLEM: Graduate education lacks effective, innovative, and interactive visualization tools to study pathophysiology. There is a lack of evidence for the use of 3-dimensional (3D) augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality in advanced practice core courses. APPROACH: A collaborative iterative approach was used to design, develop, analyze, update, and reiterate a 3D AR tutorial for advanced pathophysiology. OUTCOMES: Students had a positive experience and perceive 3D AR as a learning tool that can increase examination scores. The visualization connected the pathophysiologic process of a disease to the pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, and associated treatments. CONCLUSIONS: 3D AR tutorials are an effective solution to facilitate learning difficult concepts in pathophysiology by incorporating following multiple learning techniques: visual, aural, verbal, kinesthetic, and logical.
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Education, Nursing, Graduate , Humans , Imaging, Three-Dimensional , Nursing Education Research , Learning , StudentsABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: Creating an equitable faculty workload model is an ongoing concern. This research evaluated the effectiveness of and satisfaction with a new faculty teaching workload model 1 year after implementation. METHODS: Data were collected through secondary analysis of faculty assignment spreadsheets, online survey of all full-time nursing faculty members, online survey of college of nursing administrators, and financial analysis. RESULTS: Individual faculty teaching loads were not consistent with the workload model. Tenure-track faculty members were assigned higher workloads than the model. Faculty members strongly preferred to have input into their schedule. Both faculty members and administrators identified strengths and opportunities for the model. CONCLUSIONS: Creating equitable faculty assignments is complex. Administrators and faculty members need to establish a mutual understanding of the process used to calculate equitable workloads and protect time for service and scholarship commensurate with faculty rank.
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Faculty, Nursing , Workload , Humans , Nursing Education Research , Students , TeachingABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The Physician Fee Schedule was updated in 2021 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A case study on Tetralogy of Fallot, the most common cyanotic congenital heart defect, is presented with guidance in billing the office visit to reflect the current guidelines.
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Physicians , Tetralogy of Fallot , Aged , Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S. , Fee Schedules , Humans , Medicare , United StatesABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: This is the ninth article in a 12-part series on the most commonly billed diagnoses in primary care. The purpose of the adult general medical exam is health promotion, disease prevention, early disease detection, and management of chronic disease processes.
