Impact of an online course on infection control and prevention competencies

Atack, Lynda; Luke, Robert A.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2648.2008.04660.x

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“…A study that examined the impact of an online course on healthcare professionals’ competency in infection prevention using questionnaires applied before and after the course for knowledge evaluation, concluded that the participants made statistically significant increases in their perceptions of competency in infection control following the course. Additionally, most of the participants were very pleased and reported that the acquired knowledge was useful and relevant for their professional practice 1 .…”

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confidence: 98%

The Virtual Man Project's CD-ROM "Voice Assessment: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology & Medicine", Vol.1

Vieira¹,

Berretin-Felix

Brasolotto

2009

J. Appl. Oral Sci.

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The CD-ROM “Voice Assessment: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology & Medicine” was developed as a teaching tool for people interested in the production of the spoken or sung human voice. Its content comprises several subjects concerning the anatomy and physiology of spoken and sung voice. A careful assessment becomes necessary in order to ensure the effectiveness of teaching and learning educational materials, whether related to education or health, within the proposal of education mediated by technology. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the Virtual Man Project’s CD-ROM “Voice Assessment: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology & Medicine”, as a self-learning material, in two different populations: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology students and Lyrical Singing students. The participants were instructed to study the CD-ROM during 1 month and answer two questionnaires: one before and another one after studying the CD-ROM. The quantitative results were compared statistically by the Student’s t-test at a significance level of 5%. Results: Seventeen out of the 28 students who completed the study, were Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology students, while 11 were Lyrical Singing students (dropout rate of 44%). Comparison of the answers to the questionnaires before and after studying the CD-ROM showed a statistically significant increase of the scores for the questionnaire applied after studying the CD-ROM for both Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Lyrical Singing students, with p<0.001 and p<0.004, respectively. There was also a statistically significant difference in all topics of this questionnaire for both groups of students. Conclusion: The results concerning the evaluation of the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Lyrical Singing students’ knowledge before and after learning from the CD-ROM allowed concluding that the participants made significant improvement in their knowledge of the proposed contents after studying the CD-ROM. Based on this, it is assumed that this didactic material is an effective instrument for self-learning of this population.

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confidence: 98%

The Virtual Man Project's CD-ROM "Voice Assessment: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology & Medicine", Vol.1

Vieira¹,

Berretin-Felix

Brasolotto

2009

J. Appl. Oral Sci.

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“…This last point is perhaps the most important, for in order for education to be effective, it must result in the effective translation into practice of the skills learned online. 1,2 This article outlines the design philosophy of the Institute and provides models for best practice development in online IPE.…”

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confidence: 99%

Online interprofessional health sciences education: From theory to practice

Luke

Solomon

Baptiste

et al. 2009

Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

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Online learning (e-learning) has a nascent but established history. Its application to interprofessional education (IPE), however, is relatively new. Over the past 2 decades the Internet has been used increasingly to mediate education. We have come past the point of "should we use the Internet for education" to "how should we use the Internet for education." Research has begun on the optimal development of online learning environments to support IPE. Developing online IPE should follow best practices in e-learning generally, though there are some special considerations for acknowledging the interprofessional context and clinical environments that online IPE is designed to support. The design, development, and deployment of effective online IPE must therefore pay special attention to the particular constraints of the health care worker educational matrix, both pre- and postlicensure. In this article we outline the design of online, interprofessional health sciences education. Our work has involved 4 educational and 4 clinical service institutions. We establish the context in which we situate our development activities that created learning modules designed to support IPE and its transfer into new interprofessional health care practices. We illustrate some best practices for the design of effective online IPE, and show how this design can create effective learning for IPE. Challenges exist regarding the full implementation of interprofessional clinical practice that are beginning to be met by coordinated efforts of multiple health care education silos.

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“…All reported scores were adjusted. As in previous studies, a score of 13/20 (65%) was considered satisfactory (14).…”

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confidence: 85%

Continuing dental education: evaluation of the effectiveness of a disinfection and decontamination course

Bailey

Wilson

Griffiths

et al. 2011

Eur J Dental Education

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Impact of an online course on infection control and prevention competencies

Cited by 36 publications

References 6 publications

The Virtual Man Project's CD-ROM "Voice Assessment: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology & Medicine", Vol.1

The Virtual Man Project's CD-ROM "Voice Assessment: Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology & Medicine", Vol.1

Online interprofessional health sciences education: From theory to practice

Continuing dental education: evaluation of the effectiveness of a disinfection and decontamination course

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