Tabletop Exercise on Mass Casualty Incident Triage, Does it Work?

In this study, a priority-aware lightweight secure sensing model for body area networks with clinical healthcare applications in internet of things is proposed. In this model, patients’ data is labeled according to the proposed prioritizing mechanism. This provides a prioritized and delay-less service in the server side for the patients with critical conditions. In the proposed model, the sensed data is monitored in a real time way to calculate its sparsity level. Then, the ,calculated sparsity level is used to determine the number of required measurements for data sampling. This allows to sample the data with the number of measurements proportional to the sparsity level and information content of the data. Moreover, the particular design of the measurement matrix causes the aggregated data to be encrypted and its security be guaranteed. Simulation results show that compared to its counterpart schemes, the proposed sensing model not only provides security but also reduces the average energy consumption of the sensor nodes and the average packet delivery delay. This improvement originates from the reduction of the number of required bits for transferring the sensed data and is due to the consideration of the information content and sparsity level variation in the sensed data.

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“…Fig. 6 shows how the patients are prioritized based on the sensed data and GCS calculated by the given instructions of Table 4 [25] , [26] .…”

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A priority-aware lightweight secure sensing model for body area networks with clinical healthcare applications in Internet of Things

Esmaeili

Tabbakh

Shakeri

2020

Pervasive and Mobile Computing

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“…Nurses' education on natural disasters fosters their motivation and positively affects their healthcare provision [18]. Kaplan et al demonstrated the positive effect of these simulation exercises on nursing students [19].…”

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“…Despite the availability of various teaching methods, their efficacy and efficiency still need to be studied [18].Therefore, given the numerous teaching methods, it is highly important to identify the most effective pedagogic procedure with the highest efficacy for learners. Consequently, this study compared the effects of lecturing and tabletop exercise methods on the level of nurses' preparedness against natural disasters at a hospital in Yazd, City, Iran, in 2017.…”

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Comparison of the Effect of Lecturing and Tabletop Exercise Methods on Level of Preparedness of Nurses against Natural Disasters

Mirzaei

Eftekhari

Mohammadinia

et al. 2020

J. Holist. Nurs. Midwifery

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Hospitals are the first-line care providers in natural disasters. Nurses, as one of the critical health professional groups, require adequate peroration for responding to natural disasters. Due attention has to be paid to various teaching methods to improve the level of nurses' preparedness. Objective: This study compared the effect of lecturing and lecturing-tabletop exercise methods on the level of nurses' preparedness against natural disasters. Materials and Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 74 nurses were randomly selected from different wards at a hospital in Yazd City, Iran, in 2017. Nurses' preparedness level was measured with the 72-item Scale for Nurses' Preparedness against Natural Disasters, including three areas of knowledge, attitude, and performance. The study participants were assigned into group A (lecturing method, n=37) and group B (lecturing-tabletop exercise method, n=37) using a simple random sampling technique. Nurses' level of preparedness was measured three times (pre-and postintervention, and follow-up) using the Preparedness for Disasters questionnaire. The obtained data were analyzed applying repeated measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Paired Samples t-test. Results: The mean scores of nurses' knowledge, attitude, and performance were increased by 4.94, 7.38, and 5.59 in group A as well as 6.56, 11.43, and 6.08 in group B. Additionally, the total score of nurses' preparedness in group B was significantly higher at Pre-test, post-test, and one-month followup (107.89±7.50) (P=0.0001). Conclusion: Education (lecturing and lecturing-tabletop exercise methods) positively affected nurses' preparedness. However, it was more effective through lecturing-tabletop exercise methods due to having a scenario and the better participation of nurses in the learning process. This finding emphasizes the positive effect of participants' interactions in the tabletop exercise method on the quality of education, critical skill, and increased level of nurses' preparedness against natural disasters.

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“…In Sarpy, Warren, Kaplan, Bradley, and Howe's and Khan's, both studies used role‐based tabletop exercises. In each study, the healthcare professionals were functioning in their practice roles, making individual decisions to solve the scenario practice problem, response to an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome and patient triage, respectively.…”

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Tabletop exercises in the nursing classroom: An introduction for nurse educators

Evans

2019

Nurs Forum

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A long‐standing gap exists between graduate and newly licensed nurse abilities and employer expectations. The National League of Nursing has charged nurse educators to address health and welfare through innovative learning to improve student decision‐making for patient care. How, then, can a nurse educator link education to practice, innovate learning, and improve student decision‐making for patient care? One option is to use tabletop exercises in the nursing classroom. The tabletop exercise provides a structure for participants to use available knowledge for decision‐making to identify or use a process in context. Though often include disaster scenarios and common in disaster education, these exercises have broad healthcare applications to link education to practice. Tabletop exercises are an active, low‐stress, high‐impact learning strategy carried out in the classroom with students sitting at desks or tables. In an exercise, there is a scenario, a facilitator, participants, and for the given circumstance, an objective, and participants solve an identified problem by making decisions. The after‐exercise discussion identifies exercise outcomes. Remediation occurs for identified gaps. This article introduces what tabletop exercises are, provides educator considerations for developing a nursing classroom exercise, and influences to implementing the exercise and its outcomes.

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Tabletop Exercise on Mass Casualty Incident Triage, Does it Work?

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A priority-aware lightweight secure sensing model for body area networks with clinical healthcare applications in Internet of Things

A priority-aware lightweight secure sensing model for body area networks with clinical healthcare applications in Internet of Things

Comparison of the Effect of Lecturing and Tabletop Exercise Methods on Level of Preparedness of Nurses against Natural Disasters

Tabletop exercises in the nursing classroom: An introduction for nurse educators

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