Dr. Kerri D. Schuiling, PhD, NP-BC, CNM, FACNM, FAAN is currently serving as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Northern Michigan University and as co-editor of the International Journal of Childbirth.
Dr. Schuiling is dually certified as a women’s health care nurse practitioner and nurse midwife and has been an advanced practice nurse and educator for more than 30 years. She has authored three editions of Gynecologic Health, with the anticipated Fourth Edition publishing this fall.
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Topics:
Kerri Durnell Schuiling,
women's gynecologic health,
midwives,
Evidence-Based Nursing,
gynecology,
gynecologic health,
postpartum,
prenatal,
Gynecologic Health Care
By Delthia Ricks, MS, author of 100 Questions & Answers About Coronaviruses
In the 1960s, teams of scientists on both sides of the Atlantic were in hot pursuit of a same goal – isolating the many viruses that cause the common cold.
Virologist June Almeida emerged as a notable figure in the early days of the race. She captured the first sharp images of a coronavirus using an electron microscope, revealing in 1964 not only a common cold virus that was new to science, but one with an unusual structure.
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Topics:
pandemic,
Coronavirus,
COVID-19,
delthia ricks,
100 Questions & Answers
Your Navigate course will soon change—for the better! Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce new and updated features to help your course run more efficiently and effectively. This week, we'll explore Test Bank enhancements.
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Navigate
Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce that the Navigate platform will soon have new and updated features to help your online course run more efficiently and effectively. This week, we'll explore enhanced course navigation features.
New Previous and Next buttons at the bottom of each topic chapter page, allow you to move sequentially and eliminate the need to return to the homepage. You can also utilize the “jump-to” option in the drop-down menu to open any topic without returning to the homepage:
Learn more about these exciting enhancements by attending an upcoming webinar.
(The screenshots below illustrate the 'jump to' feature and previous/next buttons.)
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Topics:
Navigate,
course navigation
Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce that the Navigate platform will soon have new and updated features to help your online course run more efficiently and effectively. This week, we'll explore how updated analytics will help instructors and students in their courses.
The new Student Engagement Tool provides the ability to track time spent per user within Navigate for a specified time range of the instructor’s choosing. This addition will help you with education and training certification requirements in states that require a minimum/maximum number of online course hours.
Discover the Student Engagement Tool
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Topics:
Navigate,
navigate enhancements,
student engagement,
visual guide
Jones & Bartlett Learning is pleased to announce the availability of new and updated features to help your Navigate course run more efficiently and effectively. Check out a comprehensive walkthrough video to see the platform enhancements!
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Topics:
Jones and Bartlett Learning,
Navigate
A traditional philosophical conundrum begins with “If a tree falls in a forest……”, but how about this one, if respiratory therapists are invisible to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, do we really exist? The answer is, of course, yes. We are at the bedside, treating afflicted patients, and often in close proximity to the airway. We provide breathing treatments, assist in intubation, and institute and monitor mechanical ventilation. These interventions drastically increase our chances of contracting the virus, and thus we risk our lives in the process. So why are we not identified in the media alongside nurses and physicians, or if we are, it is under the general description of healthcare workers? What can be done to increase our visibility as a healthcare profession? Let’s examine this issue.
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Linda A. Roussel, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNL, FAAN is a Visiting Clinical Professor, Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program Coordinator and faculty member at Texas Women’s University where she’s currently teaching four DNP courses: Project Management, DNP Project, Health Outcomes, and Evidence-Based Practice.
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Topics:
Habitat for Humanity,
evidence-based practice,
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP),
project planning and management,
Dr. Linda Roussel,
management and leadership for nurse administrators,
dnp project,
translational science,
pragmatic change,
american academy of fellows,
aacn,
texas women's university
