Videoconferencing and Web-based conferencing to enhance learning communities.
Preparing nursing students to develop the leadership and management skills necessary to adapt to ever-changing practice environments is a challenge for educators. Videoconferencing and Web-based conferencing allow for expansion of traditional classroom walls to develop partnerships among peers, exchange perspectives, and gain a more global understanding of nursing care delivery systems. A collaborative leadership seminar using videoconferencing was used to connect two large colleges of nursing in the midwestern United States, and through Web-based conferencing, one of the midwestern colleges was connected to a university in the United Kingdom. Objectives for students were exposure to different schools of thought, management of care via technology, network and cultivation of global perspectives on health care delivery, and experience of novel educational approaches.
Daley
Linda K
LK
College of Nursing, The Ohio State University, 1585 Neil Avenue #397, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
Spalla
Tara L
TL
Arndt
Mary Jo
MJ
Warnes
Anne-Marie
AM
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000379:methods; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000458:organization & administration; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005544:Forecasting; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007393:International Educational Exchange; D020407:Internet / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D015146:Midwestern United States; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D036301:Qualitative Research; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom; D049269:Videoconferencing / Q000458:organization & administration*