Selkirk College

BackgroundAs we experience a shortage of healthcare providers in Canada, it has become increasingly challenging for healthcare educators to secure quality clinical placements. We evaluated the impact of virtual simulations created for the virtual work-integrated learning (Virtu-WIL) program, a pan-Canadian project designed to develop, test, and offer virtual simulations to enrich healthcare clinical education in Canada. Evaluation was important since the virtual simulations are freely available through creative commons licensing, to the global healthcare community.MethodsStudents self-reported their experiences with the virtual simulations and the impact on their readiness for practice using a survey that included validated subscales. Open-ended items were included to provide insight into the students’ experiences.ResultsThe evaluation included 1715 Nursing, Paramedicine and Medical Laboratory students enrolled in the Virtu-WIL program from 18 post-secondary universities, colleges, and institutions. Results showed most students found the virtual simulations engaging helped them learn and prepare for clinical practice. A key finding was that it is not sufficient to simply add virtual simulations to curriculum, careful planning and applying simulation pedagogy are essential.ConclusionVirtual simulation experiences are increasingly being used in healthcare education. Results from this rigorous, large-scale evaluation identified ways to enhance the quality of these experiences to increase learning and to potentially decrease the number of hours healthcare students need in clinical practice to meet professional competencies. Further research is needed regarding many aspects of virtual simulations and, in particular, curriculum integration and the timing or sequencing of virtual simulations to best prepare students for practice.

Transit services provide multiple economic, educational, health, environmental, and social benefits. Despite these benefits, rural communities face barriers in establishing and maintaining transit services. Understanding these barriers is a critical step for planners and decision makers to assist in developing solutions. This paper presents the results of a content analysis of rural transit and mobility literature designed to create a typology of the barriers rural communities face in establishing and maintaining transit systems. Seven categories of barriers facing rural transit systems were identified: (1) demographic factors and ridership; (2) socio-cultural aspects of transit; (3) the natural and built environment; (4) local costs of operation and sources of revenue; (5) local governance and jurisdiction; (6) local economic structure; and (7) external funding programs. However, while this typology can inform the planning of rural transit systems, the literature review also revealed significant gaps in our understanding, particularly surrounding the range of rural places in Canada.

This book teaches the essential knowledge required to be a successful web developer with the ability to produce cutting-edge websites utilizing a database.

This chapter will cover sendmail, a widely known Linux daemon that enables you to schedule and send a larger number of emails. I’ll show you how to do this quickly and easily using Perl scripts, with values taken from a database.

Assess the real-world effect of age on the long-term effectiveness and safety of levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel (LCIG) treatment in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease (PD).

We describe utilization of a visualization software for use as a deep brain stimulation (DBS) planning tool during the initial device programming in a Parkinson’s disease (PD) cohort.

O presente artigo visa investigar de que forma a Teoria dos Campos Conceituais está sendo abordada nas pesquisas de Ensino de Estatística e Probabilidade no Brasil a partir da revisão sistemática de literatura em teses e dissertações brasileiras entre 2010 e 2020. A busca foi realizada na Biblioteca Nacional Brasileira de Tese e Dissertação em 01/2021. Como questão de pesquisa, definiu-se o seguinte: de que forma a Teoria dos Campos Conceituais está sendo abordada nas pesquisas de Ensino de Estatística e Probabilidade? Foram aplicados os critérios de inclusão e exclusão com o propósito de selecionar, extrair e apresentar as informações dos trabalhos. Verificou-se que todos os trabalhos selecionados tiveram uma forma específica de utilizar a Teoria dos Campos Conceituais em suas análises, uns se envolveram mais com as invariantes operatórias, outros se preocuparam mais com as situações.

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The paper examines strikes by loggers in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia in 1923 and 1924. The loggers were members of the Industrial Workers of the World that viewed the Kootenay campaign and strikes as part of a broader strategy to organize logger and farm labour across the heart of the continent in the early 1920s. Set within the context of an industry on the verge of collapse due to capital's overexplotation of the resource, the paper shows how IWW delgates and loggers organized significant job actions over two seasons in the face of an intransigent employers association. The paper views the strikes as part a resurgence of the IWW in the early 1920s; it also considers how the strikes reflected and were influenced by the nature of economic development and class relations in the Kootenays by the 1920s.