This document provides an outline and background information on mobile learning and teaching in health education. It discusses BCIT's process of integrating mobile technologies, including pilot studies, policies, and apps/resources used. Study outcomes found benefits like efficient access to information and challenges like screen size. Future plans include evaluating critical thinking and integrating technologies in clinical settings and simulations. The document provides an overview of BCIT's mobile integration process and related research.

1. Mobile Learning and Teaching in
Health Education
Glynda Doyle, RN, MSN
British Columbia Institute of Technology
eHITS
UBC, May 9 2014

2. • Background
• BCIT process of integration
• Study outcomes
• Apps and other resources
• Future plans
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3. I most frequently use:
1. An iPhone
2. An iPad
3. A Blackberry
4. An Android phone
5. An Android tablet

4. Mobile computing has the power
to make nursing practice safer,
more efficient, evidence
informed, and of a higher
quality.
(Patillo et al., 2007; Thede &
Sewell, 2010; Thompson, 2005)

5. Kapor, 2012

6. Goal of Informatics is:
And not:
The Fundamental Theorem of Informatics
(Friedman, 2009)
Friedman, C. (2013). What informatics is and isn’t. J Am Med Inform Assoc, 20. 224-226

7. Educator support to encourage
and influence critical thinking

8. • Access at point of care is becoming an accepted standard in
current healthcare environment (Kuiper, 2010)
• Technology integration is significant element of education (Educause,
2011; Hunt, 2002; Tooey & Mayo, 2003, Wali et al., 2008; )
• Today’s student expects immediacy, engagement and internet
access (Arhin & Cormier, 2007; Skiba, 2005; White et al., 2005)
• Current healthcare environment is increasingly complex (Adler, 2007;
Doran, 2009; Goldsworthy et al., 2006)
• Necessary for nurses to integrate increasingly large amount of
info into decision making processes (Doran et al., 2010; Farrell et al., 2007)
• Expected competency for nursing grads (CASN, 2012; CNA, 2012; Kuiper, 2010)
Why else……

9. Benefits Challenges
• No heavy outdated textbooks
• No need to access ward
computer
• Real time efficient access to
information
• Patient teaching
• Translation tools
• Peer-reviewed information
• Improved confidence, less
anxiety
• Perception of staff
• Perceived perception of
patients
• Digital Divide
• Confidentiality
• Effect on critical thinking
• Screen size for sharing
Themes from BCIT 2012/2013
student/faculty qualitative surveys

10. Ministry of Advanced
Education Mandate
2008
Pilot Studies
RFP
November 2008
uCentral Site License
February 2011
Policies for BCIT and Health
Authorities
January 2012
Clinical/
Sim lab/Classroom
2010-Present
Bookshelf/iBooks
BCIT App
2013/2014
BCIT Mobile Technologies Integration Process

11. uCentral by Unbound Medicine
http://www.unboundmedicine.com/

12. Healthcare apps:• Clinicalc: medical calculator
• Virtual body: anatomy
• Medspeak: translation tool
• NCLEX: exam questions

13. Do you use your mobile device
to access resources in the
clinical setting?
1. Frequently
2. Regularly
3. Rarely
4. Never

14. http://libguides.bcit.ca/content.php?pid=323588&sid=4045260
UptoDate is available through the BCIT Library

15. APPS MY COLLEAGUES ARE USING:
• ResponseWare for virtual clickers
• Adobe Reader Read, annotate and sign pdf
documents.
• iAnnotate for annotating and reading pdfs.
• Keynote for the ipad
• Penultimate for the ipad
• ScannerPro scan just about anything into a pdf
document
• Dropbox for accessing files from any device
• Jive app for reading the Loop
• Flipboard for creating your own magazines—have stuff
on health, education, news….

16. • Inkflow: visual note book for sketching and photos
• Mindjet: mind mapping app
• ABG app provides analysis of arterial blood gases
• The physiology of the Respiratory system for ipad.
• ICU notes –a quick reference for assessment of ICU
patients.
• Anatomy 3D: organs for anatomy reviews
• mLumbarLaminectomy to help students to
understand spinal surgeries
• Sono Flex to help patients communicate
• Dragon Dictation for capturing notes
• Boardcam as a document camera
• TinyScan Pro scan multipage documents

17. Have you ever…
1. Taken a MOOC
2. Taken and completed a MOOC
3. Never taken a MOOC
4. Have no idea what a MOOC is

18. • free and open online community of
resources designed primarily for faculty, staff
and students of higher education from
around the world to share their learning
materials and pedagogy.
• leading edge, user-centered, collection of
peer reviewed higher education, online
learning materials http://tinyurl.com/96uz3qp

19. This site offers audio clips for listening
to normal and abnormal breath and
heart sounds.
http://www.wilkes.med.ucla.edu/intro.h
tml
This site offers an array of open
source information plus
videos, quizzes, and study decks
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d31/
nursing/learning_objects/index.html

20. 1. http://www.mesacc.edu/itunes-u
2. click on the ―mcc on itunes‖ button
3. click on ―Nursing‖
4. click on ―Pathophysiology 104‖ for patho podcasts by an RN by body
systems
Free Pathophysiology Podcasts

21. http://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/anatomy-and-physiology
Free Open Source Anatomy
and Physiology Textbook

22. ―HEALTH ON THE NET FOUNDATION‖…. to
guide the growing community of healthcare
consumers and providers on the World Wide
Web to sound, reliable medical information and
expertise. In this way, HON seeks to contribute
to better, more accessible and cost-effective
health care.
Evaluating healthcare websites
http://www.hon.ch

23. http://libguides.bcit.ca/content.php?pid=284157&sid=2339271
BCIT Library Mobile Health Technologies Website

25. I mostly use …… as my online
social network
1. Facebook
2. Linked In
3. Twitter
4. My own website
5. An e-portfolio

26. I mostly use …… for my
professional profile
1. Facebook
2. Linked In
3. Twitter
4. My own website
5. An e-portfolio

27. SOCIAL MEDIA:
an opportunity for learning, conversations, sharing
BUT……
• Ensure privacy settings in
place
• Consider everything you
post as permanent and
traceable
• ‘Pause before you post’
(CNA, 2012)
• Maintain professional
boundaries
• Ensure patient
confidentiality
http://www.facebook.com/bcitmhealthtech
http://www.twitter.com/bcitmhealthtech

28. People
TechnologyInformation
Healthcare Informatics
• the optimal use of information, often aided by
technology, to improve health, healthcare, public
health and biomedical research (Hersh, 2009)
(SUNY Buffalo)

29. www.amia.org
Biomedical Informatics
Biomedical informatics (BMI) is the
interdisciplinary field that studies
and pursues the effective uses of
biomedical data, information, and
knowledge for scientific inquiry,
problem solving, and decision
making, motivated by efforts to
improve human health.

30. • Evaluate critical thinking and clinical judgment
• E-text pilots
• Integration trials with EHRs in Sim lab
• Projectors for clinical post-conferences
• Research and evaluation
Current and Future Plans

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