This document summarizes a faculty information session on mobile teaching and learning. It outlines mobile devices, policies, apps, and how mobile technologies can be used as teaching tools. It discusses using social media and healthcare informatics. It provides examples of apps faculty are using, websites for course materials, and how mobile devices can enhance learning and patient care while maintaining privacy and professional standards.

1. Mobile Teaching and Learning
Faculty Info Session
January 27, 2014

2. Outline
• Mobile devices
• Policies
• Apps
• As a teaching tool
• Social Media
• Informatics
• Discussion

3. 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)

4. Doyle, G.J., Garrett, B., Currie, L.M., (2014) Integrating mobile devices into nursing curricula: Opportunities for
implementation using Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation model. Nurse Education Today.
doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2013.10.021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2013.10.021
There is evidence to show that information laden mobile devices
enhance student’s learning and patient care – research studies
are contained in the reference list of this paper 

5. Ministry of Advanced
Education mandate
2008
Pilot studies
RFP
November 2008
uCentral site license
February 2012
Policies for BCIT and
Health Authorities
January 2010
Sim
lab/classroom/clinical
2010-present
Bookshelf
BCIT App
iBooks
2013/2014
BCIT Mobile Technologies Integration Process

6. BCIT Policy for Mobile device use (copied from BCIT Student Guidelines
Policies & Procedures 2013, p10--13):
3. Safety and Security:
· Students must not use camera, video or recording features in the clinical
environment/hospital grounds or classroom and laboratory activities.
· Maintain patient confidentiality and privacy: do not use patient
names, numbers or other identifying data.
· Maintain medical asepsis by protecting your mobile device with a plastic zip
lock/saran wrap during patient care contact; wash hands after removing wrap
and place device onto a clean surface.
· Maintain awareness of your surroundings while operating your device; be
stationary and aware of events around you.
· Maintain vigilance and keep the device on your person to prevent theft. Do
not loan out to others.
· Ensure that your device requires a password to log in and turns off
automatically after three minutes if it is not being used.

7. 4. Professional Conduct:
· Students are not permitted to engage in personal business while
performing as a clinical student without faculty permission —this includes
voice calls, texting, or internet browsing for nonclinical information.
· Put your mobile device away (in your pocket) and on quiet mode when
interacting with patients.
· Permission must be obtained by patient, health care team member or
instructor prior to any form of recording. Permission of the instructor must be
obtained if the student wishes to record a presentation or class.
· When you use the device in front of a patient/health care team
member/instructor pre-empt its use by stating your purpose for using the
device.
· Turn off all sounds when in clinical, class, meetings or conferences.
· Inform your supervising RN that you are using the device to access
information for clinical.

8. 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

9. Kapor, 2012

10. 20 min customized BCIT uCentral webinar:
http://tinyurl.com/a8kwno6
uCentral by Unbound Medicine

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

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

13. APPS YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE USING:
Rob Kruger uses:
• D2L Binder: choose documents from D2L to place on your device
• ResponseWare for virtual clickers
• Adobe Reader: have this on everything .Read and annotate pdf documents.
Can also sign pdfs.
• iAnnotate for annotating and reading pdfs.
• Keynote for the ipad ($9)
• Penultimate for the ipad
• ScannerPro for ipad ($3)—scan just about anything into a pdf document
• Dropbox—I have this on all my devices android, mac, windows and ipads
• Keynote remote: iphone only app that allows you to control Keynote
presentations on ipads or Apple computers.
• iBooks app on ipad: use this to store pdf articles to read. Adobe reader better
if you want to highlight.
• Jive app for reading the Loop
• Flipboard for creating your own magazines—have stuff on
health, education, news….
• Inkflow: visual note book for sketching and photos
• Mindjet: mind mapping app
• ABG app for ipad or iphone: provides analysis of arterial blood gases
• The physiology of the Respiratory system for ipad. Produced by Taimma
Communications
• ICU notes –a quick reference for assessment of ICU patients. May be good for
others as well. Free.

14. Jill Kerrigan uses 1. Anatomy 3D: organs
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/anatomy-3d-organs/id432803486?mt=8
2. mLumbarLaminectomy to help students to understand
spinal surgeries in level 4.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mlumbarlaminectomy/id359564686?mt=8
3. Sono Flex to help patients communicate
http://www.tobiisonoflex.com/
Eva Somogyi uses Dragon Dictation for capturing notes
http://www.dragonmobileapps.com/
El Ladha uses Boardcam as a document camera
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/board-cam-pro-live-
exhibitions/id434217477?mt=8
Doug Wiebe uses TinyScan Pro - PDF scanner to scan multipage
documents by Appxy
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/tinyscan-pro-pdf-scanner-
to/id556500145?mt=8
APPS YOUR COLLEAGUES ARE USING (CONT):

15. • 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

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

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

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

19. ―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

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

21. 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

22. • Evaluate critical thinking and clinical judgment
• E-text pilots
• Integration trials with EHRs in Sim lab
• Projectors for clinical post-conferences
• Provide info sessions for Health Authority staff
Current and Future Plans

23. 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)

24. 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.

25. The Emerging Field…..
―In all types of health care organizations, nursing
is the hub of the information flow. Developing the
science and technology of nursing informatics will
enhance the information available to nurses for
clinical practice, management, education, and
research and will facilitate the role of nurses as
communicators." Patricia F. Brennan(1996)
Nursing Informatics

26. ―that the culture and expectations of
schools of nursing embrace nursing
informatics and appropriate use of
information and communication
technology in teaching and learning‖ (p.
30).
Recommendation by the Canadian
Nurses Informatics Association
(CNIA, 2003):
http://www.cnia.ca

27. CASN Competencies
Competency 1: Information and Knowledge Management
 Uses relevant information and knowledge to support the delivery of
evidence- informed patient care.
Competency 2: Professional and Regulatory Accountability
 Uses ICTs in accordance with professional and regulatory standards and
workplace policies.
Competency 3: Information and Communication Technologies
 Uses information and communication technologies in the delivery of
patient/ client care.
http://www.casn.ca/en/Whats_new_at_CASN_108/items/123.html

28. Thank You