Computers In Small Bytes

Nancy I. Whitman; Marjorie J. Smith; Ramona Nelson; Irene Joos; Editor-Irene Makar Joos

ISBN 10: 0887376800 / ISBN 13: 9780887376801

Edité par Nln Press, 1996

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• Titre: Computers In Small Bytes
• Éditeur: Nln Press
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0887376800
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780887376801
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• État de l'article: As New

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Book by Whitman Nancy I Smith Marjorie J Nelson Ramona Joo

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Irene Joos holds a baccalaureate degree in nursing from Pennsylvania State University and a master’s in nursing and a master’s in information science as well as a PhD in education all form the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to her current position as Associate Professor, IST La Roche College, she served from 2003-2012 as the Director of Online Learning as well as full time faculty and prior to that as the Director of Library and Instructional Technology at La Roche. Before coming to La Roche College, she was a faculty member and served as the interim Director of Learning Resources at the School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh. Her teaching experience includes nursing informatics courses, and information systems and technology courses as well as a CORE course Virtual Communities and Social Media. She has presented at national and international conferences and has several publications related to her areas of expertise.

Nancy I. Whitman is currently Associate Dean of the College and Professor of Nursing at Lynchburg College in Virginia. Prior to this she was Dean of the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance there. Dr. Whitman received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from Alfred University, her master's degree in pediatric nursing from University of Virginia, and a doctorate in nursing from University of Texas, Austin. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Phi. Dr. Whitman has taught health education, pediatric nursing, patient education, nursing research, introduction to nursing, and professional issues courses. She developed and taught an elective in Computers in Nursing for both master's and undergraduate students. She has been active in a variety of nursing assessment and college program assessment activities. Dr. Whitman has made presentations to nursing faculty, practicing nurses, and other health care educators on a variety of topics including those related to computers and computer-assisted instruction. She developed an interactive video program that teaches concepts and correlated basic nursing skills for infection control and designed a number of Web-based course materials. Dr. Whitman received the new investigator award from the NLN Society for Research in Nursing Educator Forum (1989). She has co-authored three editions of the book Health Teaching in Nursing Practice: A Professional Model, currently published by Appleton & Lange.

Marjorie Smith is an Emeritus Professor at Winona State University where she was the first director of the Master’s Program in Nursing. She received her baccalaureate degree in nursing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her master’s degree in childbearing family nursing and doctorate in adult education are from of the University of Minnesota. She is a certified nurse-midwife and was a member of Sigma Theta Tau and the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Dr. Smith taught medical-surgical nursing, pediatric nursing, and obstetrical nursing at the undergraduate level in diploma, associate degree, and baccalaureate programs. She also taught advanced courses in nursing theory, research, women’s health care, instruction and evaluation, nursing informatics, and health care technology and computers. She has served as chief editor of the textbook Child and Family: Concepts of Nursing Practice, published by McGraw-Hill. She has also written a computer assisted learning program, The Client Using the Birth Control Pill, published by Medi-Sim. She was an active participant and evaluator for many years in Centering Pregnancy, a model of group prenatal care that is part of the Centering Health Care Institute. Dr. Smith received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Mayo School of Health Related Sciences in 1998. In 2000 she received the Outstanding Nurse Educator award from the Minnesota Association of Colleges of Nursing. In 2009 Dr. Smith was selected as one of the 100 distinguished alumni of the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing in celebration of its Centennial. Outstanding individuals were selected from some 8,500 alumni who were deemed to have made great achievements to advance health care of were doing significant work in the nursing profession that has had a profound impact on families, communities, the school, or the nursing profession.