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Pain & Technology in Clinical Practice

Pain & Technology in Clinical Practice. Jo Eland PhD RN FNAP FAAN University of Iowa - College of Nursing. The News. Technology changes all the time Keeping up Legacy System. Information Overload. Quantity is not the problem. Desktops & Laptops. Will disappear Tablets are the future

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Pain & Technology in Clinical Practice

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  1. Pain & Technology in Clinical Practice • Jo Eland PhD RN FNAP FAAN • University of Iowa - College of Nursing

  2. The News • Technology changes all the time • Keeping up • Legacy System

  3. Information Overload • Quantity is not the problem

  4. Desktops & Laptops • Will disappear • Tablets are the future • Light weight • Intuitive • Retina Screens

  5. Hospital Systems • Citrix iPad application • Encryption most hospital systems 64 bit, iPads 256 bit • RF Chips coming in new iPads and patient id bands • Instant access to that patients information!

  6. Google Searches • Stellate Ganglion Anatomy (No sound) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPjTrV5-Zew&feature=player_detailpage • What people might find - unusual person http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMjrYOL2Rr8 • Stellate for PTSD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIoMaObfI-o

  7. Patient Ed Your Way • Provide options for your patients • Waiting rooms - choose what is there • Hospital - leave iPads with them • Hospitalized patients - leave an iPad with them • “Find my iPad app”

  8. Animations • Alpharma

  9. Other Learners • Many have a revolving door of student learners • Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy, Social Work, Psychologist etc. etc. • Require Online Orientation - save your time

  10. Resources • Textbooks online, Drug references • Course Management Software - use your affiliations • Eland’s Course - https://icon.uiowa.edu

  11. Topics • What questions do you answer 100x a day? • What is a stellate ganglion? • How does pain work? • Why so many analgesics for me? • What needs to be consistently reinforced?

  12. Not a “techie?” • Audio files - mp3’s • Your phone has a video camera! • And a decent still camera • Keynote (PowerPoints) ->iPad • Link to You Tube Animations • iTunes U is free

  13. iTunes U • Free and online • If your patients have web access they can get to this • We don’t always hear things the first time....

  14. The Beginning??

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