• Syllabus 
• Help 
• Browsing the Web 
• Nurses Go Online
• WWW Teaching 
  • NetNursing 
  • Read "Beware" information 
• Steps in using Keyboards and Mouse 
• PROFITS Pledge 
• Introduce Yourself and Meet Dr. Smith
  • Discussion Contract
  • Discussion questions
  • Discuss indicators of quality

Assignments 

• Lead Seminars
  • Student-lead seminar
• Required Quality of Life Research proposal paper to present at one seminar

• KUMC Tutorial for Human Subjects Protection OR
  • Science Ethics - Select ONE
• Terminal Objectives
  • Sample
• Mini Comprehensive Quiz
• Select one below to complete and discuss
  • Cutting Cost, Not Quality
  • Health Promotion/QLI
  • Continuous Performance Improvement 
  • Performance, continued 
  • Satisfaction and Quality 
  • Quality adjusted life years (QALY’S)
  • Conflicts in Quality Care
  • Quality Assurance Issues 
  • Managed Care Points of View 
  • Telehealth Assignments
  • Standards/Benchmarks
  • Professional "Check Up"
• Course Evaluation

Useful Sites 

• Dr. Jeff Radel's Designing Effective Presentations
• KUMC Dykes Library Journals On-Line 
• Clinical Scholarship and the Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library 
• Telemedicine Today Magazine
• Dykes Library Web Page 
• Dykes Library search (Webspirs) 
• National Institute of Nursing Research 
• WWW Yahoo! search 

• Electronic Data Bases And Journals For Keeping Up With Health Care Changes 
• Database Sites
• Patient Care Sites 
• Professional Care Sites 
• Copyright resources

Quality Issues Resources

• Information Management 
• Outcomes Management (Hedis)
• Quality of Life, Special Populations Instruments
• Health Policy Tracking
• Patient Satisfaction/Quality of Life Bibliography 
• QLI Bibliography 

For FUN: 

• Fun Sites 
• International Congress Invitation 
• Today 
• Hubble Telescope (HST) - latest public information pictures 

Quality Issues For Class Lectures: 

• Nursing Doctoral Education In The Americas
• Efficiency Poster
• Poster Graphic Quiz
• Hastings Report and Implications of Home Care 
• Scope of Home Health
• Patient and Caregiver Resources
• Conflicts in Providing Quality Care

Other Interesting WWW Sites: 

• Centers for Disease Control (CDC) 
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 

Past Assignments:

• Meet our Dr. Reaby, ourAustralian Colleague in 965
  • Guidelines For Cooperative Group Work
  • Quality of Life Assessments 
  • Aussie Comp

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