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Education, Nursing , Educational Measurement , Teaching/methods , Humans , Students, NursingABSTRACT
Faculty evaluation in nursing education is becoming increasingly important as economic realities and accountability efforts hit higher education. Efforts to document teaching effectiveness in nursing are essential to demonstrate nursing education's accountability to the profession and the public it serves. The purposes of faculty evaluation and its interface with the institutional mission and program goals are discussed. Characteristics of effective teaching, evaluation models, and the effects of teaching styles and student learning styles are presented. Also, variables in the instructional setting and evaluation participants re discussed. Components of teaching effectiveness evaluation including student, peer, self, and administrative evaluation are described. Finally, input, outcome and process measures are presented as a model for teaching effectiveness evaluation and guidelines are provided to assist with the development of a system for documenting effective teaching in nursing.
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Education, Nursing/standards , Teaching/standards , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Humans , Models, TheoreticalSubject(s)
Insulin/administration & dosage , Pressure Ulcer/nursing , Administration, Topical , Aged , Female , Humans , Male , Pilot Projects , Pressure Ulcer/drug therapyABSTRACT
When a pilot study provided evidence that insulin may increase the rate of healing of decubitus ulcers, this study attempted to answer the question: Is topical insulin therapy an effective treatment regimen for decubitus ulcers? The experimental study utilized a two-group, before-after design. Twenty-nine geriatric subjects were randomly assigned to either the experimental or the control group. The single independent variable was the topical application of ten units of regular insulin (U.S.P.) twice daily. The dependent variable was the surface area of the decubitus ulcer measured in square millimeters. Rate of healing was defined as decrease in surface area over time. Data were also gathered on extraneous variables believed to influence the healing process. The F test was used to test the research hypothesis that experimental subjects would have an increased rate of healing. When comparison of group means on day seven and day 15 revealed no significant differences, the research hypothesis was rejected. Pearson product moment correlation procedures were utilized to determine if there were differences between extraneous variables and the rate of healing. Females healed significantly (p less than .05) more slowly than males. Also, there was a direct correlation between the number of days of treatment and the rate of healing.
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Insulin/administration & dosage , Pressure Ulcer/drug therapy , Drug Evaluation , Female , Humans , Pilot ProjectsABSTRACT
To test the hypothesis that there will be a significantly greater increase in the rate of healing of decubitus ulcers in subjects who receive topical insulin therapy than in subjects who receive other forms of therapy, a pilot study was conducted, utilizing a two-group before and after design. Decubitus ulcers of six experimental group subjects were treated with a topical application of ten units of regular insulin twice a day for five days; eight control group subjects received one of a variety of topical therapies other than insulin. Data were collected on all subjects for a 15-day period. Although generalizations cannot be based on the results of 14 subjects, data analysis showed that insulin was a safe and effective agent in the healing of small, uncomplicated decubitus ulcers. The results appear to warrant a more extensive study of the subject.
