Our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package has been shortlisted in the Johnson & Johnson Award for Excellence in Midwifery Education category of this year’s RCM Midwifery Awards.

The package is a high quality, interactive, web-based ‘reusable learning object’, aimed at final year student midwives. Using video narratives of women’s lived experiences of breastfeeding selected from Healthtalkonline, together with other published evidence, students are provided with an enhanced insight about what kind of support is effective, empowering and valued, and what support is regarded as unhelpful, detrimental and disempowering. They are then encouraged to critically evaluate and challenge current practices that influence the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, as well as reflect on their own practice and attitudes to breastfeeding.

An edited version of the package should be appearing on the Healthtalkonline site in the next few months in the Teaching and Learning Section. Once this is up and running I’ll post a link to it from here.

RCM Midwifery Awards

Visit Healthtalkonline

Nice to see the Daily Telegraph writing about Healthtalkonline (formerly Dipex). If you haven’t visited it yet, the site lets you share in other people’s experiences of health and illness. You can watch or listen to videos of the interviews, read about people’s experiences and find reliable information about conditions, treatment choices and support.

We have links to this site through the work we have been doing on our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package and have been working recently on providing them with an edited version of the package which should be appearing on their site in the next few months in the Teaching and Learning Section.

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Visit Healthtalkonline

Students entering Second Life as virtual paramedics can assess and treat patients by checking their pulse, dressing wounds and administering drugs. They can also access a toolkit, including all the equipment you would typically find in an ambulance, such as oxygen masks and an electrocardiogram (ECG)……

Online Nursing

BBC News Story

Source : SLHealth List

Attended a really enjoyable and stimulating e-learning conference at Plymouth today. Here’s my session on Web 2.0 @ BU – Use of Wikis within the School of Health & Social Care (instead of using powerpoint this session utilised a wikispace)

Visit The Presentation and supporting material
Date & Time Of Presentation : Friday 4th April 2008 at 11.45am – 12.15pm

Andy At Plymouth

Steve Wheeler’s Conference Round-up

I attended an interesting day of presentations and workshops at the University of Southampton today…

Steve Wheeler report

Presentations from the event