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Employer Quotes
The quotes below are from employers in this industry: Health Care
They are talking about this topic: Educational Partnerships
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Respondents suggest curricular improvements such as more coursework on patient communication (including critical conversations before clinical and interwoven with clinical practice), gerontology, molecular, ICD-10 coding, professionalism, using simulations, and project management.
| "I'd have more geriatric information and more geriatric training across the board. Because, even if we're not focusing on the last two or three years of life, across the board, you're going to have older, more chronic, more complicated cases when patients present." | Northeast |
| "When folks present, they're going to present with more complicated and more serious issues, and probably more geriatric. So that kind of specialty information is helpful, whether it's a class along the way or even a special focus." | Northeast |
| "Employer 1: So, if you could add one class to the curriculum for an RN, an LPN, a lab tech, or somebody else...? Employer 2: How to be an exceptional employee. And that's where you talk about what makes you either rank-and-file, middle-of-the-road, a good enough employee or what really makes you stand out—whether it's on your floor, in your unit, in your practice, or whatever it is. And it's the kind of things we're talking about, being adaptable, having a good work ethic, getting there early, and having your cup of coffee before you sit down at your desk. Not putting your coat down and then meandering off someplace else. How, in fact, to be the person that you would want caring for your mother if she were in that bed or in that exam room." |
Northeast |
| "You were talking about how you teach relational skills or any of those kinds of things. I've been thinking about that, too. I'm wondering whether this is a generational thing—where that's learned visually—through movies and stories and TV and all that kind of thing—and I'm wondering whether there could be episodic experiences? Whether, say, they watch an episode of Grey's Anatomy that happened to deal with somebody being on the iPod and not paying attention to the patient or something. I don't know if there really is that episode. But there are episodes out there that do explore the various issues. Or you could have a simulation where—a little Sim City episode—where you put somebody you really love in the hospital bed, and then the person who's taking care of them starts texting, and you actually watch the patient crash or die because the caregiver was doing something else. It's all in simulation, but..." | Northeast |
| "It's kind of like pilot training—you know, they put them on a simulator, and it's like, okay, let's see what happens when you fly the plane. 'Oh, this'll be easy. Oh, no—I crashed!' That kind of thing happens and we could we do that in health care, too. So, that we see that the actions that we take actually have life or death consequences, just like if you're flying a plane." | Northeast |
| "You could even have the professors be on their iPhones and texting, instead of talking to the kids at the beginning of the class, so they could model the behavior. 'Oh, sorry, maybe I shouldn't be so distracted when you deserve my full attention.'" | Northeast |