SONET - Educational Technology Group 
SONET - Educational Technology Group This section contains 'ready-rolled' online learning materials which can be used by teachers and students of Nursing & Midwifery, eg tutorials, learning objects, quizzes.
http://www.cetl.org.uk/learning/
This CETL provides a number of multimedia e-learning resources in infection control and clinical observations, including Disposal of Sharps, Hand Hygiene, and Blood Glucose Monitoring. The resources are Powerpoint presentations, with voiceovers, which have been converted to web presentations with the Articulate Presenter tool. Also provided are presentation printouts in PDF for offline reference.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/medical/bhs/tutorial/tutorial.htm
The first section of this tutorial is a video of blood pressure measurement.The remainder of this tutorial allows you to test your accuracy by recording 34 blood pressure values and comparing your results with those obtained by 24 experienced observers. You will find a range of falling columns and sounds that correspond to the variety found in clinical practice. The tutorial was produced by the University of Aberdeen's Medi-CAL Unit.
http://nursingstandard.rcnpublishing.co.uk/resources/articles/
A series of short, two-page printable quick reference guides on a range of important nursing clinical procedures, including numeracy skills, CPR, urine testing, hypertension management, and more. Published by the Nursing Standard.
A set of high-quality Flash animations of cellular biological processes, including mitosis and meiosis, DNA, and cell anatomy, developed by John Kirk, a "biologist by education and an artist by disposition".
A site full of detailed, high-quality, controllable animations of cell processes in animals and plants, sorted by category and by alphabetical index.
http://www.vetgo.com/cardio/media/anims/hyperheart.htm
HyperHeart is an interactive animation/movie developed for a pharmacology course at the University of Utah, USA, detailing bloodflow, aortic/ventricular volumes and pressures present in a normal cardiac cycle. Also included are an electrocardiogram and heart sounds graph. Tutorials are provided for each phase of the cycle and interactive functions such as frame-by frame viewing, high/low quality toggle for faster playback, and a pop-up-menu to select the phase tutorials can all be utilised within the animation itself.
MERLOT is a large, high-quality repository of learning materials for teachers and students in higher education worldwide. Resource types include tutorials, animations, and simulations, as well as books and websites. Each resource is peer-reviewed to ensure that it's of sufficient quality for inclusion. Resources are sorted by categories and sub-categories, with the categories probably of most interest to School staff being Health Science and Biology.
A large, searchable repository of learning objects in wide range of subjects, all implemented in Flash (as is much of the website). Of particular interest to School of Nursing members will be the section on Health but there are also some potentially useful LOs in the General Education section under Anatomy & Physiology I and II.
Page last updated 1 December, 2011 . Site maintained by Fred Riley.
