Teaching correct and safe bedside procedures

Creating a safe bedside teaching environment: a personal experience

A ctive learning is increasingly used as a teaching method in modern medical curricula. Therefore I have adopted case-based group discussions as an educational method for nephrology bedside teaching. In these sessions the students had first to review the patient’s history from the case record and summarise the important and vital points. This was followed by a group discussion focusing on the m...

Patient 's Bedside Teaching: Advantages and Disadvantages

Introduction:Nursing education includes both theoretical and clinical areas, therefore it has special features and problems of its own. One is establishing integration between theoretical and clinical training . Patient's bedside teaching is considered to be an important component of clinical education. Time spent with the patient is full of visual, auditory and tactile experiences and there...

On bedside teaching.

Actual teaching at the bedside during attending rounds, with emphasis on history taking and physical diagnosis, has declined from an incidence of 75% in the 1960s to an incidence of less than 16% today. Profound advances in technology, in imaging, and in laboratory testing and our fascination for these aspects of patient care, account for part of this decline, but faculty must also assume respo...

Teaching at the bedside.

A Correct Abstract Machine for Safe Ambients

We describe an abstract machine, called GcPan, for the distributed execution of Safe Ambients (SA), a variant of the Ambient Calculus (AC). Our machine improves over previous proposals for executing AC, or variants of it, mainly through a better management of special agents (forwarders), created upon code migration to transmit messages to the target location of the migration. We establish the c...