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Sinclair Community College
The Client
Sinclair Community College, located in southwest Ohio, currently uses Nursing Central in their ADN program.
The Challenge
Sinclair Community College was a longtime user of Unbound Medicine’s best-selling nursing app, Nursing Central, but in 2015 the school adopted a textbook bundled with incorporated e-book editions. After organizing a new curriculum, it was estimated that the e-books would function as well as the Nursing Central app and decided to cancel their subscription to Nursing Central.
The Results
As the school year progressed, many students and faculty voiced their concerns about the resources and e-books in their new textbook bundle. A few of their outstanding issues included:
Nursing Central left such an impression on one instructor that she purchased a personal account. She would often share Nursing Central’s resources and tools with her students when the adopted e-books came up short.
The Solution
Bring back Nursing Central! It was clear to many that Nursing Central had been an essential part of the student learning process at Sinclair. To more accurately assess the need to readopt Nursing Central, it was necessary to measure student and instructor satisfaction of the product. A pilot study was conducted giving Nursing Central access to a cross-section of students and instructors who participated for four weeks. According to one faculty member, she and fellow faculty were “ecstatic.” They value having up-to-date drug information to keep their students at the forefront of care and in a format that makes teaching drug information more manageable. Also, faculty have acknowledged that students appear more confident in the classroom, clinical, and labs. Instructor Annie Yarnall, who lead the study, commented, “They’re [students are] not quite as fearful when they want to answer a question in class.” The pilot study concluded that students overwhelmingly preferred learning with Nursing Central. Students were enthusiastic about the drug guide. They appreciated having the most up-to-date information and integrated calculators. They also raved about how much easier it was to search for necessary information in Nursing Central. By typing in just a few letters, they could easily access essential records. Using Cross Links, they could access all of the interrelated information from each Nursing Central resource.
The Conclusion
Faculty and students were pleased to have their Nursing Central returned finally!
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