TY - JOUR
T1 - Online biostatistics
T2 - Evidence-based curriculum for master's nursing education
AU - Shillam, Casey R.
AU - Ho, Grace
AU - Commodore-Mensah, Yvonne
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - Rapid changes in health care delivery require nurses to attain advanced knowledge, skills, and attitudes in biostatistics to provide high-quality, safe patient care. Advances in educational technologies support the delivery of graduate nursing education in online formats. Given the diversity of learning styles among graduate nursing students and the specific challenges in delivering biostatistics content in traditional formats, it is vital to include diff erent delivery formats to engage and meet the learning needs of graduate nursing students who take biostatistics courses online. This article describes the pioneering approach of one graduate nursing program to implementing best practices for delivering an online biostatistics course to help master's-prepared nurses attain both statistical literacy and statistical communication skills.
AB - Rapid changes in health care delivery require nurses to attain advanced knowledge, skills, and attitudes in biostatistics to provide high-quality, safe patient care. Advances in educational technologies support the delivery of graduate nursing education in online formats. Given the diversity of learning styles among graduate nursing students and the specific challenges in delivering biostatistics content in traditional formats, it is vital to include diff erent delivery formats to engage and meet the learning needs of graduate nursing students who take biostatistics courses online. This article describes the pioneering approach of one graduate nursing program to implementing best practices for delivering an online biostatistics course to help master's-prepared nurses attain both statistical literacy and statistical communication skills.
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U2 - 10.3928/01484834-20140326-01
DO - 10.3928/01484834-20140326-01
M3 - Article
C2 - 24654693
AN - SCOPUS:84898448768
SN - 0148-4834
VL - 53
SP - 229
EP - 232
JO - Journal of Nursing Education
JF - Journal of Nursing Education
IS - 4
ER -