| Facilitating Education of Rural Nurses via Telemedicine | ||
| Tesa Ivey, MSN1, Margaret Glasgow, BSN, RNC1 and Sarah Rhoads, DNP, APN2, (1)Maternal/Infant Division, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 W. Markham St., #526 5E, Little Rock, AR 72205, (2)ANGELS Program and the College of Nursing, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 4301 W. Markham St., #529, Little Rock, AR 72205
Often nurses in rural setting must travel a great distance to attend continuing education activities related to their specialty. Especially in the realm of obstetrical nursing, where in a small hospital nurses often have to rotate between units to care for varying types of patients. To facilitate the education of these nurses, telemedicine is currently being used to transmit educational activities to these nurses. In July of 2007, both the AWHONN Intermediate and Advanced Fetal monitoring courses were transmitted to remote sites from the | ||