About Me~
Hi, I am a student at the University of South Alabama. I recently changes my major from Elementary Special Education to Nursing. I am sure I would have been a good teacher, but I have spent the last 20 years being a paramedic. Medicine will always be where my heart belongs. I have already takes a few classes for educators, and I am glad that I have. I do enjoy working with the pediatric population and these classes have given me incite to many aspects that I may not have considered prior to the this exposure.
Where Does Technology Fit?
So I am writing this blog because I just finished a class about technology in the classroom. Now, thinking where Technology fits into medicine is a bit diff rent than what I have studded all semester but, I do already have some good ideas. I do know how EKG's have changes. 20 years ago a paramedic could do a very simple one in the field, now they can do one that is hospital quality and fax it to the emergency room where the patient is going. The very same piece of equipment will store critical pieces of information if it is asked to do so, the capabilities are changing every day. Patient charts are very seldom hand written. Every thing is done on computers and stored electronically, this includes x-rays, MRI's and CAT scans. Medications are dispensed electronically by patient number to help keep better track of where inventory goes. I can see where developing a Personal Learning Network of health care Professionals will be very beneficial.
