Valerie M. Howard, Ed.D., R.N.

Valerie Howard is the Director of the Regional RISE Center and Associate Professor of Nursing at Robert Morris University, where she has designed and implemented high-fidelity simulation scenarios throughout the undergraduate and graduate nursing curriculum.

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High-Fidelity Nursing Education Unless you're a newly minted RN, you may not be familiar with the new technology popping up in today’s nursing classrooms, including the newest, most realistic patient simulations yet. But implementing these interactive systems didn't happen overnight. Here, you can follow the steps taken by one nursing school in introducing this technology to its team. » Read full article

High-Fidelity Nursing Education

Unless you're a newly minted RN, you may not be familiar with the new technology popping up in today’s nursing classrooms, including the newest, most realistic patient simulations yet. But implementing these interactive systems didn't happen overnight. Here, you can follow the steps taken by one nursing school in introducing this technology to its team.

» Read full article

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