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Strategies for Faculty Development in Nursing Education
Margaret McMillan 한국간호과학회 2011 한국간호과학회 학술대회 Vol.2011 No.10
Nursing curricula and scholarly activities are shaped by complex and competing forces. At present there are powerful drivers for extensive curriculum renewal: This presents an opportunity for the nursing professing to develop creative curriculum blueprints that accommodate and lead innovation. Academics and clinicians involved in the education of nurses must aim to build their own and student capabilities and maintain processes to improve and sustain graduate outcomes that are consistent with consumer and health service needs. Curricula must be responsive to innovations in practice and learning and teaching. Knowing about the trends, challenges and drivers from both the health care and the higher education sectors is central to faculty development and capacity building. Informed direction can come from a range of sources including the government, professional literature, and external advisory committees and student feedback. The curriculum renewal process itself ought to challenge existing long held ideas, practices, and sacred cows within the health and higher education sectors. There is much to consider and importantly curriculum developers need to be mindful of reform within the health sector and health workforce education, as well as the concomitant vision and requirements of the nursing profession. Curriculum must develop more than discipline knowledge and skills : it must provide an infrastructure for generic abilities both social and intellectual in order to better prepare students for the registered nurse role. This paper discusses a number of forces that are essential to consider in curriculum development in undergraduate nursing education.
The use of tissue fiducial markers in improving the accuracy of post-prostatectomy radiotherapy
Chao, Michael,Ho, Huong,Joon, Daryl Lim,Chan, Yee,Spencer, Sandra,Ng, Michael,Wasiak, Jason,Lawrentschuk, Nathan,McMillan, Kevin,Sengupta, Shomik,Tan, Alwin,Koufogiannis, George,Cokelek, Margaret,Foro The Korean Society for Radiation Oncology 2019 Radiation Oncology Journal Vol.37 No.1
Purpose: The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate the use of a radiopaque tissue fiducial marker (TFM) in the treatment of prostate cancer patients who undergo post-prostatectomy radiotherapy (PPRT). TFM safety, its role and benefit in quantifying the set-up uncertainties in patients undergoing PPRT image-guided radiotherapy were assessed. Materials and Methods: A total of 45 consecutive PPRT patients underwent transperineal implantation of TFM at the level of vesicourethral anastomosis in the retrovesical tissue prior to intensity-modulated radiotherapy. Prostate bed motion was calculated by measuring the position of the TFM relative to the pelvic bony anatomy on daily cone-beam computed tomography. The stability and visibility of the TFM were assessed in the initial 10 patients. Results: No postoperative complications were recorded. A total of 3,500 images were analysed. The calculated prostate bed motion for bony landmark matching relative to TFM were 2.25 mm in the left-right, 5.89 mm in the superior-inferior, and 6.59 mm in the anterior-posterior directions. A significant 36% reduction in the mean volume of rectum receiving 70 Gy (rV<sub>70</sub>) was achieved for a uniform planning target volume (PTV) margin of 7 mm compared with the Australian and New Zealand Faculty of Radiation Oncology Genito-Urinary Group recommended PTV margin of 10 mm. Conclusion: The use of TFM was safe and can potentially eliminate set-up errors associated with bony landmark matching, thereby allowing for tighter PTV margins and a consequent favourable reduction in dose delivered to the bladder and rectum, with potential improvements in toxicities.
The use of tissue fiducial markers in improving the accuracy of post-prostatectomy radiotherapy
Michael Chao,Huong Ho,Daryl Lim Joon,Yee Chan,Sandra Spencer,Michael Ng,Jason Wasiak,Nathan Lawrentschuk,Kevin McMillan,Shomik Sengupta,Alwin Tan,George Koufogiannis,Margaret Cokelek,Farshad Foroudi,T 대한방사선종양학회 2019 Radiation Oncology Journal Vol.37 No.1
Purpose: The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate the use of a radiopaque tissue fiducial marker (TFM) in the treatment of prostate cancer patients who undergo post-prostatectomy radiotherapy (PPRT). TFM safety, its role and benefit in quantifying the set-up uncertainties in patients undergoing PPRT image-guided radiotherapy were assessed. Materials and Methods: A total of 45 consecutive PPRT patients underwent transperineal implantation of TFM at the level of vesicourethral anastomosis in the retrovesical tissue prior to intensity-modulated radiotherapy. Prostate bed motion was calculated by measuring the position of the TFM relative to the pelvic bony anatomy on daily cone-beam computed tomography. The stability and visibility of the TFM were assessed in the initial 10 patients. Results: No postoperative complications were recorded. A total of 3,500 images were analysed. The calculated prostate bed motion for bony landmark matching relative to TFM were 2.25 mm in the left-right, 5.89 mm in the superior-inferior, and 6.59 mm in the anterior-posterior directions. A significant 36% reduction in the mean volume of rectum receiving 70 Gy (rV70) was achieved for a uniform planning target volume (PTV) margin of 7 mm compared with the Australian and New Zealand Faculty of Radiation Oncology Genito-Urinary Group recommended PTV margin of 10 mm. Conclusion: The use of TFM was safe and can potentially eliminate set-up errors associated with bony landmark matching, thereby allowing for tighter PTV margins and a consequent favourable reduction in dose delivered to the bladder and rectum, with potential improvements in toxicities.