Patients who are unable to communicate with their health care providers are now able to better verbalize their needs, thanks to a new app developed by Rebecca Koszalinski, an assistant professor of nursing at UT. Speak for Myself allows intubated and voiceless patients to communicate pain, fear, anxiety, loneliness, and toileting requests to their doctors and nurses through an iPad or Android tablet.

Statistics show that roofers tend to have a higher injury and death rate compared to other construction workers. Graduate students from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering partnered with researchers at the Construction Industry Research and Policy Center in UT’s Haslam College of Business to create a solution to the problem. “The app is a tool to tell roofers what fall protection they need,” said Ed Taylor, executive director of the CIRPC. “It provides a decision-making flow chart to walk a person through the process determining safety precautions based on the characteristics of a roof.” This application has many additional resources available to managers and workers alike. To see more click the link below!

The Design and Development of an Electronic Fetal Monitoring App The Simulated Electronic Fetal Monitoring (SEFM) app is an educational app designed to simulate electronic fetal monitors, which are used to assess the health of a fetus during the labor and birth process. The EFM app is a collaborative effort between the Colleges of Engineering and Nursing at UT, and was recently featured in Tennessee Alumnus.

Tami Wyatt, assistant dean of graduate programs in the College of Nursing and co-director of the Health Innovation Technology & Simulation Lab, has been named the first Torchbearer Professor in Nursing. This is the first endowed position in the college to be funded by private donations.

Design and Development of an Electronic Fetal Monitoring App The Simulated Electronic Fetal Monitoring (SEFM) app is an educational app designed to simulate electronic fetal monitors, which are used to assess the health of a fetus during the labor and birth process. The EFM app is a collaborative effort between the Colleges of Engineering and Nursing at UT, and was awarded 2nd place in the Mobile App Competition at the Institute of Industrial Engineering Annual Conference 2015, Nashville. It is currently available on the Apple Store. It has already been used in the undergraduate obstetric nursing course NURS403 to simulate live tracings for student interpretation. The response from students has been very positive and the faculty have experienced minimal user issues.

UT’s College of Nursing and College of Engineering teamed together to come up with the Health Innovation Technology and Simulation (HITS) Lab, creating spaces identical to a variety of care facilities, complete with actors and manikins serving as patients.

The university offers undergraduates the opportunity to reach beyond the classroom to pursue the excitement of original research and creative projects. Every spring, the Office of Research & Engagement organizes the Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement (EURēCA) — a two-day exhibition and performance event for students. A group of the students (Haley Elaine Hudgins, Sarah Elizabeth Smith, Brayan Guzman Zavala, Kaitlyn Marie Shaw) from the School of Art won this years' Gold EUReCA award for the HITS project: Interactive Debriefing Application​.

By integrating clinical scenarios with web-based EHR simulation software, Lippincott's DocuCare teaches students to think critically about documentation while enabling the teacher to measure their progress. Its non-linear EHR solution works well in the classroom, simulation lab, and clinical practice. Lippincott's DocuCare can help the teacher easily integrate an EHR into the curriculum...

iCare is an educational software program that integrates electronic health records (EHR) into a simulated learning tool for students. Developed by Tami Wyatt and Matt Bell of the College of Nursing and Xueping Li and Yo Indranoi of the College of Engineering (Industrial & Systems Engineering), iCare helps prepare future nurses for the demands...

UT’s College of Nursing is looking to the future with the introduction of a new educational software program called iCare this fall. Electronic health records are used in increasingly more hospitals and institutions around the country as an alternative to paper files. The problem lies in the fact that one must be a licensed health care provider to actually use EHRs, so many students don’t work with these until they enter their field.

Congratulations! Dr. Rebecca S. Koszalinski has been selected to participate in the Dolphin Tank Pitch Session hosted by Springboard Enterprises at the Aging, Technology and Innovation Conference on Friday, November 20, 10:00am-12:00pm, at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel, 1500 Epcot Resorts Blvd, Lake Buena Vista, FL 32830.

iCare is supported by the National Science Foundation! This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I focuses on the development of a systematic methodology for the usability study of academic electronic health records (EHR) systems to guide the development of iCare, an academic EHR clinical simulation tool, with the aim to provide undergraduate and graduate students nationwide with exposure to, and experience in utilizing EHRs.