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Designing and Delivering An Educational Website: Passions, Products, and Programs

Shelly R. Burdette-Taylor, RN, BC, MSN, CWCN, CFCN, PhDc, Taylor'D Health www.taylordhealth.com, CEO/Curriculum Designer for Taylor'D Health Consultation, Education, & Research, 11381 Ajanta Court, San Diego, CA 92129

Purpose:

Using the Internet to get your word out is exciting, simple, cost effective, and comprehensive. It is an excellent way to incorporate innovative electronic communication for marketing. Presenting yourself as well as your passions, products, and programs on the World Wide Web is innovative and time efficient. It allows for individuals to tap into resources through a website. It gives opportunity to advertise CEU programs and educational and wellness products for purchase.

Objective:

Overcoming barriers to quality wound care is a major issue. We as a health care team understand our limited resources and need to work together as a team across settings as well as between industry, healthcare, and academia. The USA has a national perspective on health and wellness and the need to collaborate and communicate to prevent litigation, unnecessary costs, as well as negative outcomes to include life and limb loss. Electronic communication and collaboration is effective and efficient.

Outcomes:

An educational website allows for links to other websites, industry products and services that complement your passions and products. If you are an expert in a field or passionate about a specific issue in the health care arena that you would like to change or just promote a better understanding of, you can incorporate chat or e-mail discussions, or interactive web education. Electronic communication is a simple method of transferring ideas and information across settings as well as time zones and between countries in moments.

Conclusion:

Education is powerful. It is the key to change behavior. Knowledge based on research is essential to overcome barriers in chronic wound healing. There is a trend to revitalize education, information, interest, and research. Using the Internet can allow for greater and better dissemination of that information at ease. It allows for verification and validation of practice.


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