Overview

Over the few short years since its creation, LinkingHealthProfessionals has grown significantly to incorporate additional modules, maintain a steady membership growth and to evolve to meet our members' system requirements.

The Member

LinkingHealthProfessionals provides healthcare members with the tools to get connected with one another, exchange ideas, and collaborate. Each member sets up their profile which the system uses to link mentors and mentees together.

Becoming a member allows you to create your own RSS feeds, send private messages, browse and request to join existing communities and should you so desire, become a mentor or request to be mentored. Members include students, physicians, nurses, allied healthcare professionals and administrators from everywhere and anywhere around the world.

BECOME A MEMBER

The Community

Communities provide a space where healthcare facilities (universities, hospitals, associations, institutions, etc.) can store and disseminate information to their staff/students/members through their online communities. Every community member has the potential to view news items, add postings, view scheduled events, access the document repository, participate in discussion forums and contribute to the community wiki.

Hospitals and organizations have created communities to assist in educating staff on important healthcare issues such as emergency preparedness and patient safety. The Centre for Excellence in Emergency Preparedness, St. Michael's Hospital, Lourdes College, the University of Toronto Centre for Faculty Development and many more organizations use the LinkingHealthProfessionals community to cultivate a culture of knowledge sharing.

The Modules

Healthcare facilities can provide to a pre-defined population the capability to perform certain functions online, such as submit clinical appointments and evaluations (student and teacher), manage an e-store or conference, and most recently, match teachers with students, manage electives, and provide access to video recordings.

Through customizable modules, our partners are able to provide more efficient and effective means of collecting and dispersing information to all those involved, from students and faculty to, hospital administrators and accreditation boards. Our module partners include, to name a few, the University of Toronto Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, the University of Alberta Department of Family Medicine and St. Michael's Hospital.

What our users say

"We recently rolled out a hospital-wide initiative that aimed to improve patient safety through communication and education. We were looking for an online, community-based network as the platform for our initiative, although finding a suitable product that met our needs was difficult. LinkingHealthProfessionals and its staff went out of their way to understand what we were trying to achieve and worked with us to make the modifications and customizations that led to the successful launch and implementation of our patient safety network. The LinkingHealthProfessionals staff are knowledgeable, innovative and eager to provide advice on design. Above all, their commitment to customer service is exceptional. It has been a real pleasure using LinkingHealthProfessionals and working with the staff."

Dr. Chris Hayes
Medical Director, Quality and Patient Safety, St. Michael's Hospital

The nursing evaluation platform you'll actually love!

Nursing Partnership in the online environment.

Learning to become a nurse happens in a community! The nursing student is at the core of the academic journey, which starts in the classroom and continues with the help of teachers, clinical instructors, clinical advisors and faculty, in the clinical placement setting. Part of the appeal of learning nursing practices directly from the talented faculty, is actually connecting with them and learning in real time. It is necessary to strengthen this partnership between the student and teacher to increase successful impact and sustainability.

Canada's nursing education system is rooted in 100-year-old traditions, including a "time based" model of nursing education. Research shows that a system based exclusively on time is not optimal for meeting the education and assessment needs. Although it is recognized that time must continue to be one element in a comprehensive nursing education, the future will shift toward a balanced approach in which more emphasis is placed on regular assessment of performance.

Competency-based nursing education (CBNE), by definition, necessitates a robust and multifaceted assessment system:

For students

Receive frequent and high-quality feedback to guide their development and the acquisition of the necessary competencies.
In case of deficiencies in certain knowledge areas, skills, or attitudes, CBNE can provide an "early warning system" to guide remedial action.
For the few students who do not and will not ever possess the minimum level of competence required for nursing practice, early identification will facilitate an earlier and fair exit from nursing education.

At the program level

Effective assessment provides the information and judgment necessary to enable program-level decisions about student advancement to be made reliably and fairly.
CBNE is focused on continuous quality improvement.
Understanding the interactions between students and clinical instructors and how they adapt and change is crucial to creating, maintaining, and constantly improving a CBNE assessment system.

Collaborative

Our self-assessment process is a collaborative one, students, clinical teachers and course coordinators share the same document.

The student can learn from the clinical teacher to develop the self-reflective skills from the personalized, unique examples of the self-assessment ratings and comments.
The clinical teacher can review the updates from different versions of the student assessment.
The course coordinator, having a specific teaching experience can use the expertise to coach the clinical teacher in training technical skills if necessary.

A student centric platform

The student can state it's own Clinical Learning Objectives that can be monitored by each clinical teacher to ensure an effective coaching, mentoring and feedback
Identify students who are at risk of not meeting the course/program objectives and offer support and remediation immediately because the progressive evaluations offers a clear, up-to-date view
Clinical Teachers have the ability to view comparisons for the same competencies in time and add comments directly on students performance

Easy to use

LinkingHealthProfessionals runs in any modern web browser, on your smartphone, tablet or PC, without having to download or install any additional software.
Every user is receives reminder notifications when evaluations are outstanding.
It is a true cloud application, secure and confidential

LinkingHealthProfessionals

Evaluation System
for Nursing Schools

Why LinkingHealthProfessionals?

Who is Collaborating?

The time for nursing competency-based education has come.

Overview

The Member

The Community

The Modules

Create your own community

What our users say

The nursing evaluation platform you'll actually love!

Nursing Partnership in the online environment.

Competency-based nursing education (CBNE), by definition, necessitates a robust and multifaceted assessment system:

For students

At the program level

Collaborative

A student centric platform

Easy to use

Knowledge4You Corporation

Phone & Fax

LinkingHealthProfessionals

Evaluation Systemfor Nursing Schools

Why LinkingHealthProfessionals?

Who is Collaborating?

The time for nursing competency-based education has come.

Overview

The Member

The Community

The Modules

Create your own community

What our users say

The nursing evaluation platform you'll actually love!

Nursing Partnership in the online environment.

Competency-based nursing education (CBNE), by definition, necessitates a robust and multifaceted assessment system:

For students

At the program level

Collaborative

A student centric platform

Easy to use

Knowledge4You Corporation

Phone & Fax

Evaluation System
for Nursing Schools