iPods aid UL nursing students

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  UL — Check out what’s on a University of Louisiana nursing student’s iPod and you may learn how to physically access a patient or properly take vital signs.

This semester, nursing faculty produced podcasts of fundamental skills sophomore nursing students must perfect in their first clinical course.

The technology to produce the podcasts, as well as 30 nano iPods made available for the semester for students without access to the portable devices, were made possible with a $50,000 grant from the Board of Regents. The devices will remain with the program and loaned to future students.

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By MARSHA SILLS
Acadiana bureau

[User_Name]

$50,000 for a podcast?!? How is that not a huge waste of funding?

30 iPods @ $149 = $4,470 (this number would be lower due to Apple's education pricing)
software = at most $100/license

What am I missing here?

[jbreaux]

who says all the money was spent?

[User_Name]

That is what I was asking...

Even if it has not been spent, how is $50,000 justified for this?

[leeman]

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"physically access a patient"?.. hopefully they meant "assess" lol.... oh and the "technology to produce the podcast" is probably where the other 49k went