Textbooks and Study Guides
Tashiro gave up a tenured Department Chair position at Northern Arizona University in 1996. He had decided to become a health informaticist and started by completing an undergraduate degree in nursing from 1996-1999. While a nursing student, he studied himself and his classmates to understand how nursing students form misconceptions. He also studied similarities in development of patterns of misconception among nursing students to see if such patterns were similar to those he observed in the sciences and mathematics. With initial funding from two United States National Science Foundation grants and a National Institutes of Health grant, Tashiro wrote 60 short stories about patients’ complex experiences during medical, nursing, and first responder EMT-Paramedic care. He then adapted each story into a short screenplay depicting experiences of patients during their care.
With funding from the publisher Harcourt Health Sciences and then Elsevier Incorporated (which had purchased Harcourt’s health sciences publishing companies), Tashiro created a research-development group and directed filming of each patient screenplay with professional crews, actors, and healthcare experts, then nested the videos (over 800 edited minutes) into online healthcare simulations that included different floors in a virtual hospital, different treatment rooms within a virtual medical office, and a series of virtual patient encounters with first responders, EMTs, and Paramedics. Tashiro then showed Elsevier editors and subject matter experts how to use these virtual settings within of Elsevier’s healthcare textbooks, especially in nursing areas. Tashiro authored or co-authored or assisted in development of instructional materials that became 170 undergraduate academic texts and study guides published by Elsevier Incorporated. From the link below, you can see examples of three textbooks.
The examples below represent only a small sample of the over 170 study guides-simulations that Tashiro helped Harcourt Health Sciences and then Elsevier Incorporated develop for healthcare education from 1999 to present. Many of the more recent texts have been integrated into the Elsevier Evolve System, which provides electronic versions of the software coupled to an electronic workbook and other online educational and learning assessment materials.
• By Patricia A. Potter RN MSN PhD FAAN, Anne Griffin Perry RN EdD FAAN Patricia A. Stockert RN BSN MS PhD, and Amy Hall RN BSN MS PhD CNE
• Simulations and chapters by Jay-Shiro Tashiro, PhD, BA, BSN, RN
• By Patricia A. Williams RN MSN CCRN and Susan C. deWit MSN RN CNS PHN
• Simulations and chapters by Jay-Shiro Tashiro, PhD, BA, BSN, RN
• By Mick J. Sanders MSA EMT-P
• Simulations and chapters by Jay-Shiro Tashiro, PhD, BA, BSN, RN