October 16, 2015
MEDICAL UNIVERSITY of SOUTH CAROLINA
Vol. 34, No. 8
A REASON TO CELEBRATE – NURSING MAGNET STATUS MUSC chief nursing officer Marylyn Schaffner, third from right, and MUSC nurses celebrate the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s recognition of the Medical University as a Magnet® organization. On Oct. 2 and Oct. 5, nurses across the enterprise were treated to cake in thanks for their efforts toward achieving this long sought-after goal. photo provided
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University and Medical Center employees are recognized.
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Innovative learning soars through MyQuest BY MIKIE HAYES Public Relations
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fter months of anticipation, MyQuest has finally arrived. With all the bells and whistles it offers, there’s been quite a bit of excitement surrounding its launch. And rightly so: The new campuswide learning management system replaces CATTS — MUSC’s previous compliance training program — but more importantly, it offers a full range of new training and learning opportunities that reach far beyond the mandatory modules and annual quizzes of old. Oct. 1 marked MyQuest’s first day and a new leg of MUSC’s journey to transform learning for employees, faculty and students.
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According to Medical Center’s learning technologies manager, Albany Cromer, it’s been going great ever since. She is able to track learner interest, and on day one, she said she was pleased to see more than 500 users logged on, looking around and figuring out what it’s all about. “Yes, this is a replacement for CATTS,” Cromer said, “but it’s so much more than that. Let’s face it, you never knew what was in CATTS, and most people never went in more than once a year when they had to complete their mandatory trainings. We want MyQuest to be a vessel for employee learning. What we have now is a state–of–the–art learning management system.” Such a replacement was long overdue. CATTS had become all but impossible to
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navigate and learners reported a negative user experience. When Cromer and members of the MyQuest implementation team dug into the system, they found more than 3,000 lessons, some dating back as far as the dawn of CATTS, many of which had never been updated. The team sprang into action and after months of culling, researching, planning and executing, the new system was unveiled. Angela Egner, chief learning officer for MUSC Health, is responsible for leading learning strategies for medical center staff and leaders. She said that even the most experienced faculty and staff understand that progress depends on the ability to
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