Thank you Jerry! I really appreciate it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 8:25 AM Subject: Re: Need help with weird project...
> So style it is. I will take a crack at it tonight at home, and see what I can do (steal.) > > I am going to dip into previous ideas - created by actual Instructional and Print Designers. > > Great project. Good Luck. > Jerry Johnson > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/25/02 11:49AM >>> > Jerry, > the content is not my responsibility, and I have been told that it will > change only slightly from the current content. > > I am the "Style" person to come up with ideas to make the content > understandable to the health aids. > > But I will put forth the suggestion anyway - its really how the book is > written, except that the trees are more complicated than one might expect. > > > Thank you. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jerry Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 4:35 AM > Subject: Re: Need help with weird project... > > > > Having done a _ton_ of these in my past lives, my first question is: > > > > Are you thinking about reorganizing the content, or are you just looking > for style ideas and/or ideas to create a decent cognitive map. > > > > If reorganizing the content is an option, and the purpose is to walk a > relatively ignorant user through all the possibilities to get to A SINGLE > ANSWER, I might organize the content with a dichotomous key. And pull the > patient ed stuff out separately (on individual pages that can easily be > photocopied and sent home with the patient.) > > > > That is basically breaking the content into an ever-deepening tree, > usually with only two branching options (although a multi-case is sometimes > helpful.) > > > > For example, > > > > Are there signs of severe allergic reaction (shortness of breath...) > > Yes - Go to EMERGENCY, Severe Shortness of Breath, p. 70 > > No - Did it start as an: > > insect bite - Go to SKIN-10: Insect Bites, Stings > > Injury - Go to SKIN-14: ... > > > > > > Just an idea. > > Jerry Johnson > > > > > > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/24/02 08:38PM >>> > > I have been asked to work on a project that is a little out of my realm of > skills and which is a little odd. I could use your help. > > > > In rural Alaska sometimes people live in villages where the nearest doctor > or nurse is hundreds of miles away, accessable on via plane or maybe boat. > In these villages there is a health care practicioner called a Community > Health Aid. They have Emergency Trauma Tech training and are trained in > basic health care skills and are supervised by doctors in larger cities in > Alaska via telephone. In order to give such an inexperienced person the > ability to do the job needed, a manual was created which is bascially a step > by step instruction book for the Health Aids to follow. > > > > The project is to rewrite this manual so that it works better. The > reason I was chosen to be on the committee is because they need some > technical expertise on working together from around the state, and because I > opened up my fat mouth and pointed out all kinds of things wrong with the > current book layout. In the future this book will be a web app but thats > another story. > > > > Opening up my fat mouth has given me a task to complete before friday. It > is this task which I come to you with. Many of you have some editing and > content backgrounds, some of you are artistic and most of you are creative. > I think you might be able to come up with an idea I hadn't thought of. > > > > The task is to figure out a good, sensible layout for the text of the > book. Basically its kind of a technical manual for medicine - there are > tasks, to be done in order, questions to ask, based on the type of problem. > The current layout is bad - its hard to find the "problem" headers on the > page because they are the same size and font as the subtitles below them. > The questions that the health aid is supposed to ask aren't indicated any > differently than an action or a decision tree. They don't want anything to > really change the way the health aids work (i.e I cant' do flow charts etc) > but they would like the instructions to be more clear. Currently the text > is just sort of stupidly bulleted by hierarchy and indented by hierarchy, > but there is no indicator as to WHAT the text is > > (action, question, decision, link to other text) - perhaps a bullet > indicates action and heirarchy is the indent... or font indicates action? > Ah, well, its up to you. Color can be used. It should be far more usable > than slick. > > > > So if anyone has the time to bother taking a look and giving a sample of > what they think would be workable. A link to a chapter of the document is > below. I promise to give you full credit with the committee, but its for > free. And its kind of cool - your idea will be in many rural clinics in > alaska if they use it. > > > > I thank you in advance for any ideas you have to offer. > > > > http://www.bad-dawgs-in-ak.com/skin.doc > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
