Laerdal is excited to announce an open access eBook on How Simulation Can Help Prep New Nurse Graduates for Practice: A Guide for Residency Programs. As a leader in clinical simulation, Laerdal realized the gap in academia and readiness for practice for new graduate nurses (NGN). To address the gap, this eBook is intended to [...]

Cognitive load theory (CLT) is applicable to healthcare simulation to provide a framework for simulation design. CLT is an instructional theory that focuses on the relationship between the working memory and long-term memory. CLT can guide educators to design learning opportunities to promote information transfer from short-term memory to working memory to long-term memory. Too [...]

Education Management Solutions (EMS), one the leading providers of education and competency management software solutions for healthcare education and training, announced this month of March 2023, a new five-year client partnership with the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) non-profit organization to track student competency advancement and in-field evaluations for more than [...]

Simulation has been used for decades to train and prepare professionals for real-life experiences by mimicking true-to-life scenarios. With roots in the aviation industry, the practice has become a widely recognized method to ensure that learners have the skills necessary to perform their expected duties and responsibilities. Now prevalent across medical education, clinical simulation has [...]