The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) released a Quality Improvement Essentials Toolkit that includes the tools and templates needed to launch a successful quality improvement project. The toolkit also helps guide healthcare professionals to better manage performance improvement. Each team and project is slightly different in terms of what tools are relevant and how they [...]
Lynn Welch is the Vice President of Business Development and Marketing at Education Management Solutions, now a part of Collegis, LLC. She currently serves as the Chair of the Corporate Roundtable and on the Board of Directors for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSiH). Her unique background experiences with federal defense, global marketing, business [...]
Across the field of health care simulation, COVID-19 has forced simulation centers and healthcare simulation educators to reassess how simulated training scenarios are delivered to learners. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many of these institutions have made the switch to remote simulation. However, this transition requires access to a comprehensive virtual simulation solution. To rapidly [...]
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*Special Update: Join Terry Tomorrow for his Webinar “Simulation Programs and Online Learning: 3 Converging Trends“. The Marquess of Salisbury, three-time UK Prime Minister (1885-1902), said: “No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome. If [...]
Virtual debriefings in healthcare education can be especially challenging. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many healthcare simulation programs to move their educational curriculum to the online virtual environments. As a result, clinical simulation educators are conducting more virtual debriefings, which involves facilitating conversations via web-based teleconferencing platforms. Virtual debriefings introduce a distinct set of challenges that may [...]
