The Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER) is dedicated to healthcare education and educational research and established the WISER Academy to share clinical simulation insights globally. To help members of the health simulation community improve their skills, WISER Academy offers various courses and programs throughout the year. From healthcare simulation webinars to SIMS [...]
Task Trainers tend to be used in group settings throughout the medical simulation world. For example, intravenous line (IV) access training provided by the healthcare simulation team is typically found in settings such as a Nurse Residency program. There tend to be a number of newer clinicians going through the correct process and practice of [...]
Teaching safe medication administration is a critical outcome for nursing programs. It’s too important to not get right because patients lives are at stake. Relying on students getting enough practice during clinical is a gamble for many programs. The systems used in hospitals can be overly complicated and financially out of reach for most nursing [...]
Debriefing in medical simulation has been a hot topic of discussion for years. There has been literature published to help relay to simulationists that a huge portion of the healthcare simulation learning experience is derived from debriefing. However, not all novice simulationists understand how to begin this process. This HealthySimulation.com article shares 10 basic guidelines [...]
Across the world, healthcare simulation organizations exist to help expand the community and advance the practice of clinical simulation. One such medical simulation organization, SimGHOSTS, seeks to empower users of simulation technology to improve learning and patient care outcomes. In working to achieve this, the organization is constantly expanding offerings and working to ensure that [...]
For educators to be able to effectively run medical simulation scenarios worldwide, they must be able to locate and ascertain the necessary healthcare simulation-based products and resources. In response, the company Medical Shipment places an emphasis on providing these medical supplies and premium equipment to help support the future of medicine. To specifically support nursing [...]
