Simulation Champion Kellie Bryant, DNP, Executive Director of Simulation and Assistant Professor at Columbia University, recently shared these wonderful simulation opportunities supported through the Helene Fuld Health Trust Simulation Center and their professional colleagues in the Northeast. From two new simulation job listings, to impressive video tours and mini-documentaries regarding patient safety and medical errors, to [...]
The “All Hazards Medical & Trauma Moulage Concepts Workshop” by Moulage Concepts will take place Oct. 15th+16th at the MidMichigan Medical Center. This interactive workshop is designed to enhance realism in simulation scenarios while providing best practice techniques. Moulage Concepts workshops provide structured scenario development and training realism — at all learner levels! Unable to attend? [...]
The start of a new job or new job responsibilities may be overwhelming and/or anxiety-inducing to some. These feelings may be particularly heightened in the healthcare realm where clinicians move from neat textbook cases to real clinical experiences. Many institutions have identified these feelings among their new nurses and have since included simulation based on-boarding [...]
Healthcare Simulation Week celebrates global professionals like you who use simulation to improve the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of healthcare delivery. This week also raises awareness in communities nationwide about how healthcare simulation is leading us to safer, more knowledgeable patient care. Isn’t this featured image from the Sentara Center for Simulation and Immersive Learning [...]
In a recent article entitled “Simulation-based training: applications in clinical pharmacy” published in the journal Clinical Pharmacist (September 2018, Vol 10, No 9), Michael Lloyd, Simon Watmough, and Nicholas Bennett cover the use of Simulation-based Training (SBT) in the context of Clinical pharmacy training. They share how SBT is an innovative training technique that has been increasingly [...]
As today is World Sepsis Day 2018, we are taking a look at ways to incorporate Sepsis into your simulation learning curriculum. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (2016), sepsis is defined as the life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection. Sepsis is a potentially life threatening complication [...]
