The COVID-19 pandemic created an increased demand for nurses on the frontlines. While nurses in the field were being overworked and burnt out, nursing learners anxious to enter the workforce and help were faced with educational boundaries, often the result of a lack of technological resources. When in-personal clinical learners could not be completed and [...]
Hosted by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, the SimOps healthcare simulation conference is designed to support the professional development of the Simulation Operations Specialist (SOS). Now in the event’s eighth year, the conference’s planning committee has selected the theme, “New Limits No Boundaries.” This theme is meant to represent the call to action for [...]
When the general population thinks of medical professionals, many initially think of surgeons, physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians, and the like. However, many more healthcare workers are considered medical professionals, including healthcare simulation educators and engineers. Together, clinical professionals of different professional backgrounds are starting to join forces to create unique medical solutions – such [...]
Substitute teachers seldom garner a level of respect equal to that of the full-time teacher. Major League Baseball took years to recover from the employment of replacement players during the 1994-1995 strike. Fans are disappointed when the backup quarterback takes the field. Just as in the case with these scenarios, healthcare simulation-based learning suffers the [...]
Medication administration errors contribute to thousands of patient deaths each year. (1) Errors occur frequently related to missed actions in the medication use process with nearly 50% of all errors in doses and prescriptions attributed to missing a step. (2) Recently the nursing community followed with dread the case of RaDonda Vaught (3) whose workaround [...]
According to the Centers for Disease Control, about 659,000 people in the United States die from heart disease each year, meaning that the ability to diagnose and treat cardiac patients is imperative among medical professionals. Healthcare simulation provides a way for both medical learners and practitioners to acquire cardiac treatment knowledge or build upon their [...]
