“She’s crashing!” Dr. Kate McLean recalled the Anesthesiologist exclaiming during the start of a surgery event many years ago. She went on to share that “the next two minutes were complete chaos. I started chest compressions as our attending supervisor confirmed that the Veres hadn’t caused any internal bleeding”. In her new Huffington Post article, [...]
Understanding Healthcare Buyer Personas is a crucial step in expanding the utilization of clinical simulation at your healthcare institution. Healthcare Buyer Personas, also referred to as Medical Marketing Personas, represent the core individuals who your simulation program will need to influence (i.e. sell) in-order to gain more administrative, financial, and operational support. In our case [...]
Professor Terry P. Young, FBCS, Professor Emeritus at Brunel University London and Principal of Datchet Consulting Ltd. submitted this op-ed article asking “Why doesn’t healthcare simulate like everyone else?”. Despite having many new ways to blend our knowledge delivery, a world of connected lifetime education and development still eludes most of us. Meanwhile, employers continue [...]
At UPMC, our shared goal is to create a cohesive, positive, experience for our employees, patients, health plan members, and community. If you too are driven by these values, you may be a great fit at UPMC!
The Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation Education and Research (WISER) is a world class multidisciplinary training and research [...]
Medical board games, critical thinking games for nursing students, and healthcare board games in general offer unique learning opportunities for educational, training, and patient safety programs utilizing healthcare simulation methodologies to improve outcomes. From the ER to disease infection control, and from medical terminology to neonatal resuscitation, here is a comprehensive list of some of [...]
Recently HealthySimulation.com spoke with Virtual Dementia Tour’s Clinical Manager Melora Jackson about an amazing learning tool that enables clinical educators to help patients, family members, working professionals and new students experience some of the challenges of living with Dementia. The Clinical Simulation “Tour” simulates the effects of aging and dementia to give families, caregivers, and [...]
