The COVID-19 global pandemic has shut down thousands of clinical education programs around the world, including countless healthcare simulation facilities. Lou Clark, PhD, MFA Executive Director of the M Simulation Program at the University of Minnesota recently shared with us their team’s “Flexible Operations Plan in the COVID-19 Response” which is an extremely useful document [...]
Designing, overseeing, and managing a learning management system with features unique to the specific needs of Healthcare Simulation is no easy task. That is why we here at HealthySimulation.com have always been impressed by the Simulation Management solutions from Health Scholars. Their custom built Clinical Simulation Management solutions addresses the full breadth of medical simulation [...]
Nursing Simulation Clinical Educators looking for a customizable authoring tool to create meaningful virtual reality simulations for nursing students will appreciate learning more about the UbiSim platform. As COVID-19 continues to wreck havoc on nursing education around the world, more and more nursing faculty are turning to digital learning solutions to help nursing students stay [...]
While some nursing simulation centers and sim labs are working on reopening their facilities, many still remain closed. With the California State School system recently announcing that campus-based classes would not be returning in the Fall, the hard realities of the COVID-19 pandemic are still becoming clear this summer. Today Dr. Kim Baily PhD, MSN, [...]
The new MEDNAX Simulation Program offers healthcare institutions the opportunity to explore onsite medical simulation based education services to identify potential patient safety concerns and areas for process improvement. In addition, the MEDNAX Simulation team can partner with healthcare institutions to help launch new clinical simulation programs. Clinical Educators and Administrators in professional healthcare settings [...]
The Global Nursing Education Virtual Simulation Consortium (GNEVSC) was formed in March to provide a rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic covering topics ranging from the current limitation of clinical sites, instructional continuity, best practices for virtual reality deployment, debriefing remotely, online learning tools and more. The group has already produced several powerful webinar presentations [...]
