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, [...]

Continuing from last week’s article Using Healthcare Simulation to Evaluate Checklists: Part 1, Dr. Kim Baily PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, previous Simulation Coordinator for Los Angeles Harbor College and Director of Nursing for El Camino College, explored how medical simulation can be used to evaluate the potential of patient safety and procedure checklists. Today in [...]

In the current COVID-19 pandemic, staff from general medical surgical floors may be relocated to intensive care areas where ventilators are commonplace. Today’s article, guest authored by Kim Baily PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, previous Simulation Coordinator for Los Angeles Harbor College and Director of Nursing for El Camino College, provides us ways that clinical simulation [...]

Professional development in healthcare simulation is now available online or on-site with the Simulation Canada organization’s courses! The Simulation Canada goal is to make their courses as accessible and practical as possible, while building relationships and the collaborative clinical simulation community. They have now taken our programming one step further to make professional development as [...]