To move the healthcare simulation industry forward, research can provide the insights necessary to determine new best practices and more efficient methodologies. Often, medical simulation companies and organizations either present or are presented with grants to enable them to conduct research they feel will have a vast impact on the industry. One such company, Sentinel [...]

As the use of virtual simulation across healthcare increases, many facilitators have begun to incorporate the use of virtual reality (VR) headsets into learning experiences. Following the launch of the Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro, the company HTC recently launched the Vive XR Elite at CES 2023. This VR and mixed reality (MR) [...]

Since 2020, many healthcare simulation centers have become familiar with the term “distance simulation.” The ability to provide distance simulation instruction is one factor that separated those healthcare simulation centers that were able to continue instruction during COVID-19 from those that were not. As a result of increased reliance on distance simulation, healthcare simulation leaders [...]

Virtual simulation is not a new concept. However, during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, nursing schools were forced to either close their doors or offer a fully online curriculum. During this time, classroom learning segued more easily to the virtual world than the skills lab and healthcare simulation did. This was a [...]