The Nursing Simulation Conference INACSL held its annual event virtually last week. HealthySimulation.com staff writer Dr. Kim Baily PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, previous Simulation Coordinator for Los Angeles Harbor College and Director of Nursing for El Camino College, was on hand to cover two of the major plenary sessions including “Simulation As Translational Science: Targeting [...]

Continuing from our previous article on why Healthcare Simulation is a powerful tool to train for cultural competency, today we specifically focus on how clinical simulation can be utilized to educate and train for the care of transgender patients. While this group of individuals makes up only a small fraction of the population, they number [...]

When using Healthcare Simulation to educate and train for culture competence, the research evidence is overwhelmingly clear: the potential exists for the use of high-fidelity patient simulation as an effective teaching strategy for cultural competency training. Providing learners with the opportunity to engage and provide care for patients from different cultural backgrounds, ethnic heritages, gender [...]

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 [...]