Healthcare providers and learners around the world are under extreme pressures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of our colleagues may be suffering internally from depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts and alcohol use disorder, but still maintaining an external air of rationality and calm. How can we use clinical simulation to train ourselves to recognize, appreciate, [...]

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 [...]

Due to COVID-19, the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning has evolved its normally in-person annual healthcare simulation conference into an online virtual event. While some of the opportunities to network with nursing simulation peers at INACSL will unfortunately be lost, the ability to get immediate access to on demand content is stronger [...]