Gaumard recently provided access to an easy to read yet powerful guide on successful healthcare simulation debriefing, from practicum to practice. The free-to-download white paper, available on their website through the link below, will quickly bring new simulation champions into the history, theory, and benefits of the debrief process. Here we excerpt a few parts [...]

In 2015 the National League for Nursing (NLN) in collaboration with the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) sent out a call for action to nursing educators to incorporate debriefing not just in simulation but throughout the curriculum. From that came Critical Conversations for debriefing: The NLN Guide for Teaching Thinking. The [...]

The Debriefing Academy is a healthcare education company that provides the advanced content, strategies and tools necessary to transform debriefing conversations into vehicles of change within healthcare and medical simulation environments. The company offers an immersive 3.5-day course that focuses on improving debriefing skills by weaving together several important elements of debriefing and feedback in [...]

Creating a healthcare simulation program from scratch, sometimes with limited funding, is a daunting prospect especially when state boards of nursing and other accrediting bodies are increasingly expecting nursing simulation programs to follow recognized national standards. Simply creating a simulation lab space and coercing clinical faculty to run simulation scenarios will not create a simulation [...]