Evaluating healthcare simulation is a crucial step in ensuring that educators can demonstrate ROI for both learning and program outcomes. Healthcare simulation has proved to be an extremely effective education and training tool across the field of medicine. Due to an increased push toward patient safety many facilities and institutions have been led to revise [...]
Virtual debriefings in healthcare education can be especially challenging. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many healthcare simulation programs to move their educational curriculum to the online virtual environments. As a result, clinical simulation educators are conducting more virtual debriefings, which involves facilitating conversations via web-based teleconferencing platforms. Virtual debriefings introduce a distinct set of challenges that may [...]
CHSOS Simulation Specialist Daniel Guzman, Jr., wrote in to HealthySimulation.com to share that several of the upcoming ‘Simulation Educators Program’ courses, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation, are open access and FREE! These courses which range from an exploration of reflective learning methodologies to debriefing introductions and more are perfect opportunities [...]
Immersive virtual reality (VR) simulation empowers nursing educators to provide quality learning experiences to students that are unable to attend clinical sites during the COVID-19 pandemic. Immersive VR provides a high-fidelity simulation experience in which learners don headsets and become fully immersed in the virtual world. There are many benefits to VR simulation, including the [...]
Live Webinars Coming Up Next (All times in PST, UTC-8):
Creating Online Simulation Using Laerdal’s LLEAP and Zoom
3/9 @ 2PM Presented By: Arielle Cartmill, CHSOS
Observation of In-Class Sim: Can It Develop Nursing Clinical Judgment?
3/17 @ 10AM Presented By: Laura Klenke-Borgmann, PhD, RN, CHSE