As we all know, teaching through simulation can help you improve your learners’ skills retention, acquisition, and confidence. To increase these benefits, some organizations are using in situ simulation, meaning “on location”. By giving learners an opportunity to practice complex scenarios in their real clinical environment, in situ simulation creates even more learning-rich experiences. Learners [...]

There are an estimated 11,667,000 single parent households in the U.S. 81.4% of those are headed by single women.  And, that’s just a view of women on the home front. In the workforce, its normal that women have taken on careers that were historically male-oriented, and they have gained a sense of career independence that [...]

Did you know that over 7,000 children experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the United States each year? Sadly, only 9% of children survive, and many have poor neurological outcomes. When bystanders and practitioners act with the same confidence and skill set with which they would treat an adult, a child’s chances of survival improve. [...]

INACSL President Kristina Thomas Dreifuerst once again took the stage to open the first full day of the 2018 International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning conference. She reminded the audience about the INACSL Standards of Best Practice, which now includes an Operations Specialist Standard developed in support with SimGHOSTS, and are also being [...]