In the current COVID-19 pandemic, staff from general medical surgical floors may be relocated to intensive care areas where ventilators are commonplace. Today’s article, guest authored by Kim Baily PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, previous Simulation Coordinator for Los Angeles Harbor College and Director of Nursing for El Camino College, provides us ways that clinical simulation [...]

According to INACSL standards, the method of participant evaluation should be established before the simulation-based experience occurs. But how do we accomplish this when working digital learning environments, either through screen based simulated patients or through more experiential virtual reality environments? Today Dr. Kim Baily PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, previous Simulation Coordinator for Los Angeles [...]

The Pathways for Prosperity Commission Background Paper Series has put together research supporting medical simulation Virtual Reality (VR) for medical and nursing training in low- and middle-income countries. Naomi Muinga BSc MSc, KEMRI of the  Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Nairobi, Kenya and Chris Paton BMBS BMedSci MBA FACHI FFCI of the  Nuffield Department of [...]

“iMSTK, which we’ve been developing in close collaboration with Professor Suvranu De’s research center — the Center for Modeling, Simulation and Imaging in Medicine at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — is meant to empower developers to rapidly prototype virtual simulator applications,” said Andinet Enquobahrie, the director of medical computing at Kitware. The company that releases the Visualization [...]