Rapid response teams (RRTs), an integral part of a hospital’s rapid response service, are a focus area for medical training at the Gordon Center for Simulation and Innovation in Medical Education at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. The institution conducted the first in situ training at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in 2013 [...]

Since the appearance of the novel coronavirus and the ensuing COVID-19 pandemic, every aspect of life has changed. For healthcare students in hands-on clinical training programs, social distancing requirements have forever altered the experiential learning environment, which relies heavily on in-person simulation labs. Instructors have had to suddenly adjust as well. Virtually overnight, institutions scrambled [...]

Traditionally, clinical bedside educational experiences are used to educate healthcare professionals and expand their clinical knowledge and reasoning. However, in the current COVID-19 pandemic, students have been excluded from many hospitals and face to face nursing simulation. Today’s article, guest authored by Kim Baily PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, previous Simulation Coordinator for Los Angeles Harbor [...]

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 [...]