The past year has presented a transformation into new ways of healthcare simulation education—including online learning, distance learning, remote learning and hybrid learning, with new industry terms like “telesimulation” also entering the lexicon. Supporting this transition, CAE Healthcare believes that learners should still have the flexibility to work at their own pace while achieving a [...]

Healthcare Simulation plays a significant role in the education and ongoing training of healthcare professionals — and should NOT be shut down just because of the COVID-19 pandemic. If anything, specialized training for proper PPE compliance and intubation techniques should be practiced more regularly, argues HealthySimulation.com writing contributor Dr. Kim Baily PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, [...]

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 [...]

Deterioration in a patient’s condition is sometimes evident long before a code blue cardiac or pulmonary arrest is initiated. However, Nurses may fail to recognize these early warning signs and fail to seek help in a timely manner. Initializing Rapid Response Systems, or RSS, has been championed around the world as a life-saving mechanism against [...]