Let’s face it, multi-patient healthcare simulation training is the most similar to what students will be facing out in the real world. Such specialized simulated training can help bring all learner clinicals and practice into focus so that they effectively care for all of the patients they are in charge of. As multi-patient nursing simulation [...]

Career Technical Education (CTE) is a course of training that focuses on providing students with the knowledge and skills they need to be prepared for post-secondary education, or to more immediately enter directly into a career. Today, Pocket Nurse Guest Author Dawn Patton Mangine shares the benefits of CTE and ways in which clinical simulation [...]

The much quoted 2014 NCSBN National Simulation Study suggests that simulation can replace up to 50% of traditional clinical time without any effect on clinical competency, comprehensive nursing knowledge assessments, NCLEX pass rates or overall clinical competency after six months of post licensure practice. However, the report does specify that this equivalency is only valid [...]

Virtual reality, aka VR, is an immersive technology that allows educators to deliver medical simulation -based education at scale, saving time, space and money while providing quality clinical education. In today’s article we highlight some of the recent adopters of VR clinical training via Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS), including University of New England, New York [...]