Over the past few decades, simulation has emerged as an important learning and training methodology across various fields, which includes education in healthcare. Clinical simulation allows individuals to learn with, from, and about each other to enhance the clinical team’s mutual understanding to improve competence and confidence for the benefit of patients (Purdy et al,. [...]

Prevalent in clinical simulation educators, impostor phenomenon is considered the overwhelming sense of phoniness, doubt of abilities, and fraudulent feelings within workplace or professional roles. Freeman, Houghton & Nestel surveyed 148 clinical simulation educators in nine countries and discovered that 46.6% of clinical simulation educators surveyed suffered from impostor phenomenon. This article by Erin Carn-Bennett [...]

The development of a shared mental model is essential in all healthcare environments and can be practiced in clinical simulation. Every healthcare professional wants to be part of an effective team that can improve patient safety. Patient safety is everyone’s responsibility. When each person on the team practices TeamSTEPPS through situation monitoring and cultivates situation [...]

Healthcare simulation educators are in a powerful position to influence change on important subjects that improve patient clinical care through the utilization of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is not a skill humans are born with but it can be learnt. However, emotional intelligence is not routinely taught to health professionals formally during training. As the [...]