According to the International Society for Quality in Healthcare, accreditation is a process “in which trained external peer reviewers evaluate a health care organization’s compliance with pre-established performance standards. Endorsement of healthcare simulation programs is an assurance that a program meets the standards and requirements set forth as guidelines. Accreditation and Endorsement are methods [...]
A Healthcare Sim Center is a location where healthcare education that involves experiential learning is conducted. A sim center is a dedicated area within a healthcare education building, medical center, or training facility which is devoted to medical simulation. A lot of sim centers have larger facilities with multiple simulation labs designated, whereas, smaller spaces [...]
Healthcare simulation centers internationally operate in a variety of environments and receive finances through many different financial streams. As a clinical simulation program without a home, there can be sentiments of feeling less like a stellar program without walls to operate in a state-of-the-art center. Just because a healthcare simulation team operates without a simulation [...]
The simulationist can facilitate the achievement of health career participant learning outcomes through the use of a variety of supplies and equipment. This ranges from simple laboratory supplies and equipment in a skills lab setting to complex high-fidelity human simulators in various healthcare and community settings. Not all healthcare simulation experiences require high fidelity. In [...]