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Professional development for healthcare simulation educators, nursing simulation technicians, medical simulation program administrators and more.
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Simulation Technician Entry Level Job Description Downloadable Template
A Simulation Technician/Technologist works in the field of healthcare simulation supporting the many technical aspects of medical simulation. Today, we…
Physiology: The Force Behind Healthcare Simulation – A Guide for Techs, Part 6A: Intro to Hypovolemia
The key to developing a realistic healthcare simulation experience is to understand how physiological functions change in response to various…
Kaplan’s i-Human Patients Launches Undergraduate Nursing Simulated Virtual Patient Cases
Kaplan Test Prep recently launched the addition of Undergraduate Nursing Cases for their virtual patient platform: i-Human Patients, The Case…
Surgical Simulation Industry First: HaptX Gloves Provide Haptic Feedback for VR Training with Fundamental Surgery
In what may be an absolute first for the surgical simulation industry, Fundamental Surgery just demonstrated the ability to integrate…
Mayo Clinic Moulage Video Shares the Art of Making Simulated Patients Real, Plus Upcoming Instructor Courses!
Amy Lannen, Simulation Center Operations Specialist at the Medical Education Simulation Center at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville was recently featured…
Healthcare Simulation Prebriefing Checkoff Sheet Template
Prebriefing is an important component of healthcare simulation which should be planned along with the simulation scenario development and debriefing…
How to Develop a Mass Casualty Incident Simulation
Mass Casualty Incident Simulations are rapidly becoming a core training exercise for EMS organizations and medical systems. How does one…
UPMC’s WISER Simulation Center Celebrates 25 Years of Service!
In 2019, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)’s Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education, and Research (WISER) Center celebrates…
Pre Briefing in Medical Simulation, An Often Overlooked But Important Step
Orientation and pre briefing should be considered as two connected but independent functions of running successful healthcare simulation scenarios. Orientation…
How Virtual Reality Trains Situational Awareness in Healthcare Simulation
Virtual Reality provides the ideal tool for healthcare simulation situational awareness training because it engages multiple learning systems in the…
Blindfolded Medical Simulation Training Improves Team Leader Resuscitation Performance
When HealthySimulation.com Founder Lance Baily was training to become a Fire Fighter, his final exam was a search and rescue…
Free Patient Safety Tools With Proven Results From MedStar Health’s IQS CANDOR Program
At last month’s 7th annual World Patient Safety Summit, the expert “Hospital Leadership Panel” discussed the need for open transparency…