About Medical Simulation Books
Healthcare Simulation Books are a critical component of learning how to develop, expand, and utilize medical simulation methodologies and technologies in professional healthcare institutions to improve learning and patient safety performance outcomes. Everything from audiovisual system design, to manikin hardware, debriefing, patient simulators, nursing simulation, virtual reality, research books, surgical simulation, administrative manuals, Sim Tech guides and more!
As educational degree pathways are extremely rare and healthcare simulation conferences take place only annually, healthcare professionals and institutions seeking to develop or expand their simulation expertise should invest heavily into the latest nursing simulation books, surgical simulation books, moulage books and more!
Healthcare Simulation books are an invaluable resource as they assist to bridge the gap between knowledge to clinical practice. Healthcare simulation books are a great resource of sound and practical expert knowledge to ensure that best practice guidelines for healthcare simulation are adhered to based on expert knowledge. Healthcare Simulation books offer the opportunity to undertake self assessment and reflection on individual or team performance.
Published Healthcare Simulation books are a timeless resource of high quality clinical simulation resources. Published clinical simulation books provide high quality and referenced resources for faculty and students alike to be able to reference their healthcare simulation standards. Healthcare Simulation books are useful for faculty as a resource to undertake complex teamwork training such as interdepartmental high fidelity crisis resource management courses.
A number of popular books with common themes are listed below in regards to healthcare simulation books. There are many different topics that are covered in regards to healthcare simulation books. Some of these books don’t relate to healthcare simulation directly yet as an adjacent industry there has been a large impact on the healthcare simulation industry.
An example of an adjacent industry which healthcare simulation takes inspiration and ideas from is the aviation industry. The aviation industry has greatly impacted the direction of healthcare simulation since crew resource management was first coined in the healthcare simulation field by Dr David Gaba from Stanford University over thirty years ago. Some books which relate to aviation and also healthcare simulation included below are: “Beyond the Checklist: What Else Healthcare can Learn from Aviation, Teamwork and Safety”, “Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care” and “Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes-But Some do.”
There are also a number of different clinical topics which have healthcare simulation books. Some examples of these include: neonatology clinical simulation, ECMO simulation and other clinical area specific healthcare simulation topics. These specialist clinical simulation books are required for these specialist clinical areas and topics to provide healthcare simulation scenarios and courses which are to a high standard and provide immersive learning experiences for the healthcare simulation participant.
Healthcare simulation research books are a great resource for those who work in healthcare simulation and are interested to start a research project for their area. These clinical simulation research books share different research methodologies and methods for those who conduct research in their clinical simulation center and are vital to complete a medical simulation based research project safely and effectively.
A number of critical skills to be able to run a healthcare simulation center are made into different categories of healthcare simulation books. Some of these include categories such as: daily operations of a healthcare simulation center, history of healthcare simulation and also healthcare simulation books which relate to key healthcare simulation skills such as debriefing and the creation of effective clinical simulation scenarios from identified learning objectives.
Many foundational books of all healthcare simulation practices are listed below and are essential for any healthcare simulation library. These include: “Clinical Simulation: Education, Operations and Engineering”, “Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Mastering Learning in Healthcare Professionals Education” and “Simulation Champions: Fostering Courage, Caring and Connection”. These healthcare simulation books written by a number of world leaders in healthcare simulation will assist to take any faculty members healthcare simulation skills and career to the next level.
A critical part of career advancement in a healthcare simulation program is the ability to demonstrate adaptive expertise and to contribute in a meaningful way to the culture and advancement of the healthcare simulation program. Part of this advancement relates to self development and this is done through reading a plethora of books that relate to healthcare simulation, personal growth, psychology, culture and human behavior. As healthcare simulationists growth and upskilling is required on a number of levels and topics. One of the vessels through this transformative process which lasts an entire career is books which relate to healthcare simulation.
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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Operations, Technology, and Innovative Practice (Editors: Crawford, Scott B., Baily, Lance W., Monks, Stormy M.):
This practical guide provides a focus on the implementation of healthcare simulation operations, as well as the type of professional staff required for developing effective programs in this field. Though there is no single avenue in which a person pursues the career of a healthcare simulation technology specialist (HSTS), this book outlines the extensive knowledge and variety of skills one must cultivate to be effective in this role. This book begins with an introduction to healthcare simulation, including personnel, curriculum, and physical space. Subsequent chapters address eight knowledge/skill domains core to the essential aspects of an HSTS.
Best practices and innovations are provided, and the benefits of developing a collaborative relationship with industry stakeholders are discussed. Expertly written text throughout the book is supplemented with dozens of high-quality color illustrations, photographs, and tables.
Written and edited by leaders in the field (including SimGHOSTS and HealthySimulation.com Founder Lance Baily), Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Operations, Technology, and Innovative Practice is optimized for a variety of learners, including healthcare educators, simulation directors, as well as those looking to pursue a career in simulation operations as healthcare simulation technology specialists.
Healthcare Simulation Books on Facilitation
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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Mastery Learning in Health Professions Education
This book presents the parameters of Mastery Learning (ML), an especially stringent variety of competency-based education that guides students to acquire essential knowledge and skill, measured rigorously against a minimum passing standard (MPS). As both a scholarly resource and a teaching tool, this is a “how to” book that serves as a resource for a…
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Developing Healthcare Skills through Simulation
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Developing Successful Health Care Education Simulation Center: Consortium Model
This meets a growing need for guidelines on planning, organizing, and implementing a health care education simulation center, using the collaborative and cost effective consortium model. The book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of building a coalition of key stakeholders, gathering and analyzing data, assigning leadership roles within the consortium, developing a strategic…
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Healthcare Simulation Education: Evidence, Theory and Practice
Written by a leading team from the Australian Society for Simulation in Healthcare (ASSH), Simulation Australasia, Healthcare Simulation Education is a new resource for a rapidly expanding professional healthcare simulation community. Designed as a core reference for educators who use simulation as an educational method, it outlines theory, evidence and research relevant to healthcare simulation.…
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Healthcare Simulation Program Builder
This helps healthcare professionals who want to use simulation to improve orientation and preceptorships, build nurse competency, enhance nurse residency programs, and strengthen interprofessional communication across the entire healthcare team. This first-of-its-kind book assists those who want to begin using simulation for training, but don’t know where to start. It discusses the theory around simulation,…
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How to Teach Using Simulation in Healthcare
(Mike Davis, et al). This book provides an ideal introduction and easy-to-use guide to simulation in medical education. Written by a team of experienced medical educators, this practical text – packed full of case examples and tips – is underpinned by the theory of simulation in education, and explores how to integrate simulation into teaching.…
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I Had No Idea: Clinical Simulations for Teacher Development
provides teachers with opportunities to enact professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions. Building on medical education’s long-standing use of standardized patients, this book infuses standardized individuals and clinical simulations into teacher education. As participating teachers engage with standardized parents, students, paraprofessionals, and community members, they encounter a variety of situations common to K-12 teaching. This book…
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Improv to Improve Healthcare – A System for Creative Problem Solving
Health-care organizations cry out for a tool to decrease untoward events and bridge the communication gap between professional clinician teams and clients. Discover how to guide your team to creatively problem-solve, build emotional and social intelligence, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client satisfaction with the results-don’t-lie Improv to Improve Healthcare system.
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Interprofessional Simulation in Health Care: Materiality, Embodiment, Interaction
This book describes and discusses a practice-oriented approach to understanding and researching interprofessional simulation-based education and simulation. It provides empirical findings from research on this topic and is informed by practice-oriented perspectives. It identifies critical features of the simulation practice and discusses how these can be used in reforming simulation pedagogy. The book is divided…
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Mastering Simulation: A Handbook for Success
This is a handbook for individuals working in or preparing to work in simulation and for academic and service organizations that are using simulation or are planning to use simulation. It provides the knowledge needed to become a simulation professional and information on how to best use that knowledge to effectively use simulation in their…
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Medical Improv: A New Way to Improve Communication
Medical Improv: A New Way to Improve Communication(With 15 activities you can teach STAT!)Welcome to the emerging field of Medical Improv!Medical Improv is an exciting new teaching tool! Its experiential activities hold great promise for persistent challenges we face in healthcare by promoting the ‘soft’ skills involved in emotional intelligence, communication, collaboration, and leadership. This…
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Pocket Book for Simulation Debriefing in Healthcare
This is a concise manual on debriefing techniques in a clinical educational context. It presents the most popular debriefing techniques and, hence, can be used as a reference manual by educators to help them achieve their intended debriefing objectives. The overarching objective of debriefing is to promote reflection and improve patient safety awareness at an…
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Reality Based Training
Reality Based Training, often described as high fidelity, scenario-based training, has become the standard for preparing police officers to perform when it is a matter of life or death. Until recently, law enforcement instructors delivered this style of training guided purely on intuition, feedback and what little academic resources were available. A Scientific Approach to…
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Simulation in Clinical Education
This is a new addition to the popular Essentials series provides a broad, general introduction to the topic of simulation within clinical education. An ideal tool for both teaching and learning, Essential Simulation in Clinical Education provides a theoretical and practical introduction to the subject of simulation, whilst also offering strategies for successful use of…
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Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Education
This is a unique and innovative resource for incorporating simulation scenarios into both an LPN/LVN and RN nursing curriculum. This book contains ten pre-written scenarios for use with any simulation device in any simulation lab. The student work text provides all necessary information needed by students for simulation preparation and completion, as well as a…
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Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators, Third Edition
provides detailed, step-by-step guidance on all aspects of clinical simulation. Appropriate for all levels of nursing students, from pre-licensure to doctoral level, the book contains the authors’ own advice and experiences working in simulation around the globe. For the third edition, 20 new scenarios have been added, and all scenarios have been updated to adhere…
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Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators, Third Edition: Making it Real
When employed as a substitute for real clinical time, simulation scenarios have proven effective in bridging the gap between theory and practice. This acclaimed text for nursing faculty provides detailed, step-by-step guidance on all aspects of clinical simulation. Appropriate for all levels of nursing students, from pre-licensure to doctoral level, the book contains the authors’…
Healthcare Simulation Books on Facilitation
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Clinical Simulation: Operations, Engineering and Management
This is a practical guide and reference to the latest technology, operations and opportunities presented by clinical simulation. It shows how to develop and make efficient use of resources, and provides hands-on information to those tasked with setting up and delivering simulation facilities for medical, clinical and related purposes, and the development and delivery of…
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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Operations, Technology, and Innovative Practice
This practical guide provides a focus on the implementation of healthcare simulation operations, as well as the type of professional staff required for developing effective programs in this field. Though there is no single avenue in which a person pursues the career of a healthcare simulation technology specialist (HSTS), this book outlines the extensive knowledge…
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Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs (2nd Edition)
Raise your simulation programs to new heights with the fully updated Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs, 2nd edition. An official publication of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, this fully illustrated guide speaks to the needs of all healthcare professionals using simulation for education, assessment, and research. Offering best practices for a wide variety of…
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Healthcare Simulation: A Guide for Operations Specialists
A focused guide for healthcare simulation operations in education and training With the growing use of simulation within the field of healthcare, Healthcare Simulation: A Guide for Operations Specialists provides a much needed resource for developing the roles and responsibilities of simulation operations specialists. The book illustrates the current state and evolution of the simulation…
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Manual of Simulation in Healthcare Second Edition
Second Edition includes a greater emphasis on patient safety, interprofessional education, and a more descriptive illustration of simulation in the areas of education, acute care medicine, and aviation. Divided into three sections, it ranges from the logistics of establishing a simulation and skills centre and the inherent problems with funding, equipment, staffing, and course development…
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Medical Moulage: How to Make Your Simulations Come Alive
Make your simulations come alive with this cookbook for medical moulage! Hear, feel, see, and smell like it’s the real thing Here’s an easy-to-use guide to creating over 300 special effects for clinical simulations! Simple recipes with over 1,200 vibrant, full-color illustrations provide step-by-step directions that use readily available ingredients. Heighten the realism in your…
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Review Manual for the Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) Exam
Health professionals embarking on a career teaching simulation are embracing a world of innovation in which both teacher and student can develop their healthcare skills more rapidly and promote better patient outcomes. This is the first practice manual to assist healthcare simulation educators in the United States and internationally in preparing for certification in this…
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Simulation Champions: Fostering Courage, Caring, and Connection
This draws on the personal experiences of experts and pioneers in the field, and offers the practical information needed to deal with the real challenges of creating or improving a simulation program, along with detailed information on the change management and leadership skills needed for success. Whether you are building a nursing simulation program from…
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Simulation in Healthcare Education: An Extensive History
(Harry Owen, et al.) This book gives a narrative history of the development of simulators from the early 1700s to the middle of the 20th century when simulation in healthcare appeared to all but die out. It is organized around the development of simulation in different countries and includes at the end a guide to…
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The Comprehensive Textbook of Healthcare Simulation
This is a cohesive, single-source reference on all aspects of simulation in medical education and evaluation. It covers the use of simulation in training in each specialty and is aimed at healthcare educators and administrators who are developing their own simulation centers or programs and professional organizations looking to incorporate the technology into their credentialing…
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The Power of Teamwork: How We Can All Work Better Together
In the high-pressure and complex setting of health care, a new approach to teamwork is leading to healthier patients, happier staff and more efficient operations. Doctors are learning art appreciation to improve diagnostic skills. Hospitals are adopting airplane-style “black boxes” in operating rooms to reduce errors and create better teams. And lessons from the medical…
Nursing Simulation Books
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Clinical Simulations for Nursing Education: Facilitator Volume
(Patricia M. Dillon, PhD, RN) This book provides 51 structured case studies simulate the wide range of patient care challenges your students will encounter in practice. These scenarios help them develop the critical assessment, clinical reasoning, and nursing skills they need to deliver safe and competent care—in a controlled, risk-free environment. Each realistic, patient-care simulation…
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Clinical Simulations for Nursing Education: Instructor Volume
Promote quality patient care. Build confidence. Ensure safe practice. Help your students develop and practice the critical assessment, clinical reasoning, and nursing care skills they need to deliver safe and effective patient care in a controlled, risk-free environment. 51 structured simulation scenarios―34 in print and 17 on DavisPlus, the F.A. Davis password-protected site―cover the entire…
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Clinical Simulations for Nursing Education: Learner Volume
Build clinical confidence! Help your students develop the critical assessment, clinical reasoning, and nursing care skills they need to deliver and practice safe and effective patient care. 51 structured simulation scenarios, designed to be used in conjunction with the Instructor Volume, let them apply the nursing process in a controlled, risk-free environment. Each realistic, patient-care…
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Clinical Simulations for Nursing Education: Participant Volume 2nd Edition
Build Clinical Confidence! 51 structured case studies simulate the wide range of patient care challenges you’ll encounter in practice. These scenarios help you develop the critical assessment, clinical reasoning, and nursing skills you need to deliver safe and competent care to your patients—in a controlled, risk-free environment. Each realistic, patient-care simulation focuses on a defined…
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Clinical Simulations in Nursing Education: Advanced Concepts, Trends, and Opportunities
While confronting many challenges related to changes in health care, higher education, and clinical practice, nurse educators are exploring new opportunities for innovative teaching/learning methods, new clinical models, and educational practices to provide high-quality education to promote optimal, quality patient care. Clinical simulations can provide health care educators one approach to create student-centered, experiential environments…
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Simulation Learning System for Nursing Fundamentals (Access Card)
The Simulation Learning System (SLS) integrates simulation technology into your fundamentals nursing course with realistic patient care scenarios and supportive learning resources that correspond to your nursing fundamentals text. The SLS offers: targeted reading assignments and critical thinking exercises to prepare you for the simulation experience; access to patient data with an SBAR shift report…
Clinical Specialty Medical Simulation Books
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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: ECMO Simulation: A Theoretical and Practical Guide
(Lindsay C. Johnston, Editor et al.) This book focuses on the technical, cognitive, and behavioral skills needed to implement an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) simulation program. It describes these programs on the individual, team, and hospital system level, and includes the history of ECMO simulation, its evolution to its current state, and future directions of…
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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Mobile Medical Simulation
This book provides information to support the new and growing field of medical simulation training using mobile simulation vehicles. These mobile training programs bring vehicles equipped with spaces to simulate patient care areas, task trainers, and mannequins directly to the medical provider. This concise reference introduces programs that bring necessary training to providers and offers…
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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Neurosurgery
This book is a practical guide for the use of simulation in neurosurgery, with chapters covering high fidelity simulation, animal models simulation, cadaveric simulation, and virtual reality simulation. Readers are introduced to the different simulation modalities and technologies and are guided on the use of simulation for a variety of learners, including medical students, residents,…
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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Pediatrics
This is a practical guide to the use of simulation in pediatric training and evaluation, including all subspecialty areas. It covers scenario building, debriefing and feedback, and it discusses the use of simulation for different purposes: education, crisis resource management and interdisciplinary team training, competency assessment, patient safety and systems integration. Readers are introduced to…
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Healthcare Simulation Research: A Practical Guide
This book provides readers with a detailed orientation to healthcare simulation research, aiming to provide descriptive and illustrative accounts of healthcare simulation research (HSR). Written by leaders in the field, chapter discussions draw on the experiences of the editors and their international network of research colleagues. This seven-section practical guide begins with an introduction to…
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Neonatal Simulation: A Practical Guide
Developed by the leading experts in neonatal simulation, this innovative new resource delivers neonatology health care providers and educators essential guidance on designing, developing, and implementing simulation-based neonatal education programs. The early chapters cover learning theory, fundamentals of scenario design, and simulation and the Neonatal Resuscitation Program*. The later chapters cover specific applications of simulation…
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SimWars Simulation Case Book: Emergency Medicine
The SimWars Simulation Case Book: Emergency Medicine enables novice simulation operators to quickly and effectively run simulation cases, which have been established at national SimWars events, for their respective programs and departments. Developed by leading emergency medicine simulation experts, this definitive collection of 46 cases includes topics intended to supplement UME and GME training, meet…
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Textbook of Simulation: Skills and Team Training
Surgical training simulators have come a long way in the last decade, and this book provides an excellent review of current technology and its application to curricula in the skills lab. There is also a comprehensive section on use of simulators in specialty training applications such as colorectal, pediatrics, trauma, and more. The Textbook of…
Extended Reality XR Medical Simulation Books
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Applied Virtual Reality in Healthcare: Case Studies and Perspectives
(Walter Greeleaf, PhD et al.) Curious about how virtual reality is disrupting healthcare? What started as entertainment has exploded into a digital renaissance reshaping the future of medicine. Applied Virtual Reality in Case Studies and Perspectives is for healthcare professionals, academics, technologists, designers, research scientists, students, and anyone who wants to gain a deeper understanding…
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Dawn of the New Everything: A Journey Through Virtual Reality
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Game-Based Teaching and Simulation in Nursing and Health Care
This is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in integrating gaming and simulation into a course or the entire curricula. It presents the theory and the associated practical application. The extensive reference list and resource/product list encourage and support readers with implementation.” Score: 98, 5 Stars.–Doody’s Medical Reviews Game-Based Teaching and Simulation in Nursing and…
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Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space: Best Practices for Educators in Multi-User Virtual Environments
Teaching Health Care in Virtual Space is the first “how-to” manual for health educators on the instructional use of three-dimensional, computer-generated virtual environments that can be inhabited simultaneously by many participants; commonly called “multi-user virtual learning environments” or MUVE. Based on her experience supervising more than 400 learning activities in Second Life®—as of 2014, the…
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Teaching Technologies in Nursing & the Health Professions: Beyond Simulation and Online Courses
Health information technology is now the top priority for improving nursing and health care by informing clinical care, interconnecting clinicians, personalizing care, and improving population health at large. This book presents a broad range of cutting-edge teaching technologies and a detailed overview of teaching and learning pedagogical concepts that are relevant across a variety of…
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VRx How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine
A leading doctor unveils the groundbreaking potential of virtual medicine. Brennan Spiegel has spent years studying the medical power of the mind, and in VRx he reveals a revolutionary new kind of care: virtual medicine. It offers the possibility of treating illnesses without solely relying on intrusive surgeries or addictive opioids. Virtual medicine works by…
Patient Safety Books
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Beyond the Checklist: What Else Health Care Can Learn from Aviation Teamwork and Safety
(Suzanne Gordon et al.) The coauthors of this book sought out the aviation professionals who made this transformation possible. Beyond the Checklist gives us an inside look at CRM training and shows how airline staff interaction that once suffered from the same dysfunction that too often undermines real teamwork in health care today has dramatically…
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Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes–But Some Do
We all have to endure failure from time to time, whether it’s underperforming at a job interview, flunking an exam, or losing a pickup basketball game. But for people working in safety-critical industries, getting it wrong can have deadly consequences. Consider the shocking fact that preventable medical error is the third-biggest killer in the United…
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Building a Culture of Patient Safety Through Simulation: An Interprofessional Learning Model
This book provides a dynamic and comprehensive interprofessional approach to building a culture of safety by using simulation across clinical and education spheres in healthcare… This is a comprehensive guide and resource for healthcare organizations, educators, and diverse interprofessional healthcare team members to use to improve patient safety efforts to adapt to the ever-changing, complex…
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Still Not Safe: Patient Safety and the Middle-Managing of American Medicine
The term “patient safety” rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community — in particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities — sought to raise awareness of the tens of thousands of deaths in the US attributed to medical errors each year. But what was causing these medical errors? And what…
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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
In his latest bestseller, Atul Gawande shows what the simple idea of the checklist reveals about the complexity of our lives and how we can deal with it. The modern world has given us stupendous know-how. Yet avoidable failures continue to plague us in health care, government, the law, the financial industry—in almost every realm…
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To Err is Human Documentary Film
The #3 leading cause of death in the United States is its own healthcare system. Medical mistakes lead to as many as 440,000 preventable deaths every year and harm millions more. Directed by the son of late patient safety pioneer, Dr. John M. Eisenberg, To Err Is Human is an in-depth documentary about this silent…
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To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System
Experts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That’s more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS—three causes that receive far more public attention. Indeed, more people die annually from medication errors than from workplace injuries. Add the financial cost…
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Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care
2009 ACHE Book of the Year “This book is a tour de force, and no one but John Nance could have written it. He, alone, masters in one mind the fields of aviation, health care safety, medical malpractice law, organizational sociology, media communication, and, as if that were not enough, the art of fine writing.…
