Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) Richard and Lucille DeWitt School of Nursing is a Laerdal Center of Educational Excellence. With a history of high licensure, graduation and persistence rates in Texas, it is accredited by the National League of Nursing Accrediting Commission, Inc. (NLNAC) and students often have jobs waiting for them upon graduation. In January 2010, SFASU opened a new 41,000 square foot building, featuring a 9,000 square foot simulation center, administrative offices, conference room and four 100-student-capacity Classrooms.
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While medical simulation training is becoming firmly established within our Acute Hospitals and Schools of Nursing and Medicine, the needs of Primary Care are no less important. Jim Milligan, Primary Care Resuscitation Officer of the NHS Fife region invites us to look at the newly built simulation training suite at the Cardenden Health Centre and tells us how their simulation programmes are helping to overcome some of the unique challenges in primary care. [Read more...]

Edith Cowan University integrate patient simulation training into their healthcare curricula to help improve patient outcomes. [Read more...]

To better facilitate learning of clinical and communication skills, the University of Bath invested in a state-of-the-art training suite for their pharmacy students. A full size human-like advanced simulator further enables the students to practice examination skills, including diagnosis and treatment of patients. 

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The Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network (CS MEN) in Scotland has risen to the challenge of delivering its core principles of clinical skills education across Scotland by pioneering a fully equipped, mobile simulation suite.  [Read more...]

"The post-op patient was going into hypovolemic shock," shares a junior BSN student at Jefferson School of Nursing in Philadelphia, Pa. "He was hollering at me, the vitals were dropping, I had to think quickly—what’s my first nursing intervention? Who do I call? How can I utilize my resources? How can I reassure my patient?"

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The Simulation Center at Fairbanks Hall wanted to enhance realism in their education environment. Their solution? Form a collaboration between teams and facilities - and add simulation. [Read more...]

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Incorporating simulation and the use of a manikin that can breathe and talk into a nursing curriculum can be intimidating and time consuming for faculty. Instructors at the University of Texas at Arlington’s School of Nursing and Smart Hospital™ experienced these feelings as they started to confi gure their courses to incorporate simulation activities with their didactic lectures. [Read more...]

Many nursing educators face the challenge of incorporating simulation into the classroom and clinical time. They want to plan and implement a simulation training program but aren’t sure where to start. Ridgewater College faced that challenge head on and has experienced success with bringing simulation training into the curriculum and the community. [Read more...]

Modern healthcare is a highly complex process, with numerous dynamics and pressures that challenge the delivery of continuous and consistent quality patient care. Yet, can it be said that the training environment realistically mirrors the work environment and equip healthcare students with the expected self-efficacy to perform reliably to text book and error-free standards? Goldfarb School of Nursing reflected on their nurse training programs and asked themselves this same question. [Read more...]

Shaping minds to save lives. Take a look at this video on being a Nurse Educator from Johnson & Johnson. [Read more...]