Patient Safety
Patient Safety best practices, tools, research updates, and conference listings for the healthcare simulation community.
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Get Back to The Basics of Clinical Simulation
As healthcare simulation educators, there is often pressure to deliver complex clinical simulations with entire teams more regularly than can…
How to Design Healthcare Simulations to Enhance Teamwork in Clinical Practice
The integration of teamwork outcomes into healthcare simulation is a powerful strategy to equip clinical simulation participants with teamwork skills…
How to Maximize the Impact of Interdepartmental Clinical Simulation
Healthcare simulation is the perfect modality for healthcare staff to plan and practice to hone skills for real-life trauma events.…
Reduce Medical Errors and Enhance Patient Safety Through Medical Simulation
Patient safety is a high priority in healthcare organizations, and medical simulation educators play a vital role in designing effective…
Healthcare Simulation for Process Improvement
Research shows that Healthcare Simulation can provide for clinical process improvement, when effectively managed. This research focuses on the simulation…
HealthStream’s New OB Safety SIMS Toolkit
HealthStream’s OB Safety SIMS Toolkit delivers cost-effective experiential simulation for obstetrical emergencies. Fortunately, OB emergencies happen rarely – but that…
Laerdal Medical’s One Million Lives Campaign 2023 Update
Laerdal Medical has a goal of helping save one million more lives every year by 2030. Laerdal is much more…
10 Commandments for the Medical Simulation Novice Debriefer
Debriefing in medical simulation has been a hot topic of discussion for years. There has been literature published to help…
IVRHA Patient Safety Technology Challenge Winners Announced
Healthcare simulation competitions are one way for companies and organizations to encourage new ideas across the industry. Recently, the International…
Uses of Simulation Educator Needs Assessment Tool (SENAT)
Healthcare simulation educators play an important role in the training of medical learners. To be able to effectively provide instruction,…
Wearable Device Technology for Enhancing Clinical Simulation
Healthcare simulation continues to evolve with new technologies and methods that only increase the impact on learning in the clinical…
Sim-Zones: Sistema de Organización para el Aprendizaje Basado en Simulación Clínica
En la actualidad, la simulación se ha convertido en una herramienta de gran importancia para el entrenamiento de estudiantes y…