Pre-Briefing
Pre-briefing best practices for healthcare simulation programs including orientation guides, psychological safety recommendations, research tools and more.
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FacilitationSeptember 6, 2024The Two-Team Training Approach and Healthcare Simulation Do-overs – Why they matter!
When running a clinical simulation scenario, educators may ask themselves whether they should train a single team at a time…
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Pre-BriefingSeptember 6, 2024
Clinical Simulation Research: The Role of the Presimulation Briefing
The healthcare simulation experience is comprised of several learning components, including both prebriefing and debriefing. Specifically, prebriefing is used to…
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Pre-BriefingDecember 8, 2025INACSL Standards of Best Practice: Prebriefing | Preparation & Briefing
Prebriefing is an essential part of healthcare simulation and may enhance debriefing and reflection by providing learners with the information…
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Professional DevelopmentSeptember 12, 2024What is the Role of Simulation in Healthcare Education?
The role of simulation in healthcare education is to transition an academic learner to a practicing clinician. However, this is…
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ClinicalSeptember 2, 2024How is Simulation Used in Healthcare?
Simulation is used in healthcare primarily to meet educational and training objectives, as well as to improve patient safety outcomes.…
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Pre-BriefingJuly 17, 2025
Psychological Safety in Prebriefing: What’s the RISK?
Abstract: What is the risk when ignoring psychological safety in clinical simulation prebriefing? The concept of stress can be very…
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Virtual RealityJanuary 8, 2026Using Immersive VR Simulation to Provide A Structured Clinical Learning Experience
Immersive virtual reality (VR) simulation empowers nursing educators to provide quality learning experiences to students that are unable to attend…
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FacilitationJuly 16, 2025Improv and In-Sim Debriefing: Kick Anxiety Out, Allow Learning In
Abstract: Since the early 2000’s, miscommunication in healthcare has been cited by the IOM and other studies as a major…
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Scenario DesignAugust 22, 2024Using Medical Simulation to Evaluate Checklists: Part 2
Continuing from last week’s article Using Healthcare Simulation to Evaluate Checklists: Part 1, Dr. Kim Baily PhD, MSN, RN, CNE,…
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DebriefingAugust 22, 2024How to Use the Reflective Pause in Clinical Simulation Debriefing to Maximize Learner Engagement
Timothy C. Clapper. PhD, Director of Education and Assistant Professor of Education in Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine NewYork-Presbyterian Simulation…
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NursingAugust 17, 2024Debriefing for Meaningful Learning in Nursing Simulation
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) landmark study in 2014 concluded that nursing simulation could be substituted…
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Professional DevelopmentAugust 29, 2025Top 50 Clinical Simulation Posts of 2019!
Frequently imitated but never beat, we are thrilled to unveil our Top 50 Clinical Simulation Articles of 2019! One of…
