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From Hire to High-Performer: Building Elite Healthcare Simulation Operations Teams

Presented By:
Nina Marcellus, MSN-Ed, CHSE, CNEcl
Brittney Machin-Campos, MPH
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August 14, 2025
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This webinar will explore five essential strategies for hiring, onboarding, and training healthcare Simulation Operations Specialists to build high-performing teams in healthcare education, training and patient safety organizations.
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Abstract:

As healthcare simulation continues to grow across healthcare and other high-stakes industries, the role of the Simulation Operation Specialist (SOS) has become more important than ever. The SOS professional is foundational to the clinical simulation team to ensure the technical and operational success of the healthcare simulation center. Medical simulation program administrators will need to effectively hire, onboard, and train the SOS team members, focusing on five key areas that make all the difference.

The presenters will discuss the following topics:

  • Technical proficiency
  • Operational context,
  • Team dynamics and communication,
  • Problem-solving and adaptability, and
  • Structured onboarding.

This webinar will provide healthcare simulation leaders with the tools to identify and nurture appropriate candidate knowledge, skills and attitudes. Additionally, understanding the healthcare simulation center needs and a structured approach to onboarding for program success. Whether your healthcare institution is building a team from scratch or refining a current onboarding process, this webinar session will offer practical tips, real-world examples, and lessons learned to help you set your healthcare simulation operations management team for success.

Learning Objectives:

  1. List the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for hiring healthcare Simulation Operations Specialists candidates.
  2. Create a simple and effective onboarding process to help new clinical simulation team members succeed.
  3. Describe basic training methods to build strong communication, problem-solving, and teamwork skills in your medical simulation team.

Meet the Presenter(s):

Nina Marcellus MSN-Ed, CHSE, CNEcl
Director of Health Sciences Lab and Simulation at Nevada State University

Nina Marcellus, MSN, CHSE, CNEcl is the Director of Simulation at Nevada State University and a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator. After graduating from Nevada State Collegeโ€™s last accelerated BSN cohort in 2013, she built on her clinical experience in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and earned her Masterโ€™s in Nursing Education in 2017. A leader with a passion for building immersive, collaborative learning experiences, Nina returned to Nevada State University in 2018 and contributed to the design and implementation of the universityโ€™s state-of-the-art simulation center, guiding its launch in Fall of 2021 and becoming the inaugural director. The center now supports over 600 nursing students each semester, offering extended hours and IPE activities to strengthen clinical judgment and teamwork.

Disclosures: None.
Brittney Machin-Campos MPH
Simulation Lab Coordinator at Nevada State University

Brittney Machin-Campos, MPH, is the driving force behind logistics and coordination as the Simulation Lab Coordinator for the Nevada State University (NSU) Simulation Program. Since entering the healthcare simulation field in 2017, Brittney has developed a broad skills set supporting low to high-fidelity simulation across interdisciplinary teams. She earned her Masterโ€™s in Public Health from UNLV in 2023 and currently oversees simulation scheduling, staff training, inventory and technical operations. Brittney also leads the NSU Standardized Patient Program, recruiting, mentoring SPโ€™s to enhance clinical realism. She has developed more than a dozen new simulation scenarios and helped implement NSUโ€™s first interprofessional education simulations between Nursing and Speech pathology students. Her behind the scenes leadership ensures that students receive engaging, high-quality simulation experiences that mirror real world healthcare environments.

Disclosures: None.

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Dr. Gore has experience in educating future nurses in the undergraduate and graduate nursing programs. Dr. Gore has a PhD in Adult Education, a DNP as a family nurse practitioner, and a certificate in Simulation Education. Dr. Gore is an innovative, compassionate educator and an expert in the field of healthcare simulation. In 2007l Teresa started her journey in healthcare simulation. She is involved in INACSL and SSH. She is a Past-President of INACSL and is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator Advanced (CHSE-A). In 2018, she was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). In 2021, she was inducted as a Fellow in the Society of Simulation in Healthcare Academy (FSSH) and selected as a Visionary Leader University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing Alumni. During her career, Dr. Gore has led in the development and integration of simulation into all undergraduate clinical courses and started an OSCE program for APRN students. Her research interests and scholarly work focus on simulation, online course development and faculty development. She has numerous invited presentations nationally and internationally on simulation topics.
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