Many organizations evaluate individual components of a simulation program, such as, the scenarios, participants’ perceptions, the debriefer, and learning outcomes, but few programs evaluate simulation holistically ...

The INACSL Standards of Best Practice SM have identified the importance of ongoing education for facilitators of simulation, especially in the art of debriefing. This rapidly expanding area of simulation challenges educators ...

Nursing students often show a lack of enthusiasm when faced with caring for mental health clients, especially when the student is certain that they want to work in Intensive Care, Emergency, or some other area that has ...

As simulation emerges as the best practice in education; access to its offered trainings still remains a challenge. The James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital and Clinics serves over 94,000 unique Veteran and active duty ...

In 2009 the National League for Nursing (NLN) began a project to develop innovative teaching strategies to teach nursing students about care of older adults – the ACES project. The model that emerged included a ...

Montgomery College, Takoma Park/Silver Spring campus, borders Washington D.C. and boasts a state of the art seven-room simulation suite representative of the diverse student body, faculty and population served in the greater ...

The International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL) takes the lead in developing, revising, and publishing the INACSL Standards of Best Practice: SimulationSM used internationally and ...

Failure to rescue, either lack of recognition or the lack of appropriate interventions necessary to prevent adverse events, is a costly form of medical error. Bedside nurses - those healthcare professionals who spend the ...

When the National Council of State Boards of Nursing released their simulation study in 2014, many nursing programs felt like they now had the support for the statement that properly planned and designed simulation-based ...

The INACSL Standards of Best Practice: Simulation are evidence-based documents that can be used to guide educators implementing simulation-based education.  While there has been a burgeoning increase in research ...