Have you heard that the inaugural Healthcare Simulation Week is taking place this week, September 11-15? Join the Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) and EMS as we celebrate the professionals who improve the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of healthcare services every day. Simulation professionals like you! The inaugural Healthcare Simulation Week celebrates global professionals …
Gale-force winds, torrential rain, and a monster tidal surge: ingredients for catastrophe in even sparsely-populated areas. But what happens when a storm of this severity hits an urban environment like Houston, TX? Stressful doesn’t even begin to describe such an event – so how can a community begin to rebuild after a natural disaster, and …
EMS is pleased to announce the release of its new SimCheckIN™ application. SimCheckIN is a tablet-based participant check-in system that enables fast and efficient session/event check-in and flexible data collection, reporting, and analysis. “As we celebrate over 20 years as an innovator and industry leader, we continue to excel, rapidly bringing new tools and techniques to …
Medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the U.S.* Simulation-based training is a key to reversing this trend, especially for clinicians working in high-stakes hospital environments. But with ever-increasing patient workloads, electronic healthcare record documentation requirements, and mandates for continuing accreditation, many practitioners are unable to allot time for training exercises in …
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The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education has established that high-functioning teams can improve the outcomes, experience, and costs of healthcare. And a recent report by the Institute of Medicine also outlines the “positive impact that interprofessional collaboration and teamwork can have on key dimensions of organizational performance.”* *Source: Institute of Medicine. Measuring the …
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Continuing Professional Development for Faculty: An Elephant in the House of Academic Medicine or the Key to Future Success? Excerpted from the abstract: “The scope of change required by academic medical centers (AMCs) to maintain their viability and achieve their tripartite mission in the future is large; such reform is affected by numerous global, national, …
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Patient-centered care has transformed the landscape of healthcare delivery. Hospitals and health centers are shifting away from the traditional care delivery model in which clinicians prescribe the same treatment for patients with similar conditions or diagnoses. The new patient-centered model encourages a strong patient-clinician partnership, better communication and collaboration among the care givers, and treatment …
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Sign up now! “Simulation as a Measure to Decrease Transition Shock for New Nurses” Presented by:Christine Thomas, PhD, RN, CHSEAssociate ProfessorSimulation & Clinical Skills Laboratory FacultyWest Chester University, Department of Nursing and Molly Kellgren, MSN, RN, CHSEManager, Accelerating to PracticeNational League for Nursing Abstract: New graduates transitioning into the professional practice role of RN are …
EMS is proud to celebrate National Health Center Week! Sponsored by the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), National Health Center Week is the perfect time to recognize community health centers nationwide and all that their practitioners do to provide innovate health service delivery to more than 25 million patients. About National Health Center …
Enhanced Simulation Tech at ADU Improves Students’ Experiential Learning The SIMULATIONIQ™ system will provide more coaching opportunities for faculty, and better hands-on learning for students. A collaboration between Adventist University of Health Sciences (ADU) and the Florida Hospital Medical Simulation and Logistics Team resulted in the installment of an enhancement to ADU’s Simulation Center called …
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