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2 months ago | 
healthysimulation.com | Erin Carn-Bennett |Lance Baily |Kathy Sokol
Vulnerability and Fallibility can be useful soft or emotional intelligence based skills for clinical simulation facilitators, debriefers and educators to consider use authentically in order to enhance clinical simulation participants’ experiences.
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2 months ago | 
healthysimulation.com | Erin Carn-Bennett |Fouad Marhar |Lance Baily |Kathy Sokol
Investments in expert healthcare simulation facilitators and programs can assist in maximizing predefined learning outcomes. Expert facilitators in clinical simulation can assist to ensure learning objectives of a healthcare simulation program are not only clearly defined and appropriate but also achieved.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
healthysimulation.com | Kathy Sokol |Fouad Marhar |Lance Baily |Erin Carn-Bennett
Each new generation of healthcare students poses unique challenges for clinical simulation instructors. What used to be an effective education tool twenty years ago, may not work now. Clinical Simulation is proven to help learners master technical skills. This HealthySimulation.com contributor article by Kathy Sokol, RN, MSN will explore how clinical simulation can help the Generation Z learner to improve clinical judgment and decision-making and develop a higher level of critical thinking.
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
healthysimulation.com | Erin Carn-Bennett |Remy Roe |Teresa Gore |Kathy Sokol
The Virtual Resus Room (VRR) is a free, open access healthcare simulation modality to run clinical simulation online. This is an incredible free resource for the global healthcare simulation community to be able to deliver high quality virtual simulations at no cost and to a high standard. VRR is used across the world in a number of different countries and includes both high and lower resource environments.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
healthysimulation.com | Kathy Sokol
Interprofessional healthcare simulation involves two or more disciplines collaborating on an interdepartmental scenario. Learners from each discipline participate as a team. How to facilitate inter-collaboration of teams in Healthcare Simulation follows the same rules that apply to any Clinical Simulation. This article by Kathy Sokol, RN, MSN will explore how to facilitate intercollaboration of healthcare teams in clinical simulation.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
healthysimulation.com | Erin Carn-Bennett |Fouad Marhar |Lance Baily |Kathy Sokol
Family-centered clinical simulation is an emerging and incredibly valuable tool for clinical teams and families involved with pediatric care teams in all pediatric clinical environments. Thankfully, healthcare simulation teams have the skills required to create and maintain a psychologically safe education environment for pediatric clinical staff, pediatric patients and also family members.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
healthysimulation.com | Remy Roe |Teresa Gore |Kathy Sokol
In the context of tactical medicine, a mass casualty (MASCAL) event is defined as a situation where the number and severity of casualties exceed the available medical resources. MASCAL events can result from a wide range of scenarios that pose significant challenges for military healthcare providers. Examples include: large-scale accidents, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
healthysimulation.com | Kathy Sokol
Communication with patients and families can be difficult for novice nurses. Everyday conversation and small talk is easy for most. Novice nurses often struggle with sensitive dialogue in care of a patient with a terminal illness or a diagnosis that will strongly impact their life. Clinical Simulation can help learners develop communication tools to ease difficult talks with patients and families.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
healthysimulation.com | Kathy Sokol |Remy Roe |Erin Carn-Bennett |Teresa Gore
Communication with patients and families can be difficult for novice nurses. Everyday conversation and small talk is easy for most. Novice nurses often struggle with sensitive dialogue in care of a patient with a terminal illness or a diagnosis that will strongly impact their life. Clinical Simulation can help learners develop communication tools to ease difficult talks with patients and families.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
healthysimulation.com | Kathy Sokol
Student nurses in a mental health course often approach the experience with trepidation. Psychiatric/psychological diagnoses address maladaptive behaviors and unregulated emotions. Therefore, mental health clinical rotations frequently lead to high anxiety, fear, negative attitudes, and difficulty with patient communication.
