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The Department of Spiritual Care at Washington Hospital Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 Healing Spirit Award: Chaplain Linda G. Fischer, Washington Cancer Institute; Nicholas Ghartey, clinical care facilitator, IEIMC; Eunyoung L. Ho (Lydia) nurse, 2G ICU; Mary A. McIntrye, PACU medical office assistant and MedStar SiTEL Clinical Simulation Center. Our nomination came from the [...]
This is a magnificent infographic about how we need to think about the future of education. In support of the video, I also posted Sir Ken Robinson’s thoughts from his website.
We are proud to announce that the paper “Real-Time Fiber-Optic Intubation Simulator with Force Feedback” written by Ankur R. Baheti, Robert Hafey, Sneha Pai, Jose Gomez, Yuri Millo, and Jaydev P. Desai was accepted for publication in the IEEE/ASME Journal “Transactions on Mechatronics.” The abstract of the paper is below.
From the Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the Institute of Medicine, the Future of Nursing explores how nurses‘ roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America’s [...]
The 2010 AHA Guidelines were recently released in October. This is an exciting time for all healthcare professionals, professional rescuers, and the lay rescuer. There are some significant changes in the AHA guidelines. It is important to begin your review as soon as possible to understand the recommendations. As an authorized provider of CPR and [...]
At a meeting of the President’s Economic Advisory Board on Monday, President Obama announced the launch of a new plan to promote better job training at community colleges. The “Skills for America’s Future” initiative aims at connecting leading private sector businesses with community colleges with a view to boosting job skills in the U.S.
While the use of the term “fidelity” is familiar to most involved in simulation, it is term that has been used loosely and without absolute understanding. ‘Fidelity’ as a word has been generalized and used by the simulation community with such cloaked meaning to a point where the term “high fidelity“ has gained ephemeral characteristics. So [...]
One of the primary goals of training is to change behavior as it relates to the training subject matter. We use the phrase “learn by doing” to describe one of the most powerful forms of training. Yet, do we understand how we actually learn by doing, physiologically speaking? Don’t we really watch-and-learn-by-doing? The physiological factors [...]
Virtual Worlds, and their incumbent technologies, offer men and women, who operate in high-risk environments, a valuable training platform. The growth of virtual worlds is mind-boggling. More telling perhaps than just the record-breaking number of one billion is the demographic where this is occurring: 468 million virtual world registered users are between the ages of [...]
Compared to other high-risk industries, healthcare has been slow to incorporate simulation into its training, assessment, and certification activities. The potential for simulation to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors and deaths, and decrease health care costs is far from fully realized. Simulation strengthens confidence and promotes competence by providing a safe and supportive environment [...]
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