Clinical simulation used to be synonymous with “task training.” Now, simulation is about creating a real-life rehearsal in an environment where task training is only one small part. Nursing has settled into a new norm. In this article, we discuss how nursing has changed in the past 25 years, and how increasing your simulation fidelity can help you impart the necessary skills in today’s nursing environment.

National Minority Health Month, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, aims to raise awareness of minority health disparities. Laerdal Medical is supporting the initiative throughout the month of April, promoting simulation resources that can be used to better prepare healthcare providers to treat patients who are part of a racial or ethnic minority.

Learn how clinical skills competitions not only offer a team-based approach to skills training and assessment, but also the many benefits that extend beyond the classroom or training room.

Presented by Susan Gross Forneris, Excelsior Deputy Director, NLN Center for Innovation in Simulation and Technology. Teaching nursing using simulation has been proven to be as effective as traditional clinical methods when faculty have the needed skills and resources.

Learn from FDNY Paramedics Joe Hudak and Joe Fortis about how to prepare for a clinical simulation competition.

Learn how you can improve outcomes for your pediatric cardiac arrest patients by implementing telephone CPR(T-CPR), planning dosing and device sizes en route to the patient, and by treating the patients on scene with high-performance CPR.

In this webinar, participants will learn about the psychology behind taking care of pediatric patients in the prehospital setting. Why does it make us anxious? Do we make it more challenging than it has to be? Participants will also discover how simulation can be used to help EMTs and paramedics conquer this “fear” of treating children and young patients.

Learn how Polk County (FL) Fire Rescue redesigned their pediatric and neonatal resuscitation practices and went from 0% to an amazing 35% survival-to-discharge.

El alta hospitalaria puede ser uno de los pasos de mayor riesgo en la atención de un paciente. Al ser dado de alta, el paciente suele quedar bajo el cuidado de otras personas que pueden estar mal preparadas para manejar una emergencia cardíaca si llegara a ocurrir.