IMSH 2023

Elevate your Impact with Laerdal's Immersive Experience at IMSH 2023

The International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) is celebrating 23 years of a scientific conference that highlights the latest innovations and best practices in healthcare simulation. Join us at booth 401 to learn how Laerdal Solutions can help elevate your simulation impact and improve program outcomes as we host hourly interactive presentations highlighting our latest offerings.

Join us to explore, learn and interact with:

Hands-on immersive sessions featuring new products and service solutions, including Laerdal Accelerate and vrClinicals
Innovative solutions that will help accelerate your simulation program
An insightful Learning Lab session, highlighting “Effective Ways to Provide Clinical Hours in Nursing Education”

Experience our latest innovations

Laerdal Accelerate Program
Laerdal’s Accelerate program is an all-in-one training solution that provides on-site simulation for targeted clinical scenarios allowing you to focus on training, skills assessment, and system evaluation without the distraction of equipment operation, setup, tear-down, administration, storage, logistics or curriculum acquisition. Additionally, this full-service program offers exceptional data insight to easily evaluate strengths and opportunities. Learn More >

vrClinicals for Nursing
Unlike any other solution on the market, vrClinicals for Nursing represents a new standard in Clinical Placement. vrClinicals offers a highly immersive experience with diverse, multi-patient scenarios authored by the National League for Nursing to give students a clinical understanding as they transition to practice with competence and confidence. Learn More >

Stop by booth 401 for a hands-on experience of vrClinicals and Laerdal Accelerate.

Modular Simulators for Diversity Training

SimMan^® 3G PLUS
Designed to represent a diverse range of patient scenarios to help prepare learners for real-world situations, SimMan 3G PLUS introduces interchangeable face skins for diversity training and full articulation for realistic patient handling. Now you can also train with real clinical devices, in compliance with current guidelines as well as simulated devices like the ASL 5000^TM, VitalsBridge 4, and Laerdal- SonoSim Ultrasound Solution. For additional realism and enhanced detail in trauma simulation and gender training, Simetri limbs can be added. Learn More >

Nursing Anne Simulator
The Nursing Anne Simulator is a diverse, inclusive, and realistic full-body solution with modularity that was created to help train for the highest level of care. Features include numerous accessories and interchangeable parts that facilitate a variety of simulated patients and provide unique training opportunities. Learn More >

Use Data to Improve Learning Outcomes

SimCapture
SimCapture gives you to the tools you need to measure your programs training by effectively managing, recording, and assessing simulation activities. Features include the ability to capture audio, video, annotations, patient monitors and simulator data in a single web-based interface, on-site, remotely and in-situ. Learn More >

SimCapture for Skills with Modular Skills Trainer
SimCapture for Skills with Modular Skills Trainer allows your students to build competence with a practical, portable solution that effectively combines hands-on skills practice with efficient, digital assessment and evaluation tools. Learn More >

NextGen vSim® for Nursing

The next generation of vSim^® for Nursing delivers the most advanced technology-enhanced learning for students. Trusted by nursing experts, vSim for Nursing challenges students to exercise clinical judgment and decision-making skills, turning academic learning into clinical competence. Learn More >

Home to You

Daily recaps from the World’s Largest Healthcare Simulation Conference IMSH. Join us virtually from IMSH as we share with you key moments, discussions, and learnings.

Hands-on Learning Lab

Effective Ways to Provide Clinical Hours in Nursing Education

Date: Monday, January 23
Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Eastern
Room: 220 C

Learn more about this Learning Lab

During this 90-minute hands-on learning lab, participants will have the opportunity to hear from presenters about the current challenges related to clinical hours and clinical learning outcomes. Participants will be asked to work in small groups to explore different modalities for fulfilling clinical hour requirements, such as screen-based simulation, full-scale simulation, virtual reality (VR), and in-person clinical care. Moderators and participants will discuss and analyze how these different modalities could complement one another to achieve meaningful outcomes. This learning lab session will conclude with a collective ideation session, identifying creative ways to gather and use clinical evaluation data that is or should be collected across an experience, course, or program of study.

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Speaker Bios

Susan Gross Forneris PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE-A

Susan Gross Forneris is currently the Excelsior Deputy Director, Center for Innovation in Simulation and Technology, National League for Nursing, Washington, DC. Selected for inclusion in the 2010 inaugural group of NLN Simulation Leaders, she has been working in the field of clinical simulation since 2007. Dr. Forneris' expertise is in curriculum development with emphasis on simulation and debriefing in combination with her research on critical thinking. She served as a simulation expert for the NLN ACE.S Team (Advancing Care Excellence for Seniors) and a simulation author for the NLN ACE.Z Alzheimer's simulation scenario series. She is currently the NLN project manager in the development of simulation scenarios focused on nursing assessment and fundamentals. Dr. Forneris is actively engaged in initiating multi-site simulation research on simulation and debriefing and in the area of high stakes testing with the MN Consortium for Nursing Education and Research. She has several publications focused on the development and use of reflective teaching strategies. She was a former Professor of Nursing at St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN.

Dr. Michelle C. Moulton, DNP, RN, CHSE, CNE, RYT-200

Dr. Michelle C. Moulton is the Senior Manager for the Division for Innovation in Education Excellence at the National League for Nursing in Washington, DC. Dr. Moulton has over 10 years of teaching experience in the classroom, clinical, lab, and simulation settings. Michelle’s specialty areas in nursing education include experiential teaching-learning strategies, “teaching thinking” and debriefing. Additionally, Dr. Moulton provides local and national professional development for nursing faculty and healthcare interprofessionals related to developing feedback, debriefing, and preceptor teaching skills. She is certified in healthcare simulation education and nursing education. Michelle’s clinical background is with acute care adults and in residential summer camp nursing. In 2019, she completed her DNP at University of Maryland. Her doctoral work focused on implementing a simulation-based education program to improve acute care nurses’ response to rapid patient deterioration using situational awareness skills.

Amy Kline MA, RN, CHSE

Amy Kline MA, RN, CHSE is a Senior Medical Specialist for Laerdal Medical. Amy has a passion for creating innovative educational solutions, supporting novice nurses in the transition to practice and advocating for nurse educators in all fields. Amy previously worked as the Manager for Education Program Innovation at the National League for Nursing and as a faculty member and advisor for the Pediatric Simulation Training and Research Society of India. Amy has worked as a simulation specialist for Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and as an Assistant Professor of nursing at St. Catherine's University. Amy started her career as a labor and delivery nurse and has continued her clinical interest and specialty development in maternal-child nursing. Amy is a graduate of Luther College School of Nursing, received her Master of Nursing Education from St. Catherine's University and completed simulation and debriefing training through Boston Children's Hospital.

Abstract Spotlight

Join us in congratulating May Sissel Vadla from the Safer Births research consortium as their abstract has been selected as one of the IMSH 2023 award winners. Titled “Newborn resuscitation simulation training and changes in clinical performance and perinatal outcomes: a clinical observational study of 10,481 births”, this clinical research study identifies changes in clinical resuscitation performance and perinatal outcomes after introducing the NeoNatalie Live manikin while facilitating ongoing Helping Babies Breathe simulation training.

Safer Births is a research and development collaboration between Laerdal Global Health and Tanzanian, Norwegian, and international research institutions. The project aims to establish new evidence and knowledge, and develop innovative products to better equip and increase competence of health workers to increase newborn survival.

Learn more about this award-winning abstract

Background
Annually, 1.5 million intrapartum-related deaths occur; fresh stillbirths and early newborn deaths. Most of these deaths are preventable with skilled ventilation starting within the first minute of life. Helping Babies Breathe is an educational program shown to improve simulated skills in newborn resuscitation. However, translation into clinical practice remains a challenge. The aim was to describe changes in clinical resuscitation and perinatal outcomes (i.e., fresh stillbirths and 24-h newborn deaths) after introducing a novel simulator (phase 1) and then local champions (phase 2) to facilitate ongoing Helping Babies Breathe skill and scenario simulation training.

Results
The study included 10,481 births. Midwives had practiced self-guided skill training during the last week prior to a real newborn resuscitation in 34% of cases during baseline, 30% in phase 1, and 71% in phase 2. Most real resuscitations were provided by midwives, increasing from 66% in the baseline to 77% in phase 1, and further to 83% in phase 2. The median time from birth to first ventilation decreased between baseline and phase 2 from 118 (85-165) to 101 (72-150) s, and time pauses during ventilation decreased from 28 to 16%. Ventilations initiated within the first minute did not change significantly (13-16%). The proportion of high-risk deliveries increased during the study period, while perinatal mortality remained unchanged.

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Learn about Safer Births Scale Up Initiative

Safer Births received funding from the Global Financing Facility under the World Bank to scale up the project in Tanzania. And that’s just the beginning. Our aim is to guide the way to inspire other countries to do the same. To save more lives. Together.

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