Upcoming Conferences

Here is the link to some upcoming conferences from the Drexel University Nursing Education Institute:

http://nursingconferences.cne.drexel.edu/conferences/

Feb. 6, 2010 SAVE THE DATE

Roberts will be hosting a mini-conference on Saturday Feb. 6, 2010. Details will be made available as the date nears. For questions or if you would like to present at the conference, please contact Sara at manning_sara@roberts.edu

METI Training

Here's the link to the November METI training taking place in Sarasota,Fla. If any of you are attending let me know. I will be attending the basic and advanced training sessions.
http://www.meti.com/downloads/iStan_TrainingCourse.pdf
http://www.meti.com/downloads/in%20house%20training%20registration%20form.pdf

2 LOCAL CONFERENCES

past events

3nd Annual WISER Symposium on Nursing Simulation

Past event.
To watch for future WISER events, go to http://www.wiser.pitt.edu/

Simulation Training Opportunities from WISER

I saw this post from Dr. Phrampus on the INACSL listserve and am sharing it if anyone is interested and has the ability to take advantage of this great opportunity:

WISER at the Univeristy of Pittsburgh in collaboration with the Gordon Center at the University of Miami have created a Healthacare Simulation Instructor Development Program that has been running over the last year. We are training our own intructors as well as making it available to others. In about two weeks, we will have the next one in Pittsburgh, one in Singapore in October and one in Miami in November. More information is available at http://www.wiser.pitt.edu/apps/courses/courseview.asp?course_id=6358 This type of course prepares folks to achieve competence at teaching and facilitating with simulation methods. Then we usually have specific instructor training for new insturctors on the course by course basis, to ensure they master the nuance of the specific program.

Best of luck in your effforts,
-Paul
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Paul E. Phrampus, MD
Director
Peter M. Winter Institute for Simulation, Education and Research (WISER) Department of Anesthesiology University of Pittsburgh and UPMC

412.648.6073

http://www.wiser.pitt.edu>

“WISER is endorsed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists”

Websites

I went to a mini summit in Maryland in May and attached are a few website that I was told about that may come in handy to blog members.

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Simulation Case Library
http://www.emedu.org/simlibrary/default.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

Scenarios
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Harvard Case Studies
http://www.rmf.harvard.edu/case-studies/index.aspx

MARTINDALE'S THE "VIRTUAL" ~ NURSING CENTER
http://www.martindalecenter.com/Nursing.html

Virtual Healthcare Team
http://www.vhct.org/studies.htm

Doing More with Less

Linked below is a blog that has an interesting write-up about a simulation center in California.

http://thesimulationgeneration.blogspot.com/

2009 SUN Laerdal Conference Slides

Some of the conference presenters at this summer's SUN\Laerdal conferences have made their Power Point presentations available at this online link. Whether you were able to attend or not these are something you may want to check out!

Keep posted for our next meeting information!

Sara

Moulage Recipe

"Schkin" Recipe from the SUN conference in Baltimore (5/09)



2 13 oz containers of Vaseline

3 16 oz boxes of cornstarch

1/2 bottle of liquid foundation make-up



mix together, refrigerate 12 hrs, and store in an airtight container. It lasts about 1 year. Use this "clay" in making wounds on your mannequins. See photo.

Newly Published Simulation Articles

Here's some great simulation literature. 2 nursing journals have recently dedicated an entire issue to simulation in nursing education.

The Journal of Nursing Education dedicated their entire Nov 2008 edition to simulation. The first article is Creating a Nursing Simulation Laboratory: A Literature Review. I will be using this information and encourage those getting started to read this article to help you design your simulation lab - along with the rest of the journal of course.

The National League of Nursing also just published all simulation articles in their March/April 2009 journal Nursing Education Perspectives.

Enjoy!

Sara

Toronto in June

Past event. For future Laerdal conferences, go to http://www.laerdal.com/default.asp

Clinical Simulation link

I would like to share another site as a resource. www.nursingsimulation.org which is the home site of The International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL). The journal for this group is not indexed yet, so joining the group to get to the articles is what I did. There are some great articles!!

Getting Started

Welcome to SimBlog!

You are encouraged to immediately add this site to your favorites so it is easy to return!

Please add any comments regarding our plan to invite Mike Palermo from Laerdal to our next meeting to demo SimMan3G manekin and MicroSim software. What are other ideas for future meetings?

Here are some web resources we talked about during our first meeting:

Upcoming Laerdal conferences http://www.laerdal.com/document.asp?docID=40411257

NLN simulation web site http://sirc.nln.org/

Justleapin http://www.justleapin.com/not_supported

University of Michigan CAVE-3D environment: Wikepedia general info on the CAVE – many applications not related to healthcare:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Automatic_Virtual_Environment

Elsevier nursing simulation products https://evolve.elsevier.com/staticPages/i_index.html

Please share any webs you find helpful.

Sara