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A strategic plan will definitely help you in creating a road map as to where you want to be as a simulation program. Within that you can identify a plan for faculty/professional development for simulation. For best results, you need to get consistency and uniformity with you you facilitate – facilitation encompasses the prebrief, debrief and all points in between.
Often the hesitancy you speak of is because people are afraid of change and afraid of something new. If you can get a few champions identified who can help promote simulation and best practices, that may be very helpful.
E.
Outstanding Heather!
As you get deeper in the field of simulation, you soon realize that it has it’s own pedagogy, theories and frameworks. It indeed is a specialized body of knowledge. Often, potential educators feel that because they are experienced clinicians or clinical educators, they can easily transition to simulation. That is definitely not the case. I do believe between the university and your hospitals you have the resources to draw upon to create some robust simulation educator opportunities.
E.
This is a great step – getting a committee together and making sure everyone has, as they say “a shared mental model”. I can’t tell you how many times I have heard from other schools where instructors using simulation were “doing their own things” and there was no structure or uniformity. Of course there is room to be creative, but you want to make sure everyone is adhering to the same best practice standards, and above all the three pillars: patient safety, psychological safety and experiential learning.
Bring your questions tomorrow – Matt is a wealth of knowledge on getting programs established!Elizabeth
I envy you – you are doing one of my absolute favourite things – professional development! You will be bringing the team together – and I assume an IP team. It will be a daunting task but it is important to keep everyone on board with the overall goals and objectives of simulation – i.e. standardization in how scenarios are created, debriefing strategies etc. Of course there is room for flexibility and creativity but so long as the three pillars remain of patient safety, experiential learning and psychological safety.
I can certainly recommend so good, basic articles on the fundamentals of simulation for your group.E.
I envy you – you are doing one of my absolute favourite things – professional development! You will be bringing the team together – and I assume an IP team. It will be a daunting task but it is important to keep everyone on board with the overall goals and objectives of simulation – i.e. standardization in how scenarios are created, debriefing strategies etc. Of course there is room for flexibility and creativity but so long as the three pillars remain of patient safety, experiential learning and psychological safety.
I can certainly recommend so good, basic articles on the fundamentals of simulation for your group.E.
Hi Sophia:
Welcome to the chiropractic community! I’m also so excited when we have have multiple professions in our sessions.
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!
Elizabeth
Definitely look at the concept of a needs assessment for your program:
1. Who are your learners/participants?
2. What are the most common issues/patient problems you see?
3. What level are your learners at?
4. What level are the folks who are facilitating/designing simulation at?
5. Are there any problems/issues you’d like to solve?A solid needs assessment can guide you as you begin to build the program. Unfortunately, this is an often overlooked step in the process. I have so sooooo many programs go out and buy lots of “high-tech” equipment without much thought as to how they will use it. I would also argue have trained facilitators is far more important than the equipment.
Definitely bring your questions for Matt on Tuesday!
E.
I would say there are three pillars of simulation:
1. Patient safety
2. Experiential learning
3. Psychological safetyEverything we do should have an element of each of these three in it.
If you have not read this article – READ IT NOW!! I believe this is required reading for anyone in the simulation field.
E.
Hi Aniket:
Welcome! Definitely bring your questions to our session on Tuesday. Matt has built a few different simulation teams over the years so he will definitely give you food for thought! Also, being in a community hospital has some different nuances and challenges then being in a academic centre.
Looking forward to meeting you!
Elizabeth
Hi Heather:
Welcome! I am so excited to hear about the masters program you are involved with. I did the masters program at Drexel focusing on simulation back 2014-16. It was online before online was cool! That is where I met Matt Charnetski so I am sure that will come up in our session next week.
EDI (funny enough it is “DEI” in the US) – you will get tons of information from Karen’s module plus her guest speaker is Kellie Bryant who is just amazing! As well, don’t hesitate to pick Matt’s brain on Tuesday.
Have a great day!
ElizabethThanks for listening! I’m glad it was helpful.
When I look back on my simulation career the simulations that weren’t that good (heck, they were awful!) were because we did not do a proper needs assessment and did not take the level of learner into account. Again, we have to find “the sweet spot” for learners where they are appropriately challenged, yet not overwhelmed. Also, we need to make sure that whatever the topic at hand for the simulation is, it is relevant to our learners and at their current level of practice/learning.
I have a great many resources here that I would gladly share with you to share with your colleagues. Please don’t hesitate to reach out. I truly get great joy out of helping others get going on their simulation journeys.
Have a great day!
Thanks for listening! I’m glad it was helpful.
When I look back on my simulation career the simulations that weren’t that good (heck, they were awful!) were because we did not do a proper needs assessment and did not take the level of learner into account. Again, we have to find “the sweet spot” for learners where they are appropriately challenged, yet not overwhelmed. Also, we need to make sure that whatever the topic at hand for the simulation is, it is relevant to our learners and at their current level of practice/learning.
I have a great many resources here that I would gladly share with you to share with your colleagues. Please don’t hesitate to reach out. I truly get great joy out of helping others get going on their simulation journeys.
Have a great day!
Hi Val:
Our guest next week, Matthew Charnetski, along with all his operations experience has also done quite a bit of work with culture and DEI. By all means, pick his amazing brain!
“Establishing a Safe Container” – I recommend that everyone working in simulation needs to read this article NOW. I have two copies of it and each has multiple colours of highlighter as something new resonates with me every time I read it! We aren’t removing risk or stress, but rather finding the “sweet spot” if you will for our learners. They need to be appropriately challenged, but not overly so and that all comes back to the needs assessment.
Pre-briefing is a huge topic and I have learned so much this past couple years. I like to use the word “titrate” when talking about pre-briefing – the amount and type of pre-briefing, again comes back to the needs of your learners at that moment in time. I also have some great examples of pre-briefing that can be used in the hospital setting. Quite often folks think it is only an academic activity, but definitely not! It is just as important to prepare participants in clinical setting – albeit, it may look a little different.
I have a wonderful article on a fantastic pre-briefing activity called “know-do-teach”, written by a nursing colleague down in Florida. I also have recorded a couple webinars on the topic so please reach out and I can share more with you.Have a great day!
E.Hi Val:
First question – are you able to access the Foronda article about the cultural pre-brief? Let me know. I can send it to you. Also, I worked on the standard of best practice for pre-briefing. I can send you a few things, or even have a chat if you like.
I love how you have worked in Cognitive Load Theory. Once I learned about it, it changed how I designed and implemented simulation. It all comes back to the needs assessment. Your story is unfortunately not unusual. I remember in my early days of simulation, one of the faculty designing a scenario, for first year nursing students who had barely been in clinical, on Diabetic Ketoacidosis! It was a disaster! Those kids should have been teaching people how to count carbs or advising seniors not to go barefoot in Florida (that question was on my RN exam a thousand years ago….LOL). They had no business being involved with DKA! Similarly, I quickly observed our new hire orientation here on code blues was not that effective. This “kids” were just out of school and more often then not recently, the bulk of their clinical was virtual. Running through a v-tach algorithm was pointless. I redesigned it to a course on what to do in “the first 5 minutes” and a tour of the crash cart.
The needs assessment informs your learning objectives which informs your design and modality.
Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoyed the assignment!
E.Hi Jaime:
Great to meet you! Haha….my son is at Dal and works as a minor hockey referee. He refed a big tournament last weekend in Halifax – lots of teams from New Brunswick he said! His girlfriend is from Riverview and one of my dearest friends in Ontario is originally from McAdam NB. I have never been there but maybe once I’m back home permanently I’ll make a site visit to you!
While we are talking about professional development and organizational issues in this module, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me with any questions as you move along with your program. I have all kinds of resources here. I believe too I have met some folks from UNB through CASN.
Looking forward to meeting and working with you!
E.
