Lead and Content Authors
Elizabeth Horsley
RN, MSMS, CHSE, CCSNE
Director of Simulation, The Brooklyn Hospital Center.
Elizabeth is a very proud transplanted Canadian and former hockey mom. She is a graduate of Queen’s University (Arts ’89) and McMaster University (BScN ’93). She began her healthcare career as an Operating Room Nurse then transitioned to nursing education in 2003. In 2005 she was the lead on overseeing a half-million dollar grant from the province of Ontario to develop and implement a clinical simulation program in an undergraduate nursing program. In April of 2017 she was recruited to the position of Director of Simulation at The Brooklyn Hospital Center. She has transformed a forgotten simulation lab and random pieces of equipment in to a robust and thriving space in a community hospital. Her role runs the gamut from implementing deliberate practice modules for residents and medical students to incorporating simulation in staff education to enhance the patient experience to developing simulation activities for nursing education.
Elizabeth has pursued many advanced training opportunities in simulation including the Comprehensive Simulation Instructor Workshop at the Center for Medical Simulation at Harvard (2015), The Mastery Learning Course at Northwestern University (2017) and The Master Debriefer Course from The Debriefing Academy (2020). In 2016 she was in the first graduating class from the Master of Science in Medical and Healthcare Simulation at Drexel University. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) and facilitates on-line and in-person readiness review courses for this designation. She is served two terms as Vice-Chair of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare Hospital-Based Section. Elizabeth was a member of the writing teams for two of the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice – Prebriefing and Simulation Design.
She is a self-admitted “hoarder of simulation resources” and her passion is helping novices learn best practices for developing and implementing their own simulation programs.
Elizabeth will be finishing up in Brooklyn in the fall of 2023, and returning home to Vineland, Ontario.
Dr. Sandra Goldsworthy
PhD, Msc, RN, CNCC(C), CMSN(C), CCSNE
Professor, School of Nursing, Teaching Chair Online and Virtual Experiences, Nipissing University, North Bay, ON Canada
Dr. Sandra Goldsworthy is a nurse education leader who is recognized as an international simulation and critical care expert, researcher and author. She is the recipient of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation in Learning (INACSL) Excellence in Research Award and the Canadian Nurses’ Association Order of Merit in Education.
Dr. Goldsworthy has over 70 peer reviewed publications and frequently presents her research nationally and internationally. She has held a Research Professorship in Simulation from 2015-2019 at the University of Calgary. She is a member of several national and international committees including her roles as Director of Education for the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses Association and Co-chair of the CASN Simulation Interest Group.
Dr. Goldsworthy is passionate about improving patient safety and provider preparation through simulation. Her research program focuses on the impact of simulation in building competence in recognition and response to the deteriorating patient, reduction of medication errors and improving health team communication competencies through interprofessional simulation education.
Karen Fleming
RN, MN, MSHS
Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Red Blood Cell Disorders Clinic at the University Health Network
Karen Fleming is a Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Red Blood Cell Disorders Clinic at the University Health Network working with equity deserving groups such as patients with Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia. She has been a nurse for 20 years and completed her Masters of Science in Healthcare Simulation at University of Alabama in Birmingham in December 2021. She believes in the strength of simulation to improve access to equitable, safe, and high quality care for all patients. She also believes that all students deserve access to education that is equitable and accessible. Karen has brought her lived experiences and passion for equity, diversity, inclusion and anti racist healthcare to the table along with her experiences as a member of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Nursing Black Health Equity Working Group, creating education around cultural competence and social justice, co-leading the creation and distribution of an Anti Black Racism survey at North York General Hospital to uncover the experiences of Black employees, and as the Interim Canadian Black Nurses Alliance Director of Mentorship Program.
It is Karen’s hope that as we open our minds and ears to unlearn and learn again so we can truly lead in creating simulation based education that aligns with the patient populations we are currently seeing, that we will also give our learners more opportunities to have new and uncertain experiences in the simulation before unintentionally harming patients.
Yvonne Galbraith
RN, BFA, MMIE
Yvonne has been an artist, nurse and Simulationist for many years. She has combined experience in acute care nursing and College education in nursing. Yvonne has most recently worked as a Simulation Coach and Simulation developer for Simulation Canada on the Virtu WIL project for virtual simulations in Nursing across Canada and with Health Services Ontario developing infection control scenarios for Long Term Care across Canada. She currently is faculty in the Keystones course. She combines her nursing, fine art and masters in innovation and entrepreneurship in creating.