ScholarSim Blog

Teamwork

When you think of teamwork in a simulation, you think teamwork among students, right? In our 48- and 72-hour continuous integrated sims,...

Do We Have Blinders On?

In a recent paper, A Crisis in Competency: A Defining Moment in Nursing Education, Kavanaugh & Sharpnack (2021) discussed their concerns...

Been There, Doing That: Our Nursing Integrated Sim

I've been reviewing the AACN's new document, The Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education, which is just out this...

Why Night Shift in our Sims?

I get this question pretty frequently. Couldn't you just do your sim during the day and not include night shift? We could. But, you will...

Are We Teaching the Practice of Nursing or Something Else?

I recently read with much interest a paper by Yancey (2019) who discussed concerns related to the emphasis on evidence-based practice...

Space Shuttle simulations could run for days; so should nursing simulations.

It's very good to see that nursing faculty are going beyond the traditional single-patient, high fidelity human patient simulator...

Critical Thinking or Task Training--What are we trying to achieve with simulation?

Nursing education has bought into high-fidelity human patient simulator-based training. Grants from simulator companies and educational...

What is Minimum Competency?

Our integrated multi-patient simulations are designed to integrate learning from the nursing curriculum; and, as a result, provide a...

Welcome to the ScholarSim Blog!

Welcome to our blog! In our blog we will introduce you to SCHOLAR: Simulating Clinical and Hospital Learning for Accelerated Readiness....

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