Why our Sim Patients are not Standardized Patients.
We've had many questions about why we do not use standardized patients (SPs) in our integrated simulations. Some think this is because of...
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Connie Ayers
- Jan 18
- 3 min
Teamwork
When you think of teamwork in a simulation, you think teamwork among students, right? In our 48- and 72-hour continuous integrated sims,...
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Connie Ayers
- Jan 7, 2022
- 7 min
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...
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Connie Ayers
- Apr 28, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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Connie Ayers
- Jul 30, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Connie Ayers
- Apr 11, 2019
- 3 min
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...
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Connie Ayers
- Jan 30, 2019
- 4 min
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...
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Connie Ayers
- Aug 22, 2018
- 4 min
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...
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Connie Ayers
- Jun 20, 2018
- 5 min
What is Minimum Competency?
Our integrated multi-patient simulations are designed to integrate learning from the nursing curriculum; and, as a result, provide a...
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Connie Ayers
- Apr 7, 2018
- 1 min
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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