Cassie West, M.S.N., R.N., CPAN, a perioperative new graduate nurse professional development specialist with UAB Medicine, enjoys seeing her graduates step into a simulation alongside anesthesia residents and hold their own.
Risk more often emerges during routine clinic activities—standing from a chair, stepping onto a scale or moving through a hallway. The Falls: Ambulatory virtual simulation focuses on these everyday scenarios
This past February, a group of Girl Scouts from across North-Central Alabama visited the UAB Clinical Simulation lab to explore careers in health care.
Clin Sim recently partnered with UAB Medicine’s Care Transitions Department to facilitate a training session designed to strengthen the simulation programs of external long-term care facilities.
To help prepare staff for those rare but high-risk moments, UAB Clinical Simulation partnered with UAB Medicine’s PreOp/PACU team to host a Critical Care Peri-op Nursing simulation designed specifically for post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) nurses.
Denise Graham doesn’t just facilitate simulation; she advocates. Like a Johnny Apple-sim, Graham doesn’t hesitate to spread the word and share how simulation can ultimately improve patient outcomes.
The Patient Mobility and Fall Prevention iSim places learners alongside a hospitalized patient as she moves through common care activities.
UAB Clinical Simulation has been named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s “Simulation and Education Programs to Know for 2026” list, recognizing organizations across the country that are strengthening the health care workforce and improving patient outcomes through innovative training and education.
The first Quality Academy cohort launched in 2013 after leadership recognized that building sustainable expertise in improvement science meant training internally rather than relying on outside consultants. And UAB Clinical Simulation would play an integral part.
UAB Clinical Simulation’s simulated operating room is undergoing a procedure of its own.