Sometimes, the best classroom isn’t a classroom. Responding to an emergency can present unique challenges that healthcare teams might not encounter in a traditional learning setting or simulation lab.
When it comes to strengthening communication, de-escalation and decision-making skills, simulation often comes to mind. This is especially true for participants in UAB’s Mental Health Scholar program.
UAB Clinical Simulation recently partnered with faculty from UAB’s Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine to pilot the FCCS-OB course, combining evidence-based instruction with multiple simulation modalities to prepare learners for some of the most complex emergencies in OB care.
Music therapists from UAB Medicine’s Spain Rehabilitation Center recently participated in a Code Skills Out of Lab experience, a simulation designed to build confidence in recognizing patient deterioration, initiating high-quality CPR and responding during the critical first minutes of a medical emergency.
Recent radiology simulations hosted by UAB Clinical Simulation offered learners the chance to practice how they communicate, lead and act when a routine scan takes a turn for the unexpected.
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.
Wound care can be a sore subject. Fortunately, through collaboration with UAB Clinical Simulation, UAB’s Wound Scholar Program continues to empower frontline staff to meet the growing need for wound care prevention—and treatment—at the bedside.
UAB Clinical Simulation recently launched a new pilot simulation focused on one of the operating room’s most serious, but least frequently encountered, emergencies: airway fires.
Each year, learners from across UAB Medicine step into the Diabetes Scholar Program (DSP) to strengthen their knowledge, refine clinical judgment and advance diabetes care within their units.
After consecutive Code Blue events, therapists at UAB Medicine’s Spain Rehabilitation Center recognized an opportunity for some strength training of their own.