Sometimes, de-escalation requires escalation. UAB Clinical Simulation’s Disruptive Patient sim serves to teach new nurse leaders how to handle such patients with aid from the numerous resources available through UAB Medicine.
UAB Clinical Simulation not only hones skills—it builds confidence. Just ask one of the many interprofessional learners—including physicians, nurses and pharmacists—who participated in Code Blue simulations this past June.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Stroke Scale helps health-care providers measure the severity of a patient’s stroke—and UAB Clinical Simulation is offering these providers virtual learning to produce real results.
UAB Clinical Simulation offers experiences that can benefit all members of the health-care team. UAB’s Geriatric Scholar program is a prime example, featuring an interprofessional group of learners spanning UAB Medicine.
As one of UAB Medicine’s newest clinics, Lee Branch Primary & Specialty Care enlisted the help of UAB Clinical Simulation to put its systems to the test.
Through Clinical Simulation’s virtual reality offerings, members of the health-care team can simply put on a headset and immerse themselves in learning like never before.
UAB Health System Emergency Management partnered with UAB Clinical Simulation, the UAB Hospital Emergency Department (UED), UAB Police, UAB Hospital Safety and UAB Spiritual Health to host an emergency preparedness pilot drill depicting an active shooter scenario.
This past March, UAB Clinical Simulation debuted a local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) in situ simulation for residents in UAB’s anesthesiology and perioperative medicine department, per request of the nursing team leaders and nursing professional development specialists in UAB Inpatient Pain Service.
Through a special simulation, UAB Clinical Simulation helps participants in the UAB Heersink School of Medicine’s Pain Medicine Fellowship improve their readiness, skills and confidence.
Select members of the UAB Clinical Simulation team attended the 24th annual International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare, where they presented an interactive workshop on Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice for an international audience using tangrams and Legos.