Empathy in Action: Patient Care Experience at Lakeland Community Hospital
The UAB Mobile Simulation team, in collaboration with Lakeland Community Hospital in Haleyville, Ala., orchestrated a patient care experience Simulation this past March.
Clinical Simulation goes to school
Physicians, registered nurses, lab technicians, pharmacists and… middle-schoolers? While UAB Clinical Simulation provides simulation opportunities to all members of the health-care team, six Clin Sim staff members recently found themselves presenting to a significantly younger audience.
Clinical Simulation hosts workshop on global stage
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.
Clinical Simulation hosts new proning course
In a new SimUAB Facilitator Development course, UAB Clinical Simulation’s immersive simulation team coached content experts on utilizing Rapid Cycle Deliberate Practice (RCDP) to train learners in safe manual proning.
Sim Room of Errors opens door for improving patient care, safety
As part of Quality Week, which ran Oct. 15-20, Clin Sim hosted the Sim Room of Errors, an exercise open to all members of UAB Medicine, in which participants identify simulated patient safety errors that could negatively impact patient care.
Virtues of Virtual: VR offers immersive, flexible learning
The setting may be virtual, but the lessons are real. UAB Clinical Simulation has offered virtual reality learning since 2019, providing an ever-expanding variety of modules to health-care team members across UAB Medicine.
UAB Simulation is Going High Tech
Virtual reality (VR) has come a long way! Taking the technology from novel entertainment to practical application, UAB Clinical Simulation has added this innovative tool to its simulation toolbox. This is not your teenager’s VR! We offer a variety of modules that can train healthcare professionals on a wide range Read more…
New year! New you! New Sim?
There are so many new things in simulation! We have spent the last 6 months reimagining how you think, do, use, and interact with simulation. We kept returning to one phrase…SimFirst. What does that mean, exactly? The goal we have in UAB Clinical Simulation is to create and deliver simulation Read more…
ED Nurses win Sim Wars
A University of Alabama at Birmingham team has won a national championship. A four-nurse team from UAB Hospital’s emergency department took top honors at SIM Wars, an emergency medicine simulation exercise presented at Emergency Nursing 22, the annual meeting of the Emergency Nursing Association in Denver in October. Check out the story from the UAB Reporter!