Have you ever responded to a “code blue” to find a manikin in a bed waiting for you? If so, then you have experienced in-situ simulation. These unannounced simulations that take place in the clinical environment are designed to test processes. Dr. Andrew Bloom and Sarah Shipley are leading the effort in partnership with UAB Clinical Simulation to regularly bring in-situ resuscitation Read more…
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 solutions to the health system that are constructive, relevant, and impact Read more…
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!
Cries will be heard again in Whitfield Regional Hospital! Tears of joy from new mothers and babies, that is! When the Whitfield Labor and Delivery Unit closed years ago, the community felt the loss of a local facility to deliver babies. Since then, Whitfield has worked hard to bring that service back to Demopolis. The Whitfield leadership and L & D Read more…