{"id":299,"date":"2010-12-06T09:19:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T09:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.103.127\/health\/2010\/12\/06\/disaster-simulation-at-belmont-university\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T09:19:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T09:19:55","slug":"disaster-simulation-at-belmont-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2010\/12\/06\/disaster-simulation-at-belmont-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster Simulation at Belmont University"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DisasterSim.jpg\"The disaster simulation drill featured as part of last month’s Tennessee Simulation Conference cosponsored by the Belmont University School of Nursing was featured recently in a Nashville Medical News article.
\nThe article can be accessed directly at the Nashville Medical News website<\/a>, but is also included below.<\/p>\n

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\nCollaborations and Conferences Push the Emerging Model
\nBy: SHARON H. FITZGERALD
\nThe scene would have been horrifying, if not for the posted signs that read \u201cDisaster Drill in Progress.\u201d Victims covered in faux blood were scattered on Belmont University sidewalks, stairs and lawns last month as nursing faculty from academic and hospital settings across Tennessee learned how such simulations better help their students learn.
\nThe event was the third-annual Tennessee Simulation Conference, called \u201cPractice, Practice, Practice! Patient Safety and Provider Performance,\u201d held at Belmont\u2019s College of Health Sciences & Nursing. Belmont boasts the Health Care Simulation Center, which has been recognized as a Laerdal Center of Education Excellence. That\u2019s simulation education\u2019s gold seal of approval. The two-day conference on Nov. 4-5 was preceded on Nov. 3 by a pre-conference at Vanderbilt University where participants new to simulation education learned the basics of setting up simulation programs at their institutions.
\nJust what is simulation education anyway? According to Beth Fentress Hallmark, PhD, RN, who is Belmont\u2019s director of simulation, \u201cA simulated clinical experience is anything that is not real. I hate to say that, but there are so many different components to it, from the actual pre-work that students have to do, to the simulation where they\u2019re working in the lab or with a standardized patient. Because simulation is so new, we are really trying to define some of those terms.\u201d
\nA \u201cstandardized patient\u201d is an individual trained to play the role of someone who is ill or injured and that can certainly be a valuable learning tool. Yet, simulation may also be as simple as a nurse learning to administer an injection by substituting an orange for an arm. \u201cIt\u2019s not just electronic simulators that we\u2019re talking about,\u201d Hallmark said, adding, \u201cThe most important portion of simulation is really the debriefing and the reflective thinking, where you sit around the table and you \u2018unpack\u2019 everything you\u2019ve done.\u201d
\nThe seeds for the Tennessee Simulation Conference were sowed in 2006, when nursing education advocates across the state launched a full-fledged effort to apply for grant funding, Hallmark explained. They were successful, and the first conference at Belmont, entitled \u201cEmpowering Nurse Educators,\u201d was held in 2008. Funding has come from a variety of sources, including the Community Foundation of Tennessee, the Tennessee Center for Nursing, Belmont, Vanderbilt and Austin Peay State University. Another financial source has been a national initiative by the Robert Wood Johnson and the Northwest Health Foundation. Called Partners Investing in Nursing\u2019s Future, the national strategy was designed to establish a stable, adequate nursing workforce.
\nToday, the Tennessee Nursing Clinical Simulation Center is a website collaboration designed to help Tennessee nurse educators access the latest simulation resources. The site includes links to other websites, conferences, newsletters, presentations, journals and books, offering an in-depth look at what is practiced in the world of simulation today.
\nAccording to the website, \u201cIn today\u2019s world of healthcare, we have learned simulation provides the learner a place safe from patient harm, helps the learner to increase confidence, and can provide the educator a means to make things happen, unlike clinical experiences. Educators are also learning that simulation education provides a format to teach teamwork.\u201d
\nIn fact, Hallmark\u2019s presentation at last month\u2019s conference focused on the importance of interdisciplinary cooperation in simulation education. \u201cNot only is this going to be nursing, but we\u2019re expanding this to include all disciplines. I\u2019m working with physicians, EMTs, respiratory therapy, allied health, from the very top to the very bottom of the healthcare realm,\u201d she said. She pointed to studies that now stress educating nurses \u201cinterprofessionally and not in those typical silos because the medical errors continue to occur.\u201d
\nStill another Tennessee initiative is the new Tennessee Simulation Alliance, which held its inaugural meeting on Oct. 11 and met again in conjunction with the recent conference. Hallmark is the alliance\u2019s program director, and she said the collaboration is multidisciplinary and involves healthcare professionals working together to ensure improved patient safety and the use of quality simulation scenarios. The alliance plans to partner with academia, industry, government and healthcare providers.
\n\u201cIn surgery, there\u2019s still an increase in wrong-side surgeries or wrong-site surgeries. Isn\u2019t that awful? We really feel like simulation is one way we can help with safety and communication and make sure that we are providing education for students before they get to the acute-care arena,\u201d she said.
\nHallmark said ongoing projects in Tennessee to further simulation include:
\n* Continued faculty education,
\n* An online \u201cclinical placing system\u201d database to help nursing schools find available simulation units they might use in hospitals, long-term care facilities and other institutions.
\n* Development of current nurses on a unit to act as clinical instructors.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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