Managing and Debriefing about Simulation Education Just Got Easier
Through our collaborative arrangement, SimVentures, HealthStream and Laerdal Medical have launched two groundbreaking tools, SimManager and SimView, designed to revolutionize healthcare simulation education.
Simpler Management of Healthcare Simulation Education
The increased focus on patient safety has stimulated a booming interest in healthcare training through simulation. However, many simulation-related processes remain labor-intensive, and education managers are often already resource challenged. SimManager simplifies administrative tasks; it is a comprehensive application for managing all aspects of a simulation-based training program. Scheduling training, assigning learning activities, coordinating instructor schedules, tracking progress, delivering reports, and managing the logistics of simulation rooms and equipment are all streamlined through the use of SimManager.
Some of the specific capabilities of SimManager include:
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Ability to manage simulation rooms, equipment, instructors, and technicians
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Can track, manage, and report
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Schedule and assign simulation learning activities
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Manage simulation content
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Integrates simulation scenarios into learning curricula
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Can customize role management to create varying access levels for administrators
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Configure and schedule reports for simulator utilization and activity
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Upload and store simulator debriefing files
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Capture simulation activity on learner transcripts
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Integrates with Laerdal simulators
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Integrates with SimCenter product suite, including SimStore, SimDeveloper, and SimManager
As a system for managing simulation-based training and education programs, SimManager is a complete, single source solution. When SimManager is chosen by healthcare organizations using the HealthStream Learning Center™ (HLC), there are added benefits. Approximately half of U.S. hospitals currently utilize the HLC to deliver and track online training programs and manage classroom-based educational activities for approximately 2.7 million healthcare professionals. When SimManager is added as an extension to the HLC, all of the core learning features and capabilities in the HLC are made available, providing a powerful toolset for simulation-based training that is already familiar to HLC users.
More Effective Simulation Training Debriefing
Debriefing is a critical part of simulation-based education, and it is made more effective with SimView, the next generation debriefing tool that was built from Laerdal’s original Advanced Video System (AVS) product. The new debriefing system provides robust tools to accurately replay scenarios where students worked with patient simulators—showing what actually occurred, as opposed to perceptions of what occurred. SimView automatically integrates data from up to four video cameras, a microphone, and patient monitoring with the event log from the advanced patient simulator. Instructors can add comments to the log during a scenario and can easily manage the delivery, storage, and distribution of the debriefing files.
Some of the capabilities of SimView include:
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Captures simulation events with four IP or analog cameras, a microphone, and a computer
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Captures video, audio, data logs, and “patient” vital signs and then replays scenarios with
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instructor annotations
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Creates a single, time-indexed debriefing file for effective evaluation
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Enables viewing of live events while monitoring vital signs, annotating in real-time.
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Provides robust evaluation capabilities via embedded tools and assessment templates
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Integrates with SimCenter product suite, including SimStore, SimDeveloper, and SimManager
SimView offers healthcare providers a highly effective means of maximizing their investment in simulation-based learning. Capturing data through SimView significantly enhances students’ learning opportunities in a risk-free, realistic training environment, contributing to their organizations’ overall goal of maintaining a well-trained workforce to deliver excellent patient care.
Learn more about SimManager and SimView.