The Mobile Simulation Program will travel to your facility to provide hands-on training using real-life scenarios in a real medical setting.
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Mobile Simulation Education
Simulation based medical education uses an artificial (or simulated) learning environment to create and imitate a real-life patient care setting where learners can practice and master skills without putting a patient at risk.
The Pediatric Mobile Simulation Program uses computerized infant and child size mannequins, along with actual equipment, to reproduce a clinical environment that provides similar physical challenges and mental stressors that would occur in a real emergency. Simulation training is done with multi-disciplinary healthcare teams to increase patient safety by understanding each other's roles and learning to communicate effectively in emergency situations. In addition, in this environment, staff also responds to neonatal and pediatric emergencies to improve their skills and increase their confidence.
Debriefing is the key to the scenario's effectiveness and is facilitated by specially trained instructors. The team will review all stages of the scenario to identify what went well and where improvements can be made. Debriefing gives the participants a chance to reflect on their experience, share insights and apply the lessons learned to the real life setting.
A mobile program allows us to bring pediatric and neonatal emergency simulation training to healthcare teams throughout Iowa. It allows providers to train with their own team members in their own facilities.