HSC Uses NHS Simulation Center
On July 18, 10 staff members from the HSC Pediatric Center in Washington, D.C., visited NHS to hone their pediatric clinical skills within the school's O'Neill Family Foundation Clinical Simulation Center. Working side-by-side, registered nurses, respiratory therapists, pediatric hospitalists, and pediatric care assistants practiced a variety of realistic clinical scenarios using a pediatric simulator. Throughout the summer, NHS is hosting four of these sessions, bringing a total of 40 HSC staff members to campus. The group is receiving continuing education units. At each session, four to five training scenarios are used. Each scenario includes a pre-briefing and post-briefing conference. Helen Brown and Cece Jimenez, faculty members in the Department of Nursing at NHS, mentored the HSC staff during and after each scenario. "The goal is to increase the competency level of the HSC Code Blue Team when responding to an emergent health situation in our patient population," said Jean Farley, a clinical nurse educator at HSC and a nursing faculty member at NHS. "We also want to better our ability to work together as a team and reinforce staff skills in pediatric advanced life support." Georgetown University's adult simulator "GUS" took a break during the HSC sessions. Filling in was a pediatric simulator on loan from METI. To read more about GUS and simulation capabilities, visit: http://nhs.georgetown.edu/facilities/gus.html. |
