Simulators and Manikins that are Changing the Healthcare Scenario | SEM Trainers

Shyam Gajrani / December 29, 2022December 29, 2022 / Clinical Skills, Medical Simulation, Medicine, Nursing Education, Patient Simulator, Simulation-based Learning

It is hard to imagine teaching basic clinical skills without using simulators today. The technology has revolutionized our approach to healthcare and has significantly improved the quality of healthcare available. If you are someone who trains aspiring learners in the medical/nursing fields, you can’t go ahead without thinking about medical manikins and simulators.

When deciding which manikins to purchase, there are many factors you need to consider, like functionality, fidelity, and cost, among others. At SEM Trainers, we bring you the biggest variety of simulators and manikins, all of which are ISO 9001-Certified and acquired from 3B Scientific, meeting the highest quality standards. We provide everything from low-fidelity to high-fidelity trainers, for all your needs.

Here are some of SEM Trainers’ leading medical simulators:

Airway Larry

This airway management trainer torso has realistic anatomy and landmarks, and is perfect for practicing intubation, ventilation, suction, and CPR techniques for both freshers and advanced students.

ADAM-X-HPS-PRO

ADAM is the most realistic, high-fidelity adult male human patient simulator. He’s good for everything from patient care and emergency medical intervention to resuscitation training for dynamic team training. If you’re looking for an Advanced Trauma Life Support trainer, you can’t miss this one.

Adult CPR Manikin

A realistic, full-size manikin with anatomical landmarks for training BLS rescue techniques and CPR.

Advanced Child Airway Management Trainer

With tongue swelling and laryngospasm, this 5-year old child trainer is perfect for practicing intubation, ventilation, suction, and jaw thrust skills on pediatric patients- for both introductory and advanced training.

Patient Care Manikin PRO

A complete patient care and advanced nursing skills solution. This adult, life-size patient manikin has interchangeable genitals and natural movement of the arms, legs, and joints. It’s great for teaching everything from transfer skills and bed care to bathing and bandaging a patient- and everything in between.

Advanced Casualty Simulation Kit

This is an emergency simulation kit with complex wounds testing higher levels of skill in bandaging and patient care while keeping initial expenditures low. It includes a gunshot wound of the palm, a sucking wound of the chest, compound fractures of the humerus and the tibia, and an open amputation in addition to 24 stick-on lacerations and open fracture wounds.

Advanced Lucy

Bringing a human into this world is powerful, so here’s an emotionally engaging birthing simulator, Advanced Lucy, to bring a new level of realism to prenatal to postnatal delivery scenarios. Lucy is anatomically accurate and helps students experience normal and abnormal deliveries, preparing them for the real ones.

Advanced KERi Nursing Manikin

KERi doesn’t seem to have a specific age, but is capable of a lifelike range of motion, realistic patient positioning, and non-pinching joints so it even moves like a real person. And it can convert to male. KERi is great for everything from bandaging and bed baths to catheterization and pap smears.

Articulating Fetus

A realistic, 42cm fetus with articulating head, neck, shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees for more realistic practice of difficult delivery exercises such as Leopold’s or Ritgen’s maneuvers.

Rescue Randy

Randy is a rugged, hyper-realistic manikin designed for enhanced realistic training on procedures that treat the 3 most preventable causes of death (massive bleeding, tension pneumothorax, and airway obstruction). It is compliant with TCCC/TECC scenarios.

Complete Intramuscular Injection Training Kit

This kit has the entire 3B Scientific suite of intramuscular injection simulators and helps practice IM injections anywhere on the body. It also helps locate the correct site for injection using realistic and anatomically accurate upper arm, buttock, and upper leg simulators, and helps feel the correct needle depth too.

This was just a sneak peek into the long list of leading manikins and simulators from SEM Trainers. Visit www.semtrainers.com to see over 1200 products listed on our site and take your pick.

After all, these simulators will end up being used for years, training hundreds, even thousands of students before they’ll need to be replaced. With manikins and simulators, you deserve nothing but the best.

What are the Challenges Involved in Saving Lives in Hospitals?

Shyam Gajrani / November 26, 2022December 15, 2022 / Clinical Skills, Equipment, Medical Simulation, Medicine, Nursing Education, Simulation-based Learning

The responsibility of saving lives that befalls our hospitals and the Indian healthcare system as a whole is thwarted by the several challenges it faces on all fronts. Together, these can affect not only the quality of care delivered but whether people seek that care at all.

Lack of Awareness

The first challenge to delivering effective healthcare is a lack of awareness in the public. From ignoring their symptoms and believing they don’t need treatment to more concrete barriers like affordability and a lack of resources, a lot of things get in the way of saving lives. This may be attributed to factors like poor education, poor functional literacy, and a low priority for health.

Lack of Access

Even those who are aware may not have access to quality healthcare owing to financial, organizational, social, and cultural barriers, even in places where they are available. This brings us to physical accessibility. Living further away from town increases the odds of disease, malnourishment, weakness, and premature death.

Shortage of Healthcare Workers

Not only do hospitals need to have an adequate number of working personnel, they need people who are appropriately trained and employable. By introducing simulation-led training in our medical and nursing curricula, we can create more prepared and capable healthcare workers in the future.

A 2019 study discovered that we only have one doctor for every 1457 people and 1.7 nurses for every 1000 people. And the manpower we do have is distributed unevenly as most prefer to work in more developed areas where their own quality of life and that of their children will be superior. The public healthcare system is also not allocated enough funds. This difference in quality of care drives people to prefer private healthcare, which is often not affordable for most. People in rural areas are discouraged and less likely to seek treatment when they travel far to government-run healthcare facilities and find a lack of qualified professionals and inadequate infrastructure.

Additionally, we only have one bed for every 2,239 people. These shortages in personnel, PPE kits, oxygen cylinders, and ambulances posed great challenges in saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Cost of Healthcare

The inconsistent costs and lack of cost regulation in the private sector often ends up as huge medical bills, specially in emergency cases. For example, because many families aren’t able to shoulder the increasingly high costs of infant care and pre-natal surgical procedures, the infant mortality rate in India is one of the highest in the world. In contrast, public healthcare facilities are cheap or free, but unreliable.

Poor Soft Skills

The ability to effectively communicate with the patients and their frustrated family members, and within the team itself is crucial to the success of a case more than you’d think. Theory alone will not prepare individuals for dealing with patients, so a good way to build communication skills and other soft skills is to incorporate simulation-led training.

Lack of Openness to Digitalization

Another challenge faced is the lack of openness to digitalization among the hospital staff. For several reasons, as the world becomes increasingly digitalized, hospitals need to catch up too. But not everyone may be comfortable with incorporating it to refine existing procedures. Doctors may also be set in their ways and show no interest in learning the new tools.

Less Emphasis on Preventive Care

Preventive care can usually solve a lot of problems in terms of misery and financial losses, and avoid worse problems along the road. But most people either don’t know or don’t care about general preventive care. This not only saves money for the patient, but also reduces the burden on the limited healthcare infrastructure.

As we advance technologically, with more facilities, there will always be newer challenges to address. What’s important is to keep going forward and create a reliable healthcare system for everyone.

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Improving Healthcare Outcomes with Simulation | Quality Improvement

Shyam Gajrani / October 26, 2022November 7, 2022 / Clinical Skills, Medical Simulation, Medicine, Nursing Education, Simulation-based Learning

Whether it’s the massive population that stands second in the world or the large pool of well-trained medical professionals in the country, the healthcare industry in India is one that is quickly making its way to the top. And with the opportunity, comes responsibility.

Simulation is widely credited as not just a powerful education tool, but also an instrument for quality improvement. By creating a safe, interactive learning environment and effecting various technical and soft skills, it creates the perfect opportunity for improving healthcare outcomes in patients.

Simulation creates an interactive learning experience

By creating guided simulated experiences with a hint of substantial aspects of the real world, simulation is able to provide an interactive learning experience and platform. This builds skills and fundamentals in learners, effectively improving patient outcomes.

Simulation provides real-time feedback to learners

When students get immediate feedback through task trainers and systems, two things happen. If they are performing the skill correctly, it helps them proceed with the task more confidently. And if they are doing something wrong, they are corrected at the spot so they can correct their course of action instead of getting negative feedback at the end and feeling disparaged because of it.

Simulation offers an unmatched opportunity to analyze the students’ performance

By creating structured scenarios with events and details that replicate features of real-world clinical situations, simulation is able to provide access to events that cannot otherwise be directly observed. This results in an extraordinary learning experience, and ultimately, into better patient and healthcare outcomes.

Simulation provides a safe, controlled environment for learning

Through simulation-led medical training, students are not only given the freedom to make mistakes, but they are given the unique opportunity to learn from their mistakes. Interestingly, being free to make mistakes also means that they feel free to play around with the functions and explore them. And this makes for healthcare professionals who are not left clueless at an unexpected clinical situation, who are able to deal with any situation that presents itself. This fundamentally results in better healthcare outcomes.

Simulation makes repeated, hands-on practice possible

Without simulation, it would be difficult to provide students with the exposure needed to build certain technical skills that can only be perfected with practice; clearly, theory alone isn’t enough. While the greatest benefit of simulation may be that it allows hands-on practice, much of the skill comes from repeated practice. By creating capable healthcare professionals, the number of errors are highly reduced, and the quality of patient care, immensely improved.

Simulation avoids inconvenience to real patients

It is obvious that when simulation eliminates the need to have freshers practice on real patients, removing that risk, inconvenience, and breach of privacy for the patients means the quality of patient care and healthcare outcomes are greatly improved.

Simulation can highlight communication issues

Many medical errors and patient harm instances can be traced back to failings in communicating effectively. Simulation can shine a light on these and, in turn, help improve the systems and processes by improving team and communication skills.

Simulation can help improve outcomes for life-threatening conditions

Because simulation is able to replicate real-life situations in a safe way, we can simulate life-threatening situations just as easily as everyday situations in the real clinical setting. With simulation, researchers don’t have to wait for rare events to happen to be able to observe them. And by reproducing life-threatening and catastrophic conditions as often as we want, it can be helpful in improving our approach to such situations.

Simulation makes better research possible

The benefits of simulation are not just received through education; it also makes better research possible. For example, simulation can be used to study the impact of noise on anesthetists’ stress level in operation theaters. It can give insight into things in a way that nothing else can. And better research automatically improves the quality of healthcare outcomes globally. Simulation-based research may be the biggest way in which simulation is helping improve healthcare outcomes and the quality of patient care.

The effort to improve healthcare outcomes with simulation does face a few challenges. For instance, the outcomes may depend on the participants, the setting, and the scenario, and it may be hard to pinpoint what led to the change in outcome.

Regardless, through all the direct and indirect benefits it has to offer, it is evident that simulation is effective at improving healthcare systems and processes. It can help streamline protocols without involving patients and help identify latent safety threats as well. It can also be used to test new approaches before adopting them in the real clinical setting. Additionally, measuring patient outcomes helps adopt best practices, and in turn, further improve outcomes.

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Why We Need Clinical skills Labs to Improve Skills Based Medical Education

Shyam Gajrani / August 17, 2022September 6, 2022 / Clinical Skills, Medical Simulation, Nursing Education, Simulation-based Learning

Dexterity in various clinical skills such as examination, diagnostic reasoning, communication, and execution of clinical techniques is indispensable to the success of medical education paradigms. Over the years, the adoption of simulation-led training into the process has shown tremendous improvements in skill competency in the aspirants. By supplementing traditional learning approaches with simulation-led training, learners get hands-on experience along with diverse skill development and come out as confident, competent medical professionals able to handle the pressures of the real clinical setting.

Why do we need a Clinical Skills Lab or Simulation Centre?

Not only has there been a disproportionate increase in the number of students to that of trainers, the rapid advances in medical technology has made it harder for learners to receive optimal training through theory alone and reduced clinical skills standards among medical students. But for many reasons, it is not always possible to practice on real patients. Some of them may be clinically unstable, some may not be comfortable to be tended to by inexperienced learners, and for some, it might jeopardize patient safety and feel like a breach of their privacy.

What happens in a Clinical Skills Lab or Simulation Centre?

A clinical Skills Lab or Simulation Centre offers an immersive environment for healthcare professionals to develop clinical skills, communication skills, cognitive skills, and a compassionate approach to patient care. This is a controlled, safe, and forgiving environment for them to get hands-on experience for diverse scenarios. The experience provided by such a lab won’t be the same as practicing and learning on a real patient, but it’s the next best thing, benefitting novices and experts alike. And as they say, practice makes perfect.

These labs and centres usually, but not necessarily, have a reception area, skill studios, an ICU simulation room, an operation theatre simulation room, a pediatric ICU simulation room, AV facilities in the rooms, surgical simulation suites, ultrasound training rooms, seminar halls, a board room, faculty lounges, a student lounge, and necessities like storage, safety systems, and HVAC. Personnel in attendance may include a chief coordinator, supporting departmental staff, nursing staff, a receptionist, and a biomedical engineer.

With the help of state-of-the-art equipment, anatomic simulators, and sometimes, real actors, diverse scenarios and real life acute medical conditions can be simulated for students to learn and practice. Through these, they get to experience a hint of what kind of situations they can hope to expect when they transition to a real hospital. Additionally, it helps build the aforementioned skills in them.

Many of these high-fidelity simulators provide real-time feedback, but feedback is also offered through an instructor overseeing the scenario. The repeated practice also shortens their learning curve. By including aspects like bathroom spaces to simulate bathroom falls in the scenarios, the learning experience is made more realistic.

To complete the successful simulation experience, the participants are observed, analyzed, and debriefed on their thought processes and actions to improve their performance and learning outcomes. This is one of the most important aspects of simulation-led training.

Benefits of Clinical Skills Labs and Simulation Centres

Such a facility achieves the following:

It redefines medical education training and enables independent student learning
It delivers hands-on learning experiences
It accommodates the different learning requirements of students that come from different walks of life with various foundations, capabilities, and educational experiences
It increases preparedness in the learners before their transition to the real hospital setting, and it enables them to effectively deal with high-risk cases
It builds effective communication skills, cognitive skills, and psychomotor skills in the learners
It builds and highlights the role of collaboration and team building

Challenges to Establishing and Running Clinical Skills Labs and Simulation Centres

Given its obvious benefits to skill-based medical education, a clinical skills and simulation lab is an indispensable part of medical education for various positions today. But establishing and running such a lab comes with its own challenges.

From its beginning, setting up and running such a lab requires a hefty investment; this includes the cost of procurement and maintenance of simulators and their consumables, staff allowance, HVAC maintenance, and electricity bill, among others. Adjusting with the realism of the simulators is another challenge. Additionally, there are the challenges of time fixed for simulation training and teaching along with asset and resource availability and accessibility. There is the need to carefully balance time allotted for curriculum teaching and for simulation-based teaching.

5 Reasons Why Simulation Training is Better | Healthcare

Shyam Gajrani / July 13, 2022July 13, 2022 / Medical Simulation, Medicine, Nursing Education, Simulation-based Learning

The benefits of incorporating simulation training in teaching specific medical skills are manifold. But what are the 5 biggest advantages that make it a viable option that delivers superior results to using the traditional teaching paradigm alone? Let’s find out.

What is Simulation Training?

Simulation training is the process of reproducing realistic environments and situations (often with the use of lifelike simulators/manikins and trainers/medical skills) to create a hands-on learning experience for a learner to practice certain skills. Simulation has been adopted into various fields as a method of learning. For example, pilots first learn to fly a plane on a simulator. Today, it is an essential teaching tool in various industries like aviation, military, and healthcare.

5 Things that Make it Better than Traditional Learning

There are many more benefits to simulation learning other than the fact that it provides the opportunity for hands-on learning. Here are 5 reasons why it is effective (and better):

It provides a safe environment and avoids risk to real patients

While simulation provides an excellent hands-on learning opportunity (theoretical learning isn’t enough for some skills), it does so in a safe environment. This means that students can explore. That they are free to make mistakes and are given the chance to learn from their mistakes rather than being reprimanded for them or the mistakes translating into real-life blunders. This is a rather important attribute of the learning process- the privilege to be able to make mistakes and learn from them. And when students feel free to explore, they inarguably learn better. On top of that, it means that real patients will not be put at risk, as it is when learners practice on real patients- one mistake and a lot could go wrong. Plus, not everyone is comfortable with being attended by a fresher-simulation also helps avoid that.

It builds team skills (among many others)

Usually, in the real-life clinical setting, professionals don’t work alone. A whole team of individuals and a whole lot of work goes into saving lives. Individuals must work together to make the best decisions possible in time to save a patient’s life and deliver optimal treatment quality. Apart from building skills like decision-making skills and the ability to think on your feet, simulation in healthcare training helps build communication and collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team. It also helps with team leading, team building, and crisis resource management skills. People don’t just start working together if placed in the same room; the ability to work efficiently as part of a team is important.

It builds confidence AND improves the quality of patient care delivered

By bridging the gap between theory and practice, simulation training is able to instill a kind of confidence in learners that enables them to go ahead and deliver excellent quality care as they step into the profession. And confidence is also directly linked to competence. A confident professional will be able to smartly deal with any situation- like when interacting with patients or their families, or when there is a tough decision to make. So when learners start to develop confidence, it becomes easier for them to start taking their own decisions and operating by their own autonomy.

It provides real-time feedback

Not only does simulation training and medical skills bridge the gap between theory and practice, through the use of lifelike simulators and trainers with monitors that display real-time feedback, it is made easier to assess the student’s performance. But this isn’t useful for the instructor alone. It means that the student can evaluate his own performance as he works on the patient (manikin or trainer) and evolve to make better decisions during the process. This is a benefit that is not present with the traditional training method. It is one of the things that makes simulation training so effective in healthcare.

It gives learners an idea of what to expect

While a simulated environment is exciting and comfortable, it also prepares learners for what to expect in a real clinical setting. With high-fidelity simulation, there are some distractions as would be in a real hospital. There may be too much noise, a bad smell, or a number of other big and small disturbances that can easily distract someone working on a critical task and result in serious procedural errors. It can also worsen performance and increase the number of attempts and the amount of time taken to do something. Being exposed to such distractions at an early learning stage can accustom the learner to think on their feet and perform better despite said distractions, effectively preventing serious errors.

With such obvious benefits, simulation training greatly outweighs the performance benefits offered by traditional learning alone, and is an indispensable asset in healthcare education.

Why Do We Need to Train Nurses in PICC Insertion?

Shyam Gajrani / May 24, 2021May 24, 2021 / Clinical Skills

You can’t think of oncology care without thinking of Peripherally-Inserted Central venous Catheters (PICC). Patients who require long-term venous access, like those suffering from cancer, benefit from PICC lines. It is used to administer or deliver medication, liquid nutrition, and other treatment directly to the large central veins near the heart. If you frequently need to be jabbed for medicine or bloodwork, you may be advised a PICC line to avoid repeated irritation to your veins, and the pain from repeated jabbing.

A PICC line is a long, thin tube inserted through a vein in the arm (or, rarely, in the leg) and passed through so your doctor can access the large central veins near your heart. This is a temporary procedure, and is a great option if your treatment is going to last for at least a few days or weeks.

PICC Line Insertion: Techniques

Let’s talk about how we carry out PICC. The conventional technique is the landmark method where we feel the most prominent vein [usually] in the antecubital fossa, and cannulate it with a wide bore needle/sheath, and then insert the catheter through the sheath. Alternatively, we can use ultrasound and a micro-introducer needle where we identify [usually] the basilic vein above the elbow via ultrasound, and then insert a 21 gauge needle into the vein under direct ultrasound image. Then, we pass a guide wire through to the catheter through the needle and the sheath. This is a newer technique with a nearly 100% success rate and minimal injury rate.

Why Do We Need to Train Nurses for This?

In the past, only certified radiologists and specially-trained assistants would be allowed to perform PICC insertion. So why shift this responsibility to nurses? Well, here’s why. If we train our nurses in performing PICC insertions, it will create efficiency and take a load off an already overwhelmed hospital setting. Further, we will discuss the benefits of training nurses in PICC insertion.

Benefits of Training Nurses in PICC Insertion

As discussed previously, training nurses in PICC insertion has a number of benefits to it:

It helps nurses upskill.
With proper training, nurses can learn to competently insert a catheter, effectively avoiding running the risk of patient complications.
If nurses will be able to perform PICC insertions, it will take a considerable load off an already overwhelmed clinical setting.
It could reduce the overall costs of running the setting. When performed by a radiology specialist, a PICC insertion is more expensive.
If nurses would perform PICC insertions, patients won’t have to wait a long time for their turn. This would prevent procedure delays for the patients.
We could avoid post-insertion complications and infections alike. (PICC lines need to be monitored for complications like infections, bleeding, blood clots, nerve injury, irregular heartbeat, damage to veins, and a blocked/broken PICC line). Radiology specialists could do it, but then they likely won’t stick around after the procedure. Nurses will always be available to check up on the patient, and can keep monitoring the situation periodically. The nurses can preasses, follow-up, and troubleshoot.
It also helps avoid complications caused by delay in treatment.
Allowing nurses to handle PICC insertion ensures a better use of valuable healthcare resources.
It helps increase patient satisfaction.
It helps decrease the length of stay for the patient as delays are minimized.
It can reduce the number of failed cannulations.

Limitations

So are nurses qualified to do PICC insertions all the time? There are a few circumstances when a nurse must not insert a PICC line, and refer the patient to a medical practitioner instead:

When the patient does not give consent to the nurse.
When the patient is a minor.
When the patient has a pacemaker.
When the patient has an anatomical distortion from surgery, injury, trauma, or disease.
When the patient has bilateral arm lymphoedema.
When the patient has an implantable defibrillator.
When the patient has an arterio-venous fistula.
When the patient is on haemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis.
When the patient is scheduled for an arterio-venous fistula.
When the patient won’t allow care for the PICC line.
When the patient has an allergy to Lidocaine Hydrochloride 1%.
When the patient has a platelet count of 50 or less.
When the patient has a coagulation disorder.
When the patient has had thrombolytic therapy within 2 days.
When the patient has an inappropriate vein size under ultrasound.
When a PICC line insertion by the nurse has failed.

Nurses can be trained with a one-week course. If they have the necessary training and experience, their competence has been successfully assessed by a qualified professional, and they are confident in their ability to perform the insertions, training our nurses to perform PICC insertions would be a favourable decision.

Simulators for PICC Insertion Training

Like we said, manikins and simulators specially made for PICC insertion can help immensely with training. We provide some high-quality simulators for this purpose.

Peter PICC Line Simulator

This is a PICC line simulator and a great teaching model that is portable and lightweight. It is an upper torso with neck, chin, right arm, ribs, muscle tissue, arm skin, body skin, arm vein set, body vein set, fluid bag, a carrying case, and an additional pouch. It is anatomically correct and features the superior vena cava, subclavian, jugular, median basilic, basilic, and cephalic veins. It has a movable chin that might occlude insertion in real life just as well, and has palpable ribs that allow measuring proper catheter length from the insertion site to the second/third intercostal space. It also allows standard IV catheter placement.

Standard Arm for Chester Chest, Light Skin – VATA

This simulator helps train with infusion, withdrawal, care, securement, and dressing of multiple vascular access lines. The right chest area has a tunneled central catheter with a Dacron cuff, the external jugular vein is raised and opens to connect to a triple lumen catheter, and the upper chest area opens to connect to a subclavian catheter. It also has a real port for accessing IVAD placements. It allows infusing fluid and withdrawing blood.

We’ve been doing this for 25 years, so we know what we’re doing, and only deliver the best quality simulators. To make a purchase, you can call us at 02632 257259, +91-88495 63724, or +91-98791 03905, or write to us at sem@semtrainers.com.

Nursing Skills Simulation: What you Need to Know?

Shyam Gajrani / April 13, 2021April 14, 2021 / Medical Simulation

“The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.”
– Florence Nightingale

Sending newly qualified nurses out into the real world to deal with patients and unexpected situations as they present themselves can manufacture inconvenience and risk that can be avoided. All skills take time and practice, but trial-and-error- is dangerous and unsuitable to a real clinical setting. Simulation is an extremely powerful tool to prepare these learners for the demands of a real hospital environment.

Nursing Skills Lab Setup

A nursing skills lab will be a safe, controlled environment equipped with full-body manikins, task trainers (lifelike anatomy models that help learners practice a skill by breaking down a task into smaller, simpler actions and allowing repeated practice), and other hospital equipment. This is a realistic platform for students to learn without the risk of harming or discomforting a patient. In a nursing skills lab, mistakes are opportunities to learn.

Some activities that are part of a nursing skills lab:

Blood Pressure Monitoring
Catheterization
Wound Care
Intramuscular Injections
Oxygenation Therapy
Head-to-toe Assessment
Tracheostomy Care

Nursing Skills Simulation

The purpose of nursing skills simulation is to prepare aspiring nurses to communicate, motivate, delegate, prioritize, make quick decisions, and respond to change in a real-life situation. It serves to acclimatize nursing students to the real-life clinical environment and gives them an idea of what to expect, developing confidence and acumen.

Simulation can be an excellent strategy to prepare learners to think on their feet, hone their management skills, and learn to make real-time patient care decisions before transitioning into the real world as qualified nurses. This is a safe environment to assess how they respond to unexpected events and whether they succumb or thrive under pressure. It can be a rich learning experience for aspiring student nurses. Nursing skills simulation is a great way to allow nursing students to experience dealing with patients first-hand in a controlled environment while allowing them to explore how to deal with errors.

Performing nursing skills simulation in skill lab by SEM Trainers & Systems

Roles & Scenarios in a Nursing Skills Lab

Learners may be assigned roles and placed in diverse scenarios making use of predetermined events. Some roles that may be assigned include:

A patient with a mental and/or physical health issue (or a manikin may be used as a patient)
A staff nurse tending to three patients, subordinates, and students
A healthcare assistant
A student performing a placement
An angry relative
A manager telling ward staff of a change of events
A doctor or a relative calling the ward

Once the roles are assigned, learners may be placed in scenarios that realistically model challenges likely to be faced by newly qualified nurses. Some of these are:

A patient suffering a cardiac arrest in presence of other patients.
Incorrect medication has been administered because of a wrong prescription.
An angry relative rambling on and distracting the nurse.
A demanding patient.
A person calling the ward to complain at a busy time.

Benefits of a Simulation Environment

The use of simulation in nursing furnishes a plethora of benefits to the learner:

Knowledge
Technical skills
Attitude
Motivation and satisfaction
Self-confidence
Reflection
Leadership
Efficiency and effectiveness
Patient safety

Nursing Skills Simulation: How it Works

Simulation is performed in three steps – planning, implementation, and evaluation.

1. Planning a Simulation

This involves developing realistic scenarios, writing scripts, and preparing the environment. This is done keeping in mind the learning objectives and the availability of realistic materials.

2. Implementing a Scenario

With the required material and decided objectives, students may be briefed at the venue. In this way, this step involves:

Briefing: Familiarizing students with the setting
Action: Conducting the scenario in 10-15 minutes
Debriefing: Reflecting on the simulation with positive reinforcement and analysis

3. Evaluating a Simulation

Finally, the students’ performance is assessed via formative and summative evaluations.

Simulators from SEM Trainers

If you’re looking to purchase medical simulators for the purpose of nursing skills training, SEM Trainers has premium-quality simulation products sourced from Germany, USA, Japan, and Europe.

GERi™ Complete Nursing Skills Manikin
KERi™ Complete Nursing Skills Manikin
Nurse Training Baby, New Born
3B Scientific® Patient Care Training Manikin PRO Models | Advanced Nursing Skills Development Manikins
Complete CRiSis™ Resuscitation Training System with Advanced Airway Management
Simulated Patient Monitor with Debriefing & CPR Feedback – REALITi Pro
Deluxe Infant Crisis Manikin
STAT Baby Advanced
Chest Drain Simulator
Hemorrhage Control Arm Trainer P102
NG Tube & Trach Skills Simulator
Pericardiocentesis Simulator
Patient Education Tracheostomy Care Set
Pneumothorax Training Manikin
Truman Trauma-X | Trauma Manikin
Adult Deluxe Airway Management Trainer
Advanced Infant Intubation Head with Board
Child Intubation Head
AED Trainer Plus 2
Basic Life Support Simulator
CPR
CPR-Torso Brad™Junior with Electronics, 7-year old
Baby Sani CPR Manikin
Auscultation Trainer and Smartscope™
Adult Auscultation Trainer with SimScope Wi-Fi Training Stethoscope
Blood Pressure Simulator
Catheterization Simulator Set BASIC
Epidural and Spinal Injection Trainer
Advanced Venipuncture and Injection Arm
Complete Intramuscular Injection Training Kit
I.v. Injection Arm P50/1
Newborn Intraosseous Infusion and Injection Leg
Advanced Patient Care Male Prostate Simulator
Episiotomy and Suturing Trainer
Suture Kit
Surgery Trainer
Suture Practice Arm
Trainer for Wound Care and Bandaging Techniques

Simulation has been shown to provide positive learning experiences for aspiring nursing students and improve their acumen and skills. It makes learners capable and contributes to patient safety across the world. Are you taking advantage of all the possibilities nursing skills simulation has to offer?

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