INNOVATION: Statewide Sim Coalitions, the next have in HFPS

Note: I am going to try a new format comments are welcome... this is always and adaptable work in process!!! Or A complex adaptive system :)



The INNOVATION:


As the use of Human Patient Simulation increases innovative leaders are bringing together stakeholders to create simulation coalitions. These groupings of hospital, nursing schools, medical schools, and allied health educators are providing a venue to rapidly advance the effectiveness and quality of simulation as a training tool for health care practitioners. Below I have featured a few of these and I invite you to join any of them!

Bay Area Simulation Collaboration

Oregon Simulation Alliance

Arizona Simulation Network

Visit Arizona Simulation Network

The IMPACT:
As independent coalitions are developed state by state a gathering of early adopters is reaching critical mass. Simulation scenarios are standardized, faculty are trained in proper techniques, and tricks for improving the educational experiences for the students are being perfected. These coalitions are allowing innovators to have conversation, test limits, and rapidly gain experience.

These Innovators are faced with many obstacles: Resistant faculty, dwindling budgets, and lack of EBP all sit to stifle the innovators march to a better training method. These state groups are providing a twelve step support group that allows the innovators to reconnect with the energy and passion to push on. As we know, the start of innovation is not evidence based, because if it was, it would not be true innovation!

The NEXT STEPS:

Where do we go from here? These groups are in an early phase of development. As they begin to leverage resources within their state simulation practice will begin to improve. As this happens the innovators will demand more sophisticated simulators, new technologies will be integrated faster and more efficiently, and new simulation techniques will be tested and perfected. Eventually, one can imagine a national simulation alliance that brings together all the simulator groups, not to engage in policy creation or regulation, as that will happen, but rather to energize the innovators to lead and create new and exciting ways to effectively educate our health care practitioners.

RESOURCES:

BASC
Oregon Simulation Alliance
Arizona Simulation Network