Playing with Dolls: Effective Utilization of Simulation for Staff Training and Quality Improvement Outcomes

Lai, Bridget

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Title: Playing with Dolls: Effective Utilization of Simulation for Staff Training and Quality Improvement Outcomes

Woodrow Wilson (Gaylord National Harbor)

Bridget Lai, RNC , Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children, Honolulu, HI

Discipline: Professional Issues (PI)

Learning Objectives:

Identify strategies for implementing routine simulation and tracking in your own organization
Identify elements that can be both simulated and measured to demonstrate improved patient and quality outcomes
Formulate a plan to enhance your own organization’s utilization of simulation for multidisciplinary training

Submission Description:

Purpose for the program: Discuss the effective use of simulation in the clinical setting for the obstetric population.

Proposed change: Utilization of multidisciplinary simulation in the clinical setting.

Implementation, outcomes and evaluation: We will briefly discuss barriers to simulating in the acute setting and focus on eliminating those barriers, scheduling simulation, getting staff buy-in, and multidisciplinary involvement. Every effective education implementation should be accompanied by a tracking system, and we will review the use of an online learning management system to track staff participation. Additionally we will examine how simulation can be used to provide measurement for quality improvement and to evaluate effectiveness of hospital specific protocols with a case study review of a massive hemorrhage protocol implementation that was supplemented by data collected during simulation.

Implications for nursing practice: Improved practice of the bedisde clinician, improved teamwork along with improved quality outcomes.

Keywords: simulation, electronic, team, multidisciplinary, education, training