A recent article by Dr. Tina Schade Willis was published in Children’s Hospitals Today. Her article “How to Stop Sepsis Through Training focused on how “team training and hands-on practice are important for stopping the number one enemy in hospitals”. Dr. … Read more
Earlier this month the UNC Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (IHQI) awarded one of their $50,000 seed grants to support a project entitled “Optimizing Tarheel Trauma Care: The Golden Hour and Beyond”. Dr. Daryhl Johnson, UNC Trauma Medical Director, is leading the interdisciplinary … Read more
UNC Trauma Services held a walk-through of the newly redesigned “Trauma Resuscitation Model” on March 22nd. The purpose of the walk-through was to allow process owners the opportunity to test the redesigned process in a simulated, realistic setting with actual … Read more
UNC Health Care posted an article today discussing the new Supplemental Training Program that was developed by Labor and Delivery (L&D) Nurses Christy McKinney, Katie Leidecker and Michelle Swanson. Their New Nurses Orientation Class (NNOC) program utilized ELSA, a simulation mannequin developed by … Read more
The 7th Annual, “You Bought The Manikin, Now What? Best Practices in Simulation Education” conference. The conference was held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Cary. This meeting is sponsored jointly by the Charlotte AHEC, Greensboro AHEC, Southern Regional AHEC … Read more
Over 100 from across North Carolina gathered at the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine for the annual Robert Huntley Lecture and a health care simulation exercise with ReThink Health. Participants formed teams in an exercise to transform … Read more
The 7th Annual You Bought the Manikin, Now What? Best Practices in Simulation Education Conference is being jointly provided with Charlotte AHEC, Greensboro AHEC, Southern Regional AHEC and in association with the N.C. AHEC Nurse Council and the North Carolina Nurses Association Simulation Council. … Read more
On February 8th, the Carolina Air Care training team lead a session for their new team members as a part of their ground school orientation. The ground school started in January following an exhaustive interview process that involved evaluation of candidate … Read more
Two articles mentioning simulation have been published recently discussing the proposed $2-billion bond that goes in front of voters this March. Included in the proposed bond is partial funding to build new facilities for the School of Medicine to replace … Read more
Several members of the UNCsim team are at the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) conference this weekend. This is the 16th annual IMSH meeting. IMSH is geared towards the sharing of medical education technologies, techniques, and innovations. The … Read more
