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Healthcare simulation training is an important aspect of any health related career. Students and professionals benefit from the opportunity to practise and rehearse learnt procedures, and improve communication skills. The challenge of functioning in a live environment expands participants’ capacity to identify and respond to health problems, while working as part of a team across a range of disciplines. For more useful resources on Simulated Learning, Clinical Placements and Health Care visit www.qrtn.com.au
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How Can Simulated Learning Help Your Health Care Career?
Healthcare simulation training is an important aspect of any health related career. Students and professionals benefit from the opportunity to practise and rehearse learnt procedures, and improve communication skills. The challenge of functioning in a live environment expands participants’ capacity to identify and respond to health problems, while working as part of a team across a range of disciplines.
Procedures
When undertaking simulated health care, participants gain access to a variety of resources. Procedural skills commonly executed include insertion of intercostal catheters and epidurals, cannulation and intubation. What's more, virtual reality technology now enables simulation of surgical scenarios, promoting the development of precision, dexterity, depth perception and experience of complex tasks involving vascular and endoscopic procedures.
Immersive simulated health care
For many students or practitioners embarking on a health career, early on-the-job experiences can be challenging. Applying the material and skills taught in classrooms and tested in examinations can quickly become a life or death situation. So participating in immersive healthcare simulation is crucial to preparation.
Immersive simulated health care
Trainees enter a simulated clinical environment, such as an operating theatre, complete with equipment, sta� members and a machine enabling administration of anaesthetic. Mannequins with interactive capacities are used to provide the cues and responses that trainees would be highly likely to experience in a 'real-life' emergency. The teamwork required in such a scenario simply can not be learned from books.
Immersive simulated health care
Students can adopt the position of spectator, enabling them to make observations and take notes before participating in a post-experience debrief. This gives them the chance to assess what happened, ask questions, determine risk factors and plan for the future.
A variety of disciplines
Simulated health care training is available across a wide variety of health disciplines. It is suitable and beneficial for students and clinicians in many areas, including emergency, surgery, intensive care, anaesthetics, physiotherapy, podiatry, paediatrics and speech therapy.
About QRTN
QRTN, short for Queensland Regional Training Networks, is dedicated to the promotion of training, across government and non-government sectors, in local and regional areas. To find out more about this opportunity in Queensland email the Simulated Learning Environment Program team via [email protected].
qrtn.com.au
This Project is possible due to the funding made available by Health Workforce Australia,an Australian Government Initiative, through the Department of Health Queensland.
