Clinical Training & Workforce Summit August 2012

Virtual Simulation Project: Nursim

Susan Harrison, General Manager, Australian Centre for Health Innovation

Statement of Interests

funded project through DBI Productivity grant. Partnership with ACHI, VastPark & La Trobe University

Commercialisation agreement exists between AH & VastPark

Today

1. Who are we?

2. The Problem faced

3. Part of the Solution

4. Our Project

5. Next Steps

The Australian Centre for Health Innovation

Our aims are to increase learner access to education through innovative platforms and provide the highest quality

patient safety centred simulation education

We are a not for profit venture between Alfred Health, Latrobe University, Monash University

and Baker IDI.

The Problem

Solution – to Simulate!

Our little secret

Do we just convert to static online content?

Is creating exciting online worlds enough?

No! We need high quality, learner-centric online worlds

by balancing the focus between

cognitive reasoning structure and the need to establish an

emotional connection, we have delivered an online world that

increases the “real world readiness” for undergraduates

What might it look like?

What might it look like?

Photo: Pierre Cardin's nurse uniforms of the future (Popperfoto/Getty Images) 1971

Next Steps

Stay Tuned!!

…evaluation in 2013

www.nursim.com

www.healthinnovation.com.au

Thoughts, comments & questions…

I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand

- Confucius