Using Systems Thinking to Identify Staff and Patient Safety Issues in Infectious Disease Simulation Scenarios

Simulation is a well-established method used for health professional workplace learning (Elstein,  Shulman,& Sprafka, 1978). Simulation can be focused on addressing learning outcomes that develop skills to improve the performance of individuals to respond to urgent healthcare events in hospital contexts, such as cardiac arrests (Adcock,  Kuszajewski, Dangerfield,& Muckler, 2020) and patient deterioration (Gabbard& Smith-Steinert,  2021). Simulation can also be used to identify and improve processes in the systems used to provide patient care (Dieckmann, Friis, Lippert,&Østergaard, 2012; Gaba, 2004; McGaghie, Issenberg, Petrusa,& Scalese, 2010; Spurr,  Gatward, Joshi,& Carley, 2016) and has the potential to enhance organizational learning (S ørensen et al., 2015; 2017).

Source: Clinical Simulation in Nursing - October 22, 2021 Category: Nursing Authors: Raymond Phang, Sierra Beck, Ohad Dar, Joanne Robertson-Smith, Christie Fyfe, Meghan Scanlan, Sophie Thomas, Rebekah Wrigley, Megan Anakin Source Type: research