Operations
The certification intended for individuals who perform healthcare simulation in the operations specialist role without restriction to simulation modality.
What is CHSOS?
The degree of engagement that healthcare trainees are willing to give the simulated event. Also known as the “suspension of disbelief”, it is a literary and theatrical concept that encourages participants to put aside their disbelief and accept the simulated exercise as being real for the duration of the scenario.
What is a Fiction Contract?
A practice time with standardized learners used to reveal un-intentional problems within the scenario. A designated time to explore the possibility of errors.
What is a Dry-Run?
A method of debriefing in which an observer states what was observed or performed in a simulation activity, shares critical or appreciative insights about it explicitly (frame) and then asks the learners for an explanation of their thoughts or actions (their frame).
What is Advocacy and Inquiry?
Software that allows the user to create surveys and generate reports related to healthcare simulation learner and facilitator feedback.
What are Tools for Evaluation?
A document that states the mission, vision, values, goals, and action items for a simulation program within an organization.
What is a Strategic Plan?
The process of giving participants information prior to a simulation event to familiarize them with a simulation activity or environment, such as center rules, timing, and how the simulation modalities work, with the intent of preparing the participants.
What is Orientation or Orientation to the Environment?
A form used to create a simulation. It includes title, purpose, authors, learning objectives, roles of learners, number of learners, patient report, equipment, supplies, medications, instructions for running the manikin, scripting for the standardized patients, and anticipated learning actions.
What is a Design Template?
A debriefing approach that moves away from judgmental and nonjudgmental practices. Facilitators examine and reveal their frames, while also seeking to draw out and understand the frames of the learners.
What is Debriefing with Good Judgement?
A method of measuring something, or the results obtained. Numbers that give information about a particular process or activity.
What is Metrics?
The certification intended for individuals who perform healthcare simulation in the educator role without restriction to simulation modality, setting geographic location, learner population, function (e.g. teaching, assessment) and profession.
What is CHSE?
A core value that the Center of Medical Simulation developed and practices during its courses to help create physiologically safe learning environments for participants.
What is the Basic Assumption?
Expected goal of a curriculum, course, lesson, or activity in terms of demonstrable skills or knowledge that will be acquired by a student as a result of instruction.
What is Learning Objectives?
A concluding learning point stated by a learner with the intent to bring the learning back into applied practice. Facilitators often ask this question at the end of a simulation.
What is Take Away?
A financial metric used to measure the profitability of an investment.
What is Return on Investment (ROI)?
An estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time.
What is a Budget?
The feeling (explicit or implicit) within a simulation-based activity that participants are comfortable participating in, speaking up, sharing thoughts, and asking for help as needed without concern for retribution or embarrassment.
What is Psychological Safety?
A root cause or gap analysis that occurs before simulation design. It includes organization analysis, stakeholder questions, metrics, and data. At the heart, it identifies a problem to be solved with simulation. It drives the development of the learning objectives and the simulation design.
What is Needs assessment or Intake?
The engagement of self-monitoring that occurs during or after a simulation experience; this self-monitoring is performed by participants during or after a simulation experience.
What is Reflective Thinking?
A broad term for appraising learning, reaction, outcomes or data through one or more measurements. It involves rendering a judgment, including strengths and weaknesses. Evaluation measures quality and productivity against a standard of performance.
What is Evaluation?
The degree to which the simulation replicates the real event and/or workplace; this includes physical, psychological, and environmental elements.
What is Fidelity?
This is the most formal and complete assessment of the patient and the problem. It includes formal documents that physicians produce through the interview with the patient, the physical exam, and the summary of the testing either obtained or pending.
What is History and Physical or H&P?
An individual who is involved in the implementation, delivery and debriefing of simulation activities.
What is a Facilitator? (Simulation Facilitator)
The process encouraged by the instructor during debriefing that reinforces the critical aspects of the experience and encourages insightful learning, allowing the participant to link theory with practice and research?
What is Guided Reflection?
A tool designed by the Center for Medical Simulation to assist in evaluating and developing debriefing skills.
What is the DASH tool?