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Editor's note: Two issues of Simulation Spotlight will be sent this week to make up for last week's missed issue. You will receive this issue and one on Friday. Regular Wednesday publication resumes next week.
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Information Age
The UK healthcare system could certainly do with a much-needed shot in the arm. It seems every day brings a new challenge to the National Health Service. This problem becomes especially acute during the winter months.
Delivering 21st century healthcare with ever-decreasing budgets is a real challenge for healthcare professionals. It’s not all doom and gloom as there is a solution that is helping revolutionize delivery of UK healthcare provision: clinical mobility.
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By Keith Carlson
 Throughout a nurse's career, the potential for official and unofficial mentors to make a significant mark is high. Many nurses benefit from the wise presence of a mentor-like figure in their lives; some are less fortunate to never experience such a relationship. Nurse mentors can pave the way to high-level nursing practice and empowered leadership, and they can be central to our overall professional success and personal fulfillment.
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Cait Harrison
Uber has a new plan to help Americans who need rides to their medical appointments. On March 1, the ride-sharing company launched Uber Health, a new service that partners with healthcare providers to set up rides for patients to and from the doctor's office. Uber hopes to target the 3.6 million Americans who miss medical appointments each year due to lack of reliable transportation. That costs the U.S. medical system $150 billion a year, with no-show rates as high as 30 percent, according to healthcare IT services company SCI Solutions.
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Sentinel World® is the only community simulation product available with contrasting environments and interactive elements for comprehensive and immersive learning. Available in ADA-compliant versions, Sentinel World® includes 100+ pages of comprehensive assignments, 24-hour student and faculty support and online resources, as well as other robust support materials, making implementation easy.
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TIME
Thirteen years after building a state-of-the-art lab for the world’s most dangerous germs, the nation’s top public health agency is asking for more than $400 million to build a new one.
Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the current lab building in Atlanta is quickly wearing down, and cannot be upgraded without shutting down the facility for years. The lab investigates deadly and exotic germs like Ebola, smallpox and dangerous new forms of flu.The agency disclosed its plans for a new lab on Friday.
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KABC-TV
When disaster strikes in any part of the world, a team from the nonprofit International Medical Corps responds. Their motto: First there, no matter where.
They recently set up a field hospital in the middle of downtown Los Angeles to help train local doctors and nurses and other medical personnel. The goal was to help prepare them for the next crisis or natural disaster.
They ran a simulation — an outbreak for a highly infectious disease.
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Sentrywell Technologies LLC via News-Medical.Net
In United States, more than 18 million workers are employed in healthcare sector. Healthcare workers providing direct patient care services face a wide range of hazards, including exposures to infectious diseases. Every year, these cases of occupational illnesses with healthcare workers are among the highest than any other industry sector.
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Laerdal Medical
If you’re thinking simulation, what’s the right level of fidelity for you? The answer depends on your training objectives, the experience level of your learners, and your budget. Task trainers, standardized patients, hybrid simulation, and high-fidelity simulators all have their place. This article will help you make the best choice to improve maternal outcomes. Read more
Analytics India
Artificial intelligence has been around for some time in healthcare, but it’s major impact is only being felt now. From improving the hospital’s in-patient care, digitizing health records, applying advanced computer vision systems detecting abnormalities in X-rays and MRIs to providing evidence-based treatment recommendations and using robotics in surgery, AI shows great promise in healthcare.
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The American Society of Anesthesiologists® and CAE Healthcare bring simulation to you! For the first time, practicing physicians will experience highfidelity scenarios in a virtual environment. This training helps improve performance in the management of anesthesia emergencies and fulfills continuing medical education and MOCA 2.0® Part II and IV requirements.
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Let your student be the doctor with Discourse’s Virtual Patient. Our online cases allow medical students to assess patients, make diagnoses and exercise clinical decision making in a risk-free environment. As students order x-rays, lab tests and care for patients, we provide educators with in-depth performance reports. Learn More!
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Oncology Nurse Advisor
A standardized skills lab based on a learner needs assessment can ensure consistent knowledge and competency among nurses across all adult care units, according to results of a study presented at the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists 2018 Annual Conference. Staff nurses receive instruction and undergo confirmation of competency from the CNS in their individual areas.
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Xinhua via New China
American physicians are using innovative, three-dimensional models to improve care for patients receiving aortic valve replacements.
A paper in the ongoing annual CRT conference in Washington has shown that researchers have developed a way to model and predict potential complications so they can be avoided. Patients' aortic valve needs to be replaced because their valve openings have narrowed.
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American Medical Association
Forty-five percent of U.S. physicians exhibited at least one symptom of burnout in 2011 and that increased to 54 percent in 2014, according to a national study of physicians and workers in other occupations led by Dr. Tait Shanafelt. It’s a highly prevalent problem that is more widespread among physicians than any other occupation. However, Shanafelt — the first chief physician wellness officer at an academic medical center — believes that low morale does not point to the failure of an individual physician or health professional, but to the organizational structure or system as a whole.
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Christina Thielst
 Challenges in healthcare are the norm. However, some patients present significant challenges to healthcare professionals and the care environment that rise to the point of creating unnecessary risk. While healthcare providers and their staff should always attempt to resolve patient concerns, there comes a point when the best course of action may be to terminate the provider/patient relationship.
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Are you looking to enhance simulation program offerings? Do your trainees need to improve their primary clinical skills? Are they preparing for OSCEs, SP training, or Physical Assessment? We can help! OtoSim 2 and OphthoSim are designed for both teaching and assessment needs of medical, PA, NP, and Nursing Programs. Contact us NOW!
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Kaiser Health News
The Trump administration is embarking on a sweeping effort to redefine civil rights in healthcare, with critics accusing the Department of Health and Human Services of sidestepping the rights of patients to soothe a far smaller constituency: conservative nurses, hospitals and other caregivers. The department’s Office for Civil Rights has been greatly strengthening and expanding protections for healthcare providers who have religious — or conscience-based objections to procedures such as abortion.
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Duke University School of Nursing
At one time or another, most nursing students at Duke will come in contact with a dummy. Her name could be Victoria, and she might be about to go into labor. If all goes well, and even if it doesn’t, Victoria will live to see another day, and another, and another. Victoria is just one of their simulation manikins — part of the family, says Margie Molloy, DNP, RN, CNE, CHSE, assistant professor at Duke University School of Nursing and director of the Center for Nursing Discovery.
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Becker's Hospital Review
Healthcare consumers' wearable device usage has almost quadrupled in the past four years, up from 9 percent in 2014 to 33 percent today, according to a survey released by Accenture.
As part of its "2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health" report, Accenture surveyed 2,301 U.S. consumers ages 18 and older to evaluate their attitudes toward healthcare technology, modernization and service innovation.
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