Simulations

Ensure your students are practice-ready with our realistic, hands-on clinical simulation products that enhance skills competency, critical thinking, and clinical judgment.

Our simulation offerings address all stages of your students’ learning — from pre-clinical preparation to post-clinical debriefing.

Clinical experience solutions for nursing programs

Studies have shown that simulation increases student confidence and better prepares them for practice.

 

Screen-Based Virtual Simulation Simulation Lab Charting Skills Case Studies 

Screen-Based Virtual Simulation

Fill the gap between education and practice readiness with screen-based virtual simulations that ensure every student is exposed to a wide variety of high-quality clinical scenarios. These simulations can be accessed any time, any place and provide you with valuable insight into your students’ clinical reasoning abilities.

Shadow Health®

Students engage with Digital Standardized Patients™ using a state-of-the-art conversation engine and interactive 3D imagery to perform assessments, practice documentation, and demonstrate clinical reasoning.

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Shadow Health and its Digital Clinical Experiences™ can play a vital role in providing nursing programs pursuing accreditation with some of the evidence necessary to meet criteria related to student learning outcomes across the curriculum. 

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nursing educationIn nursing education, simulation offers one of the most accurate possible representations of a care situation.

Virtual patient scenarios can provide transformative learning experiences for students by challenging their prior knowledge and assumptions in light of deeper and more meaningful patient interactions.

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Simulation Lab

Give your students the hands-on clinical practice they need to be successful in today’s healthcare environment.

Simulation Learning System (SLS)

Maximize the capabilities of human patient simulators and integrate simulation into your nursing curriculum with SLS.

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Simulation Learning System with Virtual Reality (SLS with VR)

Enhance student clinical judgment with the first hands-on nursing virtual reality simulation of its kind. SLS with VR allows students to step into a completely immersive virtual reality environment and experience clinical nursing in a whole new way.

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SimChart®Simulation Learning System and Simulation Learning System (SLS) provide students with the tools they need to develop clinical judgment skills and prepare for what they’ll see as a nurse. Simulation tools also relieve faculty of creating a seamless program from scratch, letting them focus more on student success.

“I feel like it’s all kind of one package, like it all just fits together,” Bennion says. “They were all meant to be used together.”

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Charting

Ensure students develop the skills and clinical judgment needed to effectively document, monitor, and analyze patient care.

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SimChart®

This web-based, simulated electronic health record (EHR) system combines practical, real-world experience in electronic documentation with powerful, fully integrated educator support to help you incorporate EHR practice into your curriculum.

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Course-Based SimChart®

Sherpath® integration allows for easy incorporation of SimChart EHR practice into your Sherpath course, with charting case studies and quizzes that align with your Sherpath learning materials.

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SimChart® is the closest thing I’ve seen to an electronic health record used in the hospital,” says Jeanne Catanzaro, MSN, RN, assistant professor of nursing at Washburn University. “I think having the experience of using SimChart is going to assist students when they graduate by making them less stressed and anxious about using this type of documentation tool.”

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Skills

Familiarize your students with the standardized skills competency format they will encounter throughout their nursing education before they ever step foot in the clinical environment.

Case Studies

Enhance your students’ understanding of the nurse’s role in patient care with real-life situations designed to promote active learning, classroom discussions, and student comprehension.

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Clinical Skills

Give your students a consistent, 360-degree look at the most important skills, including communication, practical, and decision-making skills. This remarkable training product includes competency checklists and interactive quizzes for each skill to help you easily keep tabs on your students’ progress.

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HESI® Case Studies

Online case studies with application-based questions introduce real-world care scenarios to help students learn to manage complex patient conditions and make sound clinical judgments.

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