Most students throughout the country have adapted from in-person schooling to online virtual instructions. The coronavirus resulted in removing in-person experiences in hospital settings. There are vast numbers of health-care workers succumbing, or becoming ill to coronavirus cannot afford to have a reduction in new health-care workers in the system. Fortunately, Simulation en santé or simulation-based learning is being used to fill the educational gap. It will ensure that a modern workforce will join the profession during the extreme stress of our medical system. These students will graduate on time by utilizing simulation-based learning in these trying times.
Healthcare Simulation
This is a technique to amplify real-life experiences with guided practices that replicate or evoke essential aspects of the real world in an interactive matter. Healthcare simulation uses a range of tools ranging from immersive simulated to life-like settings with anything you can find in a real hospital to virtual environments.
Computer-based programs permit the practice in a computer-based platform and a safe environment. Virtual simulation has no hands-on training like palpating a pulse, practicing CPR compressions, and placing a breathing tube to a patient, but this has become an advantage because it fills the void in the health-care education in the time of coronavirus during the closure of medical campuses.
Simulation Facilities
In schools of medicine and nursing, simulation facilities are available everywhere. Health-care programs incorporate simulations to augment in-person educational content and hospital experiences. Simulation has gained support showing its effectiveness for use in educational settings backed by relevant research. Nursing programs have begun simulation to replace in-person hospital hours, providing evidence that could replace up to fifty percent of clinical hours, and provide essential educational outcomes.
Immersive Simulation
Immersive simulations have been augmented in several curricula of many health-care schools. Social distancing measures shifted the educational programming to avoid students falling behind on graduation, and the simulations and graduations prevent the shortage of nurses in rural areas. The need for more health workers is amplified because of the coronavirus. In this time of forced isolation and social distancing, the simulation community and health-care simulation, educators have never been more singly focused and more connected as a whole on a single goal than today.
Future of Healthcare
Fighting an invisible enemy wage on the whole world. Healthcare simulations are preparing the next generation of health-care workers to develop new treatments and new medications by testing their breadth and depth.