This document was created to provide support and considerations to ensure successful planning, implementation and follow up of COVID-19 simulations.

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This document informs simulationists on ways to employ protective measures which increase the safety of events during the Covid-19 era.

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In the current COVID-19 era, CICSL has instituted the measures in this document to enhance the safety of our community and our staff.

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This document contains guidelines and instructions on how our equipment will be cleaned during the current COVID-19 pandemic. As things change they may be amended.

Ce document informe les professionnels de la simulation sur les moyens de mettre en place des mesures de protection, pour augmenter la sécurité des activités durant l’ère Covid-19.

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This document contains guidelines and instructions on how our equipment will be disinfected during the current COVID-19 pandemic. As things change they may be amended.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the following recommendations have been prepared to address the safety of facilitators and participants who participate in learning activities in simulation rooms located throughout Island Health sites.

As simulation programs are making plans for reopening, this webinar reviews approaches taken by the Alberta Health Services eSim Program and the BCSN’s Protective Measures for Simulation During the Covid-19 Era. This webinar was recorded on June 8th, 2020.

The Vancouver Island Long Term Care COVID-19 Simulation Project is dedicated to supporting best practices and increasing the confidence of LTC teams as they continue to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This fee structure document is used to determine potential costs associated with the booking and use of our staff, equipment and spaces for both affiliate and external users. Definitions of affiliate and external users are also included.

In January 2013, an international group of simulation experts gathered to form a working team whose mission was to create a dictionary of terms used in healthcare simulation. The goal of this project is to enhance communication and clarity for healthcare simulationists in teaching, education, assessment, research, and systems integration activities.

The outline and learning objectives for each of the workshops currently offered at CICSL.

Infographic specific to CICSL on how to get started with simulation.

A collection of short videos created by the team at Vancouver Coastal Health that provide an overview of simulation and can help you prepare for simulation facilitation prior to taking our Facilitating Simulation Workshop.

Infographic with information about the Centre for Interprofessional Clinical Simulation Learning (CICSL) located at the Royal Jubilee Hospital.

Infographic outlining the basics of Healthcare Simulation.

Information on our Facilitating Simulation Workshop with Learning Objectives.

The slide deck from the CICSL Facilitating Simulation Workshop

A worksheet to complete at the conclusion of the Facilitating Simulation Workshop to focus on next steps.

A document outlining the steps of simulation and the stages of debriefing.

This package contains templates for glucose meters, lab results, temperature probes and other diagnostics that can be helpful to adapt for your scenario.

In house scenario design template created by Tamara Young, Clinical Nurse Educator, Simulation.

A template that can be used as a guide when designing your case. This template was developed by EM Sim Cases and has been endorsed by Simulation Canada and the BC Simulation Network

This video with PPT is an overview of things to consider when creating scenarios.

A guide created by healthysimulation.com that can be used or adapted for use when preparing for your simulation.

A great example of a pre-brief checklist developed by BC Children’s and Women’s Hospital

This is an example of a letter that can be sent to participants in advance of a simulation to provide them with any information you think would be beneficial for them to receive in advance.

This two-page tool provides a list with explanations of specific communication skills and a checklist used to cite examples observed during simulation.

This validated tool provides illustration and space to document facets of high performance teams.

This Island Health tool provides a template and worksheet for patient handover (IDRAW) and urgent information transfer (SBAR).

This validated tool is used to outline and measure teamwork behaviour in the operating theatre.

Consider using this tool to contribute to increased safety and accountability.

These printable signs can be used for in-situ simulations to inform others (staff, patients, public) that a simulation is taking place.

The Foundation for Healthcare Simulation Safety is a not for profit organization that was established to promote education and safe practices for healthcare simulation programs. There are a number of resources on the website including “Not for Human Use” stickers. The stickers have been designed in three sizes to be affixed to all simulation equipment, supplies, and medications as a safety measure to ensure that outside equipment, supplies and/or medication are not accidently used for patient care. CICSL is able to print these stickers for use in your area – please contact cicsl@viha.ca to order.

A step-by-step guide for logging a latent safety threat discovered during an in-situ simulation in the PSLS.

Based on the work of Harvard’s Centre for Medical Simulation, this tool outlines ways to ask questions with “good judgment while not being judgmental.”

This guide provides a standardized approach to post-event clinical debriefing.

This locally designed  tool provides a high level representation of a debriefing framework and the Advocacy-Inquiry technique.

This overview of blended debriefing strategies using the PEARLS framework breaks down the three main strategies for analysis during a debriefing – Learner Self-Assessment, Directive Feedback and Teaching and Focussed Facilitation. Developed by Eppich and Cheng and published in Simulation in Healthcare.

This tool provides an overview of the Promoting Excellence and Reflective Learning in Simulation (PEARLS) Healthcare debriefing tool developed by the team from Debrief2Learn and originally published in Academic Medicine.

A list of inquiry questions that can be considered for use during a debriefing.

This reflective tool serves to gather the lived experience and impact that simulation has on participants and the health care arena.

This fillable PDF can be used after a simulation session to provide an overview of the session and the learning points from the debrief that can be shared with the participants, leadership and/or others from the department/team who could not attend.

From the Center for Medical Simulation at Harvard, the DASH series of tools provide validated instruments to evaluate debriefings. There are three versions of this tool: one for instructors, one for students and one for observers, to provide multiple opportunities for feedback on debriefing.

Similar to the DASH, this tool was developed by a team at Imperial College London for evaluating a facilitator during a debriefing.

This evaluation, designed by members of the BC Simulation Network helps facilitators clarify and identify the many competences and expected behaviours of a simulation educator.

The CIHC National Interprofessional Competency Framework describes the competencies required for effective interprofessional collaboration. Six competency domains highlight the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that together shape the judgments that are essential for interprofessional collaborative practice. CICSL endorses this framework.

This document provides an overview of the six domains of the CIHC Framework and provides sample questions that could be utilized in a debriefing regarding each competency.

An infographic outlining the major components of a simulation based interprofessional education experience.

IPC on the Run is a series of online e-learning modules based on the CIHC National Interprofessional Competency Framework developed at UBC.

This reflective tool serves to gather the lived experience and impact that a simulation based interprofessional educational experience has on participants and the health care arena.

This lunch and learn, presented by Darin Abbey, CICSL Director, and Tamara Young, Clinical Nurse Educator – Simulation, provides an overview of simulation-enhanced interprofessional education (Sim-IPE).

A fillable PDF for use when booking space at CICSL

Based on a provincial cost matrix, this fee structure outlines when and how much users may be charged for use of simulation space or equipment.

The CICSL Operation Manual provides an overview of our human patient simulators. This manual is a complement to take away with you following simulation facilitation training at our centre and is not meant to replace hands-on training.

An overview of the simulation space at the Royal Jubilee Hospital.

A fillable PDF for use when booking simulation space at Island Health sites (including N304 at Victoria General Hospital)

A list and brief description of the simulators located at CICSL and other Island Health simulation sites.