Fort St. John Hospital Northern Clinical Simulation Program
Northern Clinical Simulation is a partnership between Northern Health, the School of Nursing at the University of Northern British Columbia, and the Northern Medical Program. Our goal is to support educators with the development and integration of clinical simulation into healthcare education.
What kind of training we provide at our centre?
- Interdisciplinary team training
- Emergency cardiac patient assessment and treatment
- Critical thinking
- Team interaction and communication
- Adherence to algorithms
- Teaching and testing of advanced cardiac life support guidelines
- Patient assessment and management
- Teaching and testing of neonatal resuscitation program guidelines
- PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support)
The centres also have audiovisual equipment for recording sessions, facilitating debriefing. Most quality sessions include items such as confederates, task trainers, videos, and video debriefing.
We do not have a dedicated tech support person for this site, but regional tech person from Prince George centre visits after every other month to support 3 days of simulation sessions.
Types rooms:
- Intensive Care/Emergency Room
- Ward Room
- Skills Lab
- Observation/Control Rooms
List of Equipment:
- Laerdal SimMan 3G
- Laerdal Nursing Anne
- Laerdal SimBaby
- Laerdal NewB
- Gaumard Noelle S550
- Multiple Task Trainers
- Simulated and Real Medical Devices
Task trainers are lifelike models of body parts (such as an arm, pelvis, or chest). They’re used for practicing specific medical procedures.
They’re available to any centre. Most are in Prince George, but they can be shipped/used for mobile/in situ.
Task Trainers:
- Standard Venipuncture Arm
- Lumbar Puncture & Epidural Trainer
- Lumbar Puncture Baby
- Ultrasound Central Venous Catheter Insertion Simulator
- Pericardiocentesis Training Model
- Nita Newborn
- Laerdal® Airway Management Trainer
- Perineal Repair Trainer
- FemoraLineMan System
- CentraLine Man System
- Chester Chest™ With New Advanced Arm
- Neonatal Intubation Trainer
- Vascular Access – Peter PICC Line™
Manager
Jasneil Dhillon
Email: simulationteam@northernhealth.ca
Phone:250-645-6400
Fort St. John Hospital
UBC floor (Northern Clinical Simulation Centre)
8407 112 Avenue
Fort St. John, BC V1J 0J5