St. Elizabeth Healthcare began construction on a $3 million medical simulation center that will serve healthcare professionals from the company’s seven Northern Kentucky hospitals as well as its specialty and physicians’ offices. The new 24,081-square-foot St. Elizabeth Training & Education Center (SETEC) will be 55 percent larger than its current...
Waveny Care Center – a Waveny LifeCare Network skilled nursing and short-term rehab facility – partnered with the of the Norwalk Community College’s (NCC) Nursing and Allied Health Simulation Center to provide hands-on simulation training for its nurses who care for Waveny’s short-term rehab patients. The “Waveny Care Center Assessment...
The U.S. Army Reserve’s 99th Regional Support Command took over the Medical Skills Training Center (MSTC) at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey to provide combat medics with the required training for Emergency Medical Training certification. The Army’s 21 MSTCs in the U.S. provide combat medics the required 72 hours of...
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, California received a two-year, $447,000 grant from the UniHealth Foundation to create a simulation training program for the hospital’s team that manages childbirth crises. The hospital’s Interprofessional Perinatal Simulation Program will use manikins for ongoing training and practice for physicians, nurses, respiratory...
Some pediatric surgeons perform so few rare and complex procedures once they finish their surgical training that they may have a hard time maintaining operative skills in the long run, according to a new study led by researchers at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. While the...
More than 60 medical schools across the United States were recognized by the White House this week for pledging to teach medical students about the dangers of prescribing opioids to patients for pain. The pledge confirms participating medical schools will include new guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
The American Academy of Pediatrics says federal funding for graduate medical education (GME) needs to be increased to help address the shortage of pediatric specialists, in a newly updated American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement. The “Financing Graduate Medical Education to Meet the Needs of Children and the Future...
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Wales launched a new nursing education strategy called “The Future of Nursing Education in Wales: Education Strategy 2016”, saying the next generation of nurses needs an education that will give them the intellectual skills of problem-solving, clinical decision making, professional judgment, and research appraisal...
The Maryland Board of Nursing gave Kaplan University approval to offer its nurse practitioner programs – Adult Gerontology and Family, Post Masters, and Masters – to students in Maryland. The approval allows Kaplan University (KU) Maryland and its campuses in Hagerstown and Rockville to begin enrolling prospective students in the...
Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake, Washington acquired a SynDaver artificial cadaver as a teaching tool to add realism to its anatomy and physiology classes – a required class for its pre-nursing students. The SynDaver features synthetic human tissues and body parts. It has hundreds of replaceable muscles, bones, organs,...