1. Implementation of Simulation Training During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Author
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Di Pan and Kapil Rajwani
- Subjects
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Epidemiology ,Critically ill ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Medicine (miscellaneous) ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Public relations ,Hospital experience ,Education ,Simulation training ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Resource (project management) ,Modeling and Simulation ,Political science ,Pandemic ,Health care ,Institution ,030212 general & internal medicine ,business ,media_common - Abstract
SUMMARY STATEMENT Simulation played a critical role in our institution's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. With the rapid influx of critically ill patients, resource limitations, and presented safety concerns, simulation became a vital tool that provided solutions to the many challenges we faced. In this article, we describe how simulation training was deployed at our institution throughout the course of the pandemic, which included the period of our medical surge. Simulation helped refine protocols, facilitate practice changes, uncover safety gaps, and train redeployed healthcare workers in unfamiliar roles. We also discuss the obstacles we encountered with implementing simulations during the pandemic, the measures we took to adapt to our limitations, and the simulation strategies and end products that were derived from these adaptations.
- Published
- 2021