01
Aug
Where to Find Standardized Patients
Where do you even begin the search to find a standardized patient (SP)? That question can be stress-...
Simulation Made Easy
01
Aug
What Is a Wearable Simulator?
Chapter 2.5 of Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs describes wearable simulators as products ...
12
May
Avkin Customer Success Team Goes Above & Beyond For YOU.
Successful simulation programs need to understand the resources they have around them and how to bes...
12
Apr
Strengthening Distance Learners’ Skills with TeleSimulation
Every day our simulation centers and nursing programs are facing challenges from reduced budgets to ...
04
Mar
AACN Changes: What You Need to Know
Recently, the landscape of healthcare education has changed. The American Association of Critical-Ca...
12
Jul
The ‘Why’ of Avkin
Avkin exists to impart healthcare learners the chance to stretch themselves to the edge of their abi...
14
Jun
Skills must be practiced: Lessons learned from COVID-19
Having a plan is necessary, but it isn’t enough. It must be practiced.
As recently as October of ...
10
May
Why do we struggle with communication? We don’t practice it.
A recent Nurse Blake TikTok poking fun at a nursing student calling SBAR to a provider made me think...
22
Feb
An Essential Guide to Hospital Simulation
For years, it’s been an open secret that a gap exists between the skills healthcare providers need t...
08
Feb
Five Steps to Effectively Train Your SPs
Basics – set the foundation for success
If you are new to using live people in simulation, it is ...