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Next Gen NCLEX and Simulation: What Nurse Educators Need to Know Right Now

As nursing programs respond to Next Gen NCLEX and changing pass rate trends, many faculty are evaluating how well their simulation curriculum prepares students …

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NCLEX Pass Rates Are Falling: What Nursing Programs Are Doing About It

The Next Generation NCLEX (NGN), introduced in April 2023, changed how new nurses are evaluated by placing greater emphasis on clinical judgment and decision-making …

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What Makes a Patient Simulator Truly Realistic? The Clinical Case for Physiological Accuracy

Walk into a simulation lab, and the equipment tells part of the story. But the quality of a learner’s clinical training depends far less …

Webinars

Build less. Simulate more. Using AI from concept to training execution. 

WEBINAR Build less. Simulate more. Using AI from concept to training execution.  See how AI can help simulation teams create comprehensive scenarios faster and bring patient …

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What Is Clinical Simulation? A Practical Guide for Healthcare Educators and Program Leaders

Healthcare education has always faced a fundamental tension: learners need clinical experience to develop competence, but real patients cannot serve as the practice ground …

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How to Choose Simulation Center Management and Debriefing Workflows That Actually Scale

Running ten simulations a month is a scheduling challenge. Running a hundred is an operations problem. The difference between programs that scale smoothly and …

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Staffing Shortages in Healthcare: How Simulation Can Support Nurse Retention and Workforce Development

The numbers behind the current nursing crisis are significant, but hospital leaders already know the numbers. What matters now is what health systems can …

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Simulation in Nursing Education: Designing Labs That Improve Readiness and Support NCLEX Success

Nursing programs face a consistent challenge: preparing students for the complexity of clinical practice before they ever step into a hospital. Nursing simulation education …

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New Nurse Onboarding: How Simulation Can Reduce Early Errors and Build Confidence Faster

The first 90 days of a new nurse’s clinical practice can be one of the most challenging periods of their transition into professional practice. …

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Simulation-Based Patient Safety: Using In-Situ Training to Identify Latent Safety Threats

A medication is stored in the wrong location. A crash cart is missing a critical item. A handoff protocol breaks down under pressure. None …

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What Is a Simulation Center? How Modern Sim Centers Are Built Around Outcomes, Not Just Equipment

A simulation center is more than a room with manikins. The equipment is only the starting point. What ultimately determines whether a program delivers …

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Debriefing Best Practices: How Simulation Faculty Can Drive Deeper Learning After Every Scenario

A simulation scenario is only as valuable as what happens after it ends. The clinical decisions a learner made, the communication breakdowns a team …

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Simulation Based on Clinical Specialty: Equipment Sets Built Around Elevate Healthcare (formerly CAE Healthcare) Simulators

Most simulation programs don’t fail because they bought the wrong simulator. They fail because they bought a simulator without a clear picture of its …

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What Educators Say About Today’s Leading Healthcare Simulation Manikin Brands

Purchasing decisions in healthcare simulation rarely happen in a vacuum. Before a value analysis committee signs off on a simulation manikin, someone has usually …

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Top Healthcare Simulation Manikin Brands and How Elevate Healthcare Fits In

When a simulation program starts evaluating manikins, the brand question comes up fast. Your committee wants to know who the major players are, what …

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How Elevate Healthcare’s Patient Simulators Support High-Fidelity Simulation

High-fidelity simulation plays an important role in helping healthcare education programs prepare learners for real-world clinical practice. The patient simulators at the center of …

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How to Compare Healthcare Simulation Manikin Brands: A Vendor-Neutral Checklist

Most simulation manikin purchases start with the wrong question. Committees ask “which brand is cheapest?” or “which brand do we already know?” before they’ve …

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The Future of Patient Simulation: How Elevate Healthcare Is Evolving Beyond Traditional Manikins

The clinical education programs that will define the next decade are not waiting for the future to arrive. They are building for it now. …

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Where to Buy Healthcare Simulation Manikins and Patient Simulators

Buying healthcare simulation manikins is not like buying lab supplies. The purchasing decision you make today can influence your program’s clinical training, faculty workflows, …

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From CAE Healthcare to Elevate Healthcare: What This Means for Your Patient Simulators and Simulation Programs

If you’ve been working with CAE Healthcare simulators for years, like running codes on an HPS, delivering babies on Lucina, or managing a busy …