Caregiver Support Program equips caregivers with essential lifesaving skills, like CPR.
RSST was established in 2012 to help combat needless cardiac arrest deaths by providing consultative evaluation for hospital staff who are often thrust into “Code Blue” situations in dire circumstances.
VA Caregiver Support Program conducts CPR classes at local VA facilities, plans to develop national training video.
Simulation is an imitative representation of a process or system that could exist in the real world.
The SimLEARN Resuscitation Education and Innovation (REdI) program hosted the first-ever VHA Resuscitation Symposium: “Be the Change.”
The staff at the Springfield, Ohio VA Clinic were ready when the worst-case scenario happened. All thanks to a Mock Code simulation training.
VA nurse Jim Roupe, at his son’s football game, saw a player collapse. He ran down the bleachers, jumped the fence, ran to the boy’s side and began CPR.
In 2022, VHA’s SimLEARN continuously demonstrated the necessity of health care simulation-based trainings, exercises and testing
When he saw a man laying unconscious, Natchez National Cemetery maintenance worker Rickey Allen took action.
VA's SimLEARN improves the quality of health care services for America’s Veterans through the application of simulation-based learning.
VA police officer: "I felt like a duck on the water. Calm on the surface but paddling like crazy underneath trying to get everything right."
Veterans have the right to plan for their VA health care. Having discussions with your care team about your care preferences is important in case you lose the ability to communicate your preferences during a future care event.