Suicide prevention is paramount to VA’s care of Veterans and new ways of training, including Escape Rooms, help train staff.
Participants at the inaugural SimDesign Collaborative Conference found out how health care simulation is helping Veterans.
In this four-part series on VA's Emergency Preparedness Simulation efforts, you'll see how simulation and emergency preparedness professionals build collective strategies that mitigate, prepare, respond, and recover from tragedies impacting Veterans and their communities.
While many health care organizations are just beginning to explore virtual reality, augmented reality, and other immersive technology (collectively known as extended reality, or XR), VA is taking the lead in using XR to change how Veterans receive and access their health care.
In this four-part series on VA Emergency Preparedness Simulation efforts, learn how simulation and emergency preparedness at VA work.
Dr. Jessica Feinleib develops award-winning approach to teach life-saving procedures. Motivation was tragic cases resulting in loss of life.
Have you ever wondered what Veterans with dementia go through? The Dementia Experience, offered at the Simulation Learning, VHA National Simulation Center, provides that exact insight to VA medical providers can learn to understand dementia patients' daily struggles.
SimLEARN Program helps VA health care providers keep skills sharp and maintain readiness. More than 1000 nurses will have trained in one their programs by the end of September.
San Antonio VA's Simulation Center prepares staff to deliver safe, effective care when need arises. Most important objective: Patient safety.
“These doctors are creating new and better ways to teach the next generation of health care providers to improve the care of patients.”
VA’s National Telestroke program: a virtual hub of VA stroke neurologists covering 40 VA facilities with 20 more to be added each year. VA’s National Telestroke Program Team guarantees teams are ready.
As a crowd of people gathered around Jonathan Nguyen, he spoke to a mannequin lying in a hospital bed. This one talked back. As its eyes blinked and chest cavity moved from breathing in and out, it told Nguyen about its pain. This interaction displayed the latest simulation center for improving Veteran care, unveiled Sept. 17 at the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia. The opening coincided with Healthcare Simulation Week Sept. 16-20. Simulation is a rapidly growing program within VA, said Dr. Scott Wiltz, associate medical director for training at the SimLEARN National Simulation Center in Orlando, Florida