Akron Children's Simulation Center Educational Offerings
The Akron Children's Simulation Center has the space, equipment, and expertise to provide almost any type of healthcare simulation experience.
High Fidelity Team Simulation Training
- Creating realistic scenarios that allow you to improve your team dynamics and communication skills in high-risk, low-frequency, and life-threatening situations
- Teaching and reinforcing effective communication strategies during everything from standardized Pediatric and Adult Advanced Life Support scenarios to the most complex and unique scenarios
- Facilitating training and assessment for the core competencies of ACGME and other accrediting bodies
Technical Skills Development Training
- Providing training for basic to advanced procedural skills
- Ensuring repetitive practice of safe procedural skills before students or employees work with actual patients
- Technical skills we provide include:
- Lumbar puncture
- Central venous line placement and maintenance
- Peripheral venous (IV) line placement
- Basic airway care
- Pediatric, neonate, or adult intubation
- Surgical airway
- Chest tube placement and maintenance
- Transcutaneous pacing, defibrillation, and synchronized cardioversion
- Suturing
- Ultrasound training
Standardized Patient (SP) Encounters
- Improving interpersonal communication and physical exam skills of healthcare providers through SP encounters
- Working with SPs to improve health care providers:
- History and physical exam taking skills
- Providing family-centered care
- Interpersonal communication with family members during a full resuscitation
Simulation Faculty Development
- Providing courses to improve faculty’s understanding of and ability in providing simulation curriculum, including:
- Best practices in simulation education
- Choosing the most appropriate simulation modality
- Curriculum development
- Various debriefing courses
- Providing practicum or more in-depth mentoring curriculum/services
In-Situ Systems Evaluation
- Our simulators can be transported to your clinical environment, testing your systems and processes.
- We have provided in-situ training/evaluation in ICUs, ERs, acute care units, new spaces, outpatient clinics, and non-clinical areas.
