This simulation will be examining the hours leading up to a Medical Assistance in Dying procedure within an acute care setting. Within the scenario, you will be playing the role of the nurse (Julie) and working with your patient Anna, and her family.

A two-part scenario, designed for an interprofessional group of clinical externs, this was made to meet two of the learning goals they had requested: high flow and palliation. Patient is sick and while initially responding to treatment, a time warp in the scenario allowed us to also fit in palliation in the same education session.

The patient is a 78-year-old widow. They had end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. They have been receiving care at home and has visiting nurses coming to their home. They undergo treatment for their end-stage COPD at home which is time consuming and involved. They find it exhausting. Their husband died 6 months ago, and they […]

The patient lives in Shady Oaks – a long-term care home. Over the past few days his health has rapidly declined – their symptoms suggest a bowel obstruction. The patient is refusing to go to the hospital for acute intervention. The goal of this virtual simulation is to help you, as a future registered nurse, […]

This scenario takes learners through the care needs of a patient at the end of life. In this scenario, you will be caring for an individual who has been diagnosed with undifferentiated lung cancer, which has metastasized to the chest wall, pleura and bone. As you progress through the scenario, you will need to make […]

This template is a generic and comprehensive guide for the development and documentation of simulation scenarios. It is intended to be applicable to any profession (including interprofessional scenarios), any healthcare field, and for most simulation modalities. Members of the Simulation Canada community produced it following a review of the literature on best practices in scenario […]

The PEARLS for Systems Integration Debreifng Tool is now available as a free colour download.

Patient with stage four mesothelioma lung cancer that is being cared for in the home environment. Designed to challenge the year 4 student with doing an assessment and critically thinking next steps when caring for a patient who becomes hemodynamically unstable. Communication is paramount, with physician, EMS, and family. The patient is sent to the […]

Since the publication of the 2011 report Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice, few tools have been developed to evaluate attitudes that reflect the competencies. The Interprofessional Assessment Scale (IPAS) was developed and validated with this purpose in mind.

This is a two-part unfolding scenario. A 55 year old male client is imminently dying of lung cancer with a Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) of 10%. DNR assigned. Client chose to die at home. He is married and spouse is at the bedside. Client has 2 adult children and 3 grand-children who live out of […]

This is an evaluation form that can be used to measure students’ simulation performance in many disciplines within healthcare. The Global Rating Scale has been designed to be best utilized with hands-on scenarios in the simulation teaching environment.

The Simulation Session Booking and Planning Form is useful for simulation centre co-coordinators to find out about the learning objectives of the simulation session that an instructor would like to create, and to acquire basic logistics information such as type of participants, number of participants, length of simulation, etc. It can be e-mailed to the […]