During this virtual simulation you will have the opportunity to meet and provide nursing care for the patient.The patient is a 82 year old woman who resides at Shady Oaks Long-term Care Home.

In this scenario, learners will care for an older adult who has had surgery to repair a fractured hip. Learners will identify risk factors and choose priority assessments to complete, evaluate findings and determine which findings require further investigation or intervention. The simulation will take place over several hours during a day shift on an […]

In this simulation, You will be asked to make informed decisions regarding how you would best respond to the presented situations. Your choices and responses will remain confidential, and you will not be graded on this simulation. However, throughout the simulation, you will be given opportunities to self-reflect, and at the end, there will be […]

The patient is 55 years old. They came into the clinic for a checkup stating “I have not been feeling myself lately, and I wanted to get checked”. The patient requires a focused neurological assessment.

The following simulation follows a patient through a visit to an acute emergency room setting. The patient experiences fluctuations in vital signs and presents a variety of subjective and objective data cues. The learner is required to cluster data to identify inferences about the client’s health status.

The patient,aged 39, is seeking medical care for stomach pain. The focus of this AI-powered simulation is on collecting a full health history. The learner can then identify which assessments to complete.

You will be meeting the patient after their total right knee arthroplasty (total right knee replacement). This gaming simulation will offer the learner an opportunity to develop critical thinking, decision making and assessment skills when determining care in a post-operative environment.

The patient is 55 years old. They came into the clinic for a checkup stating “I have not been feeling myself lately, and I wanted to get checked”. The patient requires a head-to-toe assessment.

The patient is 65 years old and has been admitted to hospital after having a fall at home. You will hear a handover report from the night nurse and then proceed to begin your shift caring for the patient.

The learners will gain an increased understanding of the support and decision-making required when caring for a client in the context of refusing treatment options/medications.

Bullying can take on many forms, the intent of the simulation is to increase students/nurse’s awareness of bullying behaviors and how to effectively intervene when bullying occurs. Bullying can affect individuals professional and personal lives, impact patient care, and perpetuate negative behaviors in others.

The simulation has been designed to develop critiical thinking skills in nursing practice. The learner will encounter several complex patients in long-term care, recognize which siituations require the expertise of a RN, and when approaches such as advocating for the patient, delegation to another provider, and mentoring colleagues are needed.

The scenario takes place in the Emergency Department (ED) where a team of healthcare professionals receives a patient that has experienced a multiple trauma and subsequent cardiac arrest post motor vehicle accident. The team consists of two Registered Nurses, a Respiratory Therapist, and a Physician. The patient is brought into the ED and his wife […]

The Learner will apply the principles of safe medication administration of an analgesic using different routes in the Pediatric population. You will be required to use clinical judgment, reasoning, critical thinking skills, and past knowledge when choosing the appropriate pain medication based on patients’ history and background knowledge. This scenario is not about the actual […]

The Learner will apply the principles of safe medication administration of an analgesic using different routes in the Adult population. You will be required to use clinical judgment, reasoning, critical thinking skills, and past knowledge when choosing the appropriate pain medication based on patients’ history and background knowledge. This scenario is not about the actual […]

The learner will apply the principles of safe medication administration of a narcotic using different routes in the Geriatric population. You will be required to use clinical judgement, reasoning, critical thinking skills, and pas knowledge when choosing the appropriate narcotic based on the patient’s history and background knowledge. This scenario is not about the actual […]

This maternal/child resource is aimed to support learning for the undergraduate nursing student in any nursing program. The simulation is intended to promote the development of clinical judgement skills through a safe learning environment. The virtual simulation is for students to practice and reflect on newborn assessments while critically analyzing the scenario and completing a […]

Many faculty members feel unprepared to hold discussions and develop plans for helping students meet clinical course objectives. This scenario helps prepare faculty members to develop a plan using a positive growth mindset framework to support students to become successful professionals. The scenario is written for nursing, but could easily be used by a variety […]

A 10-day-old term male neonate is brought to the emergency department by his parents. Their concerns are that, over the course of the day, he has become pale, his feet look “bluer”, and he is more lethargic. Moreover, he has only made 1 diaper today and is feeding very poorly. On examination, this is a […]

The Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) in partnership with the Canadian Alliance of Nurse Educators using Simulation (CAN-Sim) have collaborated to develop and disseminate five virtual simulation modules in both official languages to build capacity among graduating and new registered nurses entering the health care workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. VSGs have been […]

A 47 year old male presents with acute respiratory failure via EMS. He rapidly decompensates upon arrival. His travel history is missed on initial screening by EMS due his severity so he is transferred to the trauma bay without appropriate precautions. Part-way through the case his travel history is revealed (if not already asked for) […]

Scenario: Case designed during the January 2020 COVID-19 outbreak in order to assess and improve team preparedness for safely and effectively caring for a critically ill coronavirus patient from triage through to intubation and disposition in a community hospital. The scenario focusses on system processes more than individual skills. This case was adapted from one […]

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.