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.

A detailed how-to guide to moulage for standardized patients. Covers basic makeup techniques including proper sanitation and a section on making prosthetics from latex, latex substitutes, prosthetic gelatin, and silicone. Although written for prehospital workers, the guide should be useful for anyone concerned with moulage for standardized patients. The guide is titled “Casualty Simulation Techniques” […]

Pre-hospital incident of a male patient having chest pain, with shortness of breath, collapsed into a sudden cardiac arrest. Pre-hospital ACLS protocals followed causes a return of spontanious circulation. For arrest care provided and transport to ER.

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 […]

Paramedic dispatched to a nursing home, patient is unusually lethargic and weak. The patient is to go to emergency department to be evaluated.

The scenario depicts a victim from a domestic violence. It starts from an apartment setting with a 911 call, wanting to press charges for assault. However, when police foundation students arrive, the victim is found unresponsive. Paramedic students are called to the scene. the victim is then transported to the ER setting. Interactions between nursing, […]