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Strategic Strides: 2013–2014

Clinical Simulation Program: Supporting the UW Health Strategic Plan

UW Health Clinical Simulation Program

Creating guided learning conditions that simulate real-life health care situations[ [Clinical Simulation Program Staff Executive Board

Carla Pugh, MD, PhD Clinical Director Faculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

George Keeler, MA, MBAAdministrative Program Director

Susan Olson, BSN, MSNSenior Curriculum Specialist

Mark Johanneck, BASimulation Specialist

Krystle Campbell, BSAdministrative Assistant

Don Van Woert, BSNCurriculum Specialist

Ronald T. SliwinskiSenior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

Peter H. ChristmanExecutive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation

Beth Houlahan, MSN, RN, CENPSenior Vice President Nursing Office and Patient Care Services, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

K. Craig Kent, MDChair, Department of SurgeryFaculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Richard L. Page, MDChair, Department of MedicineFaculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Robert Pearce, MD, PhDChair, Department of AnesthesiologyFaculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Elizabeth M. Petty, MDSenior Associate Dean for Academic AffairsFaculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

Ellen R. Wald, MDChair, Department of Pediatrics Pediatrician-in-Chief, American Family Children’s Hospital Faculty, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

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Fiscal year 2014 was a period of

significant, planned growth for

the UW Health Clinical Simulation

Program with a 39 percent increase

in events. At the beginning of the

year we re-structured our strategic

framework to better align with and

support the revised UW Health

strategic plan, goals and initiatives.

With Patient and Family Experience

at the core, and with an emphasis

on continuous quality improvement,

we focused our efforts on Continuing

Professional Development, Team

Improvement, and Research

and Development.

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Research and Development

That spark in the mind—the moment of ‘what if’

or ‘what could be’—is what drives our research

and development. Through extensive investigation

and the use of simulation, we’re able to seek out,

test and discover new, innovative and effective

ways for health care professionals to deliver care

to patients.

Key Components

• Curricular Innovation

• Simulation-based Assessment

• Technology Development and Evaluation

• Process Improvement

• Educational Research

Notable Achievements

• Developed and executed an innovative

central line procedural curriculum,

which incorporates hands-on training and

culminates with a comprehensive realistic

assessment to familiarize learners with

best practice.

• Established liver transplant simulation

for anesthesiology residents to address

the challenges that occur in surgery by

staging scenarios of cardiovascular instability,

metabolic derangements, massive bleeding

and coagulopathy.

• Pioneered a carpal tunnel virtual reality

simulator to allow learners to evaluate

and treat the syndrome by familiarizing

them with the cognitive tasks and related

equipment associated with an endoscopic

carpal tunnel release.

“ Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”

– Zora Neale Hurston, writer [ [

Continuing Professional Development

Our focused campaign on Continuing

Professional Development (CPD) yielded

great dividends in 2014. This initiative resulted

in an increase of 121 more CPD events and

1,691 more learner encounters as compared

to 2013. Such growth was made possible by

recruiting and supporting an increased number

of provider champions.

Key Components

• Competencies for:

– Health Care Providers

– Residents

– Students

• Maintenance of Certification (MOC)

• Quality

– Promoting infection control

– Minimizing untoward and sentinel events

Notable Achievements

• Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology Program

Endorsed by the American Society of

Anesthesiology Simulation Education

Network to offer immersive simulation

courses for anesthesiologists to fulfill their

maintenance of certification requirement.

• Nursing Annual Review

Centralized and improved the annual review

process which incorporated a hands-on

assessment for 1,321 UW Hospital and Clinics

nurse clinicians and certified nursing assistants.

• Fetal Heart Screening/Congenital Heart Disease Symposium

Presented best practice for diagnostic

ultrasound skills for health care providers.

• EMS for Children Conference

Educated EMS providers on pediatric

crisis scenarios with a goal of improving

emergency health care in the region.

“ All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity

for development accorded the individual.” – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist[ [

Team Improvement

Collaboration is vital to the success of our

program as we strive to work inter-professionally

as well as with partners in our community. Team

improvement promotes an interdisciplinary

approach in supporting the clinician-to-patient

connection, which affects and enhances the

overall patient and family experience.

Key Components

• Inter-Professional (IP) Education

• Provider-Patient Communication

• Community and Patient Education

Notable Achievements

• Received a grant from the University of

Wisconsin-Madison Provost to develop the

first IP course for students in the UW Schools

of Medicine and Public Health, Nursing,

Pharmacy, Physical Therapy and Physician

Assistant programs.

• Implemented “Feedback to Faculty” course

to enhance and improve physician interactions

with patients, as part of Medicine Faculty

Communication Development.

• Developed ongoing inter-professional

mock codes for nursing, internal medicine

and emergency medicine.

• Launched trauma scenarios for surgery

and emergency medicine with the goal of

improving team communication.

“ Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress.

Working together is success.” – Henry Ford, industrialist[ [