National Capital Region Simulation Consortium Earns Reaccreditation - DVIDS

-- The American College of Surgeons (ACS) precocious reaccredited the National Capital Region Simulation Consortium, comprised of simulation centers astatine Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Uniformed Services University, Fort Belvoir Community Hospital and Malcolm Grow Medical Center astatine Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. The reaccreditation, achieved successful October 2022, lasts for 5 years.
The state-of-the-art simulation halfway (SIM center) astatine WRNMMC provides users realistic acquisition and grooming successful diligent attraction and exigency medicine. The 5,000-square-foot installation includes the exertion and protocols of existent operating and exam rooms, successful summation to a skills laboratory, an exigency room/intensive attraction unit, hands-on schoolroom grooming instruments, and an precocious audio-visual system.
Patient simulators (full-body, high-fidelity computerized aesculapian manikins) successful the simulation center, person realistic quality anatomy and physiology with the capabilities to blink, sweat, bleed, endure heartaches, halt breathing and simulate commencement to supply for the teaching of objective skills successful a nonrecreational health-care setting. The virtual world exertion allows those who users to bid for endoscopy, bronchoscopy, arthroscopy laparoscopic and different surgical procedures.
Training is besides disposable successful the halfway for ultrasound-guided cardinal enactment placement, lumbar puncture, suturing and biopsy. The halfway besides has the capabilities for grooming to behaviour thoracentesis, paracentesis, ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous, rheumatology associated injection therapy (knee, shoulder, elbow and wrist), and ultrasound-guided amniocentesis procedures.
Some of the areas and courses the simulation halfway supports see Pulmonary Critical Care Mock Codes, the Internal Medicine Resident's Ultrasound Course, General Surgery Mock Orals, the Nursing Skills Fair, Neonatology Fellows Objective Structured Clinical Examination, Trauma Nursing Core Course Provider Course, Advanced Trauma Life Support, Simulation Training for Operational Medicine Physicians, Orthopaedic Arthroscopy Course, the Neonatal Resuscitation Program Course and the Critical Care Support Obstetrics Course.
The SIM halfway besides supported WRNMMC’s Code Green wide casualty workout during the fall, providing diligent simulators arsenic mock victims for the event.
The SIM center’s extremity is to “advance module and unit development, postgraduate and undergraduate aesculapian education, and amended wide diligent information and outcomes,” according to its section chief, Dr. Jennifer C. Geracht.
Accreditation of simulation centers is comparable to the Joint Commission survey for a hospital. It involves gathering the standards of the ACS for SIM centers; submission of documentation by the halfway to the ACS concerning however the halfway seeking accreditation is gathering ACS standards; and a video tract sojourn by a squad of experts representing the ACS to guarantee the halfway is adhering to ACS standards, explained retired Navy Capt. (Dr.) Joseph Lopreiato, subordinate dean for Simulation Education astatine USU who led the consortium.
The NCR SIM consortium is besides accredited by the Society for Simulation successful Healthcare (SSH), and up for reaccreditation by the nine for different 5 years successful 2024, Lopreiato added. The SSH besides seeks to beforehand the exertion of aesculapian simulation successful wellness care. The consortium’s dual accreditation by the ACS and SSH makes it “one of a prime fewer successful the world” to execute the favoritism of being accredited by some organizations to “the maximum level,” according to Lopreiato.
He explained the consortium is “an integrated portion and shared resources, abstraction and radical among the [NCR SIM centers] to execute the ngo of providing precocious prime simulation experiences to each our leaners. [Our] imaginativeness is for this exemplary to beryllium replicated passim the Defense Health Agency enterprise,” helium said.
Lopreiato added the NCR Simulation Consortium and its centers person been reaccredited aggregate times, which serves arsenic denotation of the prime of the services they provide. “We were the archetypal successful the Department of Defense to gain accreditation, and present determination are respective different subject simulation centers.” He furthered that being 1 of lone a fewer of each SIM centers to person some ACS and SSH accreditation assures a simulation center’s learners, arsenic good arsenic the center’s medication and stakeholders, that the halfway follows champion practices successful the creation, development, maintenance, and enlargement of enterprises pertaining to simulation successful wellness care.

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