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RCH Simulation vision
The Royal Children鈥檚 Hospital (RCH) Simulation Program aims to promote excellence in patient care and safe clinical practice through the delivery of state-of-the-art training, continuing education and exposure to decision-making programs for members of the Melbourne Children鈥檚 Campus staff and students across all programs.
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing"听Aristotle (384-322BC)
What is Simulation?
"Turning teams of experts into expert teams"听(Burke and Salas, Quality and Safety 2004)
Simulation-Based Education provides individuals and interprofessional teams the opportunity to deliberately practice high risk, low frequency events, or procedural tasks within a safe educational environment. Through simulation we can improve health professionals鈥
skills, strengthen teamwork, integrate and learn from error.
听The delivery of high quality healthcare requires not only highly trained individuals but an effective highly functioning team.听 Simulation offers unique and powerful learning opportunities through deliberate practice, participation, and observation.
The RCH Simulation Program provides training opportunities for individuals and teams through the imitation of real event and team training focusing on managing human factors to mitigate human error.
To find out more:
- Listen to the podcast from the ABC Health Report: 'What the healthcare industry can learn from Aviation'.
The basic assumption 鈥 Centre for Medical Simulation, Harvard University
In order to facilitate Simulation-Based Education, it is important that psychologically safe learning environment is set up from the outset. To do this we believe, and support 鈥淭he Basic Assumption鈥 form the Harvard Centre for Medical Simulation,
Harvard University.
We believe that everyone participating in simulation is:
- Intelligent
- Well trained听
- Cares about doing their best
- And wants to improve