Northern clinical simulation

Northern clinical simulation is a partnership between Northern Health, the School of Nursing at the University of Northern British Columbia, the College of New Caledonia, Coast Mountain College and the Northern Medical Program. Our goal is to support educators with the development and integration of clinical simulation into health care education.

Medical personal practising on SimMan3G emergency patient simulator

What is clinical simulation?

Clinical simulation uses life-sized, anatomically correct human models (see chart below) to provide realistic training for student nurses, staff nurses, medical students, physicians and other health care professionals.

The simulators can be used with real medical equipment, allowing practice with burns, labour and delivery, resuscitation and advanced life support, heart attacks, and more - all without risk to patients.

Who can use the simulators?

Our centres, simulators, task trainers, and staff are available to non-Northern Health users for an hourly fee.

For more information contact: 
Jasneil Dhillon
Regional Manager Simulation Team
Jasneil.Dhillon@northernhealth.ca or SimulationTeam@northernhealth.ca

Where is clinical simulation offered?

Note: Simulator descriptions above are based on text from laerdal.com and gaumard.com

Additional information

As well as the nine simulators listed above, each of our four centres promotes educational opportunities with

  • Interdisciplinary team training
  • Emergency cardiac patient assessment and treatment
  • Critical thinking
  • Team interaction and communication
  • Adherence to algorithms
  • Teaching and testing of advanced cardiac life support guidelines
  • Patient assessment and management
  • Teaching and testing of neonatal resuscitation program guidelines
  • PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support)

The four centres also have audiovisual equipment for recording sessions, facilitating debriefing. Most quality sessions include items such as confederates, task trainers, videos, and video debriefing.

Our experienced staff have assisted with hundreds of simulation sessions and can help develop, design, and program custom scenarios to meet your educational needs.

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