Mastering Simulation: A Handbook for Success

One of the biggest challenges we face in healthcare is how to educate and train healthcare professionals without endangering patients--especially when we are teaching the management of high-stakes situations such as codes, trauma care, chest pain, or anaphylactic shock, in which any delay in treatment threatens the outcome. Often, new healthcare practitioners enter their profession without ever having seen--much less gotten experience with--many high-risk/low-volume patient conditions.

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