What we offer
CHEO Sim continues to partner with local groups and hospitals to enhance medical education for health care professionals and the community at large.
Pediatric Readiness Simulations
Pair with CHEO’s SIM team to ensure your practice area is ready for pediatric patients. We use simulation to teach and prepare hospitals, clinics and medical offices to care for, assess and intervene during acute decompensations of the pediatric patient.
Outreach
The CHEO Outreach Team (MDs, RNs and a Pharmacist from ED and the Simulation Nurse Educator) visit community hospitals and deliver didactic and simulation sessions. The simulations occur in situ with high fidelity mannequins and focused on crisis resource and clinical management of a pediatric patient. In 2018 we also began tracking QI events that came up during outreach simulations to help generate feedback for the community hospitals.
Kids Health Alliance
In partnership with the Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children, CHEO continues its work with the Kids Health Alliance (KHA). KHA’s focus is on creating a high quality, consistent, and coordinated child- and family-centered approach to pediatric care across Ontario. This year, KHA engaged CHEO SIM to develop simulation scenarios for our partner sites. The first KHA sim in our LIHN is scheduled to run in 2019 at Pembroke Regional Hospital.
Learn more about the Kids Health Alliance
Pediatric Nursing Skills Conferences and Education days
CHEO Sim has arranged an annual nursing skills day for community hospital nurses. Skills stations and simulations focused on basic pediatric assessment, medication administration, acute deterioration and interventions
Virtual Reality Simulation
Along with Drs. Kimmo Murto and Heather O’Reilly, the CHEO SIM program has developed and produced an important educational video with the help of Dr. Glenn Posner from the University of Ottawa Skills and Simulation Centre (uOSSC) using exciting virtual reality simulation technology.
This video, detailing the Pediatric massive transfusion protocol and staring CHEO’s own Transport Team and nursing and physicians volunteers, is supported by the Ontario Regional Blood Coordinating Network (ORBCoN). ORBCoN was launched in 2006 and the program is funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health (MOH) to provide an organized and integrated approach to blood management in Ontario through the engagement of hospitals and Canadian Blood Services.
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