Taking Professional Development to the Next Level

Abstract : The College of Nursing Healthcare Simulation Center taskforce brainstormed ideas on how to roll out the new Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practices™ in an innovative way. Since our current college learning system is Desire to Learn (D2L), we created a Simulation Faculty Development course to house all the new standards, tracking forms, and resources we planned to create. Then we attempted a podcast learning avenue for our faculty and staff as a flexible way to learn new simulation education within our team. The podcast was called “Sim-Portant Conversations at SDState” and consisted of Nursing faculty, staff from the Healthcare Simulation Center, and a Pharmacy faculty member.
The original desired outcome was to introduce our peers through a podcast format, then follow the episode with a more detailed education session on a particular standard, a one-hour session that offered Nursing Continuing Professional Development (NCPD) hours. This would allow Simulationists to have various methods of education including a mobile opportunity. Since the original creation of the podcast, it is now available for public listening with five episodes released. The team is planning on releasing a new episode monthly moving forward.