Join us for an insightful lecture on simulation education, with guest speaker Dr. John M. O'Donnell.

About this event

S.H.A.R.E.™: Simulation Hospital Advancing Research and Education

Presents

SIMULATION AS TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE: Targeting Educational and Practice Gaps

Dr. O'Donnell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nurse Anesthesia and Director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program at the University of Pittsburgh for the past 27 years. His other role at the University of Pittsburgh is Senior Associate Director of the Winter Institute for Simulation, Education and Research or WISER- one of the best known, fully accredited interprofessional simulation centers in the world. Dr. O’Donnell was inducted as one of the first CRNAs to be a Fellow of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare in 2019 and was elected Treasurer of this 4000 member interprofessional society in 2020. He has served in multiple positions on the State and National levels of the AANA and was recently elected to the Board of the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Education Programs. He was the AANA National Program Director of the Year in 2006, was honored with the Univ. of Pittsburgh Chancellors Distinguished Teaching Award in 2012 and was Pittsburgh Magazines Nurse Educator of Year in 2017. He has more than 100 publications to his credit and has received more than 3.5 million dollars in research and training grants across his career. He is currently working with a team of engineers on a new augmented reality simulator called “BodyExplorer™ and has formed Lumis Corp. in order to bring this new device to market.

Healthcare simulation has been widely adopted in health professions education at all stages of education and clinical practice. While the early focus of simulation was on simulators and instructional practices, more recent attention has shifted the focus to view simulation as a translational science. From this perspective, healthcare simulation may be viewed as integral resource to identify and bridge education, performance, and practice gaps directly focused on improving patient care, health systems, and clinical outcomes.

Upon conclusion of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• Analyze evidence in support of the emerging translational science of healthcare simulation
• Discuss identified gaps in both undergraduate and graduate education
• Review examples of practice gaps for RNs and APRNs
• Discuss the potential for simulation to be used in addressing practice gaps

Nursing Continuing Professional Development contact hours for this event will be awarded for Registered Nurses attending the full event and completing the evaluation and contact hour request form. This presentation has been approved for the award of 1 contact hour. The University of Miami School of Nursing and Health Studies is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.