Clinical Skills and Simulation
Clinical Skills Centres in Hospitals
The Clinical Skills Centres in Hospitals Project has focussed on three areas – training clinical educators to teach clinical skills; development of training modules for a variety of applications (life support, respiratory skills, intravenous therapy etc); and the literature review examined current research into the area of simulation-based training.
Train-the-Trainer
The Train-the-Trainer package focuses on providing training materials to train clinical educators to teach clinical skills to health professionals in Victoria, including through the use of simulation.
Train-the-Trainer basic manual
Train-the-Trainer advanced manual
Clinical Training Packages
The Training Packages covers 11 inter-professional training programs for a set of core clinical skills.
The training packages currently being developed include:
- Adult basic life support
- Paediatric basic life support
- Adult advanced life support
- Paediatric advanced life support
- Respiratory management 1
- Respiratory management 2
- Intravenous therapy
- Nasogastric therapy
- Chest tube management
- Safe medication administration
- 12 lead electrocardiogram - introduction
- 12 lead electrocardiogram - module 1
- 12 lead electrocardiogram - module 2
- 12 lead electrocardiogram - module 3
- 12 lead electrocardiogram - module 4
Clinical Skills Literature Review and Research Project
The literature review covers the current roles for simulation and clinical skills training. A second stage will involve a research project to evaluate the effectiveness of simulation on learning a defined clinical skill.
Clinical Skills Strategy
The department recognises the need to develop a strategic direction for clinical skills and simulation in Victoria. This will be achieved through a specific project in this area.
More details will follow later in 2009 and will be made available on this webpage.