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Simulation to Improve the Capabilities of Individuals

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Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Improving Healthcare Systems

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Healthcare is delivered in complex systems that contain numerous teams, each composed of individuals with unique funds of knowledge, technical skills, and behaviors. Simulation is used to develop and refine the capabilities of individuals in order to optimize their ability to fulfill their roles and responsibilities, allowing them to enhance team capabilities and, in turn, system performance. Using a Functional Analysis Systems Technique (FAST) diagram as the foundation of this chapter, we identify simulation as a “how” and improving patient outcomes as the “why” for an effective healthcare system, aiding the reader in understanding how simulation can be an effective tool for developing and enhancing the skills of individual practitioners.

Simulation has the potential to revolutionize health care and address the patient safety issues if appropriately utilized and integrated into the educational and organizational improvement process.

—David Gaba, MD

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  1. Division of Critical Care Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Donald L. Boyer & Samuel A. Rosenblatt

  2. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Donald L. Boyer & Samuel A. Rosenblatt

  3. Usability Associates, LLC, Rochester, NY, USA

    Stanley Caplan

  4. Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington, DE, USA

    Shanique Brown Kilgallon

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Boyer, D.L., Caplan, S., Kilgallon, S.B., Rosenblatt, S.A. (2021). Simulation to Improve the Capabilities of Individuals. In: Deutsch, E.S., Perry, S.J., Gurnaney, H.G. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Improving Healthcare Systems. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72973-8_7

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