Paediatric resuscitation in regional Queensland: A simulation informed biopsy of current system challenges.

Objectives: An outreach education service, Simulation Training Optimising Resuscitation for Kids (STORK) identified opportunities to use their course (Optimus PRIME) to understand and help optimise regional paediatric resuscitation. Our objective was to document challenges faced by healthcare providers in rural, remote, and regional (RRR) health centres in Queensland during a paediatric resuscitation course and ensure information reached stakeholders.

Methods: Using in situ simulation, participants were prompted to identify real-life challenges during paediatric resuscitation.

Helping clinicians debrief themselves: a simple how-to guide.

The operating theatre is a dynamic and challenging environment where effective teamwork is essential. Routine clinical debriefings, which involve brief reflections on collaboration to identify successes and areas for improvement, have proved to enhance teamwork, particularly in the operating theatre. However, barriers such as time constraints, conflicting priorities, and a lack of standardised debriefing processes hinder their regular use.

Practical reflections on a collaboration with healthcare consumers on the development of a simulation.

Background: Healthcare simulations generate moments of 'cultural compression' through which we transmit core values about our professional identities and the families we care for. The engagement of healthcare consumers in this process is useful to evaluate the values we transmit and ensure authenticity in the narratives we share.

Methods: A simulation package on febrile neutropenia and port access was written by healthcare staff in consultation with the parent of a child with leukaemia.

A practical guide to virtual debriefings: communities of inquiry perspective.

Many simulation programs have recently shifted towards providing remote simulations with virtual debriefings. Virtual debriefings involve educators facilitating conversations through web-based videoconferencing platforms. Facilitating debriefings through a computer interface introduces a unique set of challenges.

: a case study in the establishment of a virtual community of simulation practice.

Virtual Communities of Practice (vCoP) is a nascent approach to professional development for simulation educators (Thoma et al., Simul Healthc. 2018;13(2):124-30).