Unbound Medicine®, a leader in knowledge management solutions for healthcare, and the Organization of Associate Degree Nursing (OADN), the national advocate for community college nursing education, have launched OADN Virtual Simulation Reviews (VSR)—a structured and objective resource that assists nursing educators in identifying products that augment or replace clinical experiences.
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, nursing programs scrambled to continue clinical education while hospitals and clinics were closed to students. OADN member programs sought guidance on virtual simulation products that could augment or replace in-person clinical time. Responding to the need, the OADN Simulation Task Force envisioned a need for a database of virtual simulation product reviews that nursing educators could use to adjust their curricula during a time of rapid change.
Similarly, Unbound Medicine was listening to the healthcare community’s needs created by the pandemic and responding to calls for help. Early in the outbreak, Unbound developed Coronavirus Guidelines to curate and organise for clinicians the torrent of COVID-19 information emerging daily. Additionally, Unbound leveraged its partnerships with leading healthcare organisations and industry experts to provide critical COVID-19 resources for physicians, nurses, and pharmacists—delivered via video, mobile apps, and the web. Hundreds of thousands of clinicians per day turn to Unbound to help provide the best treatment and care for patients and their families.
During a meeting to discuss how each organisation might further help in the crisis, the OADN and Unbound teams realised that combining OADN member knowledge with Unbound’s digital publishing expertise could uniquely serve the needs of the nursing community during the critical time. OADN assembled a task force of nursing faculty and simulation specialists to evaluate virtual simulation products, and Unbound provided its informatics expertise and end-to-end publishing platform to create VSR. The partnership resulted in a rapid-response resource that is now freely available to nurse educators online.
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