UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing is pleased to offer the "Simulation Development for Healthcare Educators" event, a dynamic two-part professional development opportunity for higher education and hospital-based health care educators.
Delivered in a hybrid format, the simulation development experience delivers a theory-based curriculum online and an experiential element offered in person.
The virtual learning modules will be available Monday, March 25, through Friday, April 26, and the live in-person session will be held Sunday, April 28, through Tuesday, April 30, in the Nursing Sciences Building at University Park in the Simulation Laboratory.
Participants can earn a total of 32.75 contact hours for full course completion. The cost to register is $1,950, which includes access to on-line learning modules, facilitated engagement by course faculty, 16 hours of in-person dynamic simulation laboratory sessions held over three days, and the Nursing Continuing Professional Development contact hours.
This opportunity is free for Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing faculty. Lodging and travel information are available at registration.
Experts in simulation have identified faculty development in simulation pedagogy as a critical component of a quality health care simulation program. Incorporating recently published updated standards of best practice for simulation, this professional development event provides health care professional educators who use simulation an opportunity to build upon this imperative knowledge and develop a more comprehensive simulation learning.
Penn State Ross and Carol Nese College of Nursing is approved with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by Pennsylvania State Nurses Association Approver Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
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