Alliance promises to transform US healthcare education
Published: 31 Jan 2012
Laerdal Medical and Wolters Kluwer Health have forged a product and distribution alliance to revamp healthcare education among HCPs in the US.
‘Learning for Saving Lives’ combines curriculum offerings from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, with simulated patient case solutions from Laerdal. The initiative will focus on undergraduate programmes for nursing, medicine and health professions.
The alliance aims to change the current use of simulation labs. Although they are seen as an integral part of the healthcare undergraduate curriculum, academic institutes face challenges blending traditional learning with new techniques – resulting in expensive equipment being underutilised.
‘Learning for Saving Lives’ will launch in the spring and integrate DocuCare, a new electronic health record learning tool from LWW with manikin simulations from Laerdal.
Students will be able to compare actions through the manikin tracking log with the electronic health record documentation log, which in combination provide a powerful debriefing tool aimed at ensuring students can interpret patients records, master patient care and have a clear understanding of follow-up documentation. The integrated product will also be linked to resources from LWW’s textbook, reference and eLearning content.
“We understand that for healthcare learners, no amount of didactic learning can replace actual practice with patients,” said Susan Driscoll, president & CEO of LWW. “By integrating our didactic content with Laerdal simulations, we can bring ‘practice’ into the classroom to give students invaluable hands-on learning that will result in a more clinically-prepared workforce.”
The two companies are also partnering to create and deliver the largest and most complete collection of computer-based patient case scenarios available – healthcare micro-simulations. These computer scenarios will replicate the acute-care scenarios that are common in Sim Labs, and will supplement those with chronic-care scenarios to provide a complete range of clinical practice situations. The first set of computer scenarios will be available for use in Q4 2012.
Published: 31 Jan 2012
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