

Trends in Nursing Education and Training
There is a never-ending demand for high-quality patient care. Yet, there continues to be a widening skills gap caused by the early retirement of seasoned healthcare workers. MedPage Today stresses that this shortage is not a novel issue. A paper in Nursing Economics from 2010 estimated that more than 1 million registered nurses would retire from the workforce between 2010 to 2030 and take years of knowledge with them.

Changing landscapes of military conflicts require rethinking of casualty care.
On the battlefield, care providers have what is called a “golden hour’ to apply their life-saving skills at the point of injury before handing off to a fully equipped military field hospital.
Senior Military leadership are warning that future conflicts with near-peer adversaries such as China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and others will create a “tyranny of distance” that will impair the quick evacuation of wounded combatants to a higher level of medical care. This creates a Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC) situation for Service Members.

SSH Fund Announces Three New Major Donations
OEI Chairman and CEO, Lou Oberndorf provided early momentum to the Society for Simulation in Healthcare’s SSH Fund recently, when he announced a four-year $50,000 commitment to add to the Oberndorf Endowed Lecture Fund.

Grounded in history, going forward with innovation
Operative Experience Inc. is no newcomer to simulation-based training. In fact, it began on those very shoulders of earlier generations of simulation-based pioneers. OEI’s Chairman and CEO, Lou Oberndorf, has a long history of pioneering in patient simulation.
We take a look at how that history has helped mold Operative Experience into a healthcare simulation leader with a passion for innovation.

Patient Safety Awareness Week 2023
March 12th through the 18th this year is Patient Safety Awareness Week. This week-long observation of all things patient safety highlights the role in which

Can Obstetric Simulation Technology Help Reduce Maternal Morbidity?
By Harlyn HeathThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes maternal morbidity as the “unexpected outcomes of labor and delivery that result in significant